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String

By Paul Tobin
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String introduces us to Yoon-Sook Namgung, a 25-year-old Korean-American woman with the intriguing ability to see two types of strings connecting various people. The first is bright blue and reaches between sexual partners. The second string—dark black—stretches between murderers and their victims. If you have a... Read More
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String introduces us to Yoon-Sook Namgung, a 25-year-old Korean-American woman with the intriguing ability to see two types of strings connecting various people. The first is bright blue and reaches between sexual partners. The second string—dark black—stretches between murderers and their victims.

If you have a murder that needs solving, Yoon can help. Worried your partner is cheating on you? Yoon can literally see the connections. Yoon’s life—for all the drama and constant TMI—is good, at least until the day she notices a string, a black string, connected to… herself!

This means she’ll either soon murder someone, or be murdered herself! So…dang. Which one?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781960578839

Publisher: Mad Cave Studios

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 May 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Mad Cave Studios

Illustration: 120 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Carlos Javier Olivares
  • Illustrated by Sara Colella

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 168.0mm

Height: 257.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 120

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About the Author

World's 53rd Most Handsome Author, known for Colder, Bandette, Plants vs. Zombies, and eating cookies.

Carlos Javier Olivares started his career as a professional comic book artist with Spanish companies Camaleón and Planeta Agostini. He has worked in the french market at Soleil and in the American market for companies such as Marvel, Blizzard, Boom Studios, and Aftershock.

Sara Colella is an illustrator and comic artist living in Rome. She works as a colorist for both US-based and French comic book publishers and as an illustrator in Italy and France. She has worked as a storyboard artist for commercials and an illustrator for web content in an advertising agency based out of Rome. Sara's been collaborating with a theater company for several years making their posters.

Taylor Esposito is multi-award winning comic book lettering professional, owner of Ghost Glyph Studios, and teacher at the legendary Kubert School. A former staff letterer at DC and production artist at Marvel, he has lettered titles such as Red Hood and The Outlaws, Robin Lives!, and Harley Quinn The Eat KILL Bang Tour; Flash Gordon, Edenfrost (Mad Cave Studios), Exorsisters, Drawing Blood (Image); Babyteeth, Maniac of New York, Bunny Mask (Aftershock); No One Left to Fight and Survival Street (Dark Horse). Other publishers he has worked with include BOOM! Studios (Amory Wars, Fence) Dynamite (Elvira, Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, Green Hornet), and IDW (Brynmore).

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