Wowee Zonk

Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival 2011

2011-11-28T18:06:00.000-05:00

Chris, Ginette and I are trekking down to Nu-Yorik for Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival 2011. But we're not trekking at all, we're actually taking a plane for once. It's going to be great.

New Books:

Chris Kuzma's COMPLEX #2

Patrick Kyle's BLACK MASS #6

We're at table number 26 on the first floor. I think.

DON'T MISS IT.

Merlyn and the Poo

2011-11-07T10:32:00.001-05:00

recent zonkings

2011-09-05T12:07:00.000-04:00

Things in These Photos:
Zine Dream.
Fan Expo, Care of Koyama Press.
Dog Bites Foot.

DOUBLE DICK/BOOBY TRAP

2011-08-16T14:40:00.001-04:00

We published this little book before TCAF.

28 Pages of collaborative drawings Between Patrick Kyle, Chris Kuzma and Ginette Lapalme.

Riso/Silkscreen Combo Cover.

Git em while you can.

$6 + Shippin'

2011-08-09T11:31:00.000-04:00

Our Wowee Zonk/Mother Books Combo Box is now situated in Kensington Market, outside of Koyama Press/Nook Collective/Pyramid Attack Headquarters at 156 Augusta Ave.

The Box is currently stocked with copies of Wowee Zonk 2! These things aint usually free, so if you don't already own a copy, get down to the market and get one before they're gone!

We're going to be stocking the box with something new regularly, so keep checking it out.

Summer Sale

2011-06-12T17:55:00.006-04:00

~~To celebrate the majesty of warm weather, we're giving you the opportunity to spend money effectively.~~

~~Wowee Zonk, Issues 2 and 3!~~

~~$10~~
~~No shipping to Canada or America. (Sorry International Buds, shipping fees still apply)~~

~~This is going to be a limited offer and will be removed without notice at some point in time.~~

~~Don't Delay!~~

Sorry, this summer sale is over!

TCAF 2011 is over

2011-05-10T20:50:00.000-04:00

Thanks to everyone who came out to The Toronto Comic Arts Festival this year and all of the exhibitors that took part in our small press room, BLESS THIS PRESS. We had a really successful weekend and had a ton of fun with a lot of good friends.

Special Thanks to: Chris Butcher and The Beguiling Staff for setting up such a great event and allowing us to take part. Ines Estrada, Lala Albert and Zach Hazard Vaupen for making the trek up to Canada to exhibit with us, and of course to our beloved publisher and friend Anne Koyama of Koyama Press.

BLACK MASS #5

2011-04-30T18:07:00.000-04:00

Available at TCAF. Online, soon after.

Wowee Zonk Presents BLESS THIS PRESS TCAF Small Press Exhibition 2011

2011-04-30T11:54:00.000-04:00

Wowee Zonk Presents BLESS THIS PRESS: TCAF Small Press Exhibition 2011

Taking place during TCAF on in The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon on Toronto Reference Library’s second floor, BLESS THIS PRESS features 2 days worth of upcoming and avant garde comic creators, print makers and illustrators including Closed Caption Comics, Ines Estrada, Lala Albert, and Michael Comeau, curated by and featuring Ginette Lapalme, Chris Kuzma and Patrick Kyle of Wowee Zonk. Be sure to visit the room both days, as exhibitors will be rotating!

Exhibitors on Both Days:

Wowee Zonk (http://www.woweezonk.com)
Michael Comeau
Lala Albert (http://www.plslala.com)
Closed Captioned Comics (http://closedcaptioncomics.blogspot.com/)
Ines Estrada (http://www.cafeconleche.co.nr)

Exhibitors on Saturday May 7th Only:

Shannon Gerrard (http://www.shannongerrard.org)
Lisa Vanin (http://www.lisavanin.com)
Peter Kalyniuk
Davis Weir
Jesjit Gill (http://www.jesjit.com/)
Mark Connery
Jacob Horwood (http://www.beniffereditions.com/)
Alexandra Mackenzie (http://newphenomena.blogspot.com/)
Tomas Del Balso (http://www.ddmmyyyy.net/tomas.html)
Matt King (http://www.mattkingdotcom.com/)

Exhibitors on Sunday May 8th Only:

Selena Wong (http://www.selenawong.com)
Ryan Dodgson (http://www.ryandodgson.com)
Adrian Forrow (http://www.adrianforrow.com/)
Andrew Remington Bailey (http://hehasantlers.blogspot.com/)
Jim Mezei (http://www.jimmezei.com/)
Caitlin Black (http://crumpled-caitlin.blogspot.com/)
Jason Bradshaw (http://boredompays.blogspot.com/)
Alicia Nauta (http://murdertides.blogspot.com/)
Jeffery Lewis (http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/)
Chris Simonen (http://www.whatsdaytoday.com/)

Kazoo

2011-04-18T16:03:00.002-04:00

Patrick and Chris were selling comics at the Kazoo comic and zine fair in Geulph, Ontario. An unnamed guy (Oscar? Oliver?) drew a picture of their ugly mugs.

Baby Zines

2011-04-05T19:59:00.000-04:00

By Jhanet Lahpalmuh and Padrijk Kiiule

SECRET SHAME opening April 1st at LE Gallery

2011-03-25T18:24:00.000-04:00

It's short notice but it's no April fools gag! Wowee Zonk Eds, Patrick, Chris and Ginette have an exhibition opening Friday, April 1st at LE Gallery. 1183 Dundas Street West. Don't miss it!

Wowee Zonk 3 is a finalist for the Doug Wright "Pigskin Peters" Award!

2011-03-17T12:03:00.000-04:00

Wowee Zonk 3 is a finalist for the Doug Wright "Pigskin Peters" Award this year! We're really honoured!
Congrats to all of the Nominees and our publisher Koyama Press, who has 4 books up for awards!

Wowee Zonk News Report March 2011

2011-03-15T15:00:00.000-04:00

Our Guardian and Publisher Koyama Press is sending us down to Buffalo this coming weekend for the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair. We've got plenty of zines left over from the barrage of fairs and fesitvals we attended late last year and plenty of copies of our flagship book, Wowee Zonk. We'll have copies of the Second and Third issue and we might even have 1 or 2 copies of the fabled first issue to get rid of.

Wowee Zonk Member Chris Kuzma has a new comic book called COMPLEX. Chris was born in the future and is growing backwards into our time. Subsequently our antiquated computers and "blog" systems are foreign to him and he couldn't post a sales button properly on this blog. Please go to his future-blog and purchase it there.

Complex is wonderfully drawn and full of whimsy and weird blobs. It's about the operation of a society that's contained in one enormous psychedelic building. Chris focuses on one lowly resident who is fed up with his lot in life and is seeking satisfaction.

Our Friend, colleague and mentor, Fiona Smyth also released her debut graphic novel this past week.

The Never Weres, Published by Annick Press is a really fantastic GN aimed at younger readers, but can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike. Fiona's pages are expertly composed and are rich with bold, lively artwork that is challenging but totally accessible and readable. I was blown away by the beautifiul, sprawling ink-washed double page spreads.

As well as editing Wowee Zonk with Kuzma and I, Ginette also co-edits an international Bi-lingual anthology with Ines Estrada of Mexico entitled GANG BANG BONG. Ginette just finished a beautiful painting for the front and back cover of the latest issue. Debuting at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival this coming May.

Purdy, Huh? More TCAF news probably coming soon. Hopefully.

Wowee Zonk as Described by Chris Kuzma.

2011-02-10T15:35:00.001-05:00

Video by Alex Davey

History Lesson

2011-02-03T19:24:00.001-05:00

We just recovered 8 unsold consignment copies of the first issue of Wowee Zonk. We received a grant from the OCAD Student Council in 2008 to print 200 of these. They're 36 pages and have comics from Myself (Patrick Kyle ) Chris Kuzma, and Ginette Lapalme. They look pretty antiquated compared to the latest issue of Wowee Zonk; they've got a many layered hand silkscreened cover and xeroxed interiors. All but one of them are on the original, off-white paper we did the first batch of them on.

This is probably the last time we're going to have these for sale! $5 + Shipping

Along with these unsold comics, came a few copies of an old zine I printed after Wowee Zonk One but before the first issue of Black Mass. It's called THIRST QUENCHERS. I feel like it was my first good comic. I think i'll hang on to these for now.

nusite coming soon.

2011-02-03T13:54:00.000-05:00

We're making a new Wowee Zonk website. This is the Nu-Moon of Wowee Zonk.

Coming soonish.

Black Mass #4

2011-01-15T18:56:00.003-05:00

This is my latest comic, the fourth installment of Black Mass. It's 28 pages, printed in burgundy ink on a Risograph. The cover is a three layer Risograph print.

Nick Gazin of Vice Magazine says:

"Patrick Kyle is the hottest new talent in all of Canada. I love him"

Read the rest at Vice Magazine: NICK GAZIN’S COMICS LOVE-IN 17 - Viceland Today

I made a bunch of these and after The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival and leaving them around places on consignment, i only have 12 6 0 left to sell for myself!

Sold out! Thanks to everyone who bought one!

Happy Nu-Yee-ur

2011-01-01T14:52:00.000-05:00

It's the new year, time to buy some artwork for your house.
Look at all of this awesome stuff by Ginette for sale at the Magic Pony website! Go check it out!

The Unicorn

2010-12-09T10:21:00.000-05:00

Chris, Ginette and I are in the Holiday Exhibition with a ton of other amazing artists at Narwhal Art Projects.

680 Queen Street West, Toronto.

The New York Art Book Fair

2010-11-03T12:19:00.001-04:00

I (Patrick) Will be at The New York Art Book Fair this weekend.

I'll have tons of copies of Wowee Zonk 3 and Pobody's Nurfect, as well as a bunch of other new zines and prints. I will be sitting with our friends Ryan Dodgson and Jesjit Gill. See you there!

Wowee Zonk Abroad.

2010-10-19T16:14:00.000-04:00

We're going on a trip. At least one of us (Me (Patrick)) will be at all events. Chris Kuzma will be at Canzine, Expozine and Brooklyn. Ginette will be at Expozine and Brooklyn. We'll have Wowee Zonk 3's and also tons of other zines.

See you there.

Wowee Zonk 3 Now Available!

2010-10-07T15:40:00.000-04:00

You can now buy Wowee Zonk 3 at Woweezonk.com.

WZ3 is our new comic book Published by Koyama Press that includes new comics from upcoming Canadian artists Selena Wong, Zach Worton, Daniel Rocca, Jan Avendano, Chris Simonen, Michael DeForge and editors Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle.

The Launch Party is Tonight, alongside our friends Tin Can Forest and their new Koyama Press Book, Baba Yaga and the Wolf.

@The Central (right beside The Beguiling)

603 Markham Street, Toronto.

7pm - 10pm

Word on The Street

2010-09-22T12:07:00.001-04:00

Word on The Street is happening this Sunday, September 26th in Queen's Park in Toronto from 11am to 6pm.

For anyone who can't wait until the October 7th official book launch, copies of Wowee Zonk 3 will be on sale at the Koyama Press booth. (Booth 245)

I (Patrick Kyle) will be on premise at 1 pm, signing copies of Wowee Zonk 3 and Pobody's Nurfect on the group's behalf.

See you there.

WOWEE ZONK 3 & BABA YAGA AND THE WOLF - DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH!

2010-09-18T11:08:00.000-04:00

Koyama Press and The Beguiling present
Wowee Zonk's "Wowee Zonk 3"
Tin Can Forest's "Baba Yaga and the Wolf"
BOOK LAUNCH Thursday OCT 7th 7pm-10pm
The Central 603 Markham St. Toronto

The Beguiling are teaming up witht he fine folks at Koyama Press to hold a double-book launch for two of their fantastic fall releases!

WOWEE ZONK 3 is the third great comics and art anthology from Toronto's Wowee Zonk collective. It features new comics from WZ mainstays Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme, and Patrick Kyle, as well as an awesome array of their friends including Zach Worton, Jan Avendano, Chris Simonen, Dan Rocca, Andrei Georgescu, Michael DeForge, and Selena Wong! Another amazing volume of the awesome comics series!

Joining the Wowee Zonk crew will be the esteemed TIN CAN FOREST, better known as Pat Shewchuk and Marek Colek. In their new graphic novella Baba Yaga and the Wolf, Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk, drawing inspiration from early Russian animated films, Slavic mythology, and symbols and pictography associated with the many iterations of the Baba Yaga mythos, have given new breath to an age-old cautionary tale of being careful to voice that which one most desires in a world where every leaf on every branch on every tree might be aware of such wants and the darkness that exists at their roots.

So come on out and enjoy! It's gonna be an awesome evening filled with good times.

Presented by The Beguiling and Koyama Press, with special thanks to The Central.

RSVP http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160796723932000&ref=ts

Mystery Boxes

2010-09-11T11:23:00.002-04:00

What do the Mystery Boxes Contain?

Find out October 7th 2010.

WOWEE ZONK 3

2010-08-21T15:12:00.001-04:00

WOWEE ZONK 3

Coming this Fall from Koyama Press

http://www.koyamapress.com

Features new comics from Michael DeForge, Chris Kuzma, Zach Worton, Jan Avendano, Dan Rocca, Ginette Lapalme, Patrick Kyle, Andrei Georgescu, Selena Wong and Chris Simonen.

Launch Party Details to be released!

Magic Pony Window Display

2010-08-12T16:13:00.001-04:00

Check out our new window display at Magic Pony on Queen Street West. We made a bunch of cartoon standees and they're all in there along with the rad toys all the participants from the DIY toy work shop made. Thanks to Magic Pony and all their staff for helping us out with this project and allowing it to happen!

DIY workshop

2010-08-02T14:45:00.000-04:00

Here we are at Narwhal Art Projects during the awesome DIY workshop we took part in. Thanks to Narwhal and Magic Pony for having us!

We're also going to be doing a window display at Magic Pony later this month. Here's a sneak preview.

DIY TOY WORKSHOP @ MAGIC PONY

2010-07-23T15:58:00.001-04:00

We're the guest artists at Magic Pony's DIY Toy Workshop this coming Wednesday July 28th! Sign up HERE!

The Newsmagazine

2010-07-03T11:48:00.000-04:00

This is a little late, but there are some nice words about us and a short Q&A with our very own Ginette Lapalme in the latest issue of The University of Toronto's new news magazine aptly named "The Newsmagazine." You can grab the paper around Toronto in a number of shops for free. It has a nice cover by our friend Jesjit Gill.

Thanks to Sarah D'Angelo and The Newsmagazine!

Koyama Press Presents "Merlyn's Stash" T-shirt by Patrick Kyle.

2010-06-23T14:16:00.001-04:00

Anne Koyama of Koyama Press generously sponsored the printing of this T-shirt design by me. Thank you, Annie!

Adorn the whimsy of Merlyn's Stash! You'll be delighted with the contents of Merlyn's secret cabinet strewn across your chest.

$20 + $4 S&H

Lagged Video

2010-06-10T17:18:00.002-04:00

Chris and I are in this video shot at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival talking about Wowee Zonk.
Chris told me not to say "Um" or "Like" But i say them a lot.
So um, like, enjoy?

Black Mass #1 Second Printing

2010-05-29T12:21:00.002-04:00

BLACK MASS #1

by Patrick Kyle

W/ New Cover, 38 Pages B&W

Second Printing, Edition of 50.

"A guy named Turdswallo Blackteeft and his friend Dingball go to the fortune teller but it turns into a psychedelic nightmare. The Dingball tells Turdswallo about his tragic punk love story. Then some other shit happens. I don’t know. Everything kind of melts into the next thing and the dialogue is weird and inventive and organic"

Nick Gazin, From a Vice Magazine Review.

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Black Mass #3

2010-05-19T12:29:00.003-04:00

Black Mass #3 is now available!

TCAF 2010

2010-05-13T14:37:00.001-04:00

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival this past weekend was a real success. Thank you to Chris Butcher and The Beguiling for allowing us to curate The Small Press Schooner room and hang out at the festival all weekend. Cheers to everyone who came an exhibited with us!

Special Congratulations to our good friend and Michael DeForge for his Doug Wright Award on Saturday night! Michael's comic LOSE is also published by Koyama Press, and is really fantastic. If you haven't read it already, what are you waiting for? Congrats again to Michael and to our publisher Koyama Press!

Congratulations to Marc Bell, Seth and their publisher Drawn and Quarterly for their two awards! I encourage everyone to check out Marc's winning book Hot Potatoe and also the new D&Q book Catland Empire by Keith Jones. They are both really wonderful.

Thanks to everyone for coming out to TCAF and seeing our work and buying our books. It was a pleasure.

Note: We have some new zines left over from the event. As soon as we get ourselves organized we'll have them for sale here! Stay tuned.

(Below is a photo of a banner we painted for the show, and above is a video of us rolling up said banner.)

photo from rgbfilter.com

Black Masses at TCAF

2010-05-06T16:09:00.001-04:00

NU-COMICS by PATRICK at THE TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL
1. Black Mass Pleasure Pack (Black mass 1+2+3 & a Set of Pins) - $10 NEW
2. Black Mass Pin Set - $3 NEW
3. Black Mass #2 - $3
4. Black Mass #3 - $3 NEW
5. Black Mass #1 - $4 (Very Few copies left)

GET 'EM.

Merlin's Lash Limited 20 Copies!

2010-05-06T13:28:00.002-04:00

get 'em at TCAF this weekend!!!

Radioshow Podcast

2010-04-28T00:22:00.000-04:00

The podcast of our radio appearance is available to listen to HERE! Act fast, it will only be up for a week!

We're getting ready for TCAF. See below.

BM#3 covers

2010-04-26T15:13:00.000-04:00

These are the covers of my next comics Black Mass #3. It's a low key "Smell the Glove" type cover. It features the conclusion to Story yarned in the first two issues as well as some bonus material.

24 B&W Pages, 7.5 x 11.

This issue will debut at TCAF on May 8th and 9th along with The Black Mass Pleasure Pack, the collection of all three issues in a fancy bag. Don't miss it!

Keep ur Ears Peel'd.

2010-04-22T15:16:00.001-04:00

We're going to be on CIUT this Saturday on Donna G's The More The Merrier Arts program with our publisher and dear friend Anne Koyama!

Don't forget to Tune in. We'll be blabbing about "Pobody's Nurfect" and TCAF and whatever else comes up! Don't miss it!

Our Launch is in about a Week!

TCAF is coming up quick!

Positive Feedback

2010-04-18T13:56:00.000-04:00

Wowee Zonk 2 came out almost a year ago!

There is an excellent review of our book (and of my book, Black Mass) up on the Vice Magazine site, by our friend Nick Gazin. Check it out and all of the other reviews while you're at it.

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is in something like 20 days!!! There is a lot to do.
We are curating a room called The Small Press Schooner, sponsored by Broken Pencil Magazine.
Details will be announced this coming week.

Even sooner than TCAF is the Book Launch for our awesome new catalogue Pobody's Nurfect, published by Koyama Press. May 1st, at This Ain't The Rosedale Library in Kensington Market! 1 pm!
Be there!

New York + Book Launch.

2010-04-16T12:15:00.000-04:00

Awesome Drawing of us by Ines Estrada

The three of us just got back from New York City after a weekend at the MOCCA festival with our publisher Anne Koyama. We had a heck of a time. Thank you Annie! and thank you to everyone we met and checked out our books.

The official book launch for Wowee Zonk: "Pobody's Nurfect" is happening.
The Details:

Pobody's Nurfect Book Launch
Presented by Koyama Press
@ This Ain't The Rosedale Library
86 Nassau Street, Toronto, ON
1 pm

RSVP on Facebook.

We'll be there selling books, but if you can't wait until then, the book is available now at:
This Aint The Rosedale Library (86 Nassau Street)
The Beguiling (601 Markham Street)
Magic Pony (694 Queen Street W.)
Function 13 (158 Augusta Ave)

If you don't live in Toronto, You can alway buy the book Online.

paper making is so easy

2010-03-28T13:36:00.000-04:00

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Wowee Zonk: "Pobody's Nurfect"

2010-03-25T23:21:00.009-04:00

Now Available! Wowee Zonk: "Pobody's Nurfect" 24 full colour pages of artwork by Chris Kuzma, Patrick Kyle and Ginette Lapalme. Published by Koyama Press.

Wowee Zonk is a collective of illustrators based out of Toronto, Canada, consisting of Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle. Collaborating since 2007, the trio have self-published a countless number of zines and comic books, created atmospheric installations and participated in numerous exhibitions throughout Toronto. Wowee Zonk: “Pobody’s Nurfect” is the first catalogue and presentation of their fine artwork.

Softcover, Colour
6” x 8”, 24 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9784810-4-9

$10 CAD + S&H

Note to Retailers: Inquire here regarding wholesale prices.

Wowee Zonk and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival

2010-03-22T13:18:00.003-04:00

Anyone who came to The Toronto Comic Arts Festival in 2009 may remember a funny little glass encased room with some garbage bags and coloured paper stuck all over it. It looked like this.

Myself, Chris and Ginette called this hovel our home for the weekend and sold some of our friend's books in it and also sold some of our own! It was a sad hour when we had to tear it all down and go home. Sometimes in the evening as we sit in our Boston Pizza, warm schooners in our mitts, we reminisce about our darling room and each of it's little quirks and we wonder when we will ever see it again.

Our woe finally came to an end when we conceived (With the help of Chris Butcher of the Beguiling and Broken Pencil Magazine) The Small Press Schooner. The Small Press Schooner (named after our favourite nautical beverage) is new room at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival that will serve as an exhibition space for emerging Toronto comic artists, illustrators and printmakers. But if we want to fill this boat, we need a crew.

If you are interested in exhibiting in The Small Press Schooner on either Saturday, May 8th or Sunday, May 9th, Please go HERE and fill out an application.

Get on board and come and sell some of your artwork.

Note: It's a much larger room than our previous glass enclosed room.

NU-SPREAD

2010-03-11T11:55:00.002-05:00

Our blog got a facelift.

We're working on our real faces too.

Wowee Zonk 2

2010-03-11T11:33:00.002-05:00

The Follow up to the successful first issue, Wowee Zonk 2 is a 56 page newsprint comic book featuring unique upcoming talent from the Toronto Area.

Wowee Zonk 2 features work by Patrick Kyle, Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme, Andrei Georgescu, Chris Simonen, Michael DeForge and Ken Craine.

$3 CAN + S&H

Wowee Zonk: Pobody's Nurfect

2010-03-01T10:23:00.007-05:00

We have a new book coming out with Koyama Press in May!
Pobody's Nurfect will be 24 pages in full colour featuring work from our exhibitions in 2009, images from Spelunkin Fer Culkin and other previously unpublished work.

Stay Tuned.

Mysteriis

2010-02-08T11:01:00.002-05:00

Three Mysterious characters were spotted traipsing around Dufferin Grove park early friday morning while happy go lucky ice skaters, blissfully unaware, skated gaily at the near by arena. Disaster was narrowly averted when the three creatures, who were investigating a hovel, vanished without a trace.

A species from some far off realm?

They might have a book coming out.

Wowee Jerks

2010-01-30T13:31:00.000-05:00

Photo Credit: Fern Choonet

Page from Black Mass 3

2010-01-05T14:51:00.002-05:00

Black Mass Three is going to be like Super Mario Bros. 3. The one people like.

merry whiskmas, peece on urth, good bongs to men

2009-12-30T22:10:00.002-05:00

new komiq

2009-12-18T11:01:00.003-05:00

KNOXTAAL'S DELIGHTS

2009-12-17T23:31:00.003-05:00

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Wowee Zonk getz own'd.

2009-12-12T18:24:00.004-05:00

Chris here.

As Patrick mentioned previously, we just returned from New York where we attended the first annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. It was really cool, albeit small (In the basement of Our Lady of Consolation Church). Despite the size, the room was packed with a lot of really talented people. Following is a short list of talented people that I am stoked to report are now owners of Wowee Zonk #2.

Charles Burns. (Black Hole, Big Baby, El Borbah, etc...)

Ron Rege Jr. (Against Pain, Skibber-bee-bye, The Awake Field, etc...)

Matt Brinkman. (Multi-Force, Teratoid Heights, Fort Thunder, etc...)

Jillian Tamaki (she also has issue one). (Skim, Gilded Lilies, etc...)

There were a lot of other stellar people that we gave books to, but I don't know their names.

Get Zonk'd.

MERLYN'S STASH

2009-12-12T10:47:00.002-05:00

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Back From Brooklyn

2009-12-08T15:27:00.005-05:00

We're back from the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.

We took no pictures, so i have nothing to post. We handed out a ton of comics, and left a pile at the door. Hopefully you got one!

Here's a drawing Chris and I drew while sitting in the Grassroots tavern on St. Marks in Manhattan. There is probably some really fantastic bars in New York, and this place may or may not be one of them, But a place with 4 dollar pints of Brooklyn Lager is essentially the promise land in comparison to the joints in Toronto.

Chris and I did most of our planning for the first Wowee Zonk while sitting in bars doing drawings like this, so the name 'Grassroots' is apt.

Ps, There is some new stuff for sale at my personal blog http://patrickkillustration.blogspot.com

Free Wowee Zonk at The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.

2009-12-01T13:20:00.005-05:00

Chris Kuzma and I are going to be attending The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival this coming Saturday.

When we had just barely finished The first Issue of Wowee Zonk (it was actually not finished, the cover only had a single layer silkscreen print) Chris and I brought it down to MOCCA in New York and distributed a nubmer of copies for free. In a similar fashion, we're bringing a stack of very finished Wowee Zonk 2's to hand out at The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.

If you're going to be there this weekend, look for the idiots with stacks of comics.

Patopher Kuzle/Chrick Kyzma

2009-11-19T12:47:00.000-05:00

Some drawings Chris and I did last night at Pen Club.

BLACK MASS #2 Available now + launch party tonight.

2009-11-12T11:59:00.003-05:00

The Launch Party for Black Mass #2 is tonight at Good Blood Bad Blood in Kensington Market, but if you can't make it out or you live far far away you can order it here.

Black Mass is a comic book by Patrick Kyle that follows the Story of TURDSWALLO BLACKTEEFT, The world's most pathetic person! Continuing the tale yarned in Issue 1, Turdswallo is traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, to visit Graceland, but winds up getting himself into great danger when he encounters dark wizards, grim fortune tellers and the follies of time travel! Black Mass #2 continues the humourous tale and delves deeper into the world of black magic and the occult.

Don't forget to check out issue #1, Still available in limited quantities. 38 b/w pages, silkscreened covers.

SPELUNKIN'

2009-11-02T22:24:00.001-05:00

Cave diving this weekend.

2009-10-27T13:36:00.000-04:00

Mass Black/Comic Vice

2009-10-26T14:31:00.000-04:00

Here is a comic that I did for vice in early september. It's now online. Check it out here. It's the second story i've done based in "Trollmoor." although first one has yet to see print.

COMIC BOOK LAUNCH PARTY for ISSUE #2 of BLACK MASS by Patrick Kyle.

Thursday November 12th, 2009
@ Good Blood Bad Blood, 13 Kensington Ave, Toronto.
8 pm - 12 am.

Issue #1 and # 2 will be available for $3 each.

Black Mass is a comic book by Patrick Kyle that follows the Story of TURDSWALLO BLACKTEEFT, The world's most pathetic person! Continuing the tale yarned in Issue 1, Turdswallo is traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, to visit Graceland, but winds up getting himself into great danger when he encounters dark wizards, grim fortune tellers and the follies of time travel!

Black Mass #2 continues the humourous tale and delves deeper into the world of black magic and the occult.

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Patrick Kyle is an Artist and illustrator from Toronto. He is the co-founder and editor of the toronto comic book anthology Wowee Zonk. Patrick has been self publishing comics since 2005.

http://www.patrickkyle.com/
http://www.woweezonk.com/

RSVP at the Facebook event Page.

Spelunkin Fer Culkin

2009-10-19T17:54:00.000-04:00

Chris, Ginette and I are doing an Installation at Broken Pencil's Canzine this year. Here's our official Press Release.

SPELUNKIN’ FER CULKIN
Three Dimensional Zine Installation by Wowee Zonk

At
Canzine
Sunday, November 1, 2009
1pm - 7pm
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Toronto

SPELUNKIN’ FER CULKIN is a three dimensional installation by Toronto artists Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle. Using Broken Pencil’s Canzine event at The Gladstone Hotel as a venue, the three emerging artists will take over a room of the hotel and transform it into a psychedelic cave-like atmosphere.

Kuzma, Lapalme and Kyle are frequent collaborators. Operating under the moniker Wowee Zonk, the recent OCAD graduates have released a multitude of self-published comic books and zines. To date, the group has presented two gallery shows and a book launch, and has curated Zine Eator, an extravagantly decorated small press booth at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival. These experiences inspired the group to take their work into the three dimensional realm for this year’s Canzine.

The group specializes in irony, quirky and bizarre stories and the absurd, and their installation will be rich with the lot. SPELUNKIN’ FER CULKIN is inspired by Macaulay Culkin's character Kevin in the film Home Alone. Kuzma, Lapalme and Kyle tell a story where an evil wizard named Mulkin Kelarkin kidnaps Culkin’s character and holds him hostage in a cavernous lair. The room will serve as a portal through which visitors can be transported to Mulkin Kelarkin's alternate dimension. The ridiculous premise and setting allows the group to do what they do best: create weird, wacky and wonderful things.

Come experience SPELUNKIN FER CULKIN at Canzine as Kuzma, Lapalme and Kyle step out from behind the exhibitor’s table and transform their zines into a tangible reality

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Come and Check it out on The first!

CARTOON PLAGUE/DEATH N' TAXES

2009-10-18T16:18:00.000-04:00

There is Two comics up on the Vice Magazine website by Wowee Zonk contributors. THE CARTOON PLAGUE is by Wowee Zonk Co-Founder, Chris Kuzma.
Andrei Georgescu's comic Death N' Taxes has my vote for Comic of the Year. Andrei's work can be seen in Wowee Zonk 2.

Black Mass: ORIGINS

2009-10-15T16:35:00.001-04:00

Black Mass: ORIGINS
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

How Turdswallo and Dingball met. Also, how Dingball stopped being a punk. The Things you've all been dying to know!

More BM2

2009-10-12T10:38:00.001-04:00

This is the mock up for the Black Mass 2 cover and right behind it, the actual silkscreened version. The silkscreened one is a bit grimier than i has imagined. The screen i used for the title and the crystal thing was pretty dirty to begin with....I don't remember exactly what happened, but through some accident it wound up with a lot of photo emulsion residue that couldn't be washed out. The Last thing i remember printing with it was the covers to "Thirst Quenchers", which also came out pretty gritty. Maybe it's a just a lousy screen.

I just re-launched my illustration website. There is some new work and fine art stuff from suicide pact now online. Go and see.

Mass (weight)

2009-10-02T14:36:00.001-04:00

mass
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

Drawn on a shitty piece of mayfair i found in a plastic bag.

It was actually a decent surface for ink.

Afternoon Mass

2009-09-23T14:00:00.000-04:00

I finished the main story section of Black Mass #2. All that's left is the little extra pieces that need to be finished in order to turn this into a book. This drawing will be printed on the front and back cover of the comic, black on black. HERE's a mock up of what i am hopeing it will look like after i've printed the cover with the title and a splash of colour in the middle.

In other news, we have officially sold out of WOWEE ZONK #1. If you would still like to get a copy, i believe they still have some at The Beguiling and at Function 13, and more than likely The Drawn and Quarterly shop in Montreal, but you might have to root through a zine shelf to find one! We'd like to thank everyone who purchased a copy for helping to make our first book a great success!

Post-Pact

2009-09-17T10:56:00.000-04:00

Black Mass 2

2009-09-13T12:18:00.001-04:00

I'm working on the second issue of my comic Black Mass. It's going to be around 24 pages this time around. The last one was 38 (including the end pages) and it made it really difficult to cut and staple. It's something like 7.5x10.5 and requires some serious cutting. There is a fantastic paper cutter at OCAD which i have been using. It makes life really easy. But also because it's so simple it's easy to get over-confident and screw the whole thing up. Right Before TCAF earlier this year i destroyed 10 copies because i put them in the cutter the wrong way. Stapling was also a hassle because it was too thick. Even my staple gun had a hard time getting though.
The second issue is going to be 6"x8.5". It's not going to be too much smaller, but it will make assembling go much smoother.

It should be finished in about a month!

Buy the first one HERE.

Resurrecting this Derelict Blog

2009-09-12T14:12:00.001-04:00

I spruced up this blog. You can navigate all the posts at the side and also buy Wowee Zonk 1 and 2!

In important news, Ginette has just done a comic and interview for Vice.

(Drawing of Ginette By Nick Gazin.)

Be Sure to check out the interview and comic respectively.

Death

2009-08-25T15:19:00.000-04:00

Photos by Samia Taqi

Here's some photos of our latest "installation" at Suicide Pact.
We Drank the Beers Personally.

Go down to 1080 queen and witness it in person!!!

SUICIDE PACT AND WOWEE ZONK 1

2009-08-22T19:53:00.000-04:00

Photo by Alex Davey

SUICIDE PACT went off without a hitch (even the ungodly thunderstorm that started and finished during the opening was totally planned) If you didn't make it to the opening, be sure to come down to 1080 queen street west and see the work before the 30th.

Remember this book? WOWEE ZONK 1? Well there is only 17 copies of it left right now. If you want one, come down to the gallery, order one online or find us at ZINE DREAM in Toronto on August 30th!

PACT

2009-08-20T13:06:00.001-04:00

SUICIDE PACT IS TONIGHT!
BEE THERE.

MishMish and Others (De Mysteriis Dom Wowee Zonk)

2009-05-28T18:41:00.001-04:00

The Launch of Mish Mish is tonight. Mish Mish is a Zine Distro started by our friends Jesjit Gill and Laura McCoy. I'm really excited about this site. Please check it out and order some books from cool people.

Secondly we were recently interviewed by fellow illustrator Clayton Hanmer for Open Book Toronto. If you want to know secrets and have mysteries about us revealed then you better read it.

2009-05-16T10:21:00.000-04:00

Hey Everyone.

If you live in Toronto, you can now get your copies of Wowee Zonk 2 offline!

The Beguiling, Function 13, This Aint the Rosedale Library and Magic Pony are now all carrying Wowee Zonk.

Don't Delay, Go and get one TODAY.

TCAF and Others

2009-05-11T21:35:00.000-04:00

It's all over! The past week was an extremely busy one!

The first to recap, was our Gallery show and book launch for Wowee Zonk 2. It was an extremely successful and fun evening! Thanks to everyone who made it out! Click on the photo to check out some photos taken by friend Harvey Chan.

This is our room at the Toronto Comic arts festival which took place this past weekend. We were there selling our own books as well as the books of a ton of great Toronto Artists who couldn't make it out, Including wowee zonk 2 contributor Michael Deforge. Thank you to Chris Butcher, The Beguiling and The Toronto Reference Library for having us!

In between these two events, we also took part in the OCAD grad show, where Chris was awarded the Illustration Medal, the Top award in our program! Congrats Chris!

Wowee Zonk 2 is now available online and will be in finer stores in the Toronto Area shortly.

Now it's time for a good long sleep.

POST 100

2009-04-15T23:01:00.001-04:00

THIS IS IT.

POST 100

LESS THAN A MONTH 'TIL WOWEE ZONK TWO. START SAVING YOUR QUARTERS, YOU WILL NEED 12.

As paraphrased by Paul Dallas:
Wowee Zonk is a comic book anthology started in 2008 by 3 illustration students attending The Ontario College of Art and Design. Inspired by contemporary avant-garde comics, the publication was created as an outlet for the multitude of upcoming artists in Toronto working with visual narrative.The new issue, Wowee Zonk #2, features 56 pages by 7 young artists with distinctly individual approaches to the medium of comics.
The book will be launched Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at Keep Six Contemporary gallery, (938 Bathurst Street, 6-10pm) and coincide with a display of new work by Wowee Zonk founders,Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle. Artists will be in attendance.

The book also includes comics by illustration students Andrei Georgescu and Chris Simonen. (and Ken Craine and Michael Deforge)

Chris, Ginette and Patrick are also curating a small press room at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, featuring a number of Toronto and International Artists, on May 9th and 10th.

new animation

2009-03-10T20:46:00.001-04:00

baphomet

2009-03-08T10:23:00.000-04:00

2009-02-20T00:14:00.000-05:00

meerk dweller

2009-02-17T10:41:00.001-05:00

meerk dweller
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

kittenhat

2009-01-08T19:24:00.000-05:00

to summon your inner pervert

2009-01-06T23:26:00.000-05:00

art

2009-01-03T11:23:00.000-05:00

turning photohaused shit into art

wet butt and droopy dawg

2009-01-03T11:16:00.000-05:00

What Ned Did

2009-01-01T22:21:00.001-05:00

What Ned Did - 3
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

1 of 6 drawings i did at my parents house on christmas break.

som shid

2008-12-18T20:08:00.001-05:00

new story...

2008-12-18T20:05:00.000-05:00

since puketrick is talking new stories...i might as well mention my new one....
beastlord.
available when all the pieces fall into place...

Comical book.

2008-12-15T17:48:00.001-05:00

Comical book.
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

New Turdswallo Story book about Turdswallo traveling to Memphis by bus.

Wont be available until i get money to print it properly and figure out all that jazz.

Count Grishnakh.

2008-12-11T13:46:00.000-05:00

praise ghoul

2008-11-18T19:15:00.001-05:00

praise ghoul
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

This was supposed to be part of my thesis but now its here.

I hope everyone can also have a religious experience and pee carelessly because of it.

pointy - trying out watercolour shid

2008-11-13T20:07:00.000-05:00

fore drawings.

2008-11-11T23:52:00.001-05:00

fore drawings.
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

From sketchbook.

Friends of Wowee Zonk

2008-11-06T15:42:00.000-05:00

We have two bros who i think i should bring to light.

Chris Simonen www.whatsdaytoday.com

and Andrei Georgescu.

Both appearing in Wowee Zonk 2?(?)

RADOUT!!

2008-11-01T17:17:00.000-04:00

You got deserved

2008-10-28T20:18:00.001-04:00

You got deserved
Originally uploaded by puketrick bile

back in black and white.

we were at canzine! WERE YOU?

2008-10-28T18:15:00.000-04:00