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CONUNDRUM
A N A N N UA L M A GA Z I N E O F T H E CO M I C A RT S 2021
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sami alwani
The Pleasure of the Text
“I love Sami Alwani’s style, his tender flat
hysteria, and his naked honesty. And the way he In The Pleasure of the Text, Sami Alwani
depicts queerness is so removed from cuddly weaves together themes of art induced
dissociation, queer intergenerational poly-
rainbow-tinged pop culture — it’s beautiful and amory, racial capitalism and esoteric mys-
raw, and very very real.” — Roman Muradov tical experiences into 20 slice of life comic
stories that are equal parts comedy and
tragedy. These stories question society and
individual identity. A talking baby philoso-
phizes away his own emotions. A half-man,
Sami Alwani is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Toronto. His com- half-dog cartoonist’s spirit burns too bright
ics have appeared in Best American Comics, on Vice and he received a when he alienates the entire alternative
Doug Wright Award in 2018 for his story The Dead Father. His work comics industry, drunk on his own power. A
was exhibited in the Canadian alternative comics survey exhibition friendly ghost survives COVID quarantine
“This is Serious” at the Hamilton Art Gallery in 2019. with the help of CBD pot cookies and essen-
tial oil diffusers. There’s something for ev-
eryone in this cheerful volume collecting all
of award-winning Alwani’s previous work
to date (Vice, Now) with plenty of never-be-
fore-seen material.
Graphic Novel
Mature Content
9781772620528
140 pages, 8x10.5 inches
full colour, $20
MAY
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Zoe Maeve
The Gift
The Shining meets Sophia Coppola’s Marie
Antoinette in this gripping debut from an
award-winning talent
The Gift opens on the snow-blanketed
grounds of the Alexander Palace in Western
Zoe Maeve is a comics artist originally from Tkaronto/Toronto who is now Russia where a moth has come to attend the
based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She studied visual arts at Concordia University, birth of the fourth Romanov princess, Anas-
where she worked in oil painting, printmaking, and textiles before finding com- tasia. She and her siblings grow up in a gild-
ics. Her work is based in her love of research and she is interested in hauntings, ed world, isolated from the society beyond
archives, ecologies and other realities. In 2016 her book July Underwater was
the palace walls despite their dominion over
the recipient of Best English Comic at the Expozine Awards. She currently
shares her home with one feisty black cat. it. After mysteriously receiving a camera on
her fifteenth birthday, she begins to docu-
ment her world, but the gift carries with it a
weight she can’t yet see. A creature moves on
the edge of her vision and stalks her dreams.
As the revolution unfolds, the confines of
Anastasia’s world keep closing in. Something
is following her, and it might not be human.
Young Adult GN, Ages 13+
9781772620559
96 pages, 6.25x8.5 inches
duotone, $18
JUNE
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cole pauls
Pizza Punks
A punk-rock celebration of pizza in all its
gooey glory
Dive deep into the world of cheese-loving,
crust-craving, sauce-savouring punks with
Dakwäkãda Warriors author Cole Pauls.
Originally published in Lucky’s Comics
Also Available newspaper, DUNK, Pizza Punks pushes the
DAKWÄKÃDA WARRIORS limits of pizza devotion by exploring just
9781772620412 how far an extremely dedicated punk might
$20 go to attain the cheesiest of pies. Backpack
pizza? Sure. Couch pizza? Absolutely. Even
Winner of Indigenous Voices Award Mosh pizza isn’t off-limits. Pineapple pizza,
Nominated for 2 Doug Wright Awards though? That’s a little more controversial.
Nominated for an Aurora Award This volume collects Pizza Punks 1-4 plus a
hot’n’fresh 5th issue, drawn just for this col-
lection! Plus pin-ups by Kirsten Hatfield, Joel
Rich, Brian Fukushima, Owen Plummer,
Kathleen Gros, Simon Roy, Walter Scott,
Nathan Jones, Becca Tobin & Katie So.
Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comic artist, illustrator and printmaker hailing from Haines
Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Graphic Novel
Residing in Vancouver, Pauls focuses on his two comic series, the first being Pizza
9781772620535
Punks: a self contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, the other being Dak-
120 pages, 5.5x8.5 inches,
wäkãda Warriors. In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best
Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors duotone, $15
won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and
was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories, The Egghead & The Nipper. APRIL
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rick trembles
Represented Immobilized
Schoolyard scuffles. Seedy matinees. Run-ins
with inept riot cops. Represented Immobilized is
an unflinching look through the smudged lens-
es of Rick Trembles’ glasses at his early years in
Montreal. Punk legend and alternative cartoon-
ist Trembles was roommates with the editor of
the influential zine Fish Piss where these auto-
biographical strips were first published. After
a midnight move from a crumbling apartment
Trembles gradually started bringing all his
childhood belongings back, bit by bit, which
started triggering memories from his past. Wor-
Rick Trembles is a Montreal-based post-underground cartoonist, writer, ried about them fading from memory as time
filmmaker, and musician. Two books of his Motion Picture Purgatory comix wore on, he took the opportunity to document
have been published by the UK’s FAB Press. He’s been published in interna-
them before they could vanish. The book also
tionally distributed books, periodicals & anthologies such as Russ Kick’s “The
Graphic Canon,” Robert Crumb’s “Weirdo,” Fantagraphics Books’ “Pictopia,”
contains other autobio work from Trembles
& France’s “Hopital Brut” for Le Dernier Cri. His award winning animated over his active 40 years.
film “Goopy Spasms” has toured the festival circuit globally. He’s been a
singer-guitarist for post-punk band The American Devices since 1980. He fre-
quently archives his work at snubdom.com and his Motion Picture Purgatory
comix appear monthly at canuxploitation.com.
“A famous free thinker.”
— The L.A. Times
“Genius.” — The Guardian
Graphic Novel
9781772620542
60 pages, 8.5x5.5 inches
b/w, $12
APRIL
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