A Thousand Skunks

Here’s a rare sneak peek at the cover of the first issue of the legendary Montreal zine, Mille Putois by Simon Bossé and Alexandre Lafleur. Conundrum press has collected and translated the strips by Bossé as well as many of his other published shorts found in a variety of European and Quebec sources.

A Thousand Skunks
Simon Bossé

May 2010
ISBN 978-1-894994-44-6
Graphic Novel
8×10 inches, 80 pages
$15

BDANG IMPRINT #5

Bossé produced seven issues of the mini comic Mille Putois (with Alexandre Lafleur) between 1990 and 1995. He then started to publish beautiful silkscreened mini comics and posters of his own work and that of his peers and continues to this day. The stories reprinted in A Thousand Skunks appeared in his mini comic but also appeared internationally in L’Association’s Comix 2000, and locally in Matrix, L’Appareil and the Cyclopes series. Plus he has done new work exclusively for this edition. Bossé draws in a wide variety of styles making every story unique but he always pays particular attention to the narrative drive of his stories.

Simon Bossé was part of the new wave of Canadian underground comix artists of the 1990s. Besides artist, he has worked as a publisher, curator, retailer, silkscreener and cartoonist. Bossé has curated numerous exhibitions, edited the international anthologies Kekrapules and Ferraille’s Montreal issue. He released his first book, the critically acclaimed Intestine, in 2002. Recently, he was the artist behind Hamidou Diop, and the creator of the book Bébête.