In honor of World AIDS Day this year, Bluewater
Productions will be finally releasing the “Lost Raven” graphic novel digitally
on Itunes, Kindle & Nook.
On Dec 1st, “The Independent Book Publishers”, graphic
novel of the year, will be celebrating its 5th Anniversary of its release. Loosely based off writer, Darren G. Davis’
journal entrees this fiction graphic novel tells the story about being HIV
positive from a different perspective.
The book drawn by Keu Cha and Sean Murphy is described
as, after learning that he has contracted the HIV virus, attorney Zak Raven
leaves his practice behind to set forth on a mission of relaxation-– until his
peaceful trip goes wildly astray, leaving Zak shipwrecked on what he thinks is
a deserted island with only the words in his own journal to keep him company.
Unknown to Zak, four miles below the surface secretly hides a government
experimentation center where scientists are playing God by trying to
artificially evolve a human based species that can survive evacuation missions
in deep space. Within 900 years, earth will be dealt a deathblow by a
mountain-size asteroid. However, so far they have only achieved creating living
abominations. Zak and these creatures are on a collision course, and he must
rise to the challenge!
“I wrote the book because I wanted to make a difference
in the HIV world and most of the movies and books were about people dying. I wanted to tell it from the other side, the
person that manages it from a living perspective”, said Davis, “It’s not touchy-feely,” he adds. “It’s
basically raw emotion. Plus, it has a lot of cool monsters in it.”
“I wrote it based on my journal entries from when I was
diagnosed being HIV positive,” Davis says. “The book is almost like HIV 101 for
the mental state. When I first found out, I didn’t have the information and the
info that was out there was confusing even with doctors help. This is no longer
just a gay disease, so I also wrote the book so anyone with it can identify
with it. I was even fired from a job
after they found out I was HIV positive.
Coming out about this subject is to help reduce the stigma of it…which
has its challenges in itself.”
In the past 5-years of the book the writer was asked to
speak at various venues across the United States including Yale University.
Davis now runs Bluewater Productions, which has gotten a
lot of media attention from “Time Magazine”, “CNN”, “Fox News”, “People Magazine”
and other media venues. The company has
appeared many times on Amazon’s Best Seller list.
On December 1st, you can download these titles on Wowio,
Comixology, DriveThru Comics, My Digital Comics, Iverse, PanelFly, iTunes,
Kindle, Nook, Kobo and wherever eBooks are sold.
Bluewater also is releasing a biography on famed HIV
artist Keith Haring called “Milestones of Art: Keith Haring: Next Stop Art”.