Author
Preiswerk is the enigmatic mind behind THE GOLD COAST™, a shadowy, high-gloss saga where luxury and noir bleed into each other like ink in water. A graduate of Central Saint Martins College, he emerged from the crucible of avant-garde design. Preiswerk is a published artist whose work has been featured internationally across leading cultural publications. His projects have appeared in Vogue Italia, The London Times, The Independent, Numéro, Dazed & Confused, and other renowned titles.
Part designer, part storyteller, Preiswerk weaves narratives with the precision of haute couture and the punch of a graphic novel. His worlds are cinematic—equal parts Alpine myth, stoner surrealism, and jet-set decadence. A true creative phantom, he rarely explains and never apologizes. He doesn’t just write comics—he builds them like cathedrals, every panel a stained glass of sin, satire, and style.
Swiss by birth, Preiswerk has lived on the notorious GOLD COAST for several years, soaking in its eccentric opulence and sun-drenched intrigue. When not crafting the next installment of his noir mythos, he vanishes into remote Alpine valleys—disappearing for days at a time into forgotten trails, military bunkers, and glacial silence, mining stories from the shadows of the mountains. His explorations often lead him to investigate both historical and current trafficking and trade routes threading through hidden mountain passes into Switzerland, where history, smuggling and shadow economies blur into one.
Art
The art of The Gold Coast begins messy and alive. A biro pen scratching ideas onto a napkin, a margin, whatever surface happens to be nearby when a character first shows up. Those raw sketches get hunted down, refined, argued with. Lines are tightened into deliberate line art, anatomy locks into place, expressions sharpen until they feel like actors caught mid-scene. Then the world goes digital: layers, light, texture, precision. Wacom strokes replace ink, but the hand stays the same. Every panel carries its origin story—from accidental doodle to controlled chaos—where analogue instinct and digital firepower collide to build a universe that looks polished, but never tame.
The Gold Coast comic books are printed by Stämpfli, widely regarded as one of the finest printing houses in Switzerland. We produce The Gold Coast using high-end offset four-color printing, ensuring razor-sharp lines, deep blacks, and rich, consistent colors across every page. Printed on state-of-the-art Heidelberg machines, each issue meets the highest standards of Swiss print craftsmanship—because a world this detailed deserves nothing less than absolute precision.
The Gold Coast™ is a bold, uncompromising comic for adults set in a darkly glamorous version of Switzerland—a world where money whispers, power smiles, and nothing is as clean as it looks. Rooted in the Helvetica Noir genre, this is a comic for grownups who crave sharp storytelling, moral ambiguity, and a visual language that feels closer to cinema than traditional panels on a page.
This is a universe of sin, style, satire, and decadence. Private bankers, smugglers, heirs, fixers, socialites, and predators collide in tightly woven plots full of mysteries and shady characters. Every story dives deep into obsession, greed, loyalty, and corruption, blending high society with the rot beneath surface. The tone is adult, provocative, and unapologetically nasty—crafted for readers who want their comic books for adults to take risks, ask uncomfortable questions, and look stunning while doing it.
Visually, The Gold Coast™ pushes the medium forward. The illustrations are obsessively detailed, with faces and body language rendered like actors caught mid-performance—micro-expressions, tension, and emotion you don’t usually see in a comic book. Every page is designed to linger on, rewarding close inspection and repeat reads. This cinematic approach, paired with layered storytelling, sets it apart as a defining comic book Switzerland has never seen before.
Satirical yet brutal, stylish yet unsettling, The Gold Coast™ is the #1 comic in Switzerland for readers who are done with safe stories and glossy heroes. If you’re searching for a comic for adults, comic for grownups, or truly ambitious comic books for adults that blend noir, luxury, crime, and dark humor—welcome to The Gold Coast™.
