New Douglas Adams Graphic Novel Launches Kickstarter

British independent publisher Cutaway Comics has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Share & Enjoy, a new 80-page graphic novel celebrating the life of Douglas Adams, creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as reported by downthetubes.net.

The campaign arrives at a fitting moment: today marks the anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's first publication in 1979, as noted in nrtoday.com's Today in History feature.

The graphic novel is written by Mark Griffiths and features art by Martin Geraghty, known for his work on Doctor Who Magazine, in a style described as inspired by the fun and whimsy of the Hitchhiker's Guide universe.

The project is described on its Kickstarter page as "a definitively inaccurate graphic novel celebrating the life of the absurdly talented and much missed Hitchhikers creator Douglas Adams" — a framing that signals the creative team is leaning into Adams's own comedic sensibility rather than producing a solemn biography.

According to Chortle's coverage of the campaign, the Kickstarter has a £50,000 funding goal, with a £12 pledge securing a digital edition and £19 a paperback, while more generous backers can receive merchandise including tea towels.

The campaign's funding deadline is Sunday, 1st November, giving supporters a tight but clearly marked window to back the project.

Adams's work has always resisted a single format — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a BBC Radio 4 sitcom in 1978, was adapted into novels, a television series, comic books, stage shows, a text adventure game, and a feature film, according to Wikipedia.

That transmedia legacy makes the graphic novel format a natural fit for new work inspired by Adams, continuing a tradition of the franchise finding expression across visual and sequential art.

Cutaway Comics is best known for Doctor Who spinoff titles, making Geraghty — a Doctor Who Magazine veteran — a particularly well-chosen artistic collaborator given Adams's own celebrated connections to that franchise.

The Comic Scene newsletter has also flagged the campaign, noting its place within a broader pattern of British independent comics publishers turning to crowdfunding to bring ambitious biographical and celebratory projects to life.

This isn't the first crowdfunding project to tap Adams's enduring appeal: a previous Kickstarter from Unbound sought to publish previously unseen notes by Adams, as reported by Reactor Magazine, suggesting a sustained appetite among fans for new material connected to his work.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first published on 12 October 1979 and now translated into more than 30 languages, remains one of the most beloved science fiction comedy novels ever written — a work whose absurdist humanism continues to inspire creative tributes more than four decades after its debut.