This 200+ page, full color, hardcover (featuring metallic ink!) has been released by Fantagraphics under its "FU" (Fantagraphics Underground, in case you were wondering) imprint, which usually indicates a print run of 1000, or less. Old Growth is a trippy, dreamy mythological/philosophical in comics form. Includes an semi-explicative interview with the creators by Jesse Balmer at the conclusion.
Not really sure what to expect from that admittedly vague description? Get a nice taste of what's in store HERE (just keep scrolling down – and up, as the link seems to take you to the middle of the preview? – but take your time as the graphics may take a second to load).
This elegantly produced, 7 3/8” x 5 3/4”, horizontal hardcover (with gold gilt page edges) presents readers with 250 variations on a theme (10 of which we've posted here). Alpha and Omega, zeroes and ones, male and female, and paternity and maternity battle it out in high-contrast black & white.
With Saints & Sand, Michael Olivo has crafted a graphic disquisition into the psycho-sexual – and, ultimately, biological – underpinnings of Christianity that is grounded in a radical engagement with Christian iconography and the religious tropes embedded therein.
Foreword by J.F. Martel
And just FYI: this is an edition of 500.