--- description: The book will hit shelves in late May and explore his motivations for taking part in the largest classified information leak in US history title: New 'Beyond: Edward Snowden' Comic Book Tells Story of NSA Leaker image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f78ce21eccfd9db/6986901755a859c6c3a80e53/beyondsnowdencover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Edward Snowden, Comic-Book Hero  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 19, 2014 4:41 PM CUT  The book cover of Beyond: Edward Snowden The book cover of Beyond: Edward SnowdenBluewater Productions  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 19, 2014 4:41 PM CUT If an aversion to large blocks of text has kept you from reading up on former National Security Agency contractor turned whistle-blower Edward Snowden, a new comic-book biography of the fugitive who helped reveal the NSA spying scandal may get you up to date. _Beyond: Edward Snowden_ will be released on May 21 in both print and digital editions. Marvel Comics’ _Punisher_ writer Valerie D’Orazio wrote the story, while Dan Lauer provided the art. Illustrating the whistle-blower gives readers “a look at a side of Edward Snowden the public has never really seen before,” D’Orazio said in a statement. The book, which will be published by Bluewater Productions, will delve into Snowden’s motivations for leaking a historic number of classified documents in 2013\. Sony Pictures recently [bought the rights](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/05/14/sony-buys-movie-rights-for-glenn-greenwalds-edward-snowden-book/ "undefined") to Glenn Greenwald’s new book on the NSA leaker, meaning the 30-year-old may end up where most comic book heroes eventually end up: on the cinema screen. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/104921/edward-snowden-comic-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/104921/edward-snowden-comic-book/"},"headline":"Edward Snowden, Comic-Book Hero","datePublished":"2014-05-19T16:41:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:18.754Z","description":"The graphic novel Beyond: Edward Snowden will hit shelves later this month, exploring the NSA whistle-blower's motivations for taking part in the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history","url":"https://time.com/104921/edward-snowden-comic-book/","keywords":["Books","TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f78ce21eccfd9db/6986901755a859c6c3a80e53/beyondsnowdencover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f78ce21eccfd9db/6986901755a859c6c3a80e53/beyondsnowdencover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"'Beyond Snowden' cover","caption":"'Beyond Snowden' cover","creditText":"Bluewater Productions","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/104921/edward-snowden-comic-book/","name":"Edward Snowden, Comic-Book Hero"}}]}] ```