Based on a real place and real events, Snitchland — the sequel to Tim Mulligan’s acclaimed Witchland — is a thrilling new graphic novel that follows the strange and sometimes terrifying events surrounding an apparent nuclear accident in “the most toxic place in the Western Hemisphere” — an event that kills one of the two dads of a family recently transplanted from Seattle.
At the funeral, a mysterious co-worker lets his husband know that she had previously complained to management about the cause of the accident. What follows ventures into family trauma, political intrigue and the occult.
“Every town has its lore and its secrets,” said Mulligan, whose hometown of Richland, Washington, was home to the world’s first nuclear reactors that produced the plutonium used in the Trinity Test and in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. It has been the site of multiple radiation incidents over the years. “It’s amazing that it [Richland] hasn’t made its way into pop culture, and people don’t know that there’s this place that has such a bizarre and scary reputation.”
Snitchland takes place six months following the events of Witchland and draws upon hundreds of stories from whistleblowers in Richland to tell the story of a family facing extreme tragedy — misfortune, extreme health concerns, unsafe conditions and death — after moving to a town plagued by decades of wrongdoing. A ghost story, a moving family drama and a love story, Snitchland is a suspenseful and cautionary tale about what can happen when one, or many, tries to shed light on the dangers lurking in a community — and unspeakable horror happens.
Told with stunning artwork by illustrator Pyrink, Snitchland is part of the Witchland Trilogy, a series of scary (and surprisingly funny) immersive plays, each also adapted into beautiful graphic novels. The trilogy centers on one truly modern family’s experiences after moving to the town of Richland, which of course involves working at the infamous Hanford Nuclear site. The third instalment, Twitchland, is scheduled for release in early 2025.
Tim Mulligan wrote the Witchland Trilogy, based on his own experiences growing up in the real Witchland. In addition to the Witchland World plays and graphic novel adaptations, Mulligan wrote the plays Point Loma and Bitchland, as well as the bestselling Perfect 10 cookbooks. An avid fan of theatre, movies, books, TV and pretty much all things pop culture, especially in the horror genre, Mulligan and his partner, Sean, have homes in Palm Springs, San Diego and Los Angeles.
Snitchland
Publisher: Highpoint
Release date: October 31, 2024
ISBN-13: 979-8-9908488-0-1
