UNSUSTAINABLE (18+ graphic novel) with Danica Uskert

This graphic novel is for readers 18+

UNSUSTAINABLE

A 64-page graphic novel for Decriminalised Futures at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2022
a project by members of SWARM

Written by Danica Uskert of Film & Fishnets
Art by Annie Mok

“UNSUSTAINABLE” is the autobiographical story of two very different performers, Galen, a character actor desperate for more substantial parts, and Danica, a cam girl and sex worker who specializes in submission, face-stuffing and mukbang food fetish videos.  After connecting on a cam site, the two realize they have far more in common than their shared kinks. Can Galen put aside his careerism and forge a genuine bond with the frail Danica or is this another tale of star-crossed love in the City of Angels? A kinky parable about love, perversion, prejudice within the entertainment industry, the (tainted) relationship to the body and self as they relate to performance, the healing & destructive power of role-play and BDSM relationships, and the pitfalls of living in a society wherein humans are a marketable consumer goods, "UNSUSTAINABLE” is mumblecore amour fou for a superficial, screen-obsessed generation too eager to fall in love with avatars.

"Danica Uskert and Annie Mok’s graphic novel Unsustainable (2020) is particularly heart-wrenching" - ARTREVIEW

“Harrowing and vulnerable” - TIME OUT

"Deeply touching” - SHADES OF NOIR

“Profoundly depressing” - Some transmisogynist and sex worker-hating bigot at THE GUARDIAN

Also written up on in the article "Do Stars Have a Gender?"