Matt Fraction, Gene Ha and Denys Cowan on Project 2025: The Comic Book

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Introducing Stop Project 2025, an all-star comic that reveals some of the projects' policies and their potential impacts.

Published Mon, Nov 04, 2024 10:52:08 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Mon, Nov 04, 2024 3:35:06 p.m. -0600

Article summary

Discover Stop Project 2025, a comic criticizing the conservative plans of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.

Project 2025 aims to reshape the US government with right-wing policies and consolidate executive power.

Comic book authors like Matt Fraction and Gene Ha highlight topics like climate change and militarism.

Dive into themes of authoritarianism, internet freedom, and Christian nationalism with this powerful graphic novel.

Project 2025, or the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a paper published in 2023 by the American conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation with the aim of promoting conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power, so that the entire executive branch is under the complete control of the US President. This includes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal employees as political appointees, replacing them with people loyal to the president, thereby instilling conservative Christian values into the government and society. It works under the premise that Donald Trump will win the US presidential election tomorrow.

Donald Trump has denied knowing anything about the project, although many of his contributors had close ties to his administration and campaign and expected to be part of his new administration if elected. As a vice presidential candidate JD Vance wrote the foreword to a linked book by the president of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts. Trump's statement about Project 2025 that “some of the things are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal” led Kevin Roberts to say they knew Trump was “making a political-tactical decision there.”

But some people still don't know what it all could mean. We introduce Stop the project in 2025a comic revealing some of the projects' policies and their potential implications. It is a series of short comics, each containing the full script for each page and covering a wide range of topics. These include abortion, anti-trans discrimination, authoritarianism, children, Christian nationalism, climate, cronyism, education, Environmental Protection Agency, executive orders, extreme weather, health care, immigration, internet freedom, libraries, militarism, police abuse, school lunches, taxes, teachers, election issues and War against the working class.

Featuring contributors from across the comics industry including Karim Ahmad, Ho Che Anderson, Alejandro Arbona, Andrew Aydin and Josh Rogin, Brandt and Stein, Zander Cannon, Comicraft, Denys Cowan, Valentine De Landro, Scott Dunbier, Kieron Dwyer, Jerel Dye, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, Ben Fisher, Matt Fraction , Gene Ha, Cully Hamner, Mike Henderson, Jay Hosler, Shawn Lee, Steve Lieber, Laurenn McCubbin, Ibrahim Moustafa, Evan Narcisse, Jim Ottaviani, Greg Pak, Jeff Parker, Joe Phillips, Tobias Queck, Greg Rucka, Mark Russell, Chris Ryall, Sara Ryan, Jennifer Smith, Lilah Sturges, Zoe Tunnell, Jen Van Meter, Rick VeitchAnd Shannon Wheeler. And can be read in full here…