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The Awake Field
A collection of the comic illustrator's reflections on small-town life, penned during a recent two-year sabbatical to a southern Rhode Island community, is a volume of short pantomime fairy tales, biblical reinterpretations, and peace comics as told through his signature abstract poetic cartoons. Original.
48 pages, Paperback
First published April 18, 2006
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About the author
Ron Regé Jr.
31 books23 followersRon Regé Jr. began drawing and self publishing comics in the early 1990’s in Cambridge MA. His first book Skibber Bee~Bye was published by Highwater Books in 2000. His most recent book Against Pain collects short works from 1986-2006 and was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2008. His comics and drawings have appeared in hundreds of zines and comics anthologies. Illustration clients have included Nike, Sony, Tylenol, HP, McSweeney’s, Vice, The New York Times, and Canada’s National Post. Ron currently lives in Los Angeles.
His current project The Cartoon Utopia began in early 2008 as a series of 60 small drawings, but has expanded to include larger drawings, and longer comics pieces, including those presented here. Drawings from The Cartoon Utopia have been presented as solo gallery shows in Los Angeles, Montreal, Richmond VA, and Austin TX. They will eventually be collected as a book.
His current project The Cartoon Utopia began in early 2008 as a series of 60 small drawings, but has expanded to include larger drawings, and longer comics pieces, including those presented here. Drawings from The Cartoon Utopia have been presented as solo gallery shows in Los Angeles, Montreal, Richmond VA, and Austin TX. They will eventually be collected as a book.
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October 17, 2017
If Ron Rege started a church (or something equivalent [love cult?]), I would join in a heartbeat. My heart really swells at his words on peace and love.
May 30, 2020
A precocious seventh grade girl wrote this. That would be my answer if I knew nothing of Regé or the typical age of writers in the medium and you asked me to guess what kind of person penned this dud. Seriously.
There's barely any story - just a ton of scenery pages and a few shorts- but I did enjoy the art.
There's barely any story - just a ton of scenery pages and a few shorts- but I did enjoy the art.
July 30, 2022
??????? Yeah
April 5, 2008
this is the rockingest. beautiful, too.
September 6, 2011
Beautiful, original, and very psychedelic.
Not a story so much as the writer/artist's wish for PEACE.
Not a story so much as the writer/artist's wish for PEACE.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews