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ALIVE OUTSIDE: An anthology to obliterate the impending monoculture! A convergence of new voices joining verifiable legends, all tearing at the walls of expectation. Cultural innovation as an impulse. Algorithmically-born tastemaking be damned! This is elemental vitality pressed into a wood pulp manifesto for the messy comedy of creation ~

Collecting work from an international cast of artists, including: Aapo Rapi, Aaron Rossner, Andy Cahill, Angela Fanche, Becchi Ayumi, Bridget Trout, Christian Schumann, Clayton Schiff, Dongery, Doug Allen, Dylan Jones, Eden Veaudry, J Bradley Johnson, Jonathan Peterson, Jordan Rae, Joe Grillo, Joey Haley, Julie Doucet, Julien Ceccaldi, Kari Cholnoky, Keith Jones, Leomi Sadler, Lilli Carre, Lukas Weidinger, Marc Bell, Mark Connery, Matt Lock, Poncili Creation, Roman Muradov, Ron Rege Jr., Shoboshobo, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Theo Ellsworth, Trenton Doyle Hancock

Edited by Cullen Beckhorn and Marc Bell. 248 pages, multiple inset booklets, mixed-process 6-color offset, and extraneous Risograph materials available direct from the publisher.

Gridlords #31 at Linework NW • Friday April 17 Hollywood Theatre 9:45 pm

Michael Litven • Sam Alden • Sindre Goksøyr of Dongery • Will Bruno • Lori D • Ross Jackson & Shanna Matuszak

Gridlords #31 at Linework NW • Friday April 17 Hollywood Theatre 9:45 pm

Michael Litven • Sam Alden • Sindre Goksøyr • Will Bruno • Lori D • Ross Jackson & Shanna Matuszak

Gridlords #31 at Linework NW • Friday April 17 Hollywood Theatre 9:45 pm

Michael Litven • Sam Alden • Sindre Goksøyr • Will Bruno • Lori D • Ross Jackson & Shanna Matuszak

Fumetto festival report time~

While a few of you might have reenacted some Easter holidays American movies, MaJaVal from the TMH team was pretty busy at the Fumetto Comics Festival, in  Luzern. Indeed, we spend there ten very intensive days, sitting at our table at the Small press heaven in the weekend, and guarding festival expos during the week. Genuine festival working class heroes.

During this small lifetime spent in Luzern, a city that belongs in one of those snow globes, we've met up with icons such as Offensive Nico, who put all of his energy into masterfully managing the Small press heaven; the infernal duo from La Trama, with whom we took over SPH table by table; the Inuit team impressed us with their new riso print skills in their new book about Italian ice-creams; Luke Pearson won the comic battle by, you'll never guess, drawing penises; Dongery nailed it yet again with their amazing office inspired expo - It's exactly like in real life said a man in a grey suit. We drank beers with David our favorite Scotsman, Erik, our almost lost Viennese, David from Kuššššš, missis cool boss Michelle and mister cool boss Andy (who insisted on calling us Mathilde 1,2 and 3 for days), Éric Lambé who was impressively always in the colours of his fantastic drawings....

We were also very proud of our TMH gang, that had not one, not two, not three, but four! entries in this year's competition exhibition (bravo Chiara, Jana, Thijs and Alexander!)

What else we did was fighting with swans, comparing swans to cats, playing the Sound of music on the hills (no purple cows); we got sun burned, we had cozy dinners with our lovely host Daniela, we wanted to swim, we didn't swim, we broke down some expos, we bubble wrapped papier mâché whores (watching all 8 seasons of Dexter payed off).... And we went home with a half melted chocolate bunny.

We'll be back, Fumetto, we haven't said our last words yet.

TCAF Programming for Saturday, May 11 in Learning Center 1 

at the Toronto Reference Library, 1st floor. 789 Yonge Street.

10am-11am        Spotlight: Frederik Peeters

Frederik Peeters will make his first Canadian appearance at TCAF, and he is best known to English audiences for his touching, poignant memoir Blue Pills. However in the European market, Peeters is perhaps best known for his incredible high-concept science fiction graphic novels. Now, with his TCAF debut book Sandcastle, Peeters will merge those two seemingly disparate audiences. Join moderator Xavier Guibert (Du9.com) in a lively discussion and presentation from the new work.

11am-12pm        Spotlight: Chihoi

Chihoi is a young cartoonist who has been active in the comics community of his native Hong Kong. A member of the 'Cockroach' and 'Springrolllll' collectives as well as the Yummy Dragon anthologies. Chihoi and his contemporaries offer a close-up view of a chaotic, overpopulated, lively, noisy, tender and brutal metropolis. It’s a personal and always surprising vision, with a corrosive humour that is sometimes macabre and often surrealistic and poetic. Chihoi's work has appeared in French and Italian, and he is a veteran of the European convention circuit. The Library (Conundrum) is his introduction to North American audiences and TCAF is his first North American appearance.  Join Conundrum Publisher Andy Brown for a presentation from Chihoi’s work and a feature interview.

12:15 - 1:15pm   Spotlight: Ulli Lust

A talented Austrian cartoonist who makes her home in Berlin, Germany, Ulli Lust is well known across Europe for her cartooning. Her debut full-length graphic novel Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won huge acclaim in 2011, including taking the prestigious Angouleme “Revelation” prize. Now this important work of memoir and reportage has made its way to English audiences, and Ulli Lust and Verlag Der Tagesspiegel journalist Lars von Torne as they explore this important and highly-anticipated TCAF debut.

1:30 - 2:30pm     Spotlight: Éric Lambé

Haunting, evocative, highly detailed—all words that can be used to describe the comics of French experimental comics author Éric Lambé. His work as a part of the publisher/collective Fremok has been celebrated in North America at the Center for Book Arts, NYC, and championed by critic and Rebus Books Publisher Bill Kartalopoulos. Now join Kartalopoulous in an interview with the acclaimed creator, visiting TCAF from France, and experience this wonderful work for the first time.

2:45 - 3:45pm     Spotlight: Judith Vanistendael

Judith Vanistendael creates comics “that have to do with life as it really is.” A two-time Angouleme Grand Prize nominee visiting TCAF from her home in Brussels, Vanistendael recently celebrated the release of her first English language graphic novel—When David Lost His Voice. A gripping story about a family suffering under the shadow of a cancer diagnosis, Vanistendael weaves an important and touching story. Please welcome Vanistendael to Toronto, as she joins The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum’s Caitlin McGurk in a discussion of her work.

4:00 - 5:00pm     Spotlight: DONGERY, with Flu Hartberg &  Marc Bell

BELL DO DONGERY: “Dongery is a notorious fanzine collective from Norway who just put out their 1500 pg (!) collection book. Dongery-fan and Canadian uncle, Marc Bell will be talking to us about our production, preferably in Smurf voice and costumes. The focus will be on things like fanzine art, collective process and art, comics, art. Definitely not for kids.”

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