The Cartoon Utopia is a unique work of comic art that is part sci-fi, part philosophy, part visual poetry, and part social manifesto. Originally published in hardcover in 2012, The Cartoon Utopia has become to western spirituality and healing what Ram Dass's Be Here Now has been to generations of readers curious about Eastern mysticism: A wonderfully accessible entr e to a subject many are curious about but don't know where to start.