Die (comics)

*DIE*
DIE
	Volume 1 cover.
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Dark fantasy;
Publication date	December 2018 – September 2021
No. of issues	20
Creative team
Created by	Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
Written by	Kieron Gillen
Artist(s)	Stephanie Hans
Letterer(s)	Clayton Cowles
Collected editions
Fantasy Heartbreaker	ISBN 1-5343-1270-6
Split the Party	ISBN 1-5343-1497-0
The Great Game	ISBN 1-5343-1716-3
Bleed	ISBN 1-5343-1926-3

Die (stylized as DIE) is a horror/fantasy comic book about role-playing games, influenced by the portal fantasy and LitRPG literary genres, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Stephanie Hans. The series focuses on a group of British adults who are drawn back to an icosahedron-shaped world they originally visited as teenagers; the group left behind a friend upon their original escape and never discussed the experience. It was published by Image Comics and ran for twenty issues across four five-issue arcs (Fantasy Heartbreaker, Split the Party, The Great Game, and Bleed), beginning in December 2018 and ending in September 2021.

It won the British Fantasy Award for "Best Comic / Graphic Novel" in 2020 and 2021^[1]^[2] and was a finalist for the Hugo Award in "Best Graphic Story or Comic" three times.^[3]^[4]^[5] Gillen and Hans also created a role-playing game adaptation of Die with British publisher Rowan, Rook and Deckard;^[6] the game was successively funded via Kickstarter in May 2022.^[7]^[8] The digital edition was released in November 2022^[9] with the hardcover edition following in June 2023.^[10] The game won "Best Role-playing Game Core Product" at the 2023 Origins Awards.^[11]

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