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Tetra: The Restored Graphic Novel
Collected for the first time, Malcolm Mc Neill's visionary 1970s graphic novel 'Tetra' - An auteur's science fiction with a new introduction and chronicle of methods, trials, and censorship. Featuring never-before-seen concept art, recollections of William S. Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, 'girlie' magazines, Stanley Kubrick, glue, Star Trek, aliens, and nakedness...
"Serialized in the 1970s, Malcolm Mc Neill's incomparable work of esoterica maps the terrain that would be excavated by Alan Moore in the 1980s and beyond. This first-edition collection includes an introduction and afterword by the author and artist that provides insight into the composition of the comic as well as the historical context out of which it emerged; scholars of the form will find it as enjoyable as it is enlightening. Surreal, erotic, operatic, and influenced by Mc Neill's longtime relationship with William S. Burroughs, Tetra presages the graphic-novel standard that increasingly defines the flows of technologized culture and desire." - D. Harlan Wilson, author of J.G. Modern Master of Science Fiction
"Star Wars, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune were all about the messianic 'Chosen One' - the individual come to save the world. I just wanted a heroine who said f*ck all that." - Malcolm Mc Neill
"Oh, the illustrations! They're like paintings, hanging by golden frames in the National Museum of the Empire of Sci-Fi! Malcolm McNeill's panels manage to take on a life of their own and look like stills from an alien art film made into a graphic novel." - Thomas Papadimitropoulos, Comicdom
"Serialized in the 1970s, Malcolm Mc Neill's incomparable work of esoterica maps the terrain that would be excavated by Alan Moore in the 1980s and beyond. This first-edition collection includes an introduction and afterword by the author and artist that provides insight into the composition of the comic as well as the historical context out of which it emerged; scholars of the form will find it as enjoyable as it is enlightening. Surreal, erotic, operatic, and influenced by Mc Neill's longtime relationship with William S. Burroughs, Tetra presages the graphic-novel standard that increasingly defines the flows of technologized culture and desire." - D. Harlan Wilson, author of J.G. Modern Master of Science Fiction
"Star Wars, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune were all about the messianic 'Chosen One' - the individual come to save the world. I just wanted a heroine who said f*ck all that." - Malcolm Mc Neill
"Oh, the illustrations! They're like paintings, hanging by golden frames in the National Museum of the Empire of Sci-Fi! Malcolm McNeill's panels manage to take on a life of their own and look like stills from an alien art film made into a graphic novel." - Thomas Papadimitropoulos, Comicdom
134 pages, Paperback
Published May 22, 2020
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