One creature... a biped hymenoptera... a spider, a brain, a mouth on the wall... existence is confusing, tough, and brutal. Wakefulness blends into unconsciousness blends into nothingness. What is? Who am I? Where am I? Why?

ISBN 1-932295-12-7 Text and art by Mike Kulina

Artist Mike Kulina explores a strange, surreal world and the questions and challenges its inhabitants must face in his first graphic novel, Human Hymenoptera. A culmination of two years of creative effort, this volume includes dozens of detailed illustrations painting a stark portrait of a world gone mad, accompanied by a poetic narrative that draws the reader into the madness.

Through evocative metaphor juxtaposed with intense drawings, Mike takes his audience on a dark whirlwind exploration through a world without reason, where heartless cruelty is met with stony indifference and the inhabitants must find their way without heroes or hope. For some, insanity descends like a dark cloud, while others accept their lot with stoic resignation.

One lone creature, awakened from the darkness, is set to work as just one cog in the machine. His cog is to deliver envelopes by sliding them under doors, without asking for whom or why. But even in being told to not ask, his head fills with wonder and curiosity... and the pursuit of the mystery, rising above the machine to become individual, ultimately gives him his humanity but also leads him to his downfall.

"Human Hymenoptera is a wonderful introduction to the mad, mad world of Mike Kulina. Anyone looking for a vacation from reality should look no further than his vision of magnificent desolation." -The Daily Athenaeum