That Sexy Bear is the newest Kickstarter project from Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus, following two bears, Ginger and Yaya, in Cascadia Falls National Park as they become social media stars and the face of an advertising campaign for a product polluting their home. The adult satirical comedy story comes from the team known as Owlin. The duo previously collaborated on Iron Circus’ How Do You Smoke A Weed?
That Sexy Bear launches on Kickstarter this April — and those interested in the project can follow the pre-launch page now through the crowdfunding platform. Check out the preview text for the book below, followed by some preview images and a quote from the creators…
Welcome to beautiful and scenic Cascadia Falls National Park! Commodified, gentrified, consumerized, and digitized, the Elysian environs of 21st-century Cascadia is now just more Content©™… and so are its hopelessly-acclimatized-to-tourists bears, Ginger and Yaya. Involuntary beer mascots and social media stars, they’ve forgotten how to bear entirely, much to the frustration and chagrin of their park ranger caretakers, Eggs and Ricardo. But things are getting weird now, even for Cascadia. The exploitation’s been kicked up a notch, with a mysterious SUV and colonizing copycat among the new crop of troubles threatening the park! Can bear and ranger, hand-in-paw, push back against the invasion? Or are they as doomed to digestion for digital gain as the rest of us?
“THAT SEXY BEAR! is about advertising’s effect on nature & how nature advertises,” said Owlin. “It’s a love letter to 50s and 60s television. We wanted to pay respect to cartoonists like Ed Benedict and Gene Hazelton, along with the mama bears that raised us.”
Keep a close eye on Iron Circus’ Kickstarter campaign for That Sexy Bear to ensure you don’t miss out on future updates about the graphic novel!
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