Martha says it's important the Lasqueti community get a chance to see the work before it moves off-island. She hopes to eventually get a version of the retrospective into galleries, and to that end, Mameni and Pace are helping to write proposals.

“Canada didn't really have that many comic artists, and he did some very groundbreaking work,” Martha says. “I just think it needs to have a place of recognition, for people to remember, ‘Wow, this person really did a lot of work'—to look at the scope and look at the doors he opened, be it sexually, politically, or morally. There aren't as many cartoonists taking those risks anymore.”

The work at the community hall will be shown in unique ways: comics pages hung from a clothesline, with Holmes's X-rated material stashed behind a curtain, to be viewed by flashlight. And, this being Lasqueti, there will probably be a feral sheep or two roaming around the hall as well.