Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Hell Passport Box Set, part of Comix and Stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery
:: Posted by max @ 8/19/2008 07:04:00 PM  Was sent this by Jo Cook:
Perro Verlag has just put together a box set of 24 visual art chapbooks by 24 different Canadian artists.
They we will be part of Comix and Stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday August 24th. "A day of alternative & small press comics, zines, artwork & culture"
Sunday, August 24th, 11am to 5pm Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC
Guest list is on the site here, Top Star Guest is Kim Deitch and there's some other pretty cool people on the list with him.
The Hell Passport Project is a 24-volume series of visual art chapbooks by 24 artists riffing on hell, holes, holiday suicides, sewers, zombies, ghost tracks, acephalic vulva, evil eye families, premonition rip-offs, bone hounds, contamination, papists' passports, larva womb rat, scum, entrail readings & scabnose demons.
The artists in this project come from across Canada and take a variety of approaches and styles, making this series a comprehensive survey of current contemporary drawing.
Artists in the series: derek beaulieu, Lisa Cinar, Mark Connery, Rebecca Dolen, Brandy Fedoruk, Julie Feyrer, Emily Goodden, Roy Green, Sally Ireland, Ben L. Jacques, Collin Johanson, Donato Mancini, Billy Mavreas, Wesley Mulvin, Robert Pedersen, Guinevere Pencarrick, Owen Plummer, Terry Plummer, Fiona Smyth, Scheisse Wives, Colin Upton, Ed Varney, Julie Voyce and James Whitman.
The sets were printed in a limited edition of 20 boxes: 10 in blue and 10 in red. The complete set sells for $150. Some individual books are also available, at $7 each.
Inquiries: Jo Cook
www.perroverlag.comLabels: art show, book launches, British Columbia, can-con, comic jams, drawings, ephemera, events, events links, illustration, mini-comics, Vancouver, zine fair, zines
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Seth Covers The New Yorker
:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/05/2008 04:14:00 PM For the Super Tuesday political issue of the Feb 4 New Yorker, Seth provides a rare (as in never) political drawing, a pastiche of the famous Eustace Tilley drawing by cartooning giant Rea Irvin. I think this is only the 3rd New Yorker cover by Seth:
 Labels: canadians abroad, illustration, political cartooning
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Jeet Heer on Julie Morstad
:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/14/2008 12:10:00 AM The critic Jeet Heer examines Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad. This collection of surrealist illustrations is part of Drawn and Quarterly's art book series.
If you were forced to describe Julie Morstad's drawings in a few quick words "subdued, languid creepiness" might do the trick. Subdued and languid: no matter how macabre the situation her characters find themselves in they never scream, their almond-shaped eyes vacantly stare out at their bizarre predicaments, and an air of genteel languor, as at an Edwardian tea party, hangs over every scene. Creepiness: insect and snakes crawl everywhere, limbs have a way of mutating into odd shapes (often looking like the furry squirrel tails), heads are frequently detached from bodies. Labels: drawings, illustration, reviews
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Seth on Thoreau MacDonald
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/23/2007 06:59:00 AM The latest issue of The Devil's Advocate, a small journal devoted to printing and book design, features an essay by Seth on the Canadian illustrator Thoreau MacDonald. Based on a talk Seth gave a few years ago at the AGO, the essay covers the life and work of MacDonald, a relatively obscure artist today who was an early self-publisher and a fairly well-known figure in the art world during his lifetime. If you want to find out more about an artist who has influenced Seth's design sense, lettering, and obsession with landscape, seek out this article. The issue also features lots of illustrations and a separate article on MacDonald's designs for an edition of Walden.
DA #60
Spring/Summer 2007
issn 0225-7874
$11.00Labels: illustration, publishing, writings by cartoonists
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