This episode is brought to by My Life Among Humans, a new graphic novel written and illustrated by a long-time geek's guide to the galaxy listener Jed McGowan.

Jed's work has been nominated for an Ignat's award, being featured in the Best American Comics 2019, and appeared in an outlet such as the New York Times, Vice, and Wired.

And here's a description of My Life Among

Human. It says, My Life Among Humans is an evocative, melancholy, an ultimately hopeful graphic

novel about a solitary alien's misguided search for connection among its human subjects.

A nameless alien data compiler comes to Earth to study humans, setting up shop on the outskirts of a small desert community in North America.

Working under forced labor, it must watch humans in complete secrecy while sending regular reports to its manager back home.

Using spore-like technology to read the minds of its hosts, the alien quickly takes a special interest in Will,

one of its early subjects.

That interest proves to be a problem when the alien is accidentally revealed to Will's family,

and it takes desperate measures to save its own life.

In doing so, it discovers a forbidden ability.

It can control human minds.

Now, the alien struggles to keep this secret from its manager, deal with a growing number of suspicious humans, and come to terms with its ethically questionable decisions.

My Life Among Humans is a beautifully painted, evocative first graphic novel from illustrator and cartoonist Jed McGowan.

Library Journal writes that My Life Among Humans is, quote, recommended for all who have felt like

an outsider looking in, and's Eisner Award-winning artist Ryan North, who is our guest

back in episode 93, writes, My Life Among Humans is a sweet, empowering story about our capacity

for connection, both human and alien.

So again, the book is called My Life Among Humans by Jed McGowan, and it's out now from

Oney Press. And you can learn more over at jeddmigowan.com.

All right, so now let's get to our show.

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