About the Sanders Second Life Graphic Novel Volume 1

An epic medieval "bosch style" comic novel

"Those who awaken in the forest shall see themselves as strangers, lost in the red light of the midnight skies."

Sander's Second Life - vol.2 out in March 2026

"In his biography, the artist, illustrator, and designer Stepan Razorёnov lists his birthdate (09/21/2002) as well as his death date (09/21/2093). He calls himself a calm, responsible, unsociable and strangely principled Tolkienist, and tells that, since the summer of 2021, he's been writing a story about the afterlife which has grown into three volumes. What he should, from now on, add to his biography is the word "Writer" as Sander's Second Life (his first comic book, drawn "one page a day" for nine months) is indeed a wonderfully drawn book, but first and foremost a work that makes use of a majestic and incredibly self-aware writing for a debut work." Furthermore, among the reasons: "Razorёnov does not simply tell the story of Sander's desire to build a town for all the creatures who ended up in hell, but does such a great world-building job to make living and believable every side character, every environment, every bit player. By addressing the corrosion that power brings along, the importance of the concept of community and individual responsibilities, Razorёnov bring the first chapter of a philosophical dark fantasy saga to life, whose hearth reside in its morally ambiguous main character, but whose souls lies in the questions concerning the ideas of death and rebirth, personal and collective memory, it asks the readers".

published by Hollow Press
March 2025- first printing
limited edition: 500 copies english, 500 copies italian
off-set printing - full color
printed in 17x24cm format on 140g Magno paper
cover printed in black hot foil on Sirio COPPER 350g paper
a huge book by 336 pages!
soft cover - stitched binding

Artwork: Stepan Razorёnov
Editor: Michele Nitri
Graphic Design: Raffaele Primitivo
Graphic Supervisor: Marco Cirillo Pedri
English Proofreader: Alice Amico, Am-Book Inc.