The Weakest Fish

by Bryan Wizemann & Edgar Camacho

In 1961, Tim accidentally witnesses his mother’s affair. When his family’s secrets collide, Tim flees to Mexico on foot, where he discovers a new world.

The Weakest Fish is a 290-page graphic novel, a coming-of-age thriller of self-discovery that explores themes of love and jealousy, loss and fear, escape and redemption, superstition and the natural world.

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#The Story

In 1961, Tim, a thirteen-year-old boy in Texas, witnesses his mother having an affair. When his family’s secrets collide, Tim flees to Mexico on foot, where he discovers a new world. The Weakest Fish is a coming-of-age thriller of self-discovery that explores love and jealousy, loss and fear, escape and redemption, superstition and the natural world.

The Weakest Fish is a graphic novel adapted from an original screenplay by Bryan Wizemann, first written in Ithaca, NY, in 1999 (with many drafts since). It is inspired by Southern Gothic folklore and Mexican culture. Illustrated by the award-winning Mexican illustrator Edgar Camacho, it has been compared to films such as Stand By Me, Night of the Hunter, Walkabout, and No Country for Old Men.

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Bryan Wizemann's latest feature YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME was accepted into the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab and awarded the Rooftop Films Brigade grant. His feature ABOUT SUNNY premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at IFF Boston. Lauren Ambrose was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead with distribution by Oscilloscope. His microbudget feature LOSING GROUND was adapted from his critically acclaimed NewYork stage play and features the original cast. It premiered at Cinequest with distribution by FilmBuff. His experimental 16mm feature SENSE, starring Maria Dizzia, was programmed at the Johnson Museum of Art and the Angelika Film Centre. Bryan Wizemann currently teaches film at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Edgar Camacho won the Premio Nacional de Novela Gráfica Joven (National Young Graphic Novel Award) for ONION SKIN, which was published with Top Shelf in 2021. ACACIA 22 was published in French with Éditions çà et là, and the Mexican edition won the Pixelatl Chinelo 2022 Award for Best comic of the year.

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The book is finished and ready to print. Once we know how many copies we need to print after the campaign's over, we'll start the production process.

Printing and shipping will take a few months, so fulfillment is expected to occur in early Spring 2025.

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