WAREHOUSE FIND!!! – all copies in brand new condition, complete with original obi band.
Here's our original write-up (from almost twenty years ago now!):
An all new work by one of the most unique voices in contemporary comics, The Awake Field has our vote as the work that most fully realizes Rege's artistic vision. It is a beautifully drawn, designed and produced square format volume. Printed in two colors, the color field is employed with a nuanced delicacy that is integral to the effect that this work achieves as it penetrates the reader's senses. Bound with a full color flexi cover and endpapers, this book is an aesthetic treat and a bargain to boot. There's nothing out there in any medium to compare to Regé's work. We say: a must!
It seems to us that, with this work, Ron Regé, Jr. is channelling the spirit of the 20th century American painter, Charles Burchfield into 21st century comics. Like Burchfield's paintings, Regé's comics in this volume fill the viewer/reader with a sense of wonder at the impossible beauty and strange otherness of nature. The Awake Field really puts you there, it communicates, it catalyzes neurons to fire in new patterns that trigger new thoughts and new ways of seeing the world as an... awake field.
Plus: for those unfamiliar with this work, we've posted a gallery of pages frpom the book, HERE.
And: Special Price! (we had been selling what we thought we our few remaining copies for over 50% more)
Here's a nice ex-library copy of this fantastic book. It has a nice extra thick, protective cover laminate as a bonus; minimal sticker-back-peel on spine and back cover. Very clean, possibly unread interior.
(actual copy pictured at left)
FROM THE ARCHIVE
HOT OFF THE PRESS! Metadoggoz looks amazing! 21st Century urban-techno-grunge of drugs dance and dogs presented in a manga-inflected mash-up of Matsumoto, Miller, Muñoz and more! Motais de Narbonne's gritty renderings of dense urban sprawl feels a little like a black & white action/adventure version of Brecht Evens's City of Belgium. THe 200+ pages of Metadoggoz weave a multi-thread, multi-part saga of outsiderdom. The figurative space at the center of the narrative – but at the margins of reality – is called The Gap, and provides a refuge amidst the chaos of late-captialist sprawl for those that are different, that can't fit in, that can't breath. Here is home.
We'll be back with more to say, but wanted to put it up on the site now – along with a special limited-time intro price!
Here's the D & Q hype-up:
Gael Kaldera is a self-styled “junkyard dog” who runs with his crew the Metadoggoz: a squad of teenage dirtbags living in the techno-megalopolis, the Metastation. With no place to crash after losing his friend’s guitar, he drops a tab of “metadoggo” at a late night rave with his friends and everything goes sideways. Strobing lights, teeming dance floors and endless skyscrapers form an eerie, futuristic backdrop for this daring, imaginative exploration of race, class, and belonging through the lens of youth culture and science-fiction.
In Metadoggoz, Franco-Vietnamese cartoonist Bérénice Motais de Narbonne constructs an uncomfortably familiar dystopia in which Gael and his friends slip in and out of our “real” world in search of something better. Each shepherded by a guiding spirit, they navigate the indignities of daily life: homelessness, mental illness, violence, and yearning.
Translated by Eisner Award winner Montana Kane, Metadoggoz reinvents the cyberpunk fairy tale in the vein of Tank Girl, Blade Runner and Love & Rockets.
And D & Q has provided a nice PDF excerpt for your perusal, HERE.
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