Hotelitor
Luxury-Class Defense and Hospitality Unit
Age 14+
Children's & Young Adult Fiction & True Stories
A young-adult version of HBO's Avenue 5, one part first-job story and one part Lord of the Flies.
Hotelitor is the finest hospitality craft in its colony, equipped with jet feet, a hyperspace engine, and single, double, and adjoining rooms.
When a giant alien attacks the ship, Hotelitor's surviving guests and staff find themselves stranded in deep space. There, 18-year-old intern Anna Green must take charge. Alongside her fellow entry-level service workers, she'll try to control the chaos while rival factions emerge, wealthy VIPs seize hotel resources, and the musician-in-residence develops a literal cult following. As Anna and her friends search for a way home, shocking discoveries about Hotelitor's owners await them—if another giant alien doesn't smash the crew first.
Creators
Josh Hicks is a cartoonist from Wales, UK. He has been creating comics since 2015, working with anthologies and independent publishers in the UK and self-publishing his own minicomics.
Reviews
A hilarious, fist-pumping, heartwarming genre mashup across the universe, with bright and beautiful artwork and characters. Pacific Rim meets Fawlty Towers? only good.
Hamish Steele, creator of Netflix's Dead End: Paranormal Park
We had no idea we needed a comic full of giant-mech-hotel fights and the frustrations of working for terrible managers until now! Hotelitor is one of the funniest sci-fi comics we’ve ever read, and Josh’s cartooning is a delight for the eyes.
Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins, authors of Our Super Adventure
Utilizing flat coloring and straightforward paneling, Hicks (Glorious Wrestling Alliance) presents a clever, high-octane graphic novel satire of the bourgeois and proletariat. Human characters are depicted with varying skin tones.
Publishers Weekly
