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Created By: Tim Disney

Written By: Tim Disney JC Lacek 

Art By: Vincent Jolas Dubourg

Page Count: 333

Publication Date: 7/21/26
Cover Artist: Lil Zenten
Genre: Science Fiction, Satire
Hard Cover: Graphic Novel
Rated: Adult

"Obscene wealth plus a media not even remotely tethered to reality set in a jungle during the collapse of the entire livable climate would have been a ridiculous premise for a graphic novel 20 years ago. Now it feels it’s a headline coming in a few months.”

A lethal new virus is wreaking havoc across the globe, but this time hand sanitizer isn't going to fix it.


The A.R.C. begins at the Concordia Center in the heart of the Amazon, where a who's who of global elites from business, finance, fashion, entertainment, technology, and online activism have gathered for the Global Reinvestment For Tomorrow Conference (GRFT), promising to solve the problem of climate change once and for all. Very little problem-solving occurs before the GRFTers are infected with a lethal, highly contagious virus, dubbed Amazonian Recombinant Cytoneuropathy (A.R.C.).


The A.R.C. virus has peculiar and unfortunate characteristics: it is wildly contagious but undetectable in its dormant phase; it is 100% lethal; and the kicker is ... it's activated by lying. This proves deeply problematic for a world drowning in an ocean of lies and misinformation. The GRFTers board their private jets and spread the virus worldwide. Chaos ensues.


Most of The A.R.C. plays out on a supposedly "sustainable" cruise ship, The Veritas, where an unlikely band of passengers and crew members: a single mom and her teenage daughter, a born again preacher and his wife, the grizzled Norwegian ship captain, an underemployed photographer and her retired stockbroker father, a pack of libidinous business bros, an unscrupulous payday lending magnate and his Russian mail-order bride, and others, reckon with the spreading virus, survive a bloody attack, and together figure out what is driving the disease, and how to live alongside it. Some of them make it. Most of them don't.


Our plucky survivors make landfall on terra incognita just as The Veritas sinks beneath them. Ashore, they encounter a band of fellow travelers. We get a glimpse of the post-lie world they build together.


The A.R.C.'s diagnosis is discomfiting for its accuracy. A pandemic of lying really is killing us, all of us, accelerated by the force multipliers of ubiquitous social media and AI. The A.R.C. offers no safe spaces for left, right, or center, gleefully wielding satirical humor like a scalpel and a chainsaw to demolish artful pretensions and blatant lies with equal savagery. Many real-world people make appearances, only to be undone by their own mendacity.


Lurking beneath the beautifully rendered story pages lies a dense web of interconnected footnotes, footnotes to footnotes, dubious citations, arcana, marginalia, new characters and storylines, historical rabbit holes, advertisements, and "sponsored content". It's a rich meal for curious nerds and normies alike. The blurry blend of fact and fiction is the point.


Yet for all of its acidity, the book runs with a just-perceptible strain of hope. As the characters on The Veritas stumble, confess, relapse, and reach for something like honesty, the story suggests that truth is not a purity test, but a shared aspiration. In a world where outrage is easy and trust nonexistent, The A.R.C. offers something more valuable than cynicism: the idea that our broken world can be rebuilt - not by saints or saviors - but by flawed people trying to mean what they say. Maybe we are not doomed. Maybe honesty is contagious, too.

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This hard cover book is beautiful bound with the best materials possible, delivered in a custom magnetic slip case. An art piece unto itself. 

The A.R.C. is some of the best satire you will find. It's smart, funny and ruthless. No prisoners are taken. It's also physically stunning. I am angry that I was not invited to participate in the making of this book, but it's clear that the artists knew exactly what there doing. This work appears now when we need it, in the tradition of MAD, National Lampoon and Ramparts, it is humor for thinking people. And for folks like me, too.
-Percival Everett - Pulitzer Prize Winning Author


"Bitterly funny and staunchly anti-bullshit, a tale of truth, injustice, and a decidedly American Way."
-Cory Doctorow, author of "Enshittification" and "Red Team Blues."


“The A.R.C. is a sharp, funny, and beautifully drawn satire about our age of disinformation, and what it’s doing to our politics, our planet, and our souls. I laughed, winced, and nodded all at once.”
-Rutger Bregman, historian and author of "Utopia for Realists", "Humankind" and "Moral Ambition"


"Have you ever seen an epic disaster parable with the heart of a children's story, the wit of a political satire, the bloodlust of a zombie movie, and the visionary madness of a fever dream? Me neither. Kudos to The A.R.C. for fearlessly mixing genres and tones, facts and fiction, in a blend that has no right to work, but absolutely does."
-Alessandro Camon - Oscar nominated screenwriter and playwright, The Messenger, Time Alone, Scintilla


"Visually stunning, sharply satirical, and somehow hilarious, horrifying and hopeful all at once, The A.R.C. is the essential graphic novel for our times".
-John Carlos Frey - 6 time Emmy Award winning Journalist


--Full of wit, satire, and brilliant anger focused right on the sources of climate change.
-James Thornton - Environmentalist/Attorney/Author/Poet, Founding CEO of Client Earth


"Worst mistake was reading my brother's book. Second worst was agreeing in advance to write a blurb for it. Whatever...."
-Abigail Disney - Filmaker/Activist


"The A.R.C. is a ferocious, globe-spanning graphic novel that takes aim at the parasites of the modern world―billionaires strip-mining the planet, sanctimonious pastors, phony country singers, hustling young douchebags on the make, and bigots, beefheads, and boors of every imaginable stripe. Tim Disney and JC Lacek skewer capitalist exploitation, climate catastrophe, the commercialization of everyday life, and the hollow theatrics of performative do-gooderism with equal parts rage, dark humor, and clarity of purpose. The massively talented Vincent Jolas Dubourg’s artwork is a revelation on every page: kinetic, inventive, and endlessly surprising, bursting with motion and visual ideas that elevate the satire into something visceral and alive. The A.R.C. doesn’t comfort or flatter―it attacks, exposes, and exhilarates. It is angry and ambitious work, unafraid to name names."
-Tom Lutz - Founding editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Review of Books, award-winning author

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