Dream Feeds Book 1: Funded and in production
24 days ago
– Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 08:19:50 AM
Dear Backers —
The Dream Feeds Book 1 print run is funded. Thank you for backing the project, sharing it, and helping push this strange little nightmare into the world.
We're moving immediately into production. Here's what happens next:
- You'll get a BackerKit email soon to confirm shipping details and add anything you missed.
- Digital copies will go out in about two weeks.
- Final print files are being prepped today and head to the printer next week. I'll review proofs before approving the run.
Once the books are off the press, I'll share fulfillment updates and timelines.
Thank you again. Onward!
Ben
Meet the Marcelo Costa cover for DREAM FEEDS!
28 days ago
– Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 01:09:03 PM
Marcelo Costa is a Brazilian comic artist and colorist who's been working across both U.S. and Brazilian markets for over a decade. He's colored books for BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse, and Image Comics — including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Firefly, Hidden Society, and SELF/MADE.
More recently, Marcelo co-created Radiant Black with Kyle Higgins. As both artist and original colorist on the series, he helped define its visual language, blending tokusatsu and sentai influences with contemporary superhero storytelling. The series stands out for grounding superhero power in real struggle—career failure, debt, relationships—treating it as something that comes with genuine stakes rather than pure wish fulfillment. It’s an approach that resonates with what we're doing with DREAM FEEDS, and the serie’s become a flagship title within Image's Massive-Verse.
For his DREAM FEEDS cover, Marcelo drops us directly into a nightmare — not as spectators, but as the thing stalking our lead. Joshua looks up at us, knowing what's coming. The composition flips the usual perspective, making the reader the threat rather than the witness. Where Pedro Cobiaco's variant leaned inward — quiet, moody, and psychological — Marcelo's is immediate and confrontational.
I’m thrilled to share it with you.
The limited-edition Marcelo Costa Variant Cover is available for individual purchase, or as part of the Collector's and Retailer's Bundles.
The Pedro Cobiaco Variant Cover
about 1 month ago
– Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 08:52:47 AM
Today we're excited to release the variant cover for DREAM FEEDS by Pedro Cobiaco.
Pedro’s a Brazilian comic artist, visual artist, and muralist who began publishing professionally at the age of 13. That same year, he was invited to create a weekly comic strip for Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil’s largest newspaper. Since then, he's published five graphic novels, including Harmatã, Aventuras na Ilha do Tesouro, and Haya e o Tempo (with Janaína de Luna). His work has received multiple awards, including the HQMix Award for Best New Talent and the Grampo de Ouro for Best Comic, and has been nominated for the Jabuti Prize.
More recently, Pedro created the cover, interior artwork, and an original story for BRABA, a project developed by Rafael Grampá and co-published by Fantagraphics and Mino, released simultaneously in Brazil and the United States. Alongside his comics work, he has produced covers, illustrations, and murals for clients including DC, Guaraná Antarctica, and Saatchi & Saatchi.
Pedro’s DREAM FEEDS cover leans into a manga-informed visual language, particularly in its use of color and mood. The image is less concerned with a specific narrative moment than capturing our character’s inward state. It’s a clear tonal choice, and one that intentionally contrasts with Dalts’ more material, process-driven interior work. To me, it expands the emotional range of the book rather than mirroring it. It felt like the right leap to make.
The limited-edition Pedro Cobiaco Variant Cover is available for individual purchase, or as part of the Collector’s and Retailer’s Bundles.
Crossing 50%
about 2 months ago
– Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 10:38:47 AM
Hi everyone —
We’re one week into the DREAM FEEDS campaign, and we’re at 51% of our goal! That early support means a lot. The beginning is the hardest part, and this kind of engagement tells us the book is finding its audience.
I’ve been thinking about this story for more than a decade. Late one night in 2013, listening to the BBC World Service, I scratched this bit of news into my notebook:
“Reporting in Science, researchers in Japan used MRI scans to reveal images people were seeing as they entered an early stage of sleep. The team now wants to look at deeper sleep — where the most vivid dreams are thought to occur — and explore whether brain scans could one day reveal the emotions, smells, colors, and actions people experience as they sleep.”
At the time, it felt like a broadcast from the future: dream-recording machines, born in a lab. I knew they wouldn’t stay there. Innovation needs funding, business models emerge, and in today’s world, social media felt like the most obvious path for this technology to take. That’s where the story began.
For the art, I was introduced to Dalts Cara through his collaborator Magenta King, who I’ve had the opportunity to work with on the TRANSLUNAR series. From our earliest conversations, it was clear Dalts had a precise handle on Joshua, our protagonist, and on the cutthroat corporate culture of Dream Feeds HQ.
That meeting was a year ago — that’s just how long this takes — and since then, we’ve designed the characters, built the environments, and developed a visual style that feels true both to Joshua’s rural home and to the fluid logic of dreams themselves. Every page is drawn with ink and brush and put down on paper.
If you’ve already backed: thank you. You are helping bring this book into the world. If you’ve shared the project with someone who might like it: that matters more than you know.
Below are some of those early character sketches featuring the book’s main cast. Next week, I’ll be releasing one of our limited-edition variant covers.
More soon,
— Ben
