Ezekiel Saw a Wheel

"Ezekiel Saw a Wheel" is a Magical Realism Sci-Fi Suspense novel by animator director Keith Van Allen, about an excentric cartoonist, Zeke Landover who's convinced he and his family were once abducted by aliens.What he finds out is far more startling, and his cartoon characters agree with him!

Mr. Van Allen has twisted his TV animation and cartooning career into an extraordinary tale of the surreal and unexpected, set against the landscape of historic central Virginia. It's a sometimes horrific and even comic romp through town and back roads as Zeke and his friends, Jerry and Minnie, search for an other-worldly humanoid,while being chased by odd and sinister men of unknown origin with a frightening agenda.

At each turn of the road, the friends are confounded and confronted by things which challenge their conceptions of reality, the Universe, and the complex interaction of the realms of time and space.(That is when they have the time). Alien and metaphysical worlds collide as the friends go spinning onward through vortex after vortex of mysterious apocalyptic visions and bizarre situations. A truly wild ride of weirdness!

Also along for the ride, inside Zeke's head are his cartoon characters from his weekly strip (which he really should be working on), Melvin the Gunk and Stupid the Cat, a marooned blobby alien and an out-of-work cartoon character actor, who drive a 39 Ford in search of America. Zeke struggles to keep his mind on the business of survival while they intrude on his thoughts and even try to help him (if he'll let them), in between his occasional rants about the world,media,the environment and politics.

Minnie is an ex-girlfriend psychic of free wheeling New Age attitude, who re-hooks up with Zeke and joins in the undulating chase along with Jerry, an exuberant easy going but unorganized conspiracy theorist who takes what comes in his own unique fashion which defies description. Various characters of the Virginia landscape,downtown Richmond and elsewhere invade the swirling plot,as one by one they are wrapped up and spun out, into a realization that seen and unseen forces for good and evil are somehow everywhere at work, while they also encounter clues which promise to lead them to some understanding of what's going on in, and out,beyond,within and even without-The World.