ACID BOX is a brand new graphic novel from writer Sara Kenney, artists James Devlin, Emma Vieceli, and Ria Grix, with colours by Sofie Dodgson, and lettering by Hassan Otsman-Elhaou: a darkly comic adventure through club culture, spanning space and time.
A massive paperback with over 200 pages of comics from some of the most exciting UK comics creators working today, ACID BOX will be a banger you don’t want to miss.
24 Hour Party People meets The Wizard of Oz, join us as we follow Jade and her friends as they take you on the trip of a lifetime.
200 pages, paperback with french flaps, full colour throughout, 156 x 239mm
Jade Nyo just wants to party, but how is she supposed to enjoy herself when the world around her is falling apart?
It’s 2026 and Jade’s out clubbing in Glasgow when she runs into a trio of mysterious women in the toilets. They tell her they’re Liminals: guardians of portals that let you travel through space and time. They give Jade something called an Acid Box and tell her she needs to use it to avert a global disaster. No pressure or anything.
But the Acid Box is broken, and Jade must travel back to 1994 in a quest to fix it. As she tries to change the future, the work and pressure of making friends and saving the world might just prove to be too much for her messy and imperfect brain…
A celebration of rave culture through history, ACID BOX explores what it means to be human. Balancing joy and anger, scientific theory and creative response, the unbearable weight of responsibility and the drive to make change – and how exhausting and exhilarating it can all be.
Wondering if ACID BOX is for you? Here’s a handy checklist to help you figure it out:
Is your happy place a bouncing dance floor?
Are you nostalgic for the parties of the ‘90s?
Are you a fan of the power of friendship? Even across time and space?
Do you enjoy well-researched, scientifically accurate sci fi adventures?
Are you determined to have fun even on the brink of disaster?
Do messy main characters give you life?
Is supporting art communities and youth access to those communities important to you?
Do you just love comics?
If you answered YES to any of those questions, then yes, ACID BOX is for you, friend.
“Dancefloor history meets family history via psychic reality-skipping quest. Take your brain to another dimension. Pay close attention.” – Kieron Gillen, The Wicked + The Divine
“It’s a monster of a comic.” – Alex Paterson, The Orb
“I was too young to go out raving in the 90s, so I soaked up club culture via things like 2000ad and characters like Milton and Bradley, or through artists like Jamie Hewlett or Robert Bliss, and writers like Peter Milligan. The link between club culture and UK comics was such that 2000ad even had their own club column, so UK comic book culture will always be inextricably linked to the broader outsider dance music phenomenon that I’ve devoted my life to. Acid Box feels like a long-overdue return to that tradition, and it’s a really fun read.”
– Man Power, DJ & Producer
“Fun, insightful, off the beaten track, resonant, meaningful, original and skilful. Would match a Coldcut sound track. ;)” – Matt Black, Coldcut & Co-Founder Ninja Tune
“Love this—as addictive as a TB303 bass line, hits all the right notes.”
– Jon More, Coldcut & Co-Founder Ninja Tune
“A welcome depiction of the transcendental nature of electronic music culture where transformation is always possible and hope is carried by the poetry of sound.” – Justin Robertson, DJ, Broadcaster, Artist
