DY5TOPIA: A Field Guide to the Dark Universe of Chet Zar

by Mike Correll

Chet Zar has been detailing a dark universe within his oil paintings for decades, and now his field guide attempts to decipher and categorize the bizarre world he has been conjuring. Author Mike Correll worked with Zar utilizing an interview format and Zar’s paintings, as evidence of DY5TOPIA, to complete the classification system for this nearly 400-page field guide. Zar worked with designer Mackie Osborne, also known for her work on his book Black Magick, to create the layout for the field guide. At once an art book, this handsome table-top tome doubles as a fully-functional field guide. Explore the known regions of DY5TOPIA and its monstrous inhabitants. Discover the known types of beings, and unearth details about known individuals, including their behaviors!

380 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Ben Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Art looks amazing, I love how the character and environment descriptions spark the imagination.

[Rodrigo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This first volume is incredible, a total trip to a dark world created and populated by Chet Zar, I really enjoyed the book, Chet Zar's art is astounding and appreciating it here in all its full glory is simply breathtaking. I also love how the edition feels like a dark RPG sourcebook in the vein of such ones as Call of Cthulhu and Kult, but in this case, it's a catalogue of landscapes, creatures and characters from a shadowy and hellish (sub)world called Dy5topya. The edition itself is gorgeous, huge and well crafted, the design is awesome and of course, the paintings of Chet Zar are shown in full detail. A must for collectors of dark art and the macabre