In our continued look at Canadian cartoonists, David Collier
joined us for our most Canadian show yet. David has creating some great biographies of folks in Canadian history. Ranging from his own grandfather to little known sports figures, he always goes beyond the duty in his research in creating some great comix. Joe Sacco, and Chris Ware both cite David as a big influence, and you can really see it when you sit down with his work.
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Continuing our month long focus on Canadian cartoonists, the Inkstuds sat down for drinks with Marc Bell to discuss his book Stacks from Drawn and Quarterly. This is the first of many Petite Livre interviews I will be doing with some fine Canadian talents. I think that Marc and I have another interview yet to be done to discuss his work on a larger scale, so look forward to more.
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Ray Fenwick joined us to discuss his latest book, Hall of Best Knowledge as well as work in Mome.
Ray help us kick off the Inkstuds month long focus on Canadian cartoonists. This will be the first of many interviews with some fantastic talents.
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Tom Neely joined us to discuss his book, The Blot. The Blot is one of the more original comix I have read in awhile, and an enjoyable surreal journey. Check it out, and he also has a comic for the Melvins coming out as well.
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Danny Hellman’s new collection is the wonderfully disturbing anthology Typhon. We chat about the book and what led up to the book. Danny is a master draftsman and fine fellow.
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Steve Ditko is one of the more enigmatic creators in the comics world. Very few photo’s of Steve exist in public printing even though he was behind one of the most important comics characters. Blake Bell’s biography of Steve Ditko from Fantagraphics, is an excellent look into the work of Ditko and who he was as a creator. Blake joined us to discuss the book and Ditko.
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Jessica Abel and Matt Madden joined us to discuss their stack of new books, Drawing Words and Writing Pitcures, Life Sucks and the softcover edition of La Perdida. They are some of the most knowledgable folks in the comix world and have lots to share.
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Billy Mavreas is in Vancouver involved in a million interesting projects, and I managed to get a couple of minutes out of his day to discuss his new book, Inside Outside Overlap. Billy will be doing a book launch on Saturday June 7th at Lucky’s comix at 3972 Main st. in Vancouver and in Toronto on June 25th. While Billy is in Vancouver, you can check him out at the Helen Pitt Gallery, with an opening reception on Friday night and then Billy will be in space doing art and talking to folks checking out the gallery tuesday to saturday this week and next week during business hours. Its a good weekend to be in Vancouver.
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Marv Newland is legend in the world of animation and we are lucky enough to have him living in Vancouver. His recognizable work can be found in the classic, Bambi Meets Godzilla, Black Hula, as well as production work on Lupo the Butcher and much much more.
Marv’s Black Hula is being featuring at the Vancouver Art Gallery as Vancouver’s lone artist represented in the Krazy show.
He was also published in the excellent underground anthology, Fog City Comix along with fine folks like Rand Holmes, Brent Boates and George Metzger.
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Dave Kiersh has been behind a selection of great comix looking at real life situations of teen livelyhood. His work is a great mix of poetic honesty and finely crafted cartooning. His newest book is Neverland coming out from Bodega.
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