About the Book

“The A.R.C. is some of the best satire you will find. It’s smart, funny and ruthless. No prisoners are taken. It’s also physically stunning. I am angry that I was not invited to participate in the making of this book, but it’s clear that the artists knew exactly what there doing. This work appears now when we need it, in the tradition of MAD, National Lampoon and Ramparts, it is humor for thinking people. And for folks like me, too.”
— Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author

“Bitterly funny and staunchly anti-bullshit, a tale of truth, injustice, and a decidedly American Way.”
— Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification and Red Team Blues

“The A.R.C. is a savage, cinematic, hilarious, and somehow hopeful. Climb aboard!”
— Lalo Alcaraz, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Creator of La Cucaracha

“This is a book for our corrupted age, depicting a world led by those who have too much of everything except good sense. The vehicle for this funny, accurate, and scary satire is a cruise ship of followers and fools, headed for disaster while desperately attempting to have a blast. Whether to buy a ticket on this one-way cruise is up to each of us, and it is this possibility, the one of refusal, that might just save some portion of (our) humanity.”
— Viet Than Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Professor, and Critic

“A rare breed—kind, empathetic, and wildly creative, qualities seemingly absent from The A.R.C. Until you realize the creativity is everywhere, and the empathy lies in its total lack of mercy. Everyone gets skewered equally. Yet for all of its acidity, the book runs with a just-perceptible strain of hope. What Tim, co-writer/creative director JC Lacek, and illustrator Vincent Jolas Dubourg have made is a satire for now and for what’s coming next—Idiocracy-level praise, and there’s no higher compliment I can give this wildly deserving group. The A.R.C. aligns directly with GUNGNIR’s mission. We exist to take creative risks and to lead—not follow—the cultural conversation around where publishing and storytelling are headed.”
— Matthew L. Medney, Founder, Publisher, GUNGNIR

“The A.R.C. is a sharp, funny, and beautifully drawn satire about our age of disinformation, and what it’s doing to our politics, our planet, and our souls. I laughed, winced, and nodded all at once.”
— Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists, Humankind and Moral Ambition

“Have you ever seen an epic disaster parable with the heart of a children’s story, the wit of a political satire, the bloodlust of a zombie movie, and the visionary madness of a fever dream? Me neither. Kudos to The A.R.C. for fearlessly mixing genres and tones, facts and fiction, in a blend that has no right to work, but absolutely does.”
— Alessandro Camon, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and playwright, The Messenger, Time Alone, Scintilla

“The graphic novel A.R.C. is like if The New York Times was micro dosing. It’s wild and prescient and hilarious. It even has Mad magazine-type ads for bizarre products like Timothee Chalamet’s Dry River Gin. This is a truly original, fun ride. Loved it!“
— Jeanne Darst, Comedy writer, This American Life, The New Yorker

“Visually stunning, sharply satirical, and somehow hilarious, horrifying and hopeful all at once, The A.R.C. is the essential graphic novel for our times.”
— John Carlos Frey, 6-time Emmy Award Winning Journalist

“Full of wit, satire, and brilliant anger focused right on the sources of climate change.”
— James Thornton, Environmentalist/Attorney/Author/Poet, Founding CEO of Client Earth

“Worst mistake was reading my brother’s book. Second worst was agreeing in advance to write a blurb for it. Whatever….”
— Abigail Disney, Filmmaker/Activist

“The A.R.C. is a ferocious, globe-spanning graphic novel that takes aim at the parasites of the modern world―billionaires strip-mining the planet, sanctimonious pastors, phony country singers, hustling young douchebags on the make, and bigots, beefheads, and boors of every imaginable stripe. Tim Disney and JC Lacek skewer capitalist exploitation, climate catastrophe, the commercialization of everyday life, and the hollow theatrics of performative do-gooderism with equal parts rage, dark humor, and clarity of purpose. The massively talented Vincent Jolas Dubourg’s artwork is a revelation on every page: kinetic, inventive, and endlessly surprising, bursting with motion and visual ideas that elevate the satire into something visceral and alive. The A.R.C. doesn’t comfort or flatter―it attacks, exposes, and exhilarates. It is angry and ambitious work, unafraid to name names.”
— Tom Lutz, Founding editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Review of Books, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California at Riverside

“Only in the satirical world of The A.R.C. could one find an apocalypse worth hoping for. Beneath the cheeky references, the celebrity name-bashing, and the relatable existential angst that threads through each page, there is a story grounded in the power of honesty and genuine connection. It is a hopeful book housed in a cynical frame. A love child of the Pander Brothers and Juliet Doucet, Vincent Jolas Dubourg’s art style dances elegantly along the border between the representational and the mass-market, anchored by a steady current of the psychedelic. There is not a wasted line. Every panel advances the story, and the pacing makes a quiet case for why some narratives work better on the page than on the screen. From the compendium to the print ads, every artifact that fleshes out this world is rendered with the same care as the characters themselves, giving the whole book the lived-in feel of an actual place. And once the initial conceit of The A.R.C. is fully explored, the graphic novel refuses to rest on it. Instead, it invites us to imagine what the world might look like with a few fewer liars in it. In The A.R.C., JC Lacke and Tim and Francis Disney have created one of the very few apocalypses I hope to live to see.”
— Ayize Jama-Everett, author of The Liminal People series and The Last Count of Monte Cristo

“Sharp-elbowed and witty, The A.R.C. is a kaleidoscope of images with a punch-to-the-gut prophecy for where the world is headed. It spares no one—and no ideology—as it turns a mirror on all of us as we hurtle over the cliff.”
— Moira Shourie, Journalist, Executive Director Zócalo Public Square

“The A.R.C. is a pedantry up with which I will not put!”
— Lord Louis Blitherington, Third Earl of Northumberland

“Amazing!”
— Magazine

“Through striking illustrations and biting commentary, this graphic novel delivers a timely examination of influential figures and contemporary power dynamics. An essential read that combines humor with profound social observation to create an unforgettable reading experience.”
To summarize the key points:
• Combines striking illustrations with biting commentary
• Examines influential figures and contemporary power dynamics
• Combines humor with profound social observation
• Creates an unforgettable reading experience
— Real AI