Metadoggoz, Bérénice Motais de Narbonne
Paperback, 232 black-and-white pages, Drawn & Quarterly, March 2026
Gael Kaldera is a self-described "junk dog" who hangs out with his group, the Metadoggoz: a bunch of teenage misfits who live in the tech megalopolis known as Metastation. With nowhere to stay after losing his friend's guitar, he takes a pill of "metadoggo" at a night rave with his friends, and everything is turned upside down. Strobe lights, crowded dance floors, and endless skyscrapers form a futuristic and unsettling backdrop for this bold and imaginative exploration of race, class, and belonging through the lens of youth culture and science fiction. In Metadoggoz, French-Vietnamese cartoonist Bérénice Motais de Narbonne constructs an uncomfortably familiar dystopia, in which Gael and his friends move in and out of our "real" world in search of something better. Each guided by a spirit, they face the difficulties of daily life: homelessness, mental illness, violence and homesickness.
