Image Comics Announces Queer Spin-Off ‘Sweet Paprika: Open for Business’
Image Comics will be heating things up with the upcoming release of Sweet Paprika: Open For Business, a 5-issue queer love-drama miniseries written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Emilio Pilliu. The series will in the style of of Mirka Andolfo’s Harvey Award winning Sweet Paprika and include characters from Sweet Paprika: Black, White & Pink #1. The miniseries is set to launch in November from Image Comics and Arancia Studio.
"As a writer keen on getting folks excited about my work and that of my collaborators, I've been known to engage in hyperbole. But even so, without hesitation, I've never had a blast working on a book like I have with Sweet Paprika: Open for Business—it's my favorite book to write, every month," said Orlando.
Image Comics shared more on what readers can expect:
Sweet Paprika: Open For Business follows Aubrey Jean, a young employee at Infernum Press, as he tries to impress his hero and boss, Miss Paprika, and figure out his relationship with Persica, a friend with benefits who might want to be more. But just as Aubrey and Persica settle into an open relationship that’s comfortable for them both, their relationship is thrown into turmoil by Kren. And on top of all that, Aubrey finally gets a chance to prove his worth to Miss Paprika by becoming the handler for Infernum Press’s most challenging client—the dreaded, eccentric, and unstable author known as Durian.
Can Aubrey deal with Kren and save his relationship with Persica? Does he even want to be with Persica? And how can he even figure any of that out when he’s got to be on-call day and night dealing with Durian’s next insane request?!
