A Prime Minister strides into a boiling sea. And disappears.

Plunged into a slippery nightmare, he must face the consequences of an environmental war we’ve waged on a terrifying abyssal world.

This black-and-white undersea sci-fi graphic novel follows in the inkstains of Moebius, Alberto Breccia and Katsuhiro Otomo and is a love-letter to devotees of hand-inked stories.

Shortlisted in the Comic Arts Awards of Australia 2023 and longlisted for the ALIA ‘Notable Australian Graphic Novels of 2022’

Infernal Regions is available for purchase right here!

“Infernal Regions is a beauty, and has to be seen in person. It’s easy to see Rebecca’s own distinct style as she moves fluidly from political cartooning to beachside idyll, underwater adventure, sci-fi vista and beyond. Perhaps what I liked most is its rejection of nature as a passive, spoiled paradise. The undersea regions are active, dynamic, adaptive, hybrid.”

- David Golding, comics editor at Scribe Publications

“Amazing. It has infinite scale. The pictures are intricate, epic and awe-inspiring. The storytelling flows like water. It’s a situation that’s both hopeless and poignant. Love it.”

- Matt Page

BACKGROUND

Infernal Regions was 102% funded in 5 hours on Crowdfundr, and a full page of the process, backers and some insight into why I made it still online here.

Watch a mini-doco called “5 Years in 5 Minutes” about the making of Infernal Regions. There’s sketchbook ideas, concept art and other oddities within. If you’re on the fence about buying such a beast, there’s an unboxing video here where you get a sense of its gorgeous size and girth!

IS IT BASED ON HAROLD HOLT?

As someone who first learned to swim at the Harold Holt Swim Centre (yep, a real place), like many Aussies I’ve always been fascinated by the tale of the Prime Minister who went for a swim before lunch and never came back. What if he’s still down there? Is he drinking cocktails, making friends? Is he lonely and in a dark place? From this point I got thinking how far, or how un-far Australia has come since Holt’s halcyon days.

Combining all our worst, complacent Prime Ministers into the one character seemed the best way to convey my disgust at the climate inaction that’s been…inactive my entire life. Written in a dark fury at the bleak future of our environment, Infernal Regions was spawned.