Here’s an excerpt from a comic I made about how sometimes your mind is so open that your brain falls out.
Its gonna be in Frosh Week #2 put out by Sucker Press, a collection of comics about real and imagined horrors. They’re gonna have a table at TCAF which is very soon so if you’re going check ‘em out.
FROSH WEEK VOLUME II debuts Next weekend (May 14/15) at @torontocomics arts festival ! the 100 page black and white surreal horror anthology this year features work from 10 outstanding emerging illustrators and cartoonists including cartoonists Graeme Shorten Adams (MONTREAL,QC) and cartoonist/illustrator extraordinaire Lisa Czech (MONTREAL,QC) plus many more.
Swamp things, Gender queer film noir, Hot vampires, Haunted houses, Casual mutants and a land where Spring Break lasts forever are among the few things to expect from this ambitious project debuting NEXT WEEKEND in TORONTO!!!
FROSH WEEK VOLUME II debuts Next weekend (May 14/15) at @torontocomics arts festival ! the 100 page black and white surreal horror anthology this year features work from 10 outstanding emerging illustrators and cartoonists including animator and illustrator Alex Krokus (BROOKLYN,NY) and Designer/illustrator Ben Van D (OTTAWA,ON) plus many more.
Swamp things, Gender queer film noir, Hot vampires, Haunted houses, Casual mutants and a land where Spring Break lasts forever are among the few things to expect from this ambitious project.
“Bad Skin”, a sad, summer erotica illustrated zine by Gabrielle Mulholland debuted this Sunday at Zine Dream 8 in Toronto. The 28 page illustrated zine will be available on the sucker press store this week. It’s xeroxed on 20lb Ivory paper with a card stock cover.
This is for a launch at monastiraki, a book about body horror, but you know you want to go to see if the place is suddenly full of confused college bros in puke suits.
you know you’ve made it when you’re on fucknomontreal. made what exactly i’m not sure.
“
FIGHT! is a project which invites illustrators to create their own original female fighting game character. Each artist is given a direction to draw their character facing, and these fierce fighters face off through the spreads of the book! Featuring the artwork of local and international artists.”
“sucker press will be debuting FROSH WEEK at TCAF 2015. The 56 page, black and white, body horror themed comic anthology is the product of five new works from contributing emerging canadian cartoonists and illustrators, three of whom will be commuting from Montréal to share the table for the weekend. The small publishing company started in 2013 in Toronto and relocated in the summer of 2014 to reassert itself in the comic community in Montréal. FROSH WEEK will be it’s first full length comic and first anthology publication. Inspired by the hell-on-earth that is Freshman orientation at most Canadian colleges and universities, the horrific and cathartic stories hope to soothe your hatred for the pile of garbage that is… the week of frosh.”
And there will be a special edition poster by Michael DeForge that’ll come with FROSH WEEK! So make sure you come by and snag one QUICK!!
I will also have Magical Beatdown 1 + 1.5 in a special bundle with sticker sets! I’ll also have prints, screen-prints and hand-painted pins to buy! It’s going to be so great, see you there!
A New Poster by PASCAL BLANCHET! Announcing the Official Welcome Party with Pow Pow Press! Québec Comics are making a big splash at TCAF 2015!
Did you know that this year, TCAF is playing host to over 400 cartoonists from 18 countries around the world? That’s crazy! We’re so international!
As much as we love comics from across this big blue marble we call earth, we are equally in love with comics being made within Canada! Part of the fun of getting so much global attention is the chance for us to present the great comics being made within our very own country. This year, for the 2015 festival, TCAF is helping to showcase some of the amazing comics and cartooning coming out of Québec! Read on for information on artists, books, publisher and programs at TCAF 2015 with a distinctly franco-focus…
New Festival Poster by Pascal Blanchet
Pascal Blanchet is a singular cartoonist and illustrator, whose books include White Rapids, Baloney, La Fugue, and Nocturne. They have been published in multiple languages by esteemed publishers Les Éditions de la Pastèque (French), Drawn & Quarterly (English), and Barbara Fiore (Spanish). In coming up with our shortlist of folks who we wanted to approach in Québec for designing a festival poster, Blanchet’s name was at the top of the list.
AND HE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!
Announcing the Official Welcome Party with Pow Pow Press
On Friday May 8th at 8pm, come on out to The Pilot (22 Cumberland St.) to celebrate the start of TCAF, and the launch of 4 newly translated books from Pow Pow Press!
Pow Pow Press are a Montreal-based publisher, who up until now have primarily put out French books. However, following a successful Kickstarter campaign in the Fall, they are debuting the English translations of four fantastic titles:
Vile and Miserable by Samuel Cantin,
Vampire Cousins by Cathon & Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau,
Mile End by Michel Hellman, and
For As Long As It Rains by Zviane!
Also on hand will be Pascal Girard, promoting his sketchbook from Pow Pow, called Dessins. We are so honoured that Pow Pow chose to debut these works at TCAF. We recently met up with them at the Festival de la Bande Desinée Francophone du Québec in Québec City, and just seeing their amazing catalogue of French-language books made our mouths water…eyes water?…We really want to read them!
Exhibitors! This event is great if you’re waiting to set up on Friday night. Drop your stuff off at The Reference Library, and then come on over to the Pilot and hang with your fellow cartoonists!
The Official Welcome Party with Pow Pow Press is sponsored by the Bureau du Québec à Toronto.
TCAF has a long history of excellent debuts from Québecois cartoonists and publishers, and 2015 is no different. Publishing powerhouse La Pastèque are returning, and debuting the French edition of Box Brown‘s Andre the Giant (itself at TCAF 2014 Debut!). With a handsome looking new cover, André Le Géant will be available at La Pastèque’s table, where Box Brown himself will be signing!
Éditions Trip, another TCAF mainstay are returning to the fold, debuting Agalma from Stanley Wany. It. Looks. Crazy.
This year we’re happy to welcome Studio Lounak to their first ever TCAF! They are debuting the English version of Far Out by Gautier Langevin and Olivier Carpentier, a pulpy western featuring a dashing robot as the lead character! Sitting with Studio Lounak will be Gautier Langevin, Olivier Carpentier, Andy Belanger (Southern Cross), and Karl Kerschl (The Abominable Christopher Charles).
Other Québecois cartoonists to keep an eye out for include folks like Simon Bossé, Boum, Antonin Buisson, Nicole Chartrand, Patrick Hénaff, Meghan Lands, Kate Lavut, and Isabelle Melançon. There are even plenty of Montreal-based Anglos at the festival who will be repping great books, like Wai Au, Wes Craig, Meags Fitzgerald, Brenden Fletcher, Kim Hoang, and Gabrielle Mulholland & sucker press. Keep your eyes peeled and your wallets flush – you’re gonna wanna buy some stuff!
Stay tuned to this website (or to our Twitter and Facebook) for when we announce the programming for the festival. There will be a number of panels and presentations featuring many of these great artists and publishers. There are also some French and bilingual panels as part of the CSSC Conference, whose programming is online now!
cover art for FROSH WEEK VOLUME 1 by @scabrrielle. look for FROSH WEEK on the debuting works page of @torontocomics. The 56 page 5 artist black and white comic anthology is debuting at TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2015 May 9/10.
OH MORE SNEAK PEEKS??? a baby panel from @trevorhenderson ’s contribution to #froshweek “WORMS” 10 page all new comic by this illustrating horror hustler. Debuting MAY 9 AT TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL.
“FROSH WEEK” sucker press’ first full length publication is an anthology comprised of the works of five emerging canadian cartoonists and illustrators. the body horror themed anthology will be debuting at TCAF May 9/10 at the Toronto Reference Library.
B&W, 56 pages, 8 x 10.5″ $10 Available at the sucker press table
some information about pre-sale orders, deals and incentives will be posted in the next few weeks. ~~
cover by sucker press editor gabrielle mulholland.
FROSH WEEK, a 50 page comic anthology is debuting with sucker press at TCAF this May 9/10 in Toronto! The black and white comic compilation features five brand new stories from five extremely talented cartoonists and illustrators.
sucker press hero dietrich rosteck is back on the tumblr scene. look for an all new 10 page story by Dietrich in the upcoming sucker press anthology FROSH WEEK, debuting at TCAF in May.
I was first introduced to Wendy on one of my more recent trips to Montreal. A friend of mine ran into Wendy’s father, artist Walter Scott, outside of [shitty] Buns on St. Laurent. He told me that had been his “one cartoonist friend” and “the furthest thing he knew about comics”. He later showed me Wendy’s tumblr. I really liked it, but had no idea how important she would later become to me.
When I first heard of Wendy I didn’t know that one trip would set in motion a series of events resulting in my move to Montréal just over a year later. So, as a 20-something transplanted member of Montréal’s art community, I can see how my appreciation of Wendy could appear very circumstantial. Suffice to say, the full length Wendy story published by Koyama Press in Fall 2014 couldn’t have come at a better time.
The final cover for the FIGHT! zine! Finally in the final push to getting the Kickstarter campaign up.
FIGHT! zine is a project which invites illustrators to create their own original female fighting game character. Featuring the exceptional talents of:
Sam Bosma, Ze Burnay, Kali Ciesemier, Madeleine Flores, Andrea Kalfas, Guillaume Singelin, Stefie Zohrer, Kat Verhoeven, Stefan Tosheff, Patrick Carson Sparrow, Jenn Woodall, Trevor Henderson, Annie Stoll, Kevin Stanton, Schnekk, Kristen Acampora, Abby Boeh, Caitlin Rose Boyle, Alan Brown, Jenny Zych, Rachel Kahn, Baptiste Pagani, Kyle Fewell, Babs Tarr, Julian Callos, Jeanne D’Angelo, Jimmy Giegerich, Joanna Krotka, Dilraj Mann, Ralph Niese, John Lang, Paulina Ganucheau, Jordan Rosenberg, Valentin Seiche and Mathilde Kitteh!
The book will be available as a reward for backing the campaign and at TCAF 2015 where I will be debuting it! Hope to see you there!
Really excited to have Jenn Woodall at the sucker press table this year at TCAF 2015 debuting FIGHT ZINE. one of many reasons to come check out the fest/sucker press table! more info to come.
