Matty's Rocket Book One

by Tim Fielder

Overview

Matty's Rocket, created by pioneering Afrofuturist, Tim Fielder, is a galaxy spanning tale about the adventures of space pilot Matty Watty. This graphic novel series is based in an alternative past where the pulp stylings of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and Fritz Lang's Metropolis collide with the real world events of World War 2, FDR, the Harlem Renaissance and the oppressive Jim Crow era. Read as Matty navigates her vessel through a dangerous world filled with evil villains, heroic feats, alien oddities and down home adventure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996204668
Publisher:	Dieselfunk Studios
Publication date:	01/16/2022
Edition description:	Reissue ed.
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Tim Fielder is an Illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator born in Tupelo, Mississippi,and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He has a lifelong love of Visual Afrofuturism, Pulp entertainment, andaction films. He holds other Afrofuturists such as Samuel R Delany, Octavia Butler, Pedro Bell, and OvertonLloyd as major influences. He is known for the graphic novel, INFINITUM: An Afrofuturist Tale, published by HarperCollins Amistad in 2021, and the Glyph Award winning 'Matty's Rocket'.