Through fictional artists and immigrants, Alessandro Tota tells the story of the golden age of comic books and the birth of an industry.

New York, late ‘30s: with the Great Depression in full swing, labor struggles are intensifying. Roberta Miller, just in from the midwest, winds up volunteering at a communist newspaper. Her head full of dreams and her pockets empty, she must find a job, fast. But between dancing at a skeevy cabaret or writing comics for a failed artist, offers are hard to come by and hardly ideal… Mad Men meets comics in this historical, novelistic 2-volume panorama of the New York press and comics scene from 1930-1950.