Benny Bunny On Wheels Unveiling and Signing Because two and a half years is a long time to wait.....
it's been a long time and many questions have been asked about a new Sean Ward comic. And now it's time to rejoice, as it's finally arriving! Be one of the first to get hold of it when we throw a special unveiling and signing party at the Silver Snail.
Benny is a happy-go-lucky bunny who loves his Carrot Cake but when he unwittingly becomes the champion of the skateboard scene, the head of the city’s biggest skating tournament will stop at nothing - from corporate sabotage to an evil robot attack - to shut him down. BENNY BUNNY ON WHEELS is a 21st century David & Goliath story, based on true events.
BENNY BUNNY ON WHEELS Unveiling & Signing Friday July 4 at The Silver Snail - 367 Queen Street West Unveiling at reading at 5 Signing and sketches from 5 to 8
Some Canada-centric links to recent comics-centric word groupings on the interweb. Sequential hopes to provide meatier content soon. In the meantime, does it surprise anyone that Naruto volume 29 was the bestselling comic in Canada last week?
I'll be signing copies of my new comic book, INSIDE OUTSIDE OVERLAP published by Timeless Books, Toronto. Come by, say hi, have a drink, buy a book, stay and drink even more.
Promotional film for full-length documentary on Hoverboy- one time hero of radio, comic books, and TV. Now a forgotten footnote of 20th Century popular culture. Featuring interviews with Rick Green (PRISONERS OF GRAVITY, RED GREEN SHOW) and writer/artist Ty Templeton (BATMAN, AVENGERS) who is preparing to release the first Hoverboy comic in more than 30 years. For more Hoverboy history go to www.hoverboy.com
Therefore Repent! is a graphic novel set in a Chicago neighborhood after the Rapture. Once the Christians have floated bodily into the sky, life goes on pretty much as usual for the immoral majority... except that magic works, if you're willing to risk demonic mutations. CNN reports that Mr. Christ and Mr. Bush are on a speaking tour of the red states. And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners. But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship.
In the tradition of The Book of Revelations, Therefore Repent!, courtesy of novelist Jim Munroe (Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask) and acclaimed artist Salgood SamSea of Red) is a lurid, dark fantasy tale. By taking the apocryphal scripture as literal truth - as the American powers-that-be claim to do - the story also explores the political and spiritual ramifications of God abandoning humanity.
TPB-FC 6" x 8" $14.99 160 Pages ISBN: 978-1-60010-146-1
Almost Missed this one...But I'll be there, not square!
Toronto
Hotel Canzine Sunday, October 28, 2007 The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin) 1pm - 7pm
$5 at the door gets you the new Horror Issue of Broken Pencil Magazine and access to hundreds of zines, all-day horror screenings, DIY Gore workshops, readings, and all sorts of other madness.
Canzine is an annual event organized by Broken Pencil, the Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts.
Contact Broken Pencil, PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S7, email: editor@brokenpencil.com, phone 416-204-1700
Hotel Canzine Giant Zine Fair!
Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale! The heart of the event, indie publishers both in print and online come from across the country and the continent to show their wares! Be amazed at the creativity, ingenuity, and sheer weirdness! (Those interested in booking tables can register online at www.brokenpencil.com.) Launch of the New Issue of Broken Pencil "Indie Horror"
Featuring Ghost Stories at the Canzine Camp Fire, all day Indie Horror Videos, and our Cheap Thrills Special Effects exhibit In celebration of the brand new Horror Issue that will launch at Canzine, we feature six great indie writers telling ghost stories in front of the Canzine Campfire. The fake log will be glowing weakly, the marshmallows will be room temperature straight from the bag, but that shiver up your spine will be real! Also: Canzine Gorefest! Take the Canzine workshop on do-it-yourself gore, then ham up your fake black eye, bloody lip and severed hand at our "Cheap Thrills Special Effects Exhibit". Plus: All day indie horror movies in the Canzine screening room.
The Canzine Whodunit
Help! Someone's killing local zinesters, picking them off one by one like ripe grapes plucked from the vine! Can you solve the crime and stop the serial destruction of our indie culture? This year, for the first time ever, Canzine will present an all day murder mystery game going on all over the Gladstone! Join the game and solve the crime or just watch the antics. Hotel Room Installations
Canada's brightest and weirdest will be creating one day unique environments to explore. Including: Tara Bursey's Haunted Room of worry bead diet pills and baby rat bedsheets. Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People's room of scary music and tortured puppets. Shannon Gerard's room of crocheted cancer prevention. The Special's room of mystery featuring the amazing Mysterion.
Campfire Ghost Story Readings
Sit around the Canzine campfire and enjoy 10 minute ghost stories throughout the day by great indie writers like Tony Burgess, Kate Story (an up-and-comer featured in our new horror issue), Maggie MacDonald and more! Free marshmallows! All Day Underground Video Screening
Open Screening and Curated program by James King. Special horror program. All are welcome to bring videos (VHS or DVD only, 10 minutes and under) to show to the world. Register in advance by emailing canzinevideo@brokenpencil.com. Or just show up with your video.
Workshops
Do It Yourself GoreFest: Special Effects on the Cheap
Indie Artist, Promote Yourself: A How-to Guide to DIY Promotion lead by indie promoter extraordinaire Trevor Coleman.
The official book launch of the 'Chiaroscuro' graphic novel by Troy Little, published by IDW Publishing (Transformers, 30 Days of NIght, Star Trek)!
Come by and meet the author/illustrator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on November 9th at 7 pm. Get your book signed with a sketch! Books will be available for sale at the show compliments of The Comic Hunter.
Over 40 pages of original art are on display from the graphic novel as well as works by Seth, Charmaine Wheatly, Marc Gallant & Robet Harris as part of the on going "...And Other Stories" exhibit.
Chiaroscuro is the story of Steven Patch, an unemployed artist with a single blank canvas. Steven's busy living the introspective, angst-ridden life of your average twenty-something; drinking too much and complaining about his situation while doing little to improve it. A case of mistaken identity pushes Steven into a flow of events that bring him places he'd never imagined and forces him to make a choice between art and mere existence.
Kicking off the Expozine launch season, Cumulus Press presents EXTRACTION! A new Journalistic graphic novel about the dirty business of global resource extraction in the 21st century.
Edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier & David Widgington. Featuring comix art by Joe Ollmann, Phil Angers, Ruth Tait & Stanley Wany. Reportage by Dawn Paley, Petr Cizek, Sophie Toupin & Tamara Herman. And additional illustration by Alain Reno, Jeff Lemire & Carlos Santos.
Since 2000, most energy and mineral prices have been skyrocketing. Junior mining prospectors and unscrupulous transnational corporations rush into new territories to suck what's hot out of the earth's lucrative veins. In today's gas, oil and mining industries, the pace of exploration, extraction, transformation and delivery of the world's resources is mind boggling. The German magazine Der Spiegel speaks of a Third World War for the world's resources. It is more like a blitzkrieg.
EXTRACTION! looks into the exploration, exploitation and extraction of oil, uranium, bauxite and gold, from a common-good social justice perfective.
David Widgington Cumulus Press 514-523-1975 info AT cumuluspress DOT com
EXTRACTION! Comix Reportage Edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington November 2007 ISBN 978-0-9782474-1-6 128 pages
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 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
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.
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.
Canadian Media un-King Jim Munroe took a few moments away from his own table [where we were hawking our new book] to interview one of his all time favorite comic creators, Carla Speed McNeil. He's posted the podcast here on his site, just had a listen now, it's a good one. Also along with that is a cool post about Cons, an 8 point list for how to have fun with them.
The latest installment of Stef Lenk's graphic novel The Details, Part 3: the Haircut, & Shannon Gerard's brilliant comic of hope and frailty: HUNG no. 3. will be launching at the Gladstone on August 7th.
"Come find out what my bizarre little tales have to do with a life-size and fully functioning Operation gameboard." - Stef Lenk.
Along with HUNG, Shannon Gerard is also launching the BOOBS & DINKS Early Detection Kits: consider these two words: Plush! Privates!
Come see the film presentation of models examining their bits for a public audience. Afterwards, groove and loiter with our post event DJs, When J(G)ens Go Bad, a super cute DJ duo in matching outfits. You'll want to squeeze them too.
Last but not least, leading up to and after the launch, The artists have an installation of related work in the Art Window at Pages. Stop by 256 Queen Street West to see it between August 3rd and 17th.
Both wiil be selling their books at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival as well.
A comic book launch featuring two very different visions of the end days, spanning the political spectrum:
Claudia Dávila's spOILed is a peak oil parable about a world without petroleum. A peek at that here.
Salgood Sam and Jim Munroe's THEREFORE REPENT! is a post-Rapture graphic novel about a world without God. preview here on comicspace
The creators will be in attendance, and their original artwork from the comics will be on display. Books, original artwork and silkscreened posters will be on sale. This event kicks off the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which culminates in the weekend fair of international artists on the U of T campus.
Thursday, August 16th, 8pm-10pm. Free. Tequila Bookworm (512 Queen St. W., upstairs)
(The Bookworm's new location is ten doors west of their old place, and the upstairs features lots of cozy rooms and an outdoor patio to enjoy their local brews.)
BIOS
Born in Santiago, Chile, Claudia Dávila moved to Canada in 1973 and grew up in the culture-rich cities of Montreal and Toronto. She began drawing and painting at an early age, and was fortunate to attend art-focused public high school Wexford C.I., followed by York University for Visual Arts. She emerged to develop a multi-faceted career of graphic design, art direction, illustration, painting and cartooning. Five years were dedicated to the award-winning children's magazines Chirp, Chickadee and Owl, first as Associate Art Director and subsequently as Art Director. She is presently creating a book-art piece relating to survival in Toronto after the end of petroleum energy, for which she received a Toronto Arts Council grant. Claudia's art is informed by her various interests, such as the environment, social politics, yoga, vegetarian cuisine, ayurveda, and metaphysics, as well as the issue of the end of fossil fuels, and as such is a member of the Toronto Peak Oil Discussion Group.
Salgood Sam is Maxim Douglas backwards: Toronto-born, Montreal-based artist and author. Since the early '90s he's worked professionally for Marvel, DC and other commercial comic publishers as well as in the alternative world of zines and underground comix. In recent years his work has appeared in a variety of comics, such as Terminator 3: Before the Rise (Beckett Comics), the bloody swashbuckling Sea of Red (Image Comics), and Revolution on the Planet of the Apes (Mr Comics). In 2005 he was nominated for the Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent for his self-published book RevolveR, and in 2006 he received a grant from The Canada Council for the Arts to complete another graphic novel currently in the works. He's also worked in animation and as an illustrator, but his first love has always been pictures that talk with balloons.
Jim Munroe had his first novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask published by HarperCollins. Despite their interest in his second book, he was uncomfortable with the corporate ownership and went back to his indie press roots. He founded No Media Kings, named in dishonour of right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and published his next book in Canada himself - it sold just as well, made him more money, and drew attention to the issues of media consolidation and the alternatives to it. His do-it-yourself publishing resource website created an international network of people through which he was able to found The Perpetual Motion Roadshow - a volunteer-run circuit that sent a hundred people on seven-city tours. He recently released a lo-fi sci-fi no-budget movie he wrote and co-produced called Infest Wisely.
The new issue of CAROUSEL {#21} is set to launch, and we've chosen Montreal as our debut city!
Indeed, a number of Montrealers are in the new issue (Daniel Erban, Shawn Kuruneru, Billy Mavreas to name a few), and a good opportunity to collaborate with a few of our showcased artists came up recently: Shawn Kuruneru and Jesse Harris (along with their pal Jimmy Limit) have a 3-person show opening at the beginning of June at My Hero Gallery called 'Shangri-Lost II'; CAROUSEL will be kindly sharing the stage at this event... we'll have the new issue available hot off the press. It's sure to be an excellent show!
Carousel #21 / magazine launch (in collaboration with Shangri-Lost II art exhibition) ........Friday June 01, 8pm @ My Hero Gallery 3655 St. Laurent Blvd, #206 / Montreal, QC
CAROUSEL 21 : Highlights + Contents
Comics: Lorenz Peter Dr. Ultra: On the Beat James Provost Ethan Rilly Son of a Gun
Art: Dearraindrop Daniel Erban Portfolio Jesse Harris Shawn Kuruneru Mark Laliberte Billy Mavreas Jason McLean Paper Machete Portfolio Luke Ramsey Balint Zsako
Fiction: Mike Freeman Man of Action with Life-like Hair Joelle Renstrom What's Missing from the Internet
Interview: a long interview with Dearraindrop by Mark Laliberte
Poetry: Anne Baldo Aidan; Give it Up Allan Briesmaster Enceladus '06; Solarities Mono Brown Creak Mike Freeman Ode to Wile E. Coyote Andreas Gripp His and Hers Emma Kidd Cows Eat Children Sorouja Moll Small Gods Joelle Renstrom Variations on a Second Head Sandra Ridley Off the Highway; Variation on Last Summer Antranik Tchalekian Ghost Through Me; Dream of Flying Anne Walters A Folkshine Fable
Between Gentlemen (excerpt), Rupert Bottenberg, 2003
VERNISSAGE
Wednesday, May 9, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm Preceded by a tour of the exhibition with the curator at 6 pm.
An exhibition organized by the Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, a cultural partner of the Biennale de Montreal 2007
This summer, the Liane and Danny Taran Gallery immerses visitors in the world of Canadian comics, graphic novels, zines, and mini-comics with its summer exhibition Comic Craze. The show will investigate the uniquely Canadian qualities that our artists bring to this medium - in particular the intimate, eccentric, superhero-free universes they create.
The books, by artists and writers including Shary Boyle, Marc Bell, Chester Brown, Genevieve Castree, David Collier, Rebecca Dart, Marc Ngui, Seth, and Maurice Vellekoop tell personal, quirky, often funny stories in all graphic and narrative styles.
"Most of us probably first encountered drawings, art, and literature through comic books, but they're rarely recognized for that role,"
Says Comic Craze curator Sylvie Gilbert.
"This exhibition pays homage to the formative role that comics have played in our creative lives. It also renews our understanding of comics by demonstrating the high level of sophistication that comic books have achieved today."
Visitors to the Gallery will walk into a completely transformed space, one that's designed for hands-on investigation and experience, an interior wilderness stacked with more than 400 comic books, zines, and graphic novels in French and English. They'll be encouraged to explore, sit, and read.
[Sequential ed note by max: It is indeed a huge pile of books! A Montreal artist included in the show and coincidentally present at the initial exhibit in Banff was surprised to find his own books there. After some asking around, it's been determined that many of the books creators were not told that their books would be put on display, or asked if they could be included. Nor are most of them listed or indexed in any of the shows press or catalogue material to our knowledge. And have not been able to add their inclusion to personal CV's or press. It seems the 'homage' only extends as far as the art, and not to the artists.]
GALERIE LIANE & DANNY TARAN GALLERY - CENTRE DES ARTS SAIDYE BRONFMAN CENTRE FOR THE ARTS 5170, Chemin de la Cte-Ste-Catherine, Montral (Qubec) H3W 1M7, (514) 739-2301 x339, www.saidyebronfman.org GALLERY HOURS: Monday to Thursday, 12pm to 9pm; Friday, 12pm to 4pm; Sunday, 12am to 8pm.The gallery will be closed May 22,23 and 24th.
Special events connected to the exhibit
SEQUENTIAL ART & SPEECH BALLOONS: May 17 at 6:00 pm Symposium on contemporary Canadian comic culture Moderated by Will Straw (MTL) With: John Bell(Ottawa), Christine Redfern & Caro Caron(MTL), Michel Viau(MTL)
KIM SIMARD : Free Sunday WORKSHOPS - May 13 & May 27 2pm – 5pm Children & Teen workshops: the process of becoming a super-hero.
L'Oie de Cravan is proud to invite you to the launch of Obom's (Diane Obomsawin) new comic book KASPAR and introduce you to the sad and instructive story of monsieur Kaspar Hauser.
We will also take this opportunity to launch our new edition of Obom's first book PLUS TARD
There will be a screening of Obom's short animation films and some fine live music by Lou Babin, Luc Proulx, Némo Venba and Christine Lajeunesse. Alcool will also be proposed.
All this at G.I.V. 4001 rue Berri, corner of Duluth Room 195 in Montréal Monday may 7th from 6 to 10.
Classically trained Haida Artist and generally nice guy, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has been courting the Asian market with his unique Haida Manga comic art and stories since 2003 when he earned himself a top ten ranking for is "No Apologies Necessary" at the Tokyo Design Week, and at EXPO 2005 had a live painting exhibit in Canadian Pavilion in Nagoya Japan. Seems they love him there, and in Japan that means being ubiquitous as a shopping bag...
Haida artist hits it big in Asia Large retailer Seiju buys design to grace shopping bags Ashley Ford, The Province Published: Friday, April 06, 2007
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a bird of many feathers.
Formally trained in classical Haida design, the Vancouver resident has taken his considerable artistic talents along new paths with his unique form of "graphic narrative" called Haida Manga, essentially part-Haida and part-Asian.
He takes Haida design and narratives and transforms them into socially relevant art. The object is to advance the Haida design traditions "to combat the simplistic narratives perpetrated about indigenous people of the Pacific Coast."
He is already a big hit in Japan and Korea where manga -- Japanese for comic -- is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year business.
And greater commercial success may just be around the corner.
Seiju, a large Japanese retailer with a major shareholding from U.S. retailing icon WalMart, wants to mount Yahgulanaas's Hachiridori, hummingbird design from one of his books with the English words "I do what I can" on its non-plastic, reusable bags.
Yahgulanaas says he doesn't know how enriching it will eventually be but is hopeful it will be enough for him to carry on his personal campaign of taking the Haida art tradition out to the rest of the world and not just in the traditional style.
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