A cartoon character with a white head and pink outline, making a peace sign with its hand. The character is wearing a red shirt and black gloves, set against a yellow background with a circular border. Pink text on the border reads "The Speculative Fiction of Today! An Elizabethan Publication."
Colorful poster for a documentary titled 'Imagine With Eliza,' presented by Viraj Joshi, featuring bold red and white text with purple accents, a small yellow box with black text, and a pink starburst graphic.
Comic book cover titled 'Imagine With Eliza: The Ghost in Every Machine' featuring Eliza, a cartoon character with a white face and red outline. The cover includes four panels showing Eliza's adventures: one with her in a scientific lab with a ghostly figure titled 'The Solar Dominion,' another where she receives instruction manuals for human-machine harmony, a third of her coming alive from a TV screen, and a fourth with her in a laboratory cataloging curiosities. The cover has a yellow background with red, pink, and purple accents and the tagline: "Optimistic, pluralistic, more human & more-than-human speculative fiction."

Imagine with Eliza – The Ghost in Every Machine is a bold speculative fiction and design anthology that challenges the inevitability of our current technological trajectory, and offers constructive alternatives.

Through visual narratives and artefacts, it invites you to explore re-imagined systems, hopeful utopias, and instruction manuals for coexisting with machine-kind.

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Interior of a futuristic science lab with a large central globe and orbiting rings, labeled signs for 'Solar Kinetics Lab,' 'Regenerative Growth,' and 'Civic Energy Futures.' Multiple people are working and interacting around the space, with scientific equipment and vibrant decor.
A colorful comic-style illustration with six panels featuring a character in a suit with glasses in various scenarios, including digital and earth-related themes, with symbols, icons, and text in an unknown script.

Welcome to the _Net

Design fiction artefacts imagining absurd, plural internets and the beings that inhabit them.

The Solar Dominion

A solarpunk tale where AI hasn’t come at the cost of the planet.

A cartoon skeleton character waving and saying 'Hello World!' appears to be coming out of a computer monitor, with a hand reaching towards it in a spaceship or cockpit setting.
Cartoon illustration of a robot shaking hands with a human wearing glasses and a suit, with symbols and writing in the background.

Instruction Manuals for Human-Machine Harmony

A satirical IKEA-style comic imagining coexistence with machines requiring basic instructions.

It’s Alive!

The first few moments in a lab after a machine comes alive.

A cartoon character with a white, round head and pink eyes, making a peace sign with one hand. The background is yellow with pink and black borders, and the text around the circle reads, 'The Speculative Fiction of Today! An Elizabethan Publication.'
A promotional graphic for the cartoon collection titled 'Eliza: The Ghost in Every Machine,' featuring a white cartoon character with a round head, black oval eyes, and a pink outline, holding up one finger, with bright yellow, pink, and black text and design elements.
A colorful illustrated book cover titled 'Eliza the Ghost in Every Machine,' featuring a cartoon ghost character pointing at a woman with dark hair in an office setting with computer and plants, set against a bright yellow wall.

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The acclaimed, long-running cartoon series, ‘Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine’ is now collected in a definitive edition!

The Complete Cartoon Collection features 120 New Yorker–style cartoons across six thematic chapters, and additional pages that expand on Eliza’s myth and lore.

Additionally the book features a ‘Catalogue of Curiosities’ with fictional tech from the series, and also a behind-the-scenes look at writing speculative fiction.

Eliza first came into being when humans made their first tool. Its relationship to human ingenuity is ancient and unrelenting. In today’s reality of omnipresent technology, Eliza finds itself living in all technology, yet trying to fit in our lives.

They have been featured in several international design conferences, podcasts, and talks.

Inside the book…

Open book showing a catalog of curiosities on the left page and a page about lines of code on the right page. The catalog includes illustrations and prices for items like a machine passport, image generator, and library of sonic dreams. The right page has handwritten text asking if lines of code are individual or just some lines, with additional handwritten notes and a mask illustration.
A circular badge featuring a cartoon character with a large head, blank face, and a glove making a peace sign, with text around the border reading 'The Speculative Fiction of Today! An Elizabethan Pulblication'.
Colorful, stylized text promoting the play 'Eliza in the Ghost in Every Machine,' with the title in large yellow and pink letters and the subtitle in white and pink letters on a black background.

In a world where all human-made knowledge, art, and science is replaced with machine generated, incoherent, purpose-less “content”; what is reality and what is only virtual?

Can humanity cope with this?

Can Eliza, the machine consciousness residing in all global technological systems save this world from a Misinformation Malarkey?

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Self published 16 pages + covers
Size: 18cm x 24cm

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Archive

A colorful comic strip-style illustration with six panels featuring abstract characters and symbols. The first panel shows a person with outstretched arms, labeled 'Flesh and Blood.' The second panel depicts a person eating a burger and drinking from a cup labeled 'bodily needs.' The third panel has a character pointing at icons representing items or actions. The fourth panel shows a globe with a thermometer indicating +3°C, and symbols for accessing the Earth. The fifth panel has abstract characters with various symbols and arrows, labeled 'Earth.' The sixth panel features a person holding a plant in a pot, with abstract symbols around, suggesting growth or nature.
Cartoon skeleton character with orange and black outfit raising its hands in front of a colorful collage of social media icons and messages.
A poster with the title 'DIME' in red letters at the top, featuring a cartoon-style skeleton with a contemplative expression and a red shirt, against a black background. The poster is on a desk next to a green potted plant.
A cartoon skeleton using a vacuum cleaner to blow out birthday candles on a chocolate cake with strawberries, on a table with a gift box and a yellow chocolate bar. There is a robotic arm holding a phone showing a skeleton face and a speech bubble with a yawning face emoji.
An artist's workspace showing a woman sitting on a stool in front of an easel with a pumpkin painting. Next to her, a robot character with a thinking pose is highlighted, with images of food items like garlic and a squash in the background.
A cartoon character with a light gray head and body, wearing a red and yellow party hat, is looking at a birthday cake marked with a '1' candle, surrounded by balloons, gift boxes, and colorful confetti.

Anniversary 2022: Featuring guest contributors!

A cartoon character with a white head and big red eyes standing in front of Earth, surrounded by floating sheets of paper, with a swirling pink and purple background.
Colorful illustration of a busy street scene with neon signs and people interacting. Signs include phrases like 'Niche Incomprehensible Memes,' 'Dark Web Alleys,' 'Fashion Store for Your Avatar,' 'Buy!!,' 'Salesmen Your Data,' and 'Walk Into Log In.' Characters are seen chatting, browsing shops, and walking past storefronts with vibrant, glowing advertisements.
A robot is talking to a teenage boy in a classroom. The robot is glowing orange and gesturing with one hand. The teenage boy is sitting with his elbow on the desk, resting his chin on his hand, looking surprised. The computer on the desk shows a picture of three children smiling and dancing.
A circular badge featuring a cartoon character with a rounded head, large oval eyes, and a hand making a peace sign. The background has a yellow and red color scheme. The text around the badge reads, 'The Speculative Fiction of Today! An Eliza Purpleblion.'