
Thoughts Never Hide
Comic · with a short film
A boy who is told he is too slow, and a bird that got left behind.
Proof of Light
Comic · science fiction · The Clean World Series · Volume 1
Liam is sixteen, and he has just watched a butterfly do something a butterfly cannot do.
A boy discovers that feeling is a measurable energy, and that his bond with a dying butterfly could turn back a planet's collapse. A 160-page hardcover graphic novel for teens and adults, Volume 1 of 6.

The story
Half the city wears a mask now. Not for a virus, for the air. Corner stores post the day's air-quality number next to the lottery results. Children pull masks on to play outside. Nobody talks about it anymore. His name is Liam. He is sixteen. He keeps a notebook. And at the edge of the city, a butterfly is doing something a butterfly should not be able to do.
Feel Never Die is a cinematic science-fiction graphic novel set in a near-future city where polluted air has become ordinary.
What Liam does with what he finds, and what it costs the people he loves, is the story. It stays between the covers until the book is out.
Who you meet
Everyone else in the story waits for the book.
The protagonist · 16
Feels everything, too much, all the time, and pours it into a notebook instead of letting it drown him. He is the first to notice, because he is the first paying close enough attention.
The butterfly
Black-spotted wings traced with electric blue. A creature that looks like biology and feels like a miracle.
The air is killing the city. A butterfly is turning the poison into light.
An interactive glimpse of fictional Verdania
Half the city wears a mask. Nobody talks about it any more. Then a boy notices a butterfly, and the field begins to answer.
Sola’s light
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Heavy smog
The city is breathing through cloth.
The Clean World Series
Feel Never Die is Volume One. Each volume is a complete story in one shared world, and the later volumes will be announced when they are ready.
In production. The cover, artwork and details may change before the book is published. Feel Never Die, its characters and artwork are the work of Jugl Studio.
Why we are making it
Most environmental stories try to scare you into caring. It doesn't work. Fear makes people look away, because helplessness is unbearable.
So we did the opposite. We start with wonder, a glowing butterfly in a boy's hands. Only then, gently, do we show you what's being lost. By the time you feel the loss, you already love what's at stake. That love is the only fuel that lasts.
That is the book we are trying to make. One you finish still holding the butterfly.
Progress on the book as it is drawn, and the first word when the campaign opens.
Feel never die.
Questions
A science-fiction graphic novel, and Volume One of The Clean World Series. In a city where polluted air has become ordinary, a sixteen-year-old finds a butterfly doing something a butterfly should not be able to do.
The butterfly and its glow are invented for the story. The setting draws on real reading about air pollution and lepidoptera, but Feel Never Die is fiction and should be read that way, not as a description of anything that exists.
Written for young adults and adults. It deals with illness and loss alongside wonder, so it reads older than a children's book.
Yes. Feel Never Die is Volume One of The Clean World Series, and each volume is a complete story. The later volumes will be announced when they are ready.
Soon. We are not naming a date until one is certain. Join the launch updates and you will be the first to hear.
That is the plan for the comic and tabletop projects. Nothing is open yet. When a campaign goes live we will link to it here and email the updates list. We won't announce rewards or pricing before they exist.
It can. The book is in production, so the cover, artwork and details may change before it is published.
Jugl Studio. We build original characters and worlds, and tell their stories as comics, tabletop games, novels and film.
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