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 (!)

flowers for 2012

DONATION WORD DRAWINGS

For a donation to The Cartoon Utopia of $75 or more, I will make you a 3" square black and white drawing based on a single word of your choice. Anyone who orders by the end of November will receive their drawing in time for the holidays!

donation appreciation

I am still accepting donations to help complete work on The Cartoon Utopia. 

For a donation of any amount, I will send you a small drawing similar to one of these!

Vice Interview

Liz Armstrong interviewed me for Vice!

"Ron Regé Does Not Fuck Around About Peace and Love"

DONATE

I have been working on a project called THE CARTOON UTOPIA since 2008.
The result will be a 150 page book of comics to be published by Fantagraphics in 2012.

I am looking to raise funds to help me concentrate on the completion of this project.

I will send something in the mail to anyone who donates. For a donation of $75 or more, I will make you a 3" square black and white ink drawing based on a single word of your choice. (try to imagine the word "utopian" being added in front of your word!)

some samples of the comics from the cartoon utopia have been leaking out bit by bit and can be seen
  here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here

Thanks so much to everyone who has helped out so far! I am flattered and amazed!

I posted on this blog a couple years ago, asking people for people to commission me by sending ideas of things they'd like to see depicted in the Cartoon Utopia (This was early in the project when I was drawing more examples of a fantastic Cartoon Utopian world). Only one person took me up on it.

If anyone has any ideas and would like to donate $125 or more, it would still be a really fun thing to do! The drawings would be black and white, 5x7ish or larger (based on the amount of the donation and the complexity of the idea). It would be great to make a zine or something of these ideas after I am finished with this big book.

The Cartoon Utopia will probably end up being a series of books, as I expect this project to continue. This first volume focuses on ideas that I've become intrigued by that stem from magical, alchemical, ancient ideas & mystery schools. The next volume will most likely take the form of fictional stories set in a kind of actual "cartoon utopia".

The science fictiony premise in this book is that the "utopians" of this future world are attempting to send messages to us through consciousness, outside of the constricts of time as we understand it. They live in a world of advanced collective consciousness and want to help us understand how to achieve what they have accomplished. They get together to perform this task in a way that evolved out of our current system of consuming information and entertainment. It's like the opposite of TV! Of course, these messages appear to us in the form of art, music and storytelling. Funny, right?

Thanks for your help everybody! I'm excited to share these stories, ideas and drawings with you!

Thank you!

thinking/drawing/dreaming

dream concepts

Take a look inside of the Cartoon Utopian

Here is a little monograph about me and my art show. It is in japanese, and is also my first book in japan!

Title: The Cartoon Utopian (Lonely Gee Jr.: Comic Utopia / Utopia of the comic)
ISBN：978-4-9903771-8-2 ISBN :978-4-9903771-8-2 SDBK-010 Cat: SDBK-010 
2011 Release Date: August 15, 2011 (on sale ahead) 
Size: 210 × 162mm  32 pages text book (full color)
Price: 1,050 yen (1,000 yen tax)

Distribution to bookstores nationwide record stores are scheduled to be August 15, Sweet Dreams Press and mail order, had an exhibition in Kyoto Lonely Gee Junior Trans Pop Gallery was launched in the Early-Bird.  If that alternative comics and North America, If you have any interest in American culture of the 2000s alternative, please try to take us in hand. It might have been overlooked surprising new facts!  Lonely work of Gee and please think Jr. has been delivered in full color printing.  Career and his work here has been introduced because in some supra entries in, please come visit.

This is viewed from above.  In a further twist in this booklet.  This form will flip from left to right are Nakutsu usual, we'll be closed from bottom to top like a calendar flipping Daily ...

Monchikon Mr. Yuya Shimizu submitted outlines of the music career of Jim Jr. Lonely.

 Introduction by Lonely G Jr. ... curator of this exhibition.