cartoon utopia

flowers for 2012

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DONATION WORD DRAWINGS

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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

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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

2011-10-24T20:36:00.000-07:00

Liz Armstrong interviewed me for Vice!

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

DONATE

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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!

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thinking/drawing/dreaming

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dream concepts

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Take a look inside of the Cartoon Utopian

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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.

The Trails café

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The Trails Cafe 2333 Fern Dell Drive Los Angeles 90068 Tuesday-Sunday 8am-7pm

LD on the west side, July 29

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Reading at Family July 20 at 7PM

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Anders Nilsen Book Launch at Family
I will be doing a live slideshow reading of selections from the Cartoon Utopia at Family this Wednesday. Anders and Souther Salazar will be doing slideshows and readings from their recent work, too. A signing of Big Questions with Anders will follow.

Wednesday July 20th, at 7pm.

CARTOON UTOPIA at TRANCEPOP KYOTO

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I have an art show at trancepop in Kyoto Japan

L'ARTICHO

2011-06-23T13:47:00.000-07:00

This illustrated alphabet can be seen in the french publication L'ARTICHO #3, available now

why did I color this?

2011-06-18T19:28:00.000-07:00

just found this color version of page from my comic "boys" (1999). Why did I color this? Who was it for? Been finding so much crazy stuff like this lately. Sure have made a lot of stuff. Hm...

Is There Silence?

2011-06-02T03:00:00.000-07:00

BUY ONE

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2 inch square hand painted ceramic tiles
made in 2005:
paypal $45usa or $50world to regejr at hotmail
specify which one!
ok? yes. thank you.
***
ONE

***
TWO

*****
THREE

(sold)
****

FOUR(the back looks like this)

NEW SONGS

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still slow

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CARTOON UTOPIA : SAN FRANCISCO

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the newest exhibition of THE CARTOON UTOPIA is at The Edo gallery and salon at 601 Haight street in San Francisco.

hello world

2011-02-07T13:43:00.001-08:00

For some reason lately, I've started making some strange art videos. I've started a a tumblr for them. I'm calling it "Vibrational"

WARMERS

2011-01-24T23:11:00.000-08:00

Art by Jeremy Seth Taylor, Kevin Hooyman, Erin Womack, Max Hubenthal, Andy C. Jenkins, Ron Rege. Jr., Patrick Costello, Allyson Mellberg, Kristin Smith, Travis Robertson

Warmers (SDZ-002)

Contents 昭...

By: Sweet Dreams Press

YEAST HOIST #16 available now

2011-01-17T11:26:00.000-08:00

whoops! OUT OF PRINT! Thanks everybody!
The 16th in my Yeast Hoist series (The Chronically Hallucinating Insomniac)

...Seeing that YH#15 is available by the thousands at places like BevMo, it seems fitting that #16 is a limited run zine - only 100 made...

Yeast Hoist / Ron Regé Jr
printed in january 2011
first edition : 100 copies
handnumbered edition
20 pages, black and white printed - 14 x 20 cm
printed on multicolor paper

warmers

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3 drawings in group show at trancepop, kyoto
"Narrowed field of vision even in the snow drift"

YEAST HOIST #15 now available in CA & beyond!

2011-01-10T18:28:00.000-08:00

Yeast Hoist #15 is now for sale in Los Angeles and across California! - including most BevMo locations (as well as online!). It is also available in New York, Texas, Minnesota, Georgia and South Carolina! Here is a list of all locations!

Post it show 2010

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Crafted in Balance

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Here is a lengthy interview with me regarding Yeast Hoist 15 by Justin Farrar for arthur
(fyi - bottles have been spotted in CA BevMo & Whole Foods locations - detailed update on CA retailers soon!)

4-D on Dec. 4th

2010-11-24T16:26:00.000-08:00

Daylongs/Dunes/Diva/D'Aoust - at The Smell. see you there!

YEAST HOIST #6

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Diary comics from 1997. I think this is my favorite issue of YH, and the one I always hoped to get back into print... even though it's quite embarrassing for me to look at now - here it is at What Things Do

Yeast Hoist: Kept in Balance by Equal Weights

2010-11-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

Yeast Hoist: Kept in Balance by Equal Weights - this fifteenth installment is an 8pp. booklet that hangs from the neck of an earthenware crock and holds 16.9 ounces of a delicious top-fermented Belgian Abbey Ale.

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE FROM BEIRKRAFT

drawings for sale

2010-11-06T23:07:00.000-07:00

Time again to try to sell some weird old drawings.

bibilography

2010-11-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

i guess there's really only 4 of these I've read cover to cover, but I'm chipping away at them all...

YEAST HOIST #5

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1997

GAZETA

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I drew the cover for the new comics anthology GAZETA. I also contributed a 10 page story story called "affectional alchemy and awakened imagination"

alchemic ale

2010-10-13T19:07:00.000-07:00

The company that brought you Yeast Hoist #15 is called alchemic ale. They now have website where you can see where to buy YH (CA locations coming soon!) as well as a peek at what is next.

Daylong Valleys of The Nile

2010-10-11T17:55:00.001-07:00

I play the drums in this band. Here are a few of our songs.

YEAST HOIST #4

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1996

YEAST HOIST #3

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1996

2011 CALENDAR / POSTER FROM LITTLE OTSU!

2010-09-07T00:17:00.000-07:00

I'm really excited to announce this new 2 sided 2011 calendar & poster from little otsu! 18x24 full color illustrated wall calendar on one side and my "abracadabra" drawing on the other! So nice! It kinda feels like releasing a new comic!

YEAST HOIST #2

2010-09-06T23:44:00.000-07:00

YEAST HOIST #2 from 1996 - written by Bunny Bernick - on What Things Do

YEAST HOIST #1

2010-09-01T15:21:00.000-07:00

The first 8 issues of YEAST HOIST were mini comics that I printed myself in the mid to late 90's, and sold almost exclusively at The Million Year Picnic in Cambridge, MA. They have never been collected, or reprinted - but are beginning to be posted on WHAT THINGS DO. Here it is: YEAST HOIST #1 from 1995.

79

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79 days of posting drawings is pretty good run
gonna take a little break now, thanks

thanks sammy

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"no comment"

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World helium reserves are running out!

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imagine hands

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tucumcari tonight

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effect

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attempted vision

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***Aloise***

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not as interesting or as nice to listen to as "2009"

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but, for the enthusiast, or extremely interested -
DISCOMBOBULATED VENTRILOQUIST: LUCKY 2009

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intergratRON

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"mush punch in the thunder cunt "?

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things / fukui / shush yaz / To'hajiilee

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daily 49

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daily 48

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daily 47

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"May the universe in some way be brought into being by the participation of those who participate?" John Archibald Weaver

daily 46

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daily 45

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"abstract comic"

daily 44

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mel torme?

daily 43

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daily 42

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with marc bell!

daily 41

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daily 40

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LILITH (eighteen of eighteen)

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daily 39

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must have been a bad day, i guess

daily 38

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nice!

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another review of the show - a little more critical, but I can take it. I always know I'm doing it right when criticism cuts right to the point that I'm making on purpose!

daily 37

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2010-07-15T16:07:00.000-07:00

Here's a nice review of the Domy CARTOON UTOPIA show in the Austin Chronicle.

daily 36

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daily 35

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daily 34

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collector not completist

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I've been invited to contribute to this blog for the next 2 weeks that is an appreciation of the art & design of record label art. If you want to read some super nerdy musings about records, printing, music, etc. then check it out. There will be a new post every day.

LILITH (seventeen of eighteen)

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daily 33

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daily 32

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Show photos

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daily 31

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daily 30

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daily 29

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