In Your Skin: New Comic Announcement
If you’ve been following this blog, you know this has been in the works for a while now (for years, really).
I am absolutely delighted to announce the upcoming publication of my first longform comic as a writer, In Your Skin, with artist Som, colour artist Francesco Segala (assisted by Gloria Martinelli), designers Dylan Todd and Courtney Menard, and editor Eric Harburn.
In Your Skin is a four-part mini-series that will begin serialisation on April 22nd 2026, published by Image Comics, and produced by James Tynion IV’s Tiny Onion production house as part of their Artist in Residence program. It is now available for pre-orders!
Popverse has the exclusive announcement, along with unlettered preview pages, and all our covers for Issue 1.
Here’s the official synopsis from the solicitation:
Priyanka is a Bollywood uber-fan who has been obsessed with film star Ayesha Sen since she was a kid – she's watched her movies over and over, and knows her dances beat for beat. But after a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet her idol goes awry, and Ayesha announces her impending retirement from movies, Priyanka decides that if Ayesha isn’t going to live the life she’s supposed to, Priyanka would be more than happy to take over for her…
Bollywood body horror meets erotic fiction in writer Aditya Bidikar’s debut series with rising star artist SOM (Crocodile Black), a twisted exploration of celebrity culture, identity, and image that’s perfect for fans of The Substance and David Cronenberg.
The Popverse announcement also has exclusive quotes from James and me about the book.
I posted about this on social media earlier today, and it’s been – as they say – popping off. I’m incredibly gratified by the excitement, and I can’t wait for everyone to see the magic Som and Francesco are creating on this.
I’m going to be cagey about further details for the moment, but rest assured we’ll be talking about this one a lot on the blog in the run-up to its release. I’m incredibly pleased to be working with this team as well as Tiny Onion, and I can’t wait for the world to finally see this one.
This is the book I’ve been talking about on the blog under the codename SEASIDE, so that codename is retired. Interested parties can go back through previous blogposts for hints of how this book came together.
I’ll also be talking about our covers in future posts, but you can go look at them on the announcement page, along the remaining preview pages. In the meantime, here’s the first page of the book, where you can see that Som and Francesco are absolutely on fire with this one.
Frequent comics readers know this, but the way comics sales work is that comic-book shops place orders for a book based on how many of their customers they believe will order the book. These orders are placed months in advance, after the book is solicited (which this was on Friday). So if you’d like to read this book, it would be very helpful for you to tell your local comic-book shop to get this for you. This is especially important for creator-owned releases such as this one that aren’t part of existing franchises.
Since the exclusive announcement came out, we’ve got more coverage. Image’s website did an official announcement, which was also covered by AIPT Comics. Fanboy Factor carries the full press release from Tiny Onion, while Graphic Policy also has our solicitation with preview pages.
If you’re reading this, you’re most likely subscribed to this site via RSS or email (which I thoroughly appreciate, and believe are the best ways to keep up with what I’m up to), but I will also be maintaining ongoing threads for this book on BlueSky and Twitter if you prefer getting your news via social media.
More soon!