Argon Zark! is an all-digital Internet comic, drawn entirely on the computer, steeped in Web jargon and Internet culture, and available only on line... until now. For over two years, Argon Zark! has been enchanting Web surfers with its dazzling computer-enhanced imagery and outrageous humor. Now, thanks to a slightly older and more venerable technology, the original electronic comic has been collected and translated into a wonderful new medium - print!

There are so many on-line versions of things from traditional media, says Parker, that it was only a matter of time before the culture started to flow the other way. And flow it does. This Alice in Wonderland for the Pentium crowd careens across the cultural landscape, bouncing from fine art to B-movies to high-tech like a Web surfer with an itchy mouse finger.

The San Jose Mercury News calls Argon Zark! a comic for the data age, and couldnt exist in any other. The hero is a brilliant-but-eccentric computer geek, his adversary is information overload and his hilarious companions include a robotic personal digital assistant with a defective speech recognition program. The artwork is filled with striking images, dazzling colors and an array of wild visual effects that would have been impossible without the use of modern computer graphics.

Many people have asked Parker how he creates his unique blend of comic drawing and digital image manipulation. Hes included a chapter in Argon Zark! in which he unlocks some of the secrets of mixing traditional drawing skills with state-of-the-art computer technology to create this fascinating new kind of comic art.

For the last several years, thousands of Web surfers have been waiting impatiently, checking and rechecking their hotlists each week to see if a new Argon Zark! page has come out. Now, the essential on-line Argon Zark! experience has been compressed into that convenient, portable, non-electric data storage format known as a book.