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   Saturday, September 20, 2008  
Saturday: Matt Forsythe at Strange Adventures, Halifax

:: Posted by Bryan @ 9/20/2008 01:49:00 AM

from the D+Q press release:

OJINGOGO'S MATT FORSYTHE
AT STRANGE ADVENTURES THIS SATURDAY 9/20/9!
SLIDE SHOW & SIGNING


Saturday, September 20th 2009, 7:00 PM

Strange Adventures
5262 Sackville Street
Halifax, NS (902)425-2140

As featured on the cover of the Montreal Mirror!

ABOUT OJINGOGO:
Nominated for 2 Eisner Awards for best web comic, winner of an Expozine award, and hailed by the Montreal Mirror, Matthew Forsythe's Ojingogo is already highly anticipated. Exuding simplicity in design and narrative, Ojingogo is an illustrated, dreamscape of abstracts and events. The otherworldly pantomime about a girl, her squid, and the creatures and calamities they experience together, is an intrinsically expressive and deeply rewarding journey. Drawing from Forsythe's Korean influences, Ojingogo is accessible for all ages, tossing aside traditional narrative conventions in favour of creating its own world, language and rules that anyone can find a home of their own in.

ABOUT MATT FORSYTHE:
Matt Forsythe was born in Toronto in 1976. He studied politics and religion at McMaster University and has worked variously as a database programmer in Dublin, a motorcycle courier in London, and a kindergarten teacher in Seoul, South Korea.

Ojingogo was originally serialized as a Web comic in 2004. It was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2005 (Best Digital Comic) and featured in the "Year's
Best Graphic Novels, Comics, and Manga." Ojingogo was nominated again for an Eisner Award (Best Digital Comic) and won an Expozine Award (Best English Comic) in 2006.

He works at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal and teaches journalism at Concordia University. His illustrations have also appeared in a variety of magazines and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, Chickadee Magazine, and Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids.

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