Deprog: Volume 1

Deprog is a new detective thriller from Tina Horn (SfSx) and Lisa Sterle (Witchblood) that’s John Constantine meets Jessica Jones with a kinky Midsommar twist. Meet Tate Debs, a hardboiled hard drinking leather loving dyke detective with an office in the back of Los Angeles’s last video store. Tate specializes in rescuing and deprogramming people from abusive groups with extreme beliefs -- like the one Tate herself escaped, that believed in inter-dimensional travel and taboo ritual sex. When a femme named Vera, who may just be fatale, hires Tate to infiltrate a group of mystical hippies out in the desert, she must decide if Vera’s charms are worth being re-traumatized. Soon, Tate must face her past out of devotion to the femme she may be falling for... and a single minded drive to avenge her family.

Anna Kubik graduated from DePaul University with a master’s degree in Writing and Publishing. She splits her time between reading anything she can get her hands on, editing stuff, and occasionally playing with her own imaginary friends. She hates snow but lives in Chicago. Gab Contreras is a comic book colorist, illustrator, and graphic designer from Lima, Peru. Her last works as a colorist include ＂WITCHBLOOD＂ (Vault Comics), ＂DIRTBAG RAPTURE＂ (ONI Press), ＂TRVE KVLT＂ (IDW), ＂THE DEADLIEST BOUQUET＂ (Image Comics), and ＂MEZO: BATTLE AT COBÁ N ROCK＂ (AWBW). She has also worked on anthologies such as ＂HELP: THE HERO INITIATIVE ANTHOLOGY＂, ＂2000 AD SCI-FI SPECIAL 2018＂, ＂DEAD BEATS＂, ＂ALL WE EVER WANTED＂, ＂MAYBE SOMEDAY＂, ＂EMBODIED＂, ＂EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG＂ and ＂JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS - 40x40: Bad Reputation/I Love Rock ’n’ Roll＂. Kristy Baptist turned her back on the thrilling world of accounting to embrace her love of the written word. She lives on the outskirts of Hell, MI where she avoids garlic because she’s totally *not* a vampire. DaNi was born in Athens, Greece in 1992 and studied sculpture in Athens School of Fine Arts. She began to produce a self-published series called Tales from the Strips that won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Greek Comics Awards in 2015, before working on some 2000 AD strips including Fiends of the Eastern Front and Judge Anderson and on Rebellion’s Scream! & Misty and Tammy & Jinty specials. Soon she was on the radar of the US industry, picking up work from IDW on Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. More recently she has worked on the DC VERTIGO titles Sandman-The Dreaming, and is the co Lisa Sterle is the illustrator-creator of the iconic, bestselling Modern Witch Tarot deck, which has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue Italia and Cosmopolitan. She is also the co-creator and artist of the comics Witchblood, Squad, Long Lost, and Submerged. She has worked with HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, DC, IDW, Image, BOOM! Studios, and many others. Tina Horn is a writer, educatrix, and media-maker. Her book of fetish cultural criticism based on her long-running indie podcast Why Are People Into That?! will be out in 2024 from Hachette. Tina is the creator/writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series Safe Sex (Image) and the host/cowriter of the phone sex podcast Operator (Wondery). Her reporting on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Hazlitt, Glamour, Jezebel and elsewhere; she is the author of two nonfiction books and has contributed to numerous anthologies. STEVE WANDS is best known as a Harvey Award-nominated and Lammy Award-winning comic book Letterer with DC Comics, Image, TKO Studios, Dark Horse and others. When not working, he spends time with his family in New Jersey.