Conundrum Press Fall 2014

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Images © Simon Bossé
fall 2014
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new
One Year in America
Elisabeth Belliveau
Graphic Novel
ISBN 1-894994-87-6
978-1-894994-87-3
6x8.7 inches, 112 pages, b/w
trade paperback, $17
Oct 2014
The first graphic novel from
a popular zinester
B
elliveau’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.
“The impression is of an artist’s diary, nearly
unexpurgated. There’s something appealing about the immediacy and honesty of
these pages. The drawings are evocative
and charming, and an occasional selfconsciousness in her writing is mitigated by
self-satire…. Elisabeth Belliveau’s drawings gently capture people in odd moments,
unsuspecting. Her perspective is detached,
cautious, and spare, seeking out meaning in
the mundane. Her moments of lyrical clarity
are lovely.” — Montreal Review of Books
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. Her early
zines were collected into her first book, Something to Pet
the Cat About which sold out and was rereleased as the
great hopeful someday to great acclaim.
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Also by Elisabeth Belliveau
“Every page takes my breath away,
quickly and easily. I love the writing, and the artwork, the exquisite
imagery, the seashells and the
time, the thought, the effort put
into drawing.” — Broken Pencil
“Compiled not as day-by-day
entries, but more like a 20ssomething Chicken Soup for the
Indie Soul, Belliveau’s writing
is nostalgic but travels an urban
edge.”— The Coast
the great hopeful someday
Elisabeth Belliveau
ISBN 1-894994-29-9
978-1-894994-29-3
6×8 inches, 176 pages, b/w, $19.95
Includes Bonus DVD
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don’t get lonely don’t get lost
Elisabeth Belliveau
ISBN 978-1-894994-50-7
5.5×7.75 inches, 144 pages, colour, $25
Includes Bonus DVD
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new
loiterers
Simon Bossé
Graphic Novel
BDANG Imprint
ISBN 1-894994-85-X
978-1-894994-85-9
8.25x8.25 inches, 112 pages, b/w
trade paperback, $18
Oct 2014
A
t long last comes the first book in
English from the legendary Montreal cartoonist, screenprinter, editor, and
publisher! Bossé was part of the new wave
of underground comics in Canada in the
1990s that included such artists as Julie
Doucet and Henriette Valium. Loiterers
collects three of Bossé’s novellas (originally published by L’Oie de Cravan) into
one volume. Demon Sweat is a dark fable of
a boy navigating a Montreal-like dreamscape, fighting off his demons. The Wild
Ones is Bossé’s collection of energetic,
complex, and visually stunning wordless comic strips. His style is informed by
both Fritz the Cat and Eraserhead – technically astute, absolutely dense, and worth
every inch of texture Bossé fills with his pen.
It was nominated for a Doug Wright Award
in 2010. The title story follows two anthropomorphized teens through playgrounds and
suburban backyards looking for that perfect
discarded cigarette butt. Together these stories display the dazzling abilities of a mature
artist at the height of his talent.
Simon Bossé has been a fixture on the Montreal
comix community for decades. He started a zine
called Mille Putois then kept the name for his
screenprinting business and publishing operation.
He has edited and organized countless events
and anthologies both in Canada and abroad. His
screenprinted band posters are ubiquitous on the
streets of Montreal. He lives with his wife and two
children in Saint Lambert, Quebec.
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new
Happy Stories About
Well-Adjusted People:
An Ollmann Omnibus
Joe Ollmann
ISBN 1-894994-86-8
978-1-894994-86-6
6x9 inches, 260 pages, duotone
trade paperback, $20
October 2014
Indroduction by Jeet Heer
Collecting the best stories
from a master of the short
story in comics form
O
llmann has been called the best
writer of short stories working in
comics today. Featuring a lengthy introduction by comics historian Jeet Heer
this is the definative collection of those
stories. Although the term “graphic
novel” has become widely accepted in
the publishing industry and the culture
at large, it describes long form works.
This omnibus makes obvious that there
is a need for a term to describe the short
story version of the graphic novel. In the
same way the short story has recently
had a resurgence, winning many literary
awards, so too the graphica version. Ollmann won the Doug Wright Award in
2007 for This Will All End in Tears, most
of which is contained in this omnibus.
The best stories from Chewing on Tinfoil
are included, as well as two new stories,
written just for this book.
“Joe Ollmann is criminally underappreciated. He’s one of our mediums’
great writers. A man with an understanding of heartbreak and a talent for
comic timing. The work is deceptive —
reading as smoothly as a page-turner
but remaining in the mind and soul
long after the covers are closed.”
— Seth, author of Palookaville
Joe Ollmann is the author of five criticallyhailed graphic novels. He is currently working
on a biography of William Seabrook, adventure writer and cannibal. He lives in Hamilton
surrounded by his extended progeny.
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Also by joe Ollmann
science fiction
Joe Ollmann
Graphic Novel
ISBN 1-894994-75-2 978-1-894994-75-0
6.75x10 inches, 128 pages, duotone
trade paperback, $18
“Joe Ollmann is my kind of graphic novelist, one who understands that the best (or
truest) stories are the most open-ended, in
which the drama is not epic but defined in
the slow and often unresolved movements of
the day-to-day.... Without giving anything
away, let’s just say that Ollmann is too smart,
too adept a storyteller, to take the easy way
out. Instead, Science Fiction becomes a portrait
of a relationship at the crossroads, at the very
moment that its characters discover love may
not be enough.” — LA Times
“Science Fiction is a page-turner in no
small part because of the strong characters
Ollmann has created and his mastery of
the story’s pacing. In addition, the author
has a great ear for dialogue, which is
infused with a wonderful wry wit.”
— Montreal Review of Books
“Joe Ollmann’s graphic novels delineate the
absurdities and agonies of modern life. His latest
presents us with the slow-motion disintegration
of a relationship.” — Quill&Quire
“Some of my favourite moments of this book are
the slow burns, shared jokes, tiny gestures, and
half-sentences that make up much Mark and Sue’s
daily conversation, rendering them totally believable as long-time intimates.... Science Fiction takes
a crazy premise and against all odds constructs a
human document out of the wine-fueled love, dirty
dishes, and Friday night video rentals of real life.”
— Sequential
“At its heart, the book is about empathy... it’s the
accumulation of details that make the book work
so well, because Ollmann painstakingly reveals
the couple’s daily rituals and then details how
those rituals are systematically wrecked.”
— Rob Clough
The big book of Wag!
978-1-894994-11-8, 7×8.5 inches, 192 pages, b/w, trade paperback, $17
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rom 1991-2004 Ollmann made micro-books of fictions and comics.
Influenced by artists such as Ben Katchor, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph
Steadman and Edward Gorey, Ollmann draws the inhabitants of his
world with remarkable craft and an eye for detail. The Big Book of Wag!
is a large format compilation filled with hilarious, poignant, and eclectic
tales in Ollmann’s trademark warts-and-all style.
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milo and sam
Andy Brown / Joe Ollmann
Graphic Novel / Distroboto Imprint
ISBN 1-894994-89-2, 978-1-894994-89-7
4 x 3.25 inches, 64 pages, b/w, tp, $2
June 2014
new
The Train
Chihoi / Hung Hung
Graphic Novel / Asian Studies
Translated by Steve Bradbury
ISBN 1-894994-88-4
978-1-894994-88-0
6x8.25 inches, 84 pages, b/w, tp, $15
Oct 2014
Conundrum International Imprint
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lready published in Chinese and Italian, The Train is the follow up to Chihoi’s successful book of stories The Library. Hong Kong artist Chihoi adapts a short story by
Taiwanese writer Hung Hung about a surreal train ride. With dream-like logic one of the
characters asks, “Have you ever imagined the world outside the train?” The protagonist
waits for someone, a woman perhaps, and observes with trepidation each time a new car is
coupled to the train and the occupants spill out. Chihoi has done it again in this beautifully
rendered pencilscape of a dream.
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“Chihoi’s stories
seamlessly bounce
between crisp, arresting
images and bleary,
pulsing dream states.
They perfectly replicate
the feeling of being
alive on a planet, inside
of a head. His work
is patient, precise and
constantly surprising.”
— Michael Deforge
(author of Lose and
Ant Colony)
Born in 1977 in Hong Kong, Chihoi graduated from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong (1999), majoring in Food and Nutritional Sciences. Since 1996, the self-taught artist has released
comics, illustrations and writing in the local media, and his
comics have appeared in various international anthologies.
Also by chihoi
The Library
Chihoi
Graphic Novel / Literary
ISBN 978-1-894994-72-9
7.25x9.75 inches, 184 pages
b/w, hardcover, $20
Introduction by Christian Gasser
“Hong Kong graphic
novelist’s Chihoi’s first
work published in English, The Library is an
impressive debut. These
inventive aesthetic
experiments expand
the boundaries of the
graphic novel genre.”
— CULT MTL
Conundrum International Imprint
“Chihoi’s stories, halfway between poetry and
visions, also reveal meaningful discoveries
and release from grief. The gauzy and beautifully strange pencil art invites long-lingering
attention. This attractive and powerfully
complex group of stories is a worthy addition
to any graphic novel collection.” — Booklist
“As likely to capture the mundane melancholy
of an empty apartment as send his characters off
into a fable, Chihoi uses a sparse and unfinished
style, full of not-quite-erased first drafts and
smudges, to suggest how much of the world it’s
impossible for us to know, and how we must
move through it anyway.” — National Post
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Also in the conundrum international imprint
Brooklyn Quesadillas
Antony Huchette
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Graphic Novel
ISBN 1-894994-79-5
978-1-894994-79-8
6.5x9.5 inches, 72 pages, b/w
trade paperback, $15
B
rooklyn Quesadillas follows a new father having a
mid-life crisis as he navigates the surreal streetscapes
of Brooklyn, trying to produce a tv show hosted by a
coffeepot, but is kidnapped by forgotten sitcom stars
from the eighties who live on a “fantasy” island and want
him to revive their careers.
“Reading Brooklyn Quesadillas is like reading a Pee-Wee
Herman Playhouse episode written by David Lynch.”
— The 9th Blog
Conundrum International Imprint
What We need to know
Willy Linthout
Translation from the Flemish by Laura Watkinson
Graphic Novel / Literary
ISBN 1-894994-80-9
978-1-894994-80-4
7.25x9.75 inches, 184 pages, b/w
hardcover, $20
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n 2007, after the suicide of his son, Linthout wrote
and drew the graphic novel Years of the Elephant,
which was nominated for a number of international
awards and won the Bronzen Adhemar, the most important Flemish comics award. What We Need to Know is
the sequel to Years of the Elephant but uses a wideangle
lens to encompass the entire family, specifically three
brothers who each need to cope with their own ghosts.
Fortunately, they can consult “The Book” in emegencies.
In that magic reference work, their mother has collected
innumerable facts, recipes, and advice, in essence, what
we need to know about life.
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Conundrum International Imprint
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Photobooth: A Biography
Meags Fitzgerald
Graphic Novel/ Non-Fiction
ISBN 1-894994-82-5
978-1-894994-82-8
6.75x8.75 inches, 280 pages, b/w
trade paperback, $20
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or almost a century chemical photobooths have occupied public spaces;
giving people the opportunity to quickly
take inexpensive, quality photos. In the last
decade these machines have started to rapidly disappear, causing an eclectic group of
individuals from around the world to come
together and respond. Illustrator, writer and
long-time photobooth lover, Meags Fitzgerald has chronicled this movement and the
photobooth’s fortuitous history in a graphic
novel. Having traveled in North America,
Europe and Australia, she’s constructed a
biography of the booth through the eyes of
technicians, owners, collectors, artists and fanatics. Fitzgerald explores her own struggle
with her relationship to these fleeting machines, while looking to the future.
“Fitzgerald has created something that’s more
than candid personal memoir, more than carefully
researched cultural history — she’s created a work
brimming with that rarest of things: love. That I
should use such a word to explain a young woman’s
feelings for photobooths certainly sounds improbable and maybe even a little crazy. And that’s
precisely why this book is so wonderful.”
— Jonathan Goldstein
(author and host of CBC’s Wiretap)
“Photobooth: A Biography is an impressive
and ambitious project. A deep exploration of an unexpected topic that is in turn
historical, journalistic, and personal.”
— Jillian Tamaki (artist and illustrator)
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Spain & Morocco
Alex Fellows
Graphic Novel
ISBN 1-894994-84-1
978-1-894994-84-2
10.5x8 inches, 176 pages
full colour, hardcover, $25
MATURE CONTENT
R
oommates Walt and Dan leave behind their uneventful lives for a
backpacking trip through Spain and Morocco. While hoping to marvel at beautiful sights, eat delicious food, and maybe
hook up with some women, they find that
those pleasures come at a price. The sights
become hallucinations, the food overwhelms their senses, and the women they
meet are much more than they bargained for.
In his new graphic novel, Doug Wright Awardwinning cartoonist Alex Fellows takes us on a
journey that is as much about visiting foreign
lands as it is about being young and trying to
discover who you are.
Other Stories And the
horse you rode in on
Dakota McFadzean
Graphic Novel
ISBN 1-894994-74-4, 978-1-894994-74-3
6x7.75 inches, 188 pages, b/w with 4 pages colour
trade paperback, $18
“And thus a star is born. Make no mistake, if you are
not already familiar with his work, I am sure before
too long you will be, because this boy has talent in
abundance.” — Page 45
“By McFadzean’s hand, Saskatchewan more closely
resembles a scene from The Twilight Zone; one feels
as Alice must have upon entering Wonderland: equal
parts intrigued, charmed and terrified.”
— Maisonneuve Magazine
“He is at his strongest when letting the weight of the
world almost crush things: ‘Unkindness,’ which follows
a small town’s series of interactions with some strange
crows, evokes lives as static as the prairie winter landscape they are living on with an evocative economy,
and suggests both the beauty and brutality of being a
lone point on the map.” — National Post
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“I would like everyone to get a good
look at what Dakota McFadzean is doing. This CCS alumnus has been drawing every day for some years now, and
always comes up with strange, thoughtprovoking, sweet (or sour), unsettling
(or confirming) comics strips that are
never bland or on the trodden path, and
always brilliantly executed.”
— Forbidden Planet, Best of 2013
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BDANG IMPRINT
Discover Quebec’s Underground Comics
in English for the First Time!
Conundrum was founded in 1996 in Montreal and the city and its artists are a big part of
what keeps us inspired. After working on projects like Cyclops and Mac Tin Tac we formed an
imprint to translate the wealth of material being done by the francophone community, most of
which has never be seen outside Quebec.
Amerika
Réal Godbout
Translated by Helge Dascher
Graphic Novel / Literary
ISBN 1-894994-81-7
978-1-894994-81-1
7.5x10 inches, 184 pages, b/w
trade paperback, $20
based on the novel by
Franz Kafka
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n his adaptation of Amerika, which took
seven years to achieve, Godbout has tried
to remain as faithful as possible to Kafka’s
novel, while using the clear line aesthetic
he perfected in his series Red Ketchup. Unlike the common cliché of Kafka’s work,
Amerika is not a dark and sinister novel, but
a dynamic and colourful story, with a touch
of absurdist humor. Perfect for an adaptation into a graphic novel. It tells the story of
the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,
after an embarrassing sexual misadventure,
finds himself “packed off to America” by his
parents. Expected to redeem himself in this
magical land of opportunity, young Karl is
swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying
reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque
adventures. Despite the fact that Kafka
never set foot in America, his novel was uncannily prescient about certain aspects of the
country that advertised itself, particularly
during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
as “the promised land.” Godbout provides a
unique perspective, as a quebecois artist and
outsider to America.
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“Considered collectively, the Paul books function as a sort of shadow history of a place over
the past 50 or so years, and that specificity contributes to the books’ emotional authenticity.
The people in Paul’s life are deeply connected to the place they live, and their complex love
for that place makes me love them more.” — Slate
Paul Joins the Scouts
Michel Rabagliati
Translation by Helge Dascher
Graphic Novel / YA
ISBN 978-1-894994-69-9
160 pages, 7.5x10 inches, $20
Nominated for the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize
Listed by YALSA as a Great Graphic Novel for Teens
“Rabagliati’s work shortcircuits all expectations,
using a familiar style to
confront difficult subjects
with candour and bracing
innocence.”
— Globe and Mail
“His European-style cartooning is
clean and deceptively loose, but it
remains deeply expressive without
one line wasted. Paul’s coming-ofage story, along with the lovingly
rendered scout-camp scenes, are
sure to have wide appeal among
adults and teen readers.” — Booklist
“Rabagliati’s marvelous art
captures all the characters
with bold lines and rocksolid cartooning.”
— Publisher’s Weekly
The Song of Roland
Michel Rabagliati
Translation by Helge Dascher
Graphic Novel / Literary
ISBN 978-1-894994-61-3
192 pages, 7.5x10 inches, $20
Winner of a Doug Wright Award for Best Book 2012
“Rabagliati’s one-degree-from-autobiography Paul books
comprise nothing less than an ongoing social history of
modern Quebec in microcosm, all the more effective for
being so unassuming. If you’re looking for a cross-discipline
parallel, think of Michel Tremblay’s Plateau Mont-Royal
cycle; the domestic scenes in Jean-Marc Vallee’s C.R.A.Z.Y.
are also in the same orbit. Ultimately, though, Rabagliati’s
work stands on its own, using a European-style visual aesthetic and a telescopic eye for the illuminating detail to tell
a uniquely new-world story.” —Montreal Gazette
“Rabagliati captures the sadness of Roland’s death, but
more than that, he captures
the weight of Roland’s life,
making the tragedy even more
poignant.” — Booklist
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Also in the BDANG imprint
Fanny & Romeo
Yves Pelletier, Pascal Girard
Translation by KerryAnn Cochrane
978-1-894994-65-1, 6.5x9.25 inches, 136 pages, full colour, $20
It’s him or the cat in this charming collaboration
between first time author (and renown Quebec comic actor)
Yves Pelletier and the established artist Pascal Girard.
Poof!
Line Gamache
Hello, Me Pretty
Line Gamache
My Life as a Foot
Richard Suicide
ISBN 978-1-894994-43-9
7×10 inches, 96 pages, $15
ISBN 978-1-894994-23-1
7×10 inches, 64 pages, $15
ISBN 978-1-894994-26-2
8×10 inches, 80 pages, $15
Translation by KerryAnn Cochrane
books by philippe girard
Ruts & Gullies
Killing Velazquez
Obituary Man
ISBN 978-1-894994-46-0
6.5x8.5 inches, 160 pages, $17
ISBN 978-1-894994-54-5
6.5x8.5 inches
216 pages, $20
ISBN 978-1-894994-70-5
6.5x8.5 inches
84 pages, $15
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MATURE CONTENT
Nine days in st petersburg
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Also in the BDANG imprint
My Neighbour’s Bikini
Jimmy Beaulieu
Translation by KerryAnn Cochrane
Graphic Novel
ISBN 1-894994-83-3
978-1-894994-83-5
6.5x8.5 inches, 64 pages
b/w, trade paperback, $15
MATURE CONTENT
D
uring a major power outage in the
heat of a Montreal summer, two shy
young neighbours finally take the time to
slow down, meet, and spend time together.
Beaulieau takes a microscope to the lives of
a few citizens at a certain time and place
and weaves their stories into a romantic
tapestry. Originally published in 2006 this
translation is the second by Beaulieu in our
BDANG imprint.
Suddenly Something
Happened
Jimmy Beaulieu
Translation by KerryAnn Cochrane
Graphic Novel
ISBN 978-1-894994-51-4, 7×9 inches
256 pages, b/w, trade paperback, $20
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 definitive edition of this
autobiographical work.
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Books by Sherwin Tjia
Book 1 in the
Pick-A-Plot Series
You Are a Cat!
Graphic Novel / Fiction
978-1-894994-56-9, 4.25x7
inches, 240 pages
80 b/w illustrations, tp, $17
Winner of an
Expozine Award
Book 2 in the
Pick-A-Plot Series
You Are a Cat
in the Zombie
Apocalypse!
Graphic Novel / Fiction
978-1-894994-77-4, 4.25x7
inches, 240 pages 80 b/w
illustrations, tp, $18
MATURE CONTENT
MATURE CONTENT
“Tjia’s subtly placed illustrations offer a sometimes
menacing and sometimes
tantalizing viewpoint from
a cat’s perspective. With
only the extension of the
paw, I, as well as Holden,
could clearly see the expression of each human face
and recognize the looks of
adoration, danger and guilt.”
—Ricepaper
“Sherwin Tija has put his
thinking cap on sideways
and come up with all manner of fucked-up futures for
a cat caught in the midst of
a zombie apocalypse, several
strands involving you being
bitten and infected yourself.”
— Page 45
A Big Little Book
of noirish tales
Serial Villain
Graphic Novel / Fiction
ISBN 978-1-894994-67-5
4.25x5.5 inches, 360 pages
100 b/w illustrations, tp, $17
MATURE CONTENT
“Many of the stories in this
collection of ‘short stories
for mature readers’ are about
control. From a character
who goes back in time to kill
Hitler, to a hypnotist who
has programmed his wife
to have the ‘Best and Most
Intense’ orgasm of her life
whenever he says “dinosaur
stew,” I can’t help but see
these tales as a reflection of
Tjia’s own control fantasies.”
— McGill Daily
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Books by Dave Lapp
Drop-in
Graphic Novel, 978-1-894994-33-0
6×9 inches, 160 pages, b/w, tp, $17
Nominated for a Doug Wright Award
and an Ignatz Award
People Around Here
Graphic Novel, 978-1-894994-59-0
6x9 inches, 160 pages, b/w, tp, $17
Children of the Atom
Graphic Novel, 978-1-894994-47-7
11×4.25 inches, 240 pages, b/w, tp, $17
Books by David Collier
Collier’s Popular Press
Graphic Novel
ISBN 978-1-894994-60-6
8×10 inches, 208 pages, b/w, tp, $20
Introduction by Jeet Heer
“He is truly a national treasure” — Geist
CHIMO
Graphic Novel, 978-1-894994-53-8
7×10 inches, 136 pages, b/w, tp, $17
Nominated for a Doug Wright Award
and a Hamilton Literary Award. French rights sold
“Chimo is an idiosyncratic, compelling and hilarious musing-in-comics
that I couldn’t put down. Seemingly a quirky memoir about soldiering,
it’s really a quest for survival — both basic and artistic — and a meditation on aging, family and the fight to simply try and understand oneself,
all told by one of the most unpretentious cartoonists in North America...
It’s unlike anything I’ve read before. I loved it.” — Chris Ware
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The Sweetsburg Archives
Jonathan Reid Sévigny
ISBN 1-894994-73-6 978-1-894994-73-6
9x12 inches, 112 pages, full colour
hardcover, $25, bilingual E/F
Introduction by Thomas Waugh
Essays by Peter Dubé and Paul Bennett
MATURE CONTENT
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n The Sweetsburg Archives Sévigny is attempting to use his Quebeçois boyhood as
an archetype for the relationship between the
individual, the hometown, and the bewildering beauty that connects the two. At a glance
Sévigny’s depictions of Cowansville seem crisply utopian, a neat little playground of nice boys
and girls. However, a closer look reveals their
human forms are corrupt, splayed, eaten, and
absorbed by animal fraternities.
“On y croise la complexité des rapports humains, la solitude des régions, les questionnements sur l’identité, le genre et les tensions
intérieures qui peuvent découler d’une telle
quête du soi, particulièrement en milieu
semi-rural, mais surtout le monde fascinant
de ce jeune artiste visuel plus qu’émergent,
aux modes d’expression multiples, capable
d’appréhender finalement ses angoisses avec
un grand raffinement.” — Le Devoir
All Citizens
Serena McCarroll
ISBN 978-1-894994-63-7
colour, hardcover, $25
Includes Bonus CD
Daniel, Fred, and Julie Live
“Although All Citizens is about many
themes connected to contemporary art
and rural life, it is also about commodity
and value. In the end, the project is about
emphasizing the difference between
these two terms, too often treated as one
and the same when it comes to cultural
endeavours.” — Telegraph-Journal
“With its highs and lows, its pictures and text, this mostly fascinating
collage provides huge insights into and experiences of the life of Canadian artists.” — Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
Glow, not Gold
Artists: Lucie Chan, Barry Doupé, Libby Hague
Writers: James MacSwain and Steve Reinke
Editor/Curator: Mireille Bourgeois
Co-publication with The Centre for Art Tapes
ISBN 1-894994-78-7, 978-1-894994-78-1
6.5x8.75 inches, 112 pages, full colour, tp, $20
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The far woods
Sarah Burwash
ISBN 1-894994-76-0
978-1-894994-76-7
9x7 inches, 112 pages, colour, $20
“With delicate brush strokes and
crooked-branch hand lettering, Sarah
Burwash is creating a new Canadian
folklore.” — The Coast
“At once ethereal and immediate,
Sarah Burwash’s new book The Far
Woods is the result of years spent
exploring far-flung communities and
remote wilderness across the country.
Her work weaves together traditions
of illustration, sewing, collage and
quilting.” — National Post
“Sarah Burwash’s drawings feel like strange, hauntingly
beautiful lucid dreams.... Much of her work explores
our relationship to the natural world, whether she’s
capturing the struggle of pioneer women, intentionally
getting herself lost in the woods or depicting an interior
landscape upon which humans and their natural foes
co-exist in harmony. Drawing from her explorations,
memory and the otherworldly paths of her imagination,
Burwash’s work leads us into a world that’s at once
nostalgic and foreign. — Visual Arts News
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Heartless
Nina Bunjevac
The Grey Museum
Lorenz Peter
Graphic Novel
ISBN 978-1-894994-64-4
7×9.25 inches, 128 pages
b/w plus 16 pages colour,
hardcover, $20
Graphic Novel
ISBN 978-1-894994-71-2
7x8.5 inches, 216 pages, $20
Introduction by Jay Lynch
Inkstuds
Interviews with Cartoonists
Robin McConnell
Non-Fiction / Art
978-1-894994-49-1
8x9.5 inches, 296 pages
90 b/w illustrations
Bibliography, $20
Introduction by Jeet Heer
Doug Wright Award Winner
French rights sold
MATURE CONTENT
The Blaring House
Claire Seringhaus
978-1-894994-66-8
5x8 inches, 96 pages, $15
So I’ve Been Told
Maryanna Hardy
Britt Wilson’s Greatest
Book on Earth
Britt Wilson
978-1-894994-52-1
5.5×7.75 inches
96 pages, $17
Graphic Novel
978-1-894994-62-0
6×9 inches, 144 pages, $17
Nominated for Expozine &
Doug Wright Awards
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Hermoddities
Temple Bates
978-1-894994-57-6
6×6 inches, 192 pages, $20
Nominated for Doug Wright Award
“I look forward to being jealous
of Britt’s work for a long time
to come, because there’s no way
she won’t rise to the top.”
— Kate Beaton
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Representatives: Carey Low, Nick Smith,
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Quebec & Atlantic Provinces
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p: 902.453.6936 ext 244
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Canada Book Fund toward their publications.
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