Crypto Zoo

By Rick Veitch

Thirty years ago, Rick Veitch was a young man on the verge. Physically andemotionally exhausted from a wild and misspent youth, he'd fallen into a deepdepression. Unable even to get out of bed, Veitch experienced a series of dreamsthat were so overwhelmingly powerful and rich in archetypal content, he wascompelled to write them down in detail. Instinctively using the raw materialfrom his own unconscious as a guide, Veitch worked his way out of depression andfound the path he needed to realize his life goal of becoming an artist. Decadeslater, as a well known cartoonist and dreamworker, he revisited these earlydream journals, illustrating them as chapters in a graphic novel for hisEisner-nominated comic series, Rare Bit Fiends. Collected for the first time in book form, Cryptoo Zoo is a deeplypersonal, harrowing and ultimately life affirming triumph of comic art thatplaces the reader inside the maelstrom of what Carl Jung called a "confrontationwith the unconscious."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962486469
• ISBN13: 9780962486463
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: King Hell Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher