Publication Announcement: I DREAMT OF U <3 by Maya McKibbin Coming 2026

I’m thrilled to announce the first of three planned publications for 2026: Maya McKibbin’s I DREAMT OF U <3

In 2099, the air teems with invisible information, everyone has a neurolink, the cats speak, and the oceans are empty. Aurora, Tristan, and Kate, three scattered thirty-somethings, navigate being human, messy romances, world altering conspiracies, and a monumental shift in the dreamworld: an overpowering conglomerate seeks to tear it open and control it. 

Maya McKibbin is a Two-Spirits multidisciplinary visual artist living on the unceded traditional territories in BC. They are Irish-settler and Ojibwe with roots in White Earth Nation, with family diaspora from Zacatecas in Mexico. They grew up in ch'atlich and later in England. Maya was Art Director and storyboarder for Inkwo For When The Starving Return directed by Amanda Strong, which was selected for the Sundance Film Festival. They have also worked with BAFTA award-winning studio Playdead games, and illustrated kids books, including Governor General Award nominee Swift Fox All Along written by Rebecca Thomas, If You Were Here written by Kath Stinson, and The Song That Called Them Home and Little Shoes both written by David A. Robertson. Maya’s work has also appeared in Image Comics’ The Silver Coin, Salmon Run, and Asparagus Magazine. Their work centres the supernatural, nostalgia, and the wonder and grief of constant change and being uprooted, in the present and generationally. Learn more about Maya at https://www.instagram.com/mkchibs/ 

Maya will also be in tent D29 be at MCAF this weekend, and at TCAF June 7-8!

When I saw Maya’a variant cover for The SIlver Coin #5, I was immediately impressed with the atmosphere and composition of the piece. I was dying to see what Maya would do with horror content in colour, so we commissioned them to do the cover for Shades of Fear and couldn’t have been happier with the result. Maya’s work is textured and bold, and I DREAMT OF U <3 promises to balance the absurd horrors of modern existence, especially for the marginalized, with a sense of humor and love of community. 

Publication of I DREAMT OF U <3 is set for 2026.