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This week in Toronto I’m going to be on a panel with Shawn Micallef, Michael Cho and Peter Birkemoe, discussing the influence of cities (specifically Toronto) on our storytelling and graphic works.
Details: Join the Hart House Literary and Library Committee, and special guests to explore graphic novels.
How do you experience your city? As a visual form of storytelling, the graphic novel allows space to enter the narrative, not just as a setting, but as a physical presence, even as a kind of character. The interactions between the story’s characters and their surroundings raise questions about the way we live in the city, the way we use urban space, and the way this space shapes our everyday experience. The detailed rendering of urban environments allow readers to notice things that might otherwise escape their notice. Graphic novels offer us an opportunity to explore, inhabit, and interrogate the city and our relationship with it.
When: Wed., April 8, 2015, 5-7 pm
Where: Hart House Library
Cost: Free
Image by Eleanor Davis
Also this weekend is MoCCa arts fest in NYC!
I will be at the Conundrum Press table with fellow cartoonists Dakota McFadzean, Joe Ollmann, Elisabeth Belliveau, and Meags Fitzgerald, and I will have the very first TOWERKIND books with me! Please come by for signed copies or just to chat. I’ll also have some stickers and a reprints of my mini ‘Midnight on the Spit’, and a few art prints.
