**COMMISSIONS***

Here is the first significant commissioned drawing I've made since The Cartoon Utopia was released
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I really like doing stuff like this, and encourage folks inspired by my book to hire me to make drawings for them! 

My rates are reasonable!
- find me on fb or write to regejr at hotmail - 

Something serious like this runs in the $300+ range - 
BUT! I am ready to make a drawing for you at any price!
use this donate button to get yourself something drawn by me!

 

Lucky Peach

This portal, and other incidental drawings are in the new issue of Lucky Peach 

*available at your supermarket right now*

RAFFIE & FOPPIE!

My friend Matt, (the singer of FAT DAY?) from FPE Records wants to manufacture these cute record shaped dolls that I designed! He's started up a kickstarter for it! Help these little sides get born!

DRAWING EVERY DAY ON ME TUMBLR

I realize that I haven't been posting here as much...
If you would like to see a new drawing by me every day, check out this tumblr OK?
I put most stuff about what I'm up to on the fb,
and will probably just be using this spot just to announce news about The Cartoon Utopia

**CARTOON UTOPIA COMICS CAMP 2013**

I am going to be teaching a week-long workshop March 4-8 at The Sequential Artist's Workshop in Gainesville, Florida. I'll also be having a small show at the F.L.A. Gallery while I am there! If you're interested in what my workshop will be about, take a look here

TWO NEW INTERVIEWS

Here are two new, fairly long interviews with me talking about The Cartoon Utopia.

To read:
Jay Babcock talks to me for The Comics Journal

and to listen:
I talk to Erik Davis & Maja D'Aoust on Expanding Mind

...and another review from the comics bulletin
"This is a man utterly unafraid to let his freak flag flap into the heavens" / "a vivid and transcendent comic book experience is within our grasp, if we're willing" / "the soul of comics finally has its moment in the sun in a glorious, defiant and hallucinatory reading experience" HA! yay!

If you can't get to a bookstore that sells comics
 and would like to order The Cartoon Utopia
Get it direct here from fantagraphics

While supplies last
 you will also receive my
 THANK YOU mini comic
 it's free
 and available no other way
 THANKS!

UTOPIA PRESS

Here comes some press for The Cartoon Utopia -
It's so wild to have this thing exist, and read how people react to it!

Interview for Comic Book Resources
Publishers Weekly 
AV Club 

• Review: The Comics Journal looks at Ron Rege Jr.'s The Cartoon Utopia. Katie Haegel writes, "Almost impossible to categorize, the work in Cartoon Utopia is both fully realized in a formal sense and wonderfully idiosyncratic. Like, it’s really out there. . . to me the work is much stronger when it depicts magic in action, which Regé accomplishes by telling us stories about historical figures and their relationship to the natural world."

• Review: Robot 6 reviews The Cartoon Utopia by Ron Rege Jr. Chris Mautner writes "with Rege drawing science, new age spiritualism, the occult, astrology and Jungian archetypes to come up with a personal grand unification theory. There are no plots or characters in the book to speak of, instead Rege merely muses and illustrates his theories, which mainly have to on the interconnectedness of all living matter."

• Plugs: Best covers of the week by Andy Khouri on Comics Alliance. Ron Regé Jr's The Cartoon Utopia: "This cover really makes me smile, and maybe gives me a sense of four-color spiritual well-being. But cartoon utopia looks more outdoorsy than I expected."

• Review: Page 45 enjoys the gentle pages of The Cartoon Utopia. Stephen L. Holland states, "Regé is back with a spiritual manifesto and ode to creativity: a singular, secular vision delivered with all the fervour of a religious sermon. It’s a call not to arms but to peace and perception unshackled from the conditioning of ages, exhorting all to see new possibilities, infinite possibilities, so enabling one’s full potential to be realised in both senses of the word"

THE CARTOON UTOPIA BOOK LAUNCH!!!

 YESSSSSS!!!! FINALLY!!!! 

RON REGÉ, JR & STEVEN WEISSMAN
will be reading and signing their new books  from Fantagraphics
THE CARTOON UTOPIA & BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 - 5PM
 AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS 
1818 N Vermont, Los Angeles

• We're thrilled to announce that Steven Weissman and Ron Regé Jr. will be signing and reading from their brand-new books on Sunday, October 28th at Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA. Goosebumps, people.  With the election on the horizon, you'll wanna get your copy of Steven's latest Barack Hussein Obama. And Ron will be unveiling his Magnum Opus, The Cartoon Utopia. Ron and Steve are two of my most favorite artists, and the thought of having them together in an event is mind-blowing. At first glance, these books seem pretty different. But attend this signing and you will see that behind the surrealism and the psychedelia, there lies something very human and real. There's no better time for both these books than right now... or, um, 5:00 PM on October 28th, if you live in Los Angeles. Skylight Books is located at 1818 N Vermont Ave. in the Los Feliz neighborhood of L.A. Come prepared for awesome.

!!!PIZZA PANCAKE!!!

Get More: MTV Shows

"HEAL EVERYTHING HEAL EVERYONE" episode of the "WordWolrd" series for MTV's LIQUID TELEVISION !!!! by Peter Glantz & Becky Stark. My drawings animated by Paula Salhany

LOOK!!!

sweet flowers for Nasty Gal

THE CARTOON UTOPIA

THE CARTOON UTOPIA 144pp hardcover available november 2012 from Fantagraphics

INCORRUPTIBLE HEART

The new album from Lavender Diamond available September 25 from Paracadute

thank you 2012

You know who you are. They're on their way

spring signs

Sunday Review drawing for the New York Times

Sunday Dialogue: Changing Our Car Culture

INFINITE UTOPIA

"Cartoonists" - those of us that feel most comfortable creating work in a series of pictures with descriptions, also seem to gravitate towards organizing such work under titles that can be continuously expanded upon. The Cartoon Utopia will most likely be a catagory I will be using for a long time to come. 

BUT! The first volume of this work has been completed and will be presented to you as a book in the fall of 2012! Thank you to everyone who has helped me create these comics! I am so excited for you to see the book! If you would still like to help out, and have me send you a little drawing in the mail, feel free to click below

If you have donated recently, you will be getting a little something in the mail soon!

love! Ron

HERE COMES CARTOON UTOPIA

 THE CARTOON UTOPIA due out this fall from fantagraphics (!)