People fight to survive in a world where AI has taken their jobs in the new graphic novel, Gigs. The Top Shelf comic featuring “biting satire and humanistic passion” is a about the dangers people will face and a celebration of the human spirit, per the press release. The six-chapter story by British creators Simon Smith and Mark Mosedale will be in stores in June 2026.

The comic follows an aging punk and lonely young person who find joy in music, a street artist paints at night then erases it during the day, a detective investigates a case in what is described as a “forgotten world,” a drug dealer has a weird delivery experience, a writer is trapped on a space station, and a refugee seeks help in the last free place.

“When we started working on Gigs in 2019. We hoped that doing a book about AI taking jobs and necessitating a universal basic income wouldn’t become irrelevant in the time we spent making it. It turns out that that was the wrong thing to hope for,” Mosedale said. “Still, there are all the right things left to hope for and, as Woody Guthrie wrote, you’ve got to keep the hoping machine running. For me, writing Gigs has been a big part of that.”

“When we started Gigs I was reaching for that feeling that great music gives me – hearing Tinseltown in the Rain for the first time, or Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops, or Once In A Lifetime. When this stuff finds you, it’s proof that another, better world is possible, and an encouragement to look for it,” Smith said. “Imagining a dystopia is relatively easy, especially right now, and the world that we’ve built in Gigs is quite bleak. But whilst hope and joy and revelation are definitely much harder to create, Mark and I have had a good go at it.”

Gigs will be in comic shops on June 16.