Hot Summer Nights (Digital Edition + Extra Content) by Freddy Carrasco
(2017)
53 pages | Slice-of-life
Written and illustrated by Freddy Carrasco
☆ ☆ ☆ 2018 MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence winner in the Short Form category ☆ ☆ ☆
☆ ☆ ☆ 2018 Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Comic* ☆ ☆ ☆
(Debuted at the 2017 Small Press Expo)
On a hot summer night, a group of friends eke out the most they can from the last day of summer before high school begins.
". . . a moment encapsulated, throbbing and seething with the pregnancy of tomorrow. It’s comic book making at its best and a joy to read."
Daniel Elkin, Comicon.com
The digital edition extra content (also available separately here) includes:
- Links to the What's Benny Listening To? playlists, the soundtrack to Hot Summer Nights!
- An 11-page sketchbook of concept art for the book!
- Eastbound, a 15-page sci-fi comic written and illustrated by Carrasco!
- Soltape Vol. 1, a 12-track beat tape by Carrasco's beatmaker alias bludlo!
Read a preview of Hot Summer Nights here!
(You might also be interested in Carrasco's Gleem, a collection of three stories that are science fiction, but not really, about religion, artificial life, and clubs. Night Gleem: The Freddy Carrasco Digital Editions Collection includes both books.)