G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y

Above: Not a fictional character, not from TV or film, but a real live person. Cédric Villani (actual last name), French mathematician and politician, spotted in Standart's Enki Bilal documentary. Love me an eccentric. Also of note: North American graphic novelists are rarely if ever seen conversing with mathematicians/politicians. This, I suppose, is part of what separates the French from Americans.

Below: The road back to Cairo from Suez. The construction goes on forever. Cairo, already an insane megalopolis, continues to balloon.

Finished the final touches on the design for the box that will collect the serialized editions of THE SOLAR GRID. My co-publishers at Radix Co-Op tell me it'll debut at the NY Art Book Fair in September. Cover reveal when I get the green light.

Gearing up for THE SOLAR GRID panel at Petrocultures 2026 in Dresden, which will take place on August 27 from 11:00am-1:00pm. I am told that it'll be held in a conference room with a capacity of up to 400 people.

Today: – Finishing a small illustration for a new Houston-based micro press. – Conference call for a potential podcast graphic. – Early prep work for a potential TSG-related exhibition. – Getting my brand new kitchen faucet replaced. Already. – Podcast episode review for edits.

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Fantastic documentary on Enki Bilal from Standart.

Finally got around to reading Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's 2008 novel UTOPIA (in its original Arabic), which is just brilliant and in 2026 eerily close to reality.

Started watching SILO which I am enjoying enough, though I can't stand Rebecca Ferguson.

#radar

STATUS + Proof of life.

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Popped up on my radar; A couple reader reviews of DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (Twelve Tomorrows series) for which I wrote the story UNAUTHORIZED (OR, THE LIBERATED COLLECTORS COMMUNE):

— A Deep Look by Dave Hook

— Un blog de ciencia ficción en busca de un nombre

Readers seem to be enjoying it. Though Locus didin't seem to care much for my story apparently.

Ah well, can't win 'em all. I'm just happy to have had a story appear in the same volume with the great Bruce Sterling; a small yet precious feather in my imaginary hat.

#work #prose #fiction

They have advertising screens above urinals now?

A man cannot even pee in peace in this cursed hellscape of a timeline. The state of advertising in this batshit city is really getting out of hand.

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-Istanbul first week of July. -Dresden last week of August. -Maybe maybe New York City sometime in the Fall.

In addition to having done Houston earlier this year, this is admittedly more travel than I'd like. I'd rather just hole up in the studio and work without disruption.

#travel

Based exclusively on downloads, it looks like THE SOLAR GRID has readers in Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Finland, Ireland, Mexico, The Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, the United Kingdom, in addition of course to the United States.

The story, I think, is just asking to travel into other languages.

The latest newsletter went out a couple days ago. RESTRICTED FREQUENCY #234: Shortform.

#journal #RF #TSG

— Occult rituals in the Epstein files.

— “Just hang in there.” – Suzanne Vega for The Creative Independent.

— “An indie horror with internet origins has beaten the legacy franchise “Star Wars” at the box office this weekend.” – NBC news on the unexpected success of BACKROOMS and OBSESSION.

Migraine day today; No productivity for me.

#radar

After popular demand, the complete THE SOLAR GRID graphic novel is now available for download. For a limited time only, there are presently two ways to get it:

• – $10 bucks through Garage.Ganzeer
• – Pay-what-you-want on Gumroad

The book is also being serialized in print from Radix Co-op.

A pathway for a collected print edition is still being explored.

This complete e-book edition comes with a never-before-seen introduction by Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Castlevania, Normal), extensive foreword by Sim Kern (The Free People's Village, Genocide Bad), and fantastic afterword by Ho Che Anderson (King, I Want To Be Your Dog, Godhead).

Hundreds of years after a global flood, night has been consigned to legend. In its place, the Solar Grid—a vast network of artificial suns—keeps Earth bathed in relentless daylight, powering factories that never cease. But this eternal dawn comes at a cost: The Earth has become a scrapheap, a wasteland stripped of resources to fuel colonial settlements on Mars.

Amidst the ruins, two young scavengers, Mehret and Kameen, stumble upon a discovery that could shatter the Solar Grid's fragile, oppressive system. The story spans centuries—from a submerged Cairo to the corporate strongholds of New York, and into the augmented reality of a distant Mars. Environmental collapse, capitalism, imperialism, and migration collide in an epic tale that examines the hopes and consequences of unhinged techno-utopianism.

“Ganzeer treats The Solar Grid as a culmination of his personal, professional and political experiences over recent years.” – THE GUARDIAN

“Ganzeer’s project epitomizes his hyper-democratic ethos.” – FOREIGN POLICY

“It’s a story about the inevitable destruction of our planet by corporate greed and a couple of unassuming antiheroes who somehow bring it all down. This is a story of revolution, the powerless taking power back from the powerful.” – SLATE

#work #comix #tsg

Accidentally started a new project somehow.

CAIRO DIARIES | يوميات القاهرة: A series of small mixed media artworks on paper (all around 28 cm x 20 cm | 11” x 7.9” or thereof). The starting point always begins with ripping out a page from an Arabic-language book and blacking out most of the text blackout poetry style, leaving only the words that form a sentence that actually corresponds to my day/week/year. The page then gets rolled into the typewriter, where the translation of the sentence is punched in, and the remainder of the artwork gets built from there.

Pictured above is CAIRO DIARY 001: EXPECTED | توقعت.

Yeah, what I said a few days ago about dedicating the next 6 months to PROJECT HOURGLASS? So not happening; three more projects have already been jammed into the pipeline.

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