
A Kalyee Srithnam Film: New Fiction
“You loved me because you thought I was someone else — someone special, someone magical. You couldn’t see the truth, hidden behind my shimmer of illusions.”

“You loved me because you thought I was someone else — someone special, someone magical. You couldn’t see the truth, hidden behind my shimmer of illusions.”

For his “Starguards” comic book, Inky sketched images of rocket ships exploding into a swirling void. He spent all night in a speak, downing gin and cocaine.

In the ninth episode of “Starguards,” Mary Luna, a SolarCorps cadet, looks back at the history of the 20th century, from the crazy future world of 2024!

In 1924, Jazz Age cartoonist Inky Grant faces a dire, life-changing choice. In a retrofuturistic world a hundred years later, solar soldier Mary Luna faces the same traumatic struggle.

Mary Luna is a soldier of tomorrow’s solar system, a romantic, a merciless killer … and a figment of Inky Grant’s fevered Jazz Age imagination.

As 1924 dawned, cartoonist Inky Grant imagined in comic book form what the world of 2024 would be like: a dark and terrible place.

No one will work with me, the cartoonist Inky Grant wrote in 1923. If my idea for a science fiction comic book set in 2023 is to have life, I will need to bring it to life myself. Crime it shall be.

In 1923, Inky Grant discovered that the present was not as rosy as he had hoped. This would have dire repercussions for the world of 2023.

A newly resurrected Sunday comic strip about mermaids, which you may find amusing.

“If only the future could be just like today,” Inky wrote in his diary, in 1923. He was rather happy with the world; rather than change it, he wanted to preserve this moment, when life was good and possibilities were endless.

In early October 1923, Inky Grant was happy, and Chapter 2 of his “Starguards” opus was as optimistic as the galaxy is vast.

Henry R. (“Inky”) Grant wondered: What will the world be like in the future, in the year 2023?
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