Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future - Duncan Jones and Alex De Campi Interview

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Get Ready for One of the Most Anticipated Graphic Novels of the Year! The Third Chapter in the Celebrated ‘MOON Trilogy’ Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future is here!

In just under two weeks, the campaign to get the graphic novel Madi:Oce Upon A Time in the Future raised over $275,000, making it one of the most successful comics Kickstarter campaigns in recent history!

The brainchild of Duncan Jones - son of celebrated musician and artist David Bowie, the gorgeous 260 page graphic novel features Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain’s elite special operations J-Squad unit, who is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in debt.

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She and the rest of her team have retired from the military but are now trapped having to pay to service and maintain the technology put into them during their years of service. They're working for British conglomerate Liberty Inc as mercenaries, selling their unique ability to be remote controlled by specialists while in the field, and the debts are only growing as they get injured completing missions. We meet Madi as she decides she’s had enough.

She will take an off-the-books job that should earn her enough to pay out her and her sister, but when the piece of tech she’s supposed to steal turns out to be a kid, and she suddenly blacks out... she finds herself on the run from everyone she’s ever known.


Duncan Jones is a British advertising and film director, best known for his BAFTA winning film MOON, epic game-based fantasy movie WARCRAFT and his other science fiction films SOURCE CODE & MUTE. He is presently staying safely locked up at his home, waiting for it to be safe to go out and make ROGUE TROOPER of 2000AD fame with Rebellion Studios.

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Alex de Campi is a thriller writer with an extensive backlist of critically-acclaimed graphic novels including Eisner-nominated heist noir Bad Girls (Simon & Schuster). Her most recent books were pulp horror graphic novel Dracula, Motherf**ker (Image Comics) and True War Stories, an anthology of soldiers’ deployment tales. Stay tuned for her music-industry coming-of-age graphic novel The Backups (First Second) in April 2021 and her thriller novel Heartbreak Incorporated (Solaris) in June 2021!

Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future
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I spoke with Duncan Jones and Alex de Campi to find out more about the graphic novel and their unique collaboration on this project.