Cheez Continues

Cheez has started again, check out weekly drawings at http://torontoartpost.com/cheez

The Wilding #2 launches at
CANZINE 2009, November 1, Sunday @ the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Many thanks to Anne Koyama for supporting the latest issue!!
https://id408.van.ca.siteprotect.com/brokenpencil/canzine/index2.php

Above art by Jeremy Kai-copyright 2009

The Parkdale Gyre

Fiona Smyth new drawing show at IndexG:
http://xpia.com/indexg/press_pressrelease.asp?gx_id=8033

The Wilding 2 is coming!! Launch at Canzine 2009.
Look for some familiar faces and new ones like Harvey Chan above.

Apologies to Billy Mavreas for misspelling his name in The Wilding! Dang it, won't happen again. Check out Billy's blog at http://www.billymavreas.blogspot.com and his store/gallery at http://monastiraki.blogspot.com
Artwork above by Billy Mavreas

The end of another TCAF...
Maurice Vellekoop and his glorious work.
The Wowee Zonk crew: Pom Ette, Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma
and future Wilding contributor Selena Wong.
The phenomenal Michael Comeau freaks it at TCAF.

TCAF 2009 was the launching pad for The Wilding Issue One. The big news to come out of the festival is that Issue 2 will be published by Koyama Press, heaps of thanks to Anne Koyama!! More news to come about contributors...

Some pre-TCAF excitement:a reception for Yoshihiro Tatsumi at the Japan Foundation. The creator of gekiga has been producing groundbreaking work since the 50's! Hardcore!

The amazing contributors of The Wilding include:
-Michael Comeau
-Billy Mavreas
-Patrick Kyle
-Davis Weir
-Roxanna Bikadoroff
-Luke Painter
-Ryan Dodgson
-Alex Boake
-Scott Carruthers
-Ette
-Mark Connery
-Freshdiscoporkergas
-James Turner
-Joe Thomson
-Robert Dayton
-Chris Kuzma (work pictured above)
-Lorenz Peter
-Tanya Read/Mr. Nobody
-Leyla Majeri
-Jeremy Kai
-235/Gary Roscoe Johnson
-Mathew Schwartz
-Maurice Vellekoop
Edited and cover by Fiona Smyth

Other zines available at The Wilding table:
-The Virtuous by Fiona Smyth
-The Wilding(mini) by Fiona Smyth
-CPR by Creative Process and Research first year class at OCAD
-Hell Passports published by Perro Verlag: Volume #2 by Fiona Smyth,
Volume #3 by Julie Voyce,Volume #13 by Owen Plummer,
and Volume #15 by Mark Connery
-Buildings and Bodies by Ryan Dodgson
-Charlene, the Unintentional Philistine by Jeremy Kai

This weekend: May 9th and 10th Toronto Comics Arts Festival, http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf/ during which I'll be launching the zine The Wilding at the Toronto Reference library!! Comics artists, psychedooolists and ne-er do wells included, come one ,come all.
I'll be sharing a table with Davis Weir, Wilding contributor and Everything Elevator/editor-publisher and Free Drawings publisher and artist Jesjit Gill.

Image by Freshdiscoporkergas

The Wilding was originally a mini-zine
created for a show at Billy Mavreas' Monastiraki
in Montreal, November 2007.

The Wilding Begins

This blog will be the site for the new zine The Wilding to be launched at TCAF in May.