Joka Productions

06/27/2024

This Saturday, June 29th, Mary Fields will present CARRIED AWAY at the Columbia City Gallery. All are welcome!

06/24/2024

https://www.westsideseattle.com/robinson-papers/2024/06/23/mary-fields-carried-away-graphic-novel-illustrates-adventure

Mary Fields 'Carried Away' is a graphic novel that illustrates adventure Autobiographical memoir recounts the author's travels in 1974

06/10/2024

On the website you can see pages from CARRIED AWAY as well as a link to Murals by the author. There are links to buy the paperback edition from either IngramSpark* or from Amazon, also the eBook from Amazon and (soon) from Kobo.

*It was possible to charge less on IngramSpark, so depending upon the cost of shipping, it might be the better deal.

jokaproductions.com

06/08/2024

Presentation/Q&A of the graphic memoir CARRIED AWAY, in the heart of Columbia City.

05/28/2024

04/29/2024

Carried Away, is a graphic memoir / travel adventure story. (184 pages)

Long before the Age of Instagram, a solo traveler without a cell phone or a credit card could fall right off the map.

It’s 1974. A shy young woman yearns to stop watching life and start living it. With zero travel experience and very little money, she strikes out on her own to see the world. Seen by men as easy prey and subject to the treacherous whims of Nature, she gets more adventure than she bargained for. Traveling without a safety net, she journeys from Seattle to Portugal to Spain. As her meager funds dwindle, she sails south to the Canary Islands. There she lodges with Luciano, an eccentric old man with a dark past and an unsettling eagerness to extend hospitality.

Forced to flee, Mary finds Tom, an equally impoverished youth, whose pals were so disturbed by his misguided quest for “nirvana” that they brought him along on holiday. When a rogue wave nearly carries them away, the euphoria of survival creates a bond that makes them nearly inseparable. Their camp destroyed, they play house in a beach shack. When it’s time to move on, they embark on a 1000-mile odyssey of pleasure and peril. A terrifying night in a cave; a jump from a ferry off the coast of Africa; abandonment in the Sahara; a ride across the uncharted desert; a trek through Morocco: through a shifting, precarious landscape, they are each other’s anchor.

This lushly illustrated memoir of love, danger, and self-discovery will enchant those who dream of escaping to exotic lands, as well as those who did just that and yearn to revisit that now-vanished world.

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(If you'd like to buy a copy you have two choices: IngramSpark or Amazon. The ebook is also available on Amazon. Although about a third of the pages have some color or are entirely in color, if viewed on a Kindle it will display in black-and-white. The ebook has a different format, as it was necessary to make the text larger for reading on a small screen.)

Links available on website: jokaproductions.com

04/29/2024

Here are some random pages from Carried Away! I assure you they are easier to read in the print edition than they are here.