Monday, July 07, 2003  
The Exclaim funny pages.

:: Posted by max @ 7/07/2003 07:51:00 PM
Aside from a long tradition of publishing several alternative comic strips by Canadian authors on their pages Toronto based music mag Exclaim! Magazine has published many interviews and articles about our favourite medium in its pages, quite a few by Canadian comics Journalist and author Guy Leshinski who now writes on the subject for the Toronto Eye Weekly as well under the banner of THE PANELIST (mentioned in this previous post 2 days ago).



Most if not all of the Exclaim! articles are available to read online, Some highlights include…



Paul of Montreal: Cartoonist Michel Rabagliati Preserves Montreal’s Vanishing Past

For most artists, being an underground comic illustrator is the dream they give up, not the dream they realise after success in more commercial realms. Montreal’s Michel Rabagliati comes back to his past. By Guy Leshinski



King of Dreams: Ho Che Anderson Explores the Myth of Martin Luther King

For the last ten years, Toronto illustrator Ho Che Anderson has chronicled, in comics, the life and times of Martin Luther King. Guy Leshinski finds him nearly the end of the journey as he puts the final touches on King, Volume 3, as Anderson reflects on what the last ten years of work have meant.



Henriette Valium : Parody's Pope

In Montreal, he is called the Pope of Comics. "He's the master," says Hlne B., a local cartoonist and shopkeeper at Fichtre, the city's premiere comix shop. "A lot of young fans are, 'Oh Valium, you're my god!'" His name is Henriette Valium, though he was born Patrick Henley in 1959, the fourth of five children, and "the only one who went wrong," he says. The notorious appellation was given him by a fellow cartoonist in the early 1980s. It stuck - these days, he even answers the phone as Valium.

By Guy Leshinski



Billy Mavreas: At Home In Monastiraki

Billy Mavreas is sitting behind the counter of his antique shop in the north end of Montreal’s St. Laurent Blvd., inking a poster for a local metal band’s upcoming gig. "They wanted something ‘evil’," he says of its claw-like flames. Though he hasn’t drawn concert posters in years ("I was tired of working for free"), his reputation as the city’s premier poster artist holds fast, thanks to his prolific postering in the late ‘80s and ‘90s for musicians like Rufus Wainwright and Kinnie Starr, and a book called Mutations, which collected many of these works four years ago. Since then, though, Mavreas’s career has ignited.

By Guy Leshinski



David Collier’s Fictional Facts

There are countless stories swirling around David Collier’s head. Spend an hour talking to the 38-year-old cartoonist and you’ll find yourself in a torrent of loosely related anecdotes, witty and immaculately detailed, delivered with the verve of a teenager. Just don’t mistake the youthfulness for immaturity. Collier is one of the brightest and most respected comic artists around.

By Guy Leshinski



Private School’s Deadly Duo

Every school had them. The stuck-up girls that would put down everyone that walked by them in the hallways and muster up some snide remark or insult. No one was allowed to get close to them and find out what made them tick because those girls always put up a massive wall between the outside world and their true feelings.

By Noel Dix



Seth: Portrait of the Young Artist as an Old Man

Cartoonist Gregory "Seth" Gallant, known for his oft-autobiographical underground comic Palookaville, has released his choicest sketchbook drawings in one volume entitled Vernacular Drawings. Seth comes from a community of Toronto-based comic book artists like Joe Matt (Peep Show) and Chester Brown (Yummy Fur, The Playboy), who regularly use their own lives as raw material for stories.

By I. Khider



…and that’s just scratching the surface, drop by the Exclaim Comics page to check out the rest if you haven’t already.

    
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