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Come one, come all! Thursday July 19th, 7 pm, Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore, 211 Bernard Come hear Quebec comics institution Michel Rabagliati discuss his creative process and his new book in English, The Song of Roland, onstage with Rupert Bottenberg. The award winning new book focuses on the life and death of the father-in-law of Rabagliati’s alter-ego Paul. Halifax-based artist Claire Seringhaus will be present to launch her new book of absurdist Dada drawings The Blaring House. For you face to facebookers, please like us or RSVP or...
read moreDiamond July Previews
Hey Comic Shop Owners! Nina Bunjevac's awesome new hardcover Heartless and Dave Lapp's equally awesome People Around Here are now available for order in the Diamond Previews catalogue. Both these books made a big splash at the recent TCAF. Order today!
read moreLillian the Legend in French
We are thrilled to announce that the Paris-based Editions L’Agrume have acquired the French rights to Kerry Byrne’s Lillian the Legend. The deal was agented by Nicolas Grivel. This graphic novel is a biography of Lillian Alling, a Russian immigrant to New York in the 1920s who decided to walk back to Russia! She walks the Telegraph Trail to Dawson City, Yukon, and eventually floats down the Yukon River to the Bering Sea where her fate becomes shrouded in mystery. Byrne renders Alling’s journey in meticulous inks, from sweeping...
read moreShary Boyle Rules!
Breaking news is that the multi-talented Shary Boyle has been selected to be Canada’s representative at the forthcoming Venice Biennale. Congrats to Shary! This may be a good moment to point out that Conundrum Press was there at the beginning. In October 2004 we released Witness My Shame, a book of her drawings, which was actually a collection of her small photocopied bookworks. This book has been reprinted and there are still copies available! Let’s try and get it to third printing! Below is a sample drawing from the book. Then in...
read moreThe Blaring House is out…
Halifax: Friday, July 13th, 6-8pm Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola Also feauring an exhibition of 30 - 40 drawings.
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Road to Ganneious
This story, told through fact and fiction, is about the life and times of the ancestors of one Canadian family in their journey from deep in the mountains of Austria to the shores of Hay Bay on Lake Ontario.
read moreObituary Man!
Here is the cover for Philippe Girard's third Conundrum title, to be launched at TCAF 2013. Behold: Obituary Man! About a man who gains indescribable energy from reading the eulogy at the funerals of strangers. Another translation in the BDANG imprint.
read moreFree Beer!
People Around Here launch and Taddle Creek BBQ with special guest Nina Bunjevac
read moreFestival BD Montreal
This weekend drove up to Montreal for the first incarnation of the Festival BD Montreal. The above drawing by Michel Rabagliati shows off the glorious location in the middle of Parc la Fontaine. Read all about Michel’s new book The Song of Roland and his appearance at the Festival in the Montreal Gazette. Unfortunately it was raining which may have kept the crowds away. Friday reconnected with some of my authors, including Sherwin Tjia, Marc Tessier, who was in charge of the Editions Trip table, and Jimmy Beaulieu who acted as my tour...
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