Tycoon sketches a paranoid LA ruled by a protein cartel

Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon imagines a 2028 Los Angeles under a meat ban, with a monopolistic insect-protein megacorp (Ootheca Inc.) controlling supply; through a vivid DIY visual language, it follows two hustlers as they navigate surveillance, precarity, and small-time crimes, turning political dread into a human-scale survival tale.