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Food Crisis
Food Crisis is another fundraised graphic novel that focuses on a face
paced apocalyptic story set in 2025 about a food crisis that hit North
America. Based on real facts and past food crises like the depressionera
dust bowl famine and the 2011 unrest over food prices in the middle
east that resulted in the arab spring development.
The book is aimed at high school students and addresses these severe
issues , aiming to make them more understandable.
The graphic novel has been written to be attention grabbing, hoping
to inspire readers to create their own solutions today. It also includes
12 essays and 200 footnotes that provide a balance and bring a
certain amount of focus to the the story. It was illustrated by long time
collaborator and illustrator Scott Mooney.
The fundraiser ran for an entire month leading to an income of $7000
which would help in turn distributing the book into schools in Canada and
the United States.
Above: Food Crisis Cover Page Illustrated by Scott
Mooney
The fundraiser ran for an entire month leading to an income
of $7000 which would help in turn distributing the book into
schools in Canada and the United States.
The contributers to this campaign would get access to a
number of rewards such as a soft copy of the book, and a
“Learning Pack” that could be used personally or donated
to a school of your choice. which includes a DVD featuring
animated videos of the global crisis and soft copies of the book
itself.
Left: Illustrated sample pages from the graphic novel
On the side, the campaign had T shirts promoting the
campaign with pictures of the graphic novel on it.
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