Sam Esmail To Write "Mr. Robot" Prequel Comic

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Sam Esmail To Write "Mr. Robot" Prequel Comic
by Christian Holub
July 16, 2018


"Mr. Robot" is going back in time — in the pages of a new comic.

Series creator Sam Esmail will be writing the comic, to be published by Black Mask Studios, along with show writer Jeff McKibben. This "Mr. Robot" comic will be a prequel story to season 1, and it will document the formation of the mysterious group known as fsociety.




This comic will mark the creator-owned comic publisher’s first foray into adaptations of stories from other media. Previous Black Mask Studios comics include Calexit, a comic that imagines California seceding from a dystopian United States wrecked by climate disaster and political divisions in the not-so-distant future.

Calexit is written by Black Mask publisher Matteo Pizzolo, who will also help Esmail and McKibben craft the story for the "Mr. Robot" comic. Antonio Fuso is set to illustrate the series, with colors from Tyler Boss.




Black Mask’s "Mr. Robot" comic is set to launch to launch this fall, but more information will be available at San Diego Comic-Con.

On Thursday, McKibben and Pizzolo will host a panel titled “Mr. Robot: Hacking Comics,” set to focus on a conversation about expanding the singular world of "Mr. Robot" into comic form.

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