Join us tonight for this exciting double launch from two of the best Canadian comics presses - Conundrum and Koyama!
Elisabeth Belliveau will launch her first graphic novel, One Year In America. Walter Scott will launch Wendy, which collects his ragingly
popular Wendy comic strips!
About One Year In America:
The first graphic novel from popular zinester...
Belliveau’s first graphic novel begins with a loss of innocence over
ice skater Katarina Witt’s fall from grace by posing in Playboy. It is
told through both drawings and email text between friends. The story
jumps between Canada and the United States and travels abroad navigating
life after art school, marriage and divorce. It is a year in a life,
but one that is pregnant with memory, meaning and desire. It is a post-modern coming of age story which quite literally crosses boundaries.
Elisabeth Belliveau is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Nova
Scotia. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally. She
completed a BFA at Alberta College of Art and Design and an MFA at
Concordia University in Montréal where she currently teaches.
About Wendy:
Wendy is trendy, and has dreams of art stardom — but our young urban
protagonist is perpetually derailed by the temptations of punk music,
drugs, alcohol, parties, and boys. Hegemonies and hearts are broken in
this droll and iconoclastic look at the worlds of art and
twentysomethings.
“If you are or were ever a 20-something art
school party girl, this comic will stare directly into your soul. If you
aren’t and never have been, that’s okay too because Wendy’s art
show-littered search for happiness, questionable life choices and
totally human tendency for
failure are just a great read anyway.” — Olivia Whittick, VICE Magazine
Walter Scott is an artist from MontrĂ©al. His work has been exhibited across Canada and Wendy has been serialized on Random House Canada’s literary digital magazine Hazlitt.