Lisa Cheese and the Ghost Guitar is an urban fantasy about an interdimensional punk rock unicorn
What do you get when an interdimensional unicorn girl undergoes a life-changing crisis that sends her back to her normal office job, away from her dreams of stardom?
You get Lisa Cheese and the Ghost Guitar, the debut full-length graphic novel from "cartoonist, musician, and educator" Kevin Alvir, coming in September from Top Shelf Comics.
Alvir, known for his cartooning in publications such as Funny or Die, Blackbook, Brooklyn Mag, Edible, and The Neu Jorker, and for his musicianship on albums from Gabe Liedman, Nicole Yun, Essex Green, Holy Tunics, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and more, will write and draw a series of OGNs for Top Shelf, starting with the improbably named Lisa Cheese and the Ghost Guitar.
"In Lisa Cheese and Ghost Guitar, a sweet unicorn girl from another dimension moves to Earth City hoping to make a name for herself as a folk singer…but her very first open mic is a disaster, leaving her with a bionic arm and an identity crisis," reads Top Shelf's official description of Lisa Cheese and the Ghost Guitar.
"Now she’s starting a crummy office job, her parents back in their home dimension are laying on the guilt trip, and the cool girl at the record store leaves her tongue-tied," it continues. "But once she’s drawn into a knock-down, drag-out encounter with a gang of hamburger-headed goons from the sinister megacorporation Beef is Burger, Lisa must rally a ragtag band of supernatural hipsters, conspiracy freaks, and burnt-out office coworkers to thwart their diabolical ambitions!"
As wild as the sci-fi fueled premise sounds, at its heart, Lisa Cheese and the Ghost Guitar aims at a level of relatability for Gen-Z readers, according to Top Shelf's release.
"With explosive energy and a razor-sharp
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