Open Earth

A heartfelt, positive, and erotic look at one woman's adventure in love and sex, as a new generation learns to make their own rules and follow their own hearts aboard an orbiting space station. 

Rigo is a young woman of her time: specifically, the time just after the collapse of Earth. After living her whole life on a small space station orbiting the planet, the cultural norms and rules of her Californian parents are just history to her. In between work shifts at the station air farm, Rigo explores her own desires, developing openly polyamorous relationships with her friends and crewmates. When she starts to feel one of those relationships change, however, Rigo must balance her new feelings with the stability of her other relationships, as well as the hard-earned camaraderie of a small crew floating in the vastness of space. But, as the ship motto goes, "Honesty keeps us alive."

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SUPERSTAR DUO: Eva Cabrera and Claudia Aguirre are also the artists of comic book series Kim & Kim, which has been nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Limited Series (2017) and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book (2017).

MULTICULTURAL CAST: This sexy sci-fi features a multicultural cast and incorporates Spanglish in the dialogue.

AUTHOR WITH CREDENTIALS: While Open Earth is Mirk’s first graphic novel, she previously wrote the love and dating guidebook Sex From Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules. From 2013 to 2017, she was an online editor for Bitch Media and is currently a contributing editor for the graphic journalism website The Nib.