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Cell Phone Video Underworld Revealed In New Graphic Novel Contraband From Slg Publishing

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) January 6, 2008 -- Contraband, a new graphic novel by writer Thomas Behe and illustrator Phil Elliott, is a near-future tale revealing an all-too-possibly-real world of underground video, violence and crime on cell phone networks. Contraband follows a young

man's journey into a new "voyeur underground", where profit-hungry youths prowl streets, secretly filming radical events with mobile devices to satisfy society's demand for sensational on-the-go content.

Co-creator Phil Elliott was approached on the street by a teenage girl asking for money. It's a sad but common enough occurrence in cities, but when Elliott refused, the situation became something much different from anything he'd experienced. "A younger kid -- he must have only been about 10 -- started swearing at me, 'Give us some ******* money!'" he recalled. "I was then aware that there was another girl filming all this on her mobile phone. What was going on here? Were they trying to provoke me? What happened to the video?"

The incident took on a greater significance for Elliott when writer Thomas Behe contacted him to see if he were interested in drawing a comic he'd written, which explores a voyeuristic underground where profit-hungry youths prowl the streets secretly filming violence and

catastrophes with mobile devices. That comic became Contraband. Behe was inspired to write the story after he noticed that people's concerns about cell phones had shifted from the physical dangers, such as radiation or tumors, to more cultural concerns. "The new concerns were more social-related," he said. "Kids receiving intimidating texts from class bullies. A mate of mine was even propositioned to subscribe to some sort of spy-cam exhibitionist mobi-blog. I had no idea why these folks were secretly filming everyone, but there was tons of stuff on there."

In the near-future society of Contraband, bands of content-hungry amateurs armed with camera phones record violent scenes, some of which they instigate, to satisfy society's demand for ever more shocking on-the-go entertainment. Toby, a self-styled "citizen journalist," is documenting this underground when he is discovered by agents for a cell-phone channel called Contraband. Forced to work for them, Toby is assigned the task of finding a female activist set on sabotaging

Contraband and must navigate a difficult path where he must choose between his own safety and the greater good.

Contraband is a 144 page black and white graphic novel written by Thomas Behe and Illustrated by Phil Elliott. Published by SLG Publishing and due for release in February 2008, Contraband, isbn # 978-1593621018 is $12.95 and is available for pre-order from Amazon.com and will also be available in a limited number of comic book stores as well as the publishers own website at: www.slgcomic.com

For more information about Contraband or to receive a review copy please contact Dan Vado by phone or e-mail.

SLG Publishing

577 S. Market Street

San Jose, CA 95113

Dan Vado

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