Tom Kaczynski,Kevin Huizenga
Trans Terra, is a mutant memoir that melds comics, politics, and philosophy into a heady brew exploring work, creativity, emergence of the new, and the possibility of utopia. The author's journey begins in the frigid wastelands of contemporary consumer culture. Like a surreal ,HMS Beagle,, ,Trans Terra, meanders through time and space exploring archipelagos real and imagined. Prominent stops include Soviet Siberia, Communist Poland, Plato's Atlantis, nineteenth-century New York, and Sir Thomas More's Utopia. Arriving on the polluted shores of collapsing global civilization, Tom K glimpses the faint light of utopia beyond the veil of Apocalypse. Taking cue from Salvador Dali's paranoiac-critical method, the author unearths improbable connections between thinkers as disparate as Ignatious Donnelly, Alvin Toffler, Rem Koolhaas, Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek, and many others. Translated into several languages, ,Trans Terra, is a comic book manifesto for the post-capitalist-crisis world.,Tom Kaczynski, (a.k.a. Tom K) is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist, designer, illustrator, writer, teacher, and publisher. His comics have appeared in ,Best American Nonrequired Reading,, ,Mome,, ,Punk Planet,, ,The Drama,, and many other publications. ,Beta Testing the Apocalypse,, a collection of his ,Mome, stories, was published by Fantagraphics Books in July 2012. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his partner Nikki and their two black cats.
Sequential Art,Comix,Science Fiction,Utopia
Trans Terra: Towards a Cartoon Philosophy