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Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts
Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival 2011
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.
TCAF 2011 is over
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.
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.
Wowee Zonk Presents BLESS THIS PRESS TCAF Small Press Exhibition 2011
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)
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/)
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/)
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/)
SECRET SHAME opening April 1st at LE Gallery
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!
The Unicorn
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.
Magic Pony Window Display
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!
Wowee Zonk and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival
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.
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.
Spelunkin Fer Culkin
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
__________
Come and Check it out on The first!
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
__________
Come and Check it out on The first!
Death
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
Photo by Alex DaveySUICIDE 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!
TCAF and Others
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.
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.
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