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Winners announced for the 2021 Doug Wright Awards

Langosh & Peppi: Fugitives – Veronica Post Examines the Refugee Crisis from a Markedly Different Perspective

Described as a fictionalised mash-up of her diaries from 2012-2015, Veronica Post’s travelogue depicting the 2015 European migrant crisis are nonetheless based on real events, ensuring an eyewitness quality to the scenes she depicts. Drifter Langosh, accompanied by his canine friend Peppi, is touring Hungary and the Balkans, after being force to flee his native Canada when he found himself on the…

by Andy Oliver

Described as a fictionalised mash-up of her diaries from 2012-2015, Veronica Post’s travelogue depicting the 2015 European migrant crisis are nonetheless based on real events, ensuring an eyewitness quality to…

DEBUTING AT TCAF 2020: Langosh and Peppi: Fugitive Days by Veronica Post

$20 CND, Published by Conundrum Press, ISBN: 978-1-77262-044-3 Graphic Novel. 7×10.25 inches, 340 pages black & white, trade paperback

In light of TCAF 2020 cancelling, we are sharing comics and zines that were scheduled to debut at the festival.

An eyewitness account of the 2015 European “migrant crisis”. 

While exploring out-of-the-way places in Budapest, Hungary, a vagabond named Langosh and his faithful dog, Peppi, stumble on the vestiges of the region’s war torn past. Through streets, alleys, tunnels, train stations, abandoned buildings and the countryside, they witness the effects of colliding social, political, and interpersonal situations. However, they soon discover the stark difference between choosing a transient lifestyle and being forced from one’s home and country. Langosh and Peppi meet people whose tragic personal struggles are enmeshed with the national struggles that continue to divide and destroy so many lives, and witness the disturbing global rise of nationalism. Influenced by Hideo Azuma, Guy Delisle and Joe Sacco, Veronica Post examines the modern dilemma of what it means to be human and to call a place home.

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Veronica Post grew up in Halifax during the 80s and 90s. She attended one year of NSCAD University before moving to Montreal, where she self-published comics, played drums in punk bands and completed her cabinetmaking diploma before following love to Europe. She is currently teaching furniture-making and drawing comics in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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