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This edition of TETRA, on heavier paper stock, is only available to order direct from Stalking Horse Press.
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Collected for the first time, Malcolm Mc Neill’s visionary 1970s graphic novel ‘Tetra’ – An auteur’s science fiction with a new introduction and chronicle of methods, trials, and censorship. Featuring never-before-seen concept art, recollections of William S. Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, ‘girlie’ magazines, Stanley Kubrick, glue, Star Trek, aliens, and nakedness…
“Tetra was a late 70s proto-cyberpunk transreal skin-mag SF epic serialized graphic novel starring a naked woman with no hair and a penchant for running-dialog wisecracks. The art is lovely, and language play of the alien characters is worth the price of admission alone.” – Rudy Rucker
“Star Wars, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune were all about the messianic ‘Chosen One’ – the individual come to save the world. I just wanted a heroine who said f*ck all that.” – Malcolm Mc Neill
Set against a science fiction backdrop, Tetra explores fundamental elements of the human experience, how we connect with others, and what it means to be the authors of our own stories. Mc Neill’s introduction and afterward provide a fascinating metatextual exploration of the work, making clear the connections between author and story and explaining challenges relating to content and form. Both intimate and objective, Mc Neill aptly brings this work from the past into the present and even our future.
– Sara Van Ness, author of Watchmen as Literature
