This is serious : Canadian indie comics / curated by Alana Traficante & Joe Ollmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Traficante, Alana, editor.

Ollmann, Joe, 1966- editor.

Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ont.), host institution, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Canada--Exhibitions.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Cartoonists--Canada.

Cartoonists.

Artists--Canada.

Artists.

Canada.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Canadian indie comics

Place of Publication:

Hamilton, Ontario : Art Gallery of Hamilton ; Wolfville, Nova Scotia : Conundrum Press, [2020]

Summary:

"THIS IS SERIOUS reveals the considerable contributions being made by artists from across the country to the greater field of global comics--of which Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton are significant creative centres. Surveying the work of forty-seven contemporary Canadian artists, THIS IS SERIOUS showcases the energy of underground artistic production and indie publishing as expressed through a diverse range of artists. Co-edited by contemporary curator Alana Traficante and award-winning cartoonist Joe Ollmann. THIS IS SERIOUS presents the recent arc of production that has helped shaped the current state of graphic storytelling, here and now on home soil."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Director's foreword / by Shelley Falconer

A makeshift tradition: Canada's cartooning heritage / by Jeet Heer

Welcome to THIS IS SERIOUS! / by Joe Ollmann

This is serious: A cultural theory for comics / by Alana Traficante

The works

The future / by Peggy Burns

Artists

Contributors.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton from June 21, 2019 to January 5, 2020.

Artists include: Sami Alwani ; Ho Che Anderson ; Kate Beaton ; Marc Bell ; Blaine ; Simon Bossé ; David Boswell ; Chester Brown ; NIna Bunjevac ; Jessica Campbell ; Geneviève Castrée ; Marta Chudolinska ; David Collier ; Katherine Collins ; Michael Deforge ; Julie Delporte ; Aminder Dhaliwal ; Julie Doucet ; Pascal Girard ; Gord Hill ; Jesse Jacobs ; Patrick Kyle ; Ginette Lapalme ; Ness Lee ; Hartley Lin ; Graeme Mackay ; Billy Mavreas ; Carel Moiseiwitsch ; Sylvia Nickerson ; Diane Obomsawin ; Simon Orpana ; Meredith W. Park ; Cole Pauls ; Gord Pullar ; Michel Rabagliati ; R.A. Rosen ; Walter Scott ; Seth ; James Simpkins ; Fiona Smyth ; Jillian Tamaki ; Maurice Vellekoop ; Kat Verhoeven ; Eric Kostiuk Williams ; Connor Willumsen ; Jenn Woodall ; Doug Wright.

ISBN:

9781897407301

1897407300

OCLC:

1104790879