NEWS!
PLASTIC FARM: SOWING SEEDS ON FERTILE SOIL
Collecting all 12 issues of the first part of Plastic Farm. New readers and longtime fans alike will find something new in this one. (Obviously, people who have never read Plastic Farm will find more of it new than the longtimers...)
300 pages of comics! You can read the whole thing here on ComicSpace, or buy the book!
PLUS over 40 pages of extras, including sketch book pages, script excerpts, and in depth interviews! There are a ton of other places on the website (including further down on this very page) where you can get more indepth indoctrination on the actual stories, so I won't take your time here. Just buy the thing here: The Official Plastic Farm Website.
PLASTIC FARM: FERTILIZER: an interlude in three aprils
Bridging the gap between Plastic Farm Part One and the forthcoming Plastic Farm Part Two (available sometime in 2009), this 120 page masterpiece of a graphic novel is sure to fuck up your brain and make you question your own place in the universe.
Mostly detailing the early years of psycho killer Jonathan Picanos and his life with the Farmland Spiritual Cooperative, FERTILIZER also features a Frank and Benny parable drawn by Jake Warrenfeltz and an Eliza Dorne mystery drawn by Wendi Strang-Frost!
Dave Sim read most of Fertilizer and said "Well, that was really good...It is seriously weird stuff but this particular chunk of story – which is definitely JAKA'S STORY-paced – helps to clarify the nature of the weirdness through indirect implication and to really address the adversarial relationship between the Brethren and the Farmland.
I think one of the really interesting things is the way so many guys are starting to clue in to the extent to which you can juxtapose words and pictures in the comics medium. We're all raised on television and movies where the two are kept pretty close together but in comics you can "say" one thing while "showing" something completely different because the eye can double back for clarification a lot more easily. There's no "rewind" button in a movie theatre. We're just starting to explore the boundaries of that. Rafe has picked up on the fact that the sky is, pretty much, the limit."
If that doesn't make you want to read this, then you must hate comics.
Read the first 21 pages here on ComicSpace, then head on over to The Official Plastic Farm Website to BUY IT NOW!
MISHIT: The non-Plastic comics of Rafer Roberts is on sale now!
BUY IT NOW, by clicking here: http://stores.lulu.com/plasticfarm
Eleven years in the making, we are proud to present the first collection of Rafer Roberts' non-Plastic Farm comics. Filled with monsters and drug addicts, war heroes and pcp-crazed monkeys, MISHIT is sure to warm the coldest of hearts. Some of these comics are available in my ComicSpace galleries!
Highlights of this collection:
Fubar - The drug comic that Rafer drew for Clemson University's newspaper.
John Watson vs. Little Albert - A thrilling tale of experimental psychology gone wrong.
Grandpaw's Tale - The greatest Chick Tract that never was a Chick Tract
MONSTER MASH - The comic that Rafer drew when he was 9 years old, redrawn verbatim when he was 31.
So, go ahead and buy it now by clicking on the above link.
Thanks!
And now, reviews for Plastic Farm:
"I got engrossed in it and devoured however many I had... Every week or so I'd run across the bag in my room or in the office and I'd go, "What's in there again? Something important." And I'd open it up and go, Oh, right. Plastic Farm.
It's a really strange, really engrossing good comic book and the guy obviously knows what he's doing."
-DAVE SIM (Cerebus)
"Raw, heartfelt, and immediate with cowboys, drunks, and dinosaurs, Rafer Roberts' Plastic Farm romps through convention and blasphemy with equanimity. By turns mesmerizing and appalling, Plastic Farm never ceases its kinetic thrill ride through Rafer's obviously damaged psyche."
-Larry Young. Publishing magnate
and Comic Book Godfather
"Plastic Farm is an epic descent into madness and, not coincidentally, hilarity. This is not your garden variety insanity but the carefully cultivated kind that only a lifetime of consuming pop culture effluvia can evoke. Hide your daughters and your livestock... the era of Plastic Farm has arrived."
-Rob Vollmar. Eisner nominated writer of The
Castaways and international heart-throb
"This fantastic surreal comic reads like a dream induced by a night of western films, cases of Budweiser, and bittersweet ex sex."
-Punk Planet on issue #1
"Plastic Farm is a strange and unnerving comic book. Like photographs documenting a bear mauling or shark attack, it is physically uncomfortable to read and nearly impossible to put down.
Rafer Roberts is scary and brilliant."
-Punk Planet on issues #6-8
"I have to admit I still don't get it...and what I do get disgusts me".
-Johanna Draper Carlson
Comics Worth Reading
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Written, and most of the time drawn by Rafer Roberts, Plastic Farm follows the life of a man named Chester and his slow descent into complete insanity, and chronicles how that madness reshapes the world around him. Chester has had a rough childhood, has a magic cowboy that rides a dinosaur living inside of his head, and is now, late in life, sitting in a nameless airport bar during a blizzard telling his life story to a group of people who really couldn't care less.
The first story arc "Sowing Seeds on Fertile Soil" encompasses the first twelve issues, and introduces nearly every major character that will appear in this projected 50 issue series.
There will be three major arcs in Plastic Farm, two in-between issues, a prologue and an epilogue. The second story arc begins in issue fourteen and is entitled "Seasons of Growth in the Fields of Despair". Issue thirteen is one of those in-between issues I mentioned before and will be about 120 pages. (You can preview the first 21 pages of that upcoming book by clicking on the image above.
Visit the Official Website by clicking on the words "Official Website".
