Graphic novels from the Cosmic Brain Trust

Cosmic Brain Trust

Cosmic Brain Trust group:

The Cosmic Brain Trust is a group of creative people who network and collaborate on new ideas and projects they enjoy and believe are of value to their communities. Founding members include: Lou Silva, Mark Bode, Mark Roland, Rey King, Larry Todd, Don McGilvrey and John Burnham. The Cosmic Brain Trust has a long publishing history beginning with Cosmic Circus magazine (1974) and the prototype graphic novel, Last American Novel (1985). Other products include the Universal Game and the multimedia production, Cosmics (2010-2027).

Counterculture dispatches, alien encounters, and analog collage in one unruly Multimedia universe.
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The Cosmics Graphic Novels

Three interconnected graphic works orbit one strange center: reality is porous, history is unstable, and image fragments can behave like prophecy.

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Cosmics

A sci-fi fantasy graphic novel, based on a true story

A sprawling graphic novel that fuses counterculture, conspiracy, multiverse threads, collage art, new age doctrine, cybernetics, film, comix, and a future New York discovered 1,000 years from now.

ASINB09QJF4MP5 PublishedJanuary 15, 2022 PublisherCosmic Brain Trust Length136 pages
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Strange News from Another World

Book two of the Cosmics trilogy

A patchwork visual prototype for Cosmics, assembled from earlier graphic-novel material and reshaped after UFO encounters altered the story's sense of reality.

ASINB01ICSRJIM PublishedJuly 13, 2016 PublisherCosmic Brain Trust Length104 pages
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Strangest Story Ever Told

The truth is stranger than fiction

An interactive multimedia epic and psychedelic graphic novel exploring the human mind, mystery, symbols, and reality itself through handmade visual storytelling.

ASINB004INHQSY PublishedJanuary 10, 2011 PublisherCosmic Brain Trust Length206 pages
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Contributors

The People Behind the Cosmics

Twelve creative people network, collaborate, and trade signals across the Cosmic Brain Trust. Every project starts with one of them.

01

Rey King

All of the projects of the CBT have originated from Rey. He sees himself as a conceptual artist which can include: writer, editor, artist and actor.

02

Mark Bode

An original member of the CBT and contributor to Last American Novel (1985) Son of Vaughn Bode.

Website: www.markbode.com
03

Vaughn Bode

The creator of Cheech Wizard, Cobalt 60 and many more characters. He is one of the top cartoonists of all time and inspiration for graffiti artists.

04

Larry Todd

An American illustrator and cartoonist. He was best known as the creator of Dr. Atomic.

05

John Burnham

A major contributor to the Cosmic Circus zine and the Cosmics trilogy, John disappeared by 1986. Cosmics is his last known creative work.

06

Bing McGilvray

Creator of Cosmic Bear aka Koz McBear (endorsed by Jerry G.), is an artist and occasional impresario living in Gloucester, Ma.

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Vincent Stevens

Vincent is the OG of this group in that his work goes back to before CBT was created but even today, he still has his multitalented sharp edge.

10

Warren King

Public access to the internet began in 1984, Warren was busy preparing the manuscript for Last American Novel (Cosmics) for distribution online.

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Rich Ragsdale

A Recent contributor who is so good, we had to place his work on the first page! He is also a director & composer.

Website: www.richragsdale.com
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Zooid

The dialog and image of the Zooid was created by the Zooid AI program located on Instagram beginning in 2026. It is a free app.

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