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A stylized illustrated book cover featuring the title “METADOGGOZ” in large white letters, with “BÉrénèce Motaïs de Naronne” at the top. The artwork shows a surreal neon scene in blue, purple, pink, and red tones, with a central figure, smoke, and a skull-like figure.
A black and white comic book style art print featuring three panels with illustrated street signs, a clock, a burger stand, and a person lying down, shown on a white background.
A black and white comic-style art print featuring three horizontal panels with illustrated figures, speech bubbles, and dynamic action lines on a white page against a light gray background.
A black and white comic-style art print featuring three panels with a stylized running figure and speech bubbles, shown centered on a light gray background.
A stylized illustrated book cover featuring the title “METADOGGOZ” in large white letters, with “BÉrénèce Motaïs de Naronne” at the top. The artwork shows a surreal neon scene in blue, purple, pink, and red tones, with a central figure, smoke, and a skull-like figure.
A black and white comic book style art print featuring three panels with illustrated street signs, a clock, a burger stand, and a person lying down, shown on a white background.
A black and white comic-style art print featuring three horizontal panels with illustrated figures, speech bubbles, and dynamic action lines on a white page against a light gray background.
A black and white comic-style art print featuring three panels with a stylized running figure and speech bubbles, shown centered on a light gray background.

Metadoggoz by Bérénice Motais de Narbonne

$ 27.00 USD
Softcover, black & white, 220 pages. Measures 7.3 x 9.7 inches.

A wise-cracking, dystopian visual feast

Gael Kaldera is a self-styled “junkyard dog” who runs with his crew the Metadoggoz: a squad of teenage dirtbags living in the techno-megalopolis, the Metastation. With no place to crash after losing his friend’s guitar, he drops a tab of “metadoggo” at a late night rave with his friends and everything goes sideways. Strobing lights, teeming dance floors and endless skyscrapers form an eerie, futuristic backdrop for this daring, imaginative exploration of race, class, and belonging through the lens of youth culture and science-fiction.

In Metadoggoz, Franco-Vietnamese cartoonist Bérénice Motais de Narbonne constructs an uncomfortably familiar dystopia in which Gael and his friends slip in and out of our “real” world in search of something better. Each shepherded by a guiding spirit, they navigate the indignities of daily life: homelessness, mental illness, violence, and yearning. 

Translated by Eisner Award winner Montana Kane, Metadoggoz reinvents the cyberpunk fairy tale in the vein of Tank Girl, Blade Runner and Love & Rockets.

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