We’ve been working on a show pilot based on the acclaimed novel Erotomania: A Romance by Francis Levy. Check out the trailer here.

Erotomania is about two monogamous sex addicts. James Moran and Monica Cole are animal-like creatures who meet over anonymous sex. Eventually food, art, television, and even the therapy that is supposed to help them all become compulsions. As they develop an awareness of each other and evolve, they’re forced to confront their traumas and addictions.

The New Yorker and New York Times’ Daphne Merkin writes: “Erotomania…is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It offers a hermeneutics of the erotic, by turns shameless, funny, romantic and poignant.”

The Village Voice writes of Francis’ book: “[A] hilariously satirical debut novel. Miller, Lawrence, and Genet stop by like proud ancestors… But it’s a more recent generation of mischievous deviant writers (Nicholson Baker, Mary Gaitskill) that truly looms large — Erotomania’s closest predecessor might be Baker’s The Fermata. [An] ambitious book… [A] biting satire.”

The Los Angeles Times:
“Sex is familiar, but it’s perennial, and Levy makes it fresh.”

Time Out Chicago:
“A high-minded yet slapstick take on erotic desire.”

Bookslut:
“Levy seems to have an eye for detail for all that is absurd, commonly human, and uniquely American.”

Erotomania is currently being produced as an eight-part animated series by Designomotion. Art and hand-drawn animation is prepared in Vietnam, with digital animation done in the United States. Show creators Francis Levy and Joseph Silver attended Columbia University and recently collaborated on the graphic novel version of Francis’ novel The Wormhole Society.

The Wormhole Society, a graphic novel by Francis Levy and Joseph Silver, is now available on Amazon! Based on a book by Francis Levy, this epic 300-page work was produced by Designomotion in Saigon, Vietnam.

Rusty is an East Village reprobate reminiscent of Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov. When he steps into a portal—the sandwich board outside his favorite Mexican restaurant—he discovers a multiverse inhabited by endless iterations of himself. Rusty “worms” himself into varied worlds including King Arthur’s court and even the Big Bang as he struggles whether to seek redemption or sink deeper into his own degradation.

The Wormhole Society puts the American obsession with resurrection and salvation under the microscope. Medical charlatans offer cure-alls for erectile dysfunction and a host of other ailments with plans that produce credit card-style rewards points. Hucksters with biblical stories of revelation and reform populate the twelve-step program to which the novel’s title alludes. The Wormhole Society is a satiric examination of time travel and utopian notions of fantasy and science fiction.

Foreword Reviews writes:
“The book strikes a delicate balance between dark introspection and humor…The art flows thanks to creative page layouts and interesting depictions of a variety of eras…a man has a fantastic romp across the multiverse, hoping to become a better person.”

Booklife, Publishers Weekly observes:
Levy’s script wastes few words, while Silver’s layouts deftly guide the reader’s eye to what matters most in each moment, whether the scene is wrenching, silly, grand, or heartening…Rusty’s world of alleys, fire escapes, filthy apartments, and basement meetings is touchingly desolate, while the fantastical stuff—from Camelot to prehistoric rutting—bursts with energy…”

Available on Amazon in both hardcover and paperback editions.