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Killing Velazquez
Killing Velazquez Philippe Girard May 2011 Graphic Novel BDANG IMPRINT # 8 ISBN 1-894994-54-X / 978-1-894994-54-5 Translation by KerryAnn Cochrane 6.5x8.5 216 pages (black and white) $20 On hearing a radio report of an accused priest Philippe is thrown back to a difficult time in his youth. He is faced with his parents’ impending divorce, moves to a new city, goes to a new school, and needs to make new friends. To help him adapt to his new surroundings his mother urges him to join the “Snow Geese,” a youth group led by a...
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So I've Been Told Maryanna Hardy November 2010 ISBN 1-894994-52-3 / 978-1-894994-52-1 Art / Graphic Novel 96 pages / 5.5x7.75 80 illustrations (16 in colour) $17 Nominated for a Doug Wright Award Nominated for an Expozine Award We put so much energy into documenting our friends, we take pictures of them, we follow what they do, and their stories are more interesting than any banal afternoon television show. People are more interesting than they give themselves credit for. In So I've Been Told Hardy narrates their stories, drawing...
read moreMontreal Blowout!
Hey Montreal! It’s the conundrum press end of summer blowout! Dave Lapp: Children of the Atom Philippe Girard: Ruts & Gullies Sat. Aug 28, Monastiraki, 5478 St-Laurent, 5-7 pm. Signing and live interview hosted by Immediate Productions Elisabeth Belliveau: don’t get lonely don’t get lost Alisha Piercy: Auricle / Icebreaker Fri. Sept. 3, Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore, 211 Bernard W., 7 pm. Signing, Reading, and Animation...
read moreBeckett Toons
Read Kenton Smith’s awesome review of Children of the Atom in Edmonton’s See Magazine. “Standing entirely on its own, Lapp’s handsome pen-and-ink art is gorgeous to behold: it’s some of the most accomplished strip artwork you’ll find, with a skill, delicacy, and subtlety that compares to the best in the format’s history….Children of the Atom is the truly distinctive creation: it breathes literary quality into what has predominantly been a gag medium. And with its singular vision, it quietly moves and...
read more4 Ignatz Nominations
That’s right 4! count em 4 nominations for Sully’s The Hipless Boy. Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Anthology or Collection, Promising New Talent, Outstanding Story for Turd Place. OUTSTANDING! Voting takes place at SPX on Sept 11, so vote early and vote often. Is it just me or is it rather funny that the nomination for best story is about taking a dump on someone’s...
read moreEast Coast
The gang has been touring out east this past couple of weeks. Alisha Piercy spent the week in Conundrum Towers on a short term residency. Then it was the launch at the Kyber in Halifax in a tag team match with Jeff Miller and Invisible Publishing. Thanks to Tap Root Farms for supplying the veggies and Bookmark for selling the books. It was pretty great to have Alisha’s first review appear in Halifax’s The Coast the night before. Then it was back to The Valley where the signing at the Box of Delights was mellow. Jeff gave an...
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Just got back from a fun weekend in Sackville, NB for Sappyfest! Conundrum was there to launch Elisabeth Belliveau‘s new book and DVD which was screened at the Vogue Theatre, and to launch Alisha Piercy’s Auricle / Icebreaker at the zine fair. Huge success all around. Zine fair was in a better ventilated space in the Legion and there was more room to move. Elisabeth sold tons of her silkscreened posters along with her books. Alisha stood on a chair in her flowing dress to give her reading. Lots of bands, lots of alt rock....
read moreSuddenly Something Happened
Suddenly Something Happened Jimmy Beaulieu Graphic Novel BDANG imprint ISBN-13: 978-1-894994-51-4 $20.00 / trade paperback 7x9 inches / 256pp / b&w illustrations throughout November 2010 Jimmy Beaulieu is the founder of the publishing house Mécanique génèrale and the author of eight books in French. Suddenly Something Happened is his first book in English and collects the storylines from Quelques Pelures and Le Moral des Troupes (which won the 2005 Prix de l'Espoir Québécois), as well as many new pages, to form the...
read moreSummer Tour
On Tour this summer: Elisabeth Belliveau and Alisha Piercy July 31-Aug 1: Sappyfest Sackville, NB Animation screening Zine Fair, Signing & Reading Fri, Aug 6: Halifax, NS Kyber, 1588 Barrington Street Double Launch with Jeff Miller of Ghost Pine (Invisible), 7pm Sat, Aug 7: Wolfville, NS Box of Delights Bookstore, 466 Main St., 2-4pm. Sat, Aug 7: Wolfville, NS Conundrum Towers, 10224 Highway #1. Double Launch with Jeff Miller of Ghost Pine (Invisible). 7pm Fri, Aug 20-Oct 1: Winnipeg, MB Ace Art...
read moreGirard on Inkstuds
Boy I love it when there is synergy. The latest Inkstuds post is the podcast interview with Philippe Girard. Philippe discusses his first book translated into English and what it means to him. Also the Inkstuds book is in production for an October release. Phil’s interview has come along too late to make the book but hopefully Robin will be interviewing other Quebec cartoonists like Jimmy Beaulieu, whose Suddenly Something Happened is also coming out in the Fall. Conundrum started the BDANG imprint specifically for this multilingual...
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