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Graphic Novelettes
All graphic novelettes are available for download. Click the buttons below each cover to read them.
The Monk & the Labyrinth
In a circular granite temple, a muskrat-monk awaits pilgrims.
Various creatures bring him their death poems, condensed lifetimes of wisdom, and glimpses of the beyond. They entrust these scrolls to the monk, whose duty it is to burn their prayers so they are heard in the Otherworld.
Only instead of burning these verses, he keeps them, reads them, then places them in a miniature labyrinth.
At the core of this maze is an empty space. You see, he has no poem of his own with which to greet his own death.
This comic is both funny and philosophical, quirky and evocative.
And you, thoughtful reader, and invited to enter in.
85 pages
Maps
“The map is not the territory.”
Two men — one short and round, the other tall and skinny — set out to find the top of a mountain. Each man has their own map, which informs and misinforms them about the territory. When the two men meet and explode into an argument, fate must intervene.
18 pages, 18.3 MB
Song Story
In this wee comic, a lonely wanderer meets an orator who is well nested within his tribe. When the orator is requested to sing but is too shy to do so, these two make an unlikely joining.
This is inspired by a story told by Michael Meade about Malidoma Patrice Somé. You can listen to that story HERE.
22 pages, 47 MB
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Conversations: Religion & Conservation
This conversation didn’t happen, couldn’t happen and ought to have happened.
Saint Francis is well known for both his love of God and his love of the living world. In this conversation, he shares views with an environmental activist from today’s era.
22 pages, 47 MB
3 Universal Energies
The Bhagavad-Gita, the ancient treatise on yoga and dharma, speaks about three universal energies that move the waters of this material creations. These are tamah-guna, rajah-guna and sattva-guna.
This short comic explains all three with funny examples.
38 pages, 23.1 MB
Symbols
This book comes from a time when I was caught between extreme views on things like masks and vaccines. It surprised me that these same symbols could mean such different things to different people, and it got me thinking about symbols in general. How can symbols like a national flag, a snake, or a pyramid mean such different things to different people? Read on to find out.
27 pages, 25.9 MB
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The Passage
A picture song of candles and caves, lost ancestors and rough initiation.
A boy, becoming a man, seeks the rites of passage of his people. He has become an orphan, so he seeks his elders through prayer, and makes a passage to down into stone and soil, seeking the place of dissolution so that he may return renewed.
Your purchase includes a recording of the poem sung with accompanying music.
28 pages and song recording
“Rich with themes of soil, service and memory.”
— Daniel Robert
The School of Mythopoetics
Co-Founder
“A moving tale of ascent to spirit and descent to soul.”
— Jessica White
Seeds of Spells Artist
Soil and Sky
Heyo wants to fly forever. And why shouldn’t he? As an arctic tern, he can stay in the air for months at a time. So when his migrating flock finally descends to land, Heyo stays aloft.
It’s wondrous!
Until a mid-air collision forces him to the ground. Then, for a chance to fly again, he must transmute his link with soil and sky.
41 pages, 130 MB
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Time
As educational as it is absurd, this is the story of two friends arguing about time. One enters slower and slower time scales, down into continental time, then cosmic time. The other goes faster and faster, striving for the speed of light. Something has to give.
20 pages, 180 MB
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Readers are Saying
Imagine the possibility of an apology that is the beginning of shaping a more beautiful reality our heart’s deeply yearn for and know is possible. This comic is a seed, a prayer of a possibility of amends and forgiveness needed to heal our deeply wounded world, which is ourselves. This poetic, beautifully illustrated apology breaks open the heart with the hope of a vision we know is possible and desperately needed.
— Jessica White
The story and illustrations are beautiful and the message is so urgent. Reading Amends is an emotional experience. It calls humans into action to ask forgiveness from Nature and has a redemptive quality as well. To realize we are truly one with the living world and want to be in right relationship is so powerful. I’m glad we have this book to communicate such an epiphany.
— Marriott Sheldon
“Amends” by Theo Lowry is brave art that explores the healing power of apology and accountability. The work is visually innovative, using mixed media to depict a contemporary person’s reconciliation of their role in civilization’s exploitation of the biosphere and the Earth’s resources. Readers continuously confront the relatedness of all life and the narrow thinking that has accelerated the degradation of the natural world.
— Ryan Hoffmann
Amends
In this poetic and beautifully illustrated book, an aging businessman, who has at last come to respect all those he once exploited, be they human or otherwise, now seeks to make amends.
73 pages, 174 MB
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Readers are Saying
Mixing quirkiness, harshness and gracefulness, the illustrations of Amends invited me to a journey that felt both outer — in the material world — and inner— in a tumultuous and shifting landscape of shocking awareness about the ecological disaster we as individuals have both made and allowed, realization of the simple solutions or amends, and forgiveness.
A beautiful, poetic offering to Earth and Oneself. A much needed call for awareness, love and the stopping of hatred and violence.
— Dita B. Vizoso
In this graphic story, we the readers are invited to share the thoughts of an older man (Everyman?) who has come to realize what he has done willfully, thoughtlessly and cruelly to the beauty and life-giving qualities of the Earth and its creatures and plants in the soil, air and water.
As he opens up to the truth of his actions, he makes a deep personal apology to the Earth. He does what his daughter has suggested and asks for forgiveness.
This graphic story is drawn with great care for details and the beauty of nature and speaks to all of us, young and older, at this time when change is most needed.
— Vivien Adams
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