Bonjour a tous le 5 octobre prochain, dans le cadre du festival Atenne_a, lancement du prochain fanzine bidon accompagne d'un cd du groupe (swedish) death polka. et une merveilleuse couverture realisee par Valerie Morency. 5a 7 plus spectale a 19hr a la chapelle de l'amerique francaise a Quebec. histoire ecrite par samuel murdock basee sur le premier effondrement du pont de quebec 2, cote de la Fabrique. merci et au plaisirs http://www.swedishdeathpolka.com/ http://www.antenne-a.com/http://pishier.blogspot.com/http://kabochenook01.blogspot.com/
Expozine, Montreal's annual small press, comic and zine fair, will take place on Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Eglise Saint-Enfant Jesus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Metro) MAP. Free admission!
This incredible event brings together over 250 creators of all kinds of printed matter - from books to zines to visual art and comics - in both English and French.
In the past six years, Expozine has become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from as far afield as Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, and Quebec City!
It is one of the city's cultural success stories, and due to its ever-increasing growth, this year's edition will be expanded to two days.
Expozine brings together a multitude of publications and printed works that are often difficult to find in the first place, much less altogether in the same room! The result is a rare opportunity to peruse the work of hundreds of young and emerging authors, publishers and artists, and to see what the winners of last year's Expozine Alternative Press Awards are up to. Not to be missed!
In the Mold of ACT-I-VATE & THE CHEMISTRY SET, Transmission X is a Toronto based group of 8 established creators - ANDY BELANGER, MICHAEL CHO, ARTHUR DELA CRUZ, SCOTT HEPBURN, KARL KERSCHL, BRIAN MCLACHLAN, RAMON PEREZ, & CAMERON STEWART - who work professionally, share a studio, and are seeking freedom of creative expression through a free serialized web comic setting. They've been making the rounds online, and the first strips have been going up for about a month.
All of them are well above par and worth your time. But a few stand out to this reader...so....
Getting my attention early on is Cameron Stewart's SIN TITULO is an interesting noir thriller than catches my eye as a notable point of evolution in style for the creator. Cameron has always been a virtuoso in his work, displaying almost machine like consistency and skill in his past work. With the weekly SIN TITULO he's engaging in a paring back and simplification that appeals to my personal sensibilities, and complements his work a great deal. It's too soon to make a true comparison but so far the story is reminding me of one of my all time favourite books, City of Glass by Paul Auster & David Mazzucchelli. Very promising beginnings. This is a first for Cameron as a writer as I understand it, and so far he's displaying a good instinct for intrigue and suspense, and some nice touches with atmospheric details like the radio story about disappearing bees during a cab ride and other little notes like that. Great stuff.
Brilliantly drawn and bound to be engaging for many, is Karl Kerschl's The Abominable Charles Christopher. Kerschl has been working professionally for some time, and in the Transmission X web cast he explains that his motivation with this strip is to get away from the intense planning that typically goes into his long form comic book work and just have fun with a stream of consciousness narrative. The weekly strip is well under way and so far entirely enchanting. Backing up and often stealing the show, the mute wall eyed soother sucking Abominable headliner is supported by a cast of snappy talking animals. It's all superbly drawn and the art looks like it will be well worth seeing in print one day, elegant and subtly rendered, it's really something. 14 pages in a sub plot is now beginning to immerge about some kind of immanent peril to the forest, I'll be looking forward to seeing were this one is going. Last for this post, Papercut is the monthly short story offering from Michael Cho. So far two have been posted, Smoke and Stars. Michael's background is in illustration work more than anything, and in a way it shows. His choice of image, subtle moods he achieves, they feel indicative of the challenges you often face in that medium. As a mode of expression it forces you to think in subtler terms than comics often do. His short stories are very introspective, and sombre so far. Their nostalgic air reminds me of Seth's work, but frankly I think more tightly rendered and lacking the obsession with a specific bygone era. Thanks to that in part, Michael's stories manage to be more contemporary feeing and broader scoped. Lovely work and when he completes a book of these shorts, I'm betting a best seller too.
There's a lot more to talk about, hopefully I'll be able to do so in the next few days, but even if I don't, do not wait on my word, go yourself and see the goodness, subscribe to the feeds, tune in to Transmission X.
This Sunday, September 30th, at the Word on the Street literary festival, a sort of mini comics festival is taking place. Last weekend, the Halifax event hosted J. Torres, Mike Lobel, Scott Chantler, Darwyn Cooke & Steven McNiven. This week, both Vancouver and Toronto host comics-themed events.
1. In Vancouver, the Word Under the Street event is a zine and comics fair. The show has been relocated to the front of the Canada Post Main Post Office building, at the corner of Homer and Georgia Streets, across the street from Library Square.
2. In Toronto, The Comics and Graphic Novels Tent features appearances by Chris Butcher, Peter Birkemoe, Chip Zdarsky, Kagan McLeod, Mark Asquith, Eric Kim, Svetlana Chmakova, Noel Tuazon, Jim Munroe, Chester Brown, Ray Fawkes, Willow Dawson, Csott Chantler, Jeff Lemire, Zach Worton, Ty Templeton, Jim Zubkavich, Ryan North, John Martz, and Nadine Lessio. Also on the agenda, the Brad and Bryan Show, wherein "comics historians" Brad MacKay and Bryan Munn (ahem) offer up 30 minutes of Canadian Comics History in a chatty, informal session, hopefully abetted by some pretty pictures.
The organizers of The Doug Wright Awards, Canada's premier comics and graphic novels awards, are happy to announce that three of the country's best-known cartoonists, Chester Brown, Seth and Dave Sim, have created one-of-a-kind original artwork to be auctioned off during their 2007 fundraising drive.
Each an internationally respected cartoonist, Chester Brown (Louis Riel: AComicStripBiography, Ed TheHappy Clown), Seth (Clyde Fans, Wimbledon Green ) and Dave Sim (Cerebus), have agreed to provide The Wrights with their interpretation on a unique theme: the monster comics of Jack"King" Kirby.
The revered artist behind such superhero comics as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Silver Surfer and the X-Men, Kirby had an illustrious career that stretches back to the early days of comics. Long before he came up with his popular superhero creations, he was honing his skills on Marvel's "monster comics" of the 1950s and early 1960s -- many of which have earned a cult status among cartoonists and comic fans.
These pre-superhero Kirby comics featured such unforgettable characters as Fin Fang Foom, Groot!, Goom, Gagoom (Son of Goom), and Korilla, among many others. As an homage to this era, each cartoonist has taken their pen to paper and given us a unique take on a Kirby Monster.
Each one-of-a-kind artwork will go up for auction on eBay beginning Monday October 8th 2007, with all of the proceeds going towards the non-profit Wright Awards.
This is for next year, something to put in your planner. Co: andrewlesk.com
The New Narrative? Comics in Literature, Film, and Art
An interdisciplinary conference University of Toronto 9-11 May 2008
Keynote speaker: Seth
Comics, whether in the form of novelistic illustrations, newspaper serials, animated films, film adaptations, graphic novels, or sequential art narratives, have been with us since the rise of literature itself, yet until recently such media have never been considered "serious"—or at least, serious enough to be considered novels that might be on university syllabi. However, with the recent rise of the graphic novel and related filmic adaptations, comics—otherwise generically grouped as "comix"—garnering considerable attention, are (yet again) being hailed as the "next big thing." The (Canadian) publishing industry acknowledges that comix are the largest growth area: is the future now?
But are comix literature? Are they more than Saturday morning cartoons? Does the study of the genre belong in an art class? Are illustrated novels and live action films really about the pictures and not the narrative? How can the history of the form be reconciled with consumer culture and the ill-defined categories of "high" and "low" culture?
Papers which examine and interpret these "new" narratives in interdisciplinary forms are most welcome. Essays on novelistic illustrations, newspaper serials, animated films, film adaptations, graphic novels, or sequential art narratives may consider the following:
- Graphic novels and auto/biography (Seth, Julie Doucet, Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, Alison Bedchel's Fun Home, David B's Epileptic)
- The bande desinee and European influences (Tintin etc)
- Illustrated and multi-media works (Barbara Hodgson, Umberto Eco, Eddie Campbell)
- Geopolitics/war and the graphic novel (Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis; Art Speigelman's Maus; Joe Sacco's oeuvre)
- Conceptions of early illustrations as series (William Hogarth) and engravings and caricatures (Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray)
- Film adaptations of comics (Spiderman, Superman etc)
- Hokusai Katsushika and the "invention" of manga
- The "inventors" of the comic strip and their influences (Rodolphe Toepffer [or T Öpffer] ; Christophe's Fenouillard Family and Camember Sapper; Nadar; Cham; Grandville; Gustave Dore and Caran d' Ache)
- Canadian and American early comics (Alberic Bourgeois; Richard Felton Outcault; Rudolph Dirks; Violet Keene)
- The Comics Code Authority and Frederic Wertham
- Illustrations in literary novels (George Cruikshank; Thackeray)
Proposals should be 400-500 words and must clearly indicate significance, the line of argument, principal texts considered, and relation to existing scholarship (or originality). One email copy of the proposal, along with a 100 word abstract and 50 word bio note must be included, as an attachment in MS Word. Final papers should be no more than 10 pages (not including artwork to be shown). Accepted papers must be submitted in advance of the Conference. Deadline for proposals is 05 January 2008. Please mail to:
Dr Andrew Lesk, Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Toronto 170 St. George Street, #928, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 E-mail: andrew DOT lesk AT utoronto Dot ca
Peter Whalley, cartoonist, sculptor, Giant of the North. One of only two or three important postwar Canadian magazine cartoonists, Whalley died Tuesday, September 18.
Whalley, the son of an Anglican clergyman, was born in Brockville, Ont., on Feb. 20, 1921. He grew up in Halifax, where he attended the Nova Scotia College of Art.
He sold his first cartoon when he was 16, but the Second World War interrupted his budding artistic career. He served in the merchant marine during the war.
After the war, he moved to Montreal with intentions of becoming a serious artist, but once he began working for the Standard, "cartooning won out. It paid more," he once said.
He moved to Morin Heights in the Laurentians, joined the local volunteer fire brigade, and for the rest of his life worked out of his home office.
He hit his stride in the 1960s and '70s, when he turned out covers for Maclean's, Weekend and the Montrealer magazines and did other commercial work.
He was a regular contributor to the CBC's Observer television program, in which he illustrated the week's top news stories with cartoons, and he did film strips for the National Film Board.
Alootook Ipellie, the Inuit cartoonist, has died suddenly in Ottawa. He was 56.
Ipellie was well-known as a gallery artist and his comics work had only recently begun to be appreciated by a wider audience.
Raised in Frobisher Bay, Ipellie was artistically inspired by Superman comics as a youth. He dropped out of the lithography program at West Baffin Eskimo Co-Op in 1972 and went on to create single panel cartoons for Inuit Today magazine. He also worked as an editor and journalist before becoming a prominent artist, defying the stereotypes of Inuit art with his sexually charged, modern images. Ipellie also created the comic strip Nuna and Vut for the Nunatsiak News in the 1990s. His work was showcased in various galleries internationally and in Canada and in the recent Monster Island Three comics anthology, edited by Montreal's Billy Mavreas. Ipellie's book, Arctic Dreams and Nightmares was published in 1993. He also wrote a children's book, The Inuit Thought of It.
Ipellie died of a heart attack outside his Ottawa apartment September 8. He will be buried in Iqaluit. Ipellie is survived by his daughter Taina. --
John Collins, long-time editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette, has died at 89. Collins died Sunday, September 16.
Born in Washington, DC, Collins moved with his family to Canada in 1920 and sold his first cartoon to the Gazette while still in university in 1937. He joined the staff of the paper in 1939 and created many memorable images of the Second World War and Cold War years. Collins also contributed cartoons to Saturday Night. Collins' cartoons often featured the stock figure of Uno Who, the proverbial impoverished taxpayer, naked but for a barrel. Collins won the National Newspaper Award for political cartooning twice, in 1954 and 1973. He retired from the Gazette in 1982 but continued to contribute illustrations to Edgar Andrew Collard's nostalgic column, All Our Yesterdays, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1986.
He's presenting our post-Rapture graphic novel THEREFORE REPENT! along side new issues of Fred Grisholm's HATESONG, Brian Fukushima's JOBGOBLIN. And Jason Turner & Manien Bothma's True Loves 2!
Then it's back to old Hog town for Word on the streetSunday Sept 30th to present Therefore Repent! He'll be signing books at his table in Fringe Beat as well as giving a presentation called Be Your Own Boss In The World Of Publishing.
And you can also catch him participating in a panel with Willow Dawson and Ray Fawkes called "I Have A Great Idea For A Story, But I Need An Artist!"
And not only is it free to read, it's also free to use: we're licencing the jpg versions of these as remixable under this Creative Commons licence.
So, if you've ever wondered what'd it'd be like to be the writer of a comic book and work with as talented an artist as Salgood Sam, now you can.
Download them from this site, and open the pages up in Photoshop or Gimp to replace my words with more interesting ones.
Colour the pictures.
Use the images as graphics for your non-commercial projects. Send the results to us and we'll put 'em up on the site: even better, we'll send the three most inspiring remixes a free book.
So are you Game? I'd love to see what you can come up with...
My old work-mate, Gabriel Morrissette, brought me on board a rush project that he had to do for a young Canadian publisher by the name of Jackfruit Press.
I stepped in and after we wrapped that job up, I went on to illustrate a book in that same series about Sir Robert Borden.
After the Borden book, I agreed to do the design, layout and illustrations for a 96 page book about native land claims in Canada, called Your Home on Native Land, and it's turning out well. Written by Alan Skeoch. I'll put some pages up soon.
For something completely different.
Local Montreal animation moguls, Cinegroupe, have got me to do a newspaper-style comic strip for a website dedicated to their computer-animated Sci Fi comedy TV show, Tripping the Rift. To be updated on a regular basis. It will be a story in 52 parts. If you're interested in having a peek, go here on www.trippingtherift.tv and get ready for a little scrolling.
These are the things that fill my days now, aside from trying to figure out what to make for supper. There's a good possibility that an interesting collaboration involving comics writer Joe Casey, Oni comics and Hercules may happen after I clear away my current commitments. A 4 issue series that I would draw. That would be fun!
I'll try and get in the habit of posting to the blog more.
Monster Island Three is a collection i (billy mavreas) edited. it's chock full of comics and drawings and essays revolving around the theme of comics and monsters and fandom and ......
here's some styley info :
This book straddles the line between comic anthology and art book but also contains essays to give historical context to the art. Rick Trembles provides a tribute in comic form to movie director Ray Harryhausen. Mavreas contributes a feature on Inuit artist Alootook Ipellie. There is Joe Ollmann's comic on the history of his drawing implements and Andy Brown's essay on the significance of the publishing history of one of Jack Kirby's final comic series. Bernie Mireault provides a comic about a horrific poker game while Patrick Burger writes about German pulps from the 1930s which were set in Africa. Of course the book also includes many monster drawings including those by Fiona Smyth. Other contributors include: John Mavreas, Carlos Santos, Jesse Bochner, Tessa Fenger, Jennifer MacIntyre, Shawn Jefferies, Guy Boutin, Helene Brosseau, Leyla Majeri, Rupert Bottenberg, Howard Chackowicz, Sean McCarthy, and Shawn Cheng.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: casa del popolo, good people
2. Writing for the Edmonton Jounral, Gilbert Bouchard rehearses some old chestnuts about the sexuality of American superheroes, with some choice quotes by Bart Beaty.
Saturday and Sunday: Montreal Comic Con Sept. 15-16 Guests include Rich Buckler, Serge LaPointe, Sirkowski, Yanick Paquette, Clement Sauve, Eric Theriault, Karl Kerschl (maybe cancelled), Wes Craig, Mark Texeira, Dale Eaglesham , Jose Holder, etc. Vendors include Major Comics, 1,000,000 Comix, Librairie Millenium, Marc The Comic Hunter, Komiko, Paradise Comics, Comic Book Art Gallery, Madame Edgar, etc.
Palais des Congres de Montreal 159, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest, Montreal
1. (via Tom Spurgeon) Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen are interviewed by Chris Arrant at Newsarama on the occasion of their Patsy Walker/Hellcat (Heelcat?) miniseries for Marvel.
2. Guy Delisle Exhibit: Sept 15 - Oct 15 --original pages from Shenzhen & Pyongyang at the Chicoutimi library, 155 Racine St. East, Chicoutimi, Quebec.
Sorry for the late notice on this, but the venue for the jam has been COMPLETELY booked for this saturday and is not available the following Saturday due to UFC (again!).
Maybe it's time to look at an alternative venue for situations like this. If anyone has suggestions, please fire them my way. Maybe we can sort out some sort of more informal place to meet up this month.
I have us booked in for October 20th at Original Joes, so at least that will happen.
2. Haida manga artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is profiled by Heather Ramsay for The Tyee on the subject of representations of First Nations people in Canadian museums.
3. Gilbert A. Bouchard recaps the history of non-fiction cartooning in North America for the Edmonton Journal.
4. The Comic Book Bin's Avi Weinryb reports on the DC panel from FanExpo and has some great video coverage.
5. Brendan Blom writes about reading Tintin in Canada for Culture magazine. After Django Reinhardt, Georges Simenon, and Charlemagne, is Herge the greatest Belgian?
(top, in honour of Omega Flight, a random superhero image by Owen McCarron)
PEI's Confederation Centre for the Arts hosts an exhibit of comics and book illustration called "..and other stories" from September 9 to December 10. The exhibit features the work of Troy Little, Charmaine Wheatley, Seth, Marc Gallant and Robert Harris.
Troy Little is the cartoonist behind the graphic novel Chiascuro, scheduled for an October release by IDW.
Charmaine Wheatley has created a watercolour graphic novel called Beau Fleuve, The Heart of North America. It is also scheduled for October.
In 1900, renowned Island portrait painter Robert Harris illustrated "A semi-detached house ... and other stories" by John Tri-Davies. Both were founding members of Montreal's Pen and Pencil Club in 1890, which included many prominent Canadian writers, painters and musicians. On display will be many of Harris' original illustrations and copies of the original book.
1. There is now a Halifax Comic Jam --they've already had a few meetings and published a zine:
HALIFAX COMICS JAM. Artists of all styles and skill levels creating collaborative comix (somebody draws the first panel, somebody draws the next, etc.) Anyone over 19 can participate and don't forget to bring your own pens. Gus' Pub, 2605 Agricola Street, 7PM to 1AM, 423-7786
2. Mark Oakley, the cartoonist behind the Thieves and Kings graphic novel series, has set up his I Box publishing shop in an old building in Halifax.
Very exciting: The launch of a new journal devoted to Quebec bd, Formule, takes place at Le Divan Orange, 4234 St. Laurent, Montreal on Tuesday, Sept 18 at 7pm. I think this is being published by Mecanique Generale since Jimmy B is hyping it...
There is also an exhibit at the same location until October 1st.
Another link round-up of comics and comics-related news from across the dominion:
1. Via The Beat comes this Editor and Publisher profile of Lynn Johnston explaining recent changes in her comic strip and recent major changes in her life (quick version: she's splitsville with her husband).
2. The Harvey Awards were handed out in Baltimore over the weekend, and several Canucks were honoured with awards named for the cartooning genius behind Mad, Frontline Combat, Trump, Goodman Beaver, and Help. Congratulations to J. Bone, Darwyn Cooke, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Niko Henrichon, and the Canadian contributors to the Flight anthology: Johane Matte, Michel Gagne, Kean Soo, and Matthew Forsythe! As well, D+Q tied with itself for the best foreign reprint award with Moomin and Abandon the Old in Tokyo.
3. Ho Che Anderson and Dave Cooper are among the cartoonists donating art to the Fantagraphics legal defense fund.
4. The CBC profiles Troy Little's Chiaroscuro. Originally self-published by its PEI creator, the book has been picked up by IDW in the U.S.
An exclusive program dedicated to animation influenced by the New Yorker Magazine illustrator Saul Steinberg. Best known for his "View of the World from 9th Avenue,". Steinberg's elevated self-consciousness, reduced design to its essentials; freely melded the naive with the modern, and more than any other 20 century artist obliterated the wall between media and art. Animators as varied as Stefan Schabenbeck, Candy Kugel, Mo Williams and the "modernistic" designs from UPA and Zagreb owe much to Steinberg. The influence goes beyond the surface to include an abstract view of space, identity, and language. Curated by New York animator George Griffin.
3. Lynn Johnston's For Better of For Worse began it's new format Sept. 3 with a rerun some old strips framed by a journey through an old photo album. The strip is online here.
4. Toronto comics blogger and Beguiling employee is visiting Japan and already has a selection of manga retailing-related photos online.
5. Mike Aragona is a writer and the man responsible for keeping alive the long-running Canadian APA/zine Comicopia. He is currently going through some tough times concerning the health of his youngest child, as you will see from the updates from his livejournal page. If you know Mike or can identify with his situation, I'm sure his family would appreciate a note of encouragement or support.
Have you seen me? I am Canazine, a fanzine advertised in The Buyer's Guide in 1971, and published by Ralph Alphonso of Montreal. Persons with information about my whereabouts should contact this blog.
Panels are: Make Mine Manga WebComics Spotlight: Evan Dorkin/Sarah Dyer Spotlight: Paul Pope/James Jean Bookstore Graphic Novels
Also regarding FanExpo, I have 45 videos from the event now on youtube. About 40 of them are from the masquerade. Others include the lobby, Video Game sections, Celebrities, & Artists Alley.
A written report on FanExpo will be online October 1st.
KAMIKAZE September 4th to September 30th 2007 Opening Thursday September 6th 5hPM to 11hPM USINE 106U 111 Roy E. 514-728-9349
USINE 106U delicately invites you to the opening of the explosive exhibition KAMIKAZE presenting the artworks of 26 visual artists: Mark Prent, Eric Braun, La puce a l'agonie, Mimi Traillette, Jean-Michel Cholette, Away, Yves Milet-Desfougeres, Daniel Erban , Serge De Cotret, Nathalie Lacombe, Guy Boutin, Stuart Rae, Argonacon, Ron Simon, Sweet Grognasse, Haemi Kim, Nicolas Plamondon, Andre Demers, Cannibal Amical, Jerome Bertrand, Chloe Beaulac, Marc-Andre Nassar, Heather Kim, Maxlks, Florent Veilleux and Jacqueline Deschamps.
Pop-trash paintings, monumental sculptures, kinetic pieces, etchings, original drawings, modified plush toys, surrealist jewelry other fascinating curiosities will take over the space. The exhibition takes place at USINE 106U, 111 Roy E., Montreal from September 4th to September 30th 2007, and the opening will be held on Thursday September 6th 5hPM to 11hPM. Opening hours are Saturday to Wednesday noon to 6hPM , Thursday & Friday from noon to 9hPM.
Mark Prent: The most controversial canadian sculptor of his generation, known worldwide for his hyper-realist nightmarish sculptures. He portrays with body molding techniques his inner visions, without altering the dramatic or emotional charge of the subject.
Eric Braun: Multidisciplinary artist (painting, sculpture, comics, etching), publisher of the anthology 106U and founder of USINE 106U. His graphic universe explores different materials with humor and lucidity.
La puce a l'agonie: Designer, painter and conceptor, her work in visual arts focuses on recomposing fragments linked to childhood and by mass-producing little pink cats.
Mimi Traillette: Cartoonist-photograph and designer, she creates colorful and entertaining pieces with influences coming from rock & roll , comics and aquatic depths..
Jean-Michel Cholette: His acrylic paintings are guided by an inspiration tapping intoPop Surrealism, lowbrow art and fantasy illustration. His cybernetic creatures and dislocated architectures take place in an aesthetic combining influences from science-fiction, ancient religious symbols, litterature and old family portraits.
Away: Founder and drummer for the legendary band Voivod, also painter ans illustrator, his artwork is distinctive for its fusion between an apocalyptical vision and a more classical crosshatching technique
Yves Milet-Desfougeres: Well-known french etching artist and painter, he explores symbolical themes with his ethereal landscapes haunted by hallucinatory visions. Member of the surrealists in the 60', he built his monumental carreer and is known of a handful of European collectors.
Daniel Erban: Brut artist to the core and mathematician, his oversize ink drawings on red paper are complex and decadent, translating by a transgressive gestual a dark and shocking universe, not without a certain humor.
Guy Boutin: Painter and cartoonist, he masters in multicolored raw representations of his graphic imaginary between comics and graffiti art.
Stuart Rae: Sculptor and designer of dental jewelery, he masters in the sharpness of stylised minimal shapes, while taking the challenge of rendering aesthetic parasite subjects and human remains.
Serge De Cotret: Painter and photographer, his figurative work dwells its inspiration mainly in religious thematics and in the shadowy corners of the Eros.
Nathalie Lacombe : Visionary painter, her artwork juxtaposes plastician luminous explorations with actualised symbolist icons.
Argonacon: Dynamic visual artist, his silkscreens and drawings superimpose stylised realistic patterns with symbolic compositions in a minimal and refreshing way.
Ron Simon : Photographer and numeric artist, his works present a rich contraste between textured organic papers and his sensual semi-funerary numeric momifications.
Sweet Grognasse: A colorful visual artist, she works in graphic design and creates paintings, silkscreen and textiles in the tradition of pop-art.
Haemi Kim : Classically trained korean painter, she shows a skillfull master of technique through a symbolist oniric vision.
Nicolas Plamondon: Young illustrator and cartoonist, he masters in macabre humor with a remarquable finesse. His imagery invocates death and childhood.
Andre Demers: Painter, he persues an artistic direction since ten years. Using strictly acrylic paint, he proposes a personal iconography full of cynism. He is influences by several artistic curren
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