Wednesday September 20th at 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:
A Koyama Press Book Signing
with
Connor Willumsen, Patrick Kyle and Noel Freibert
CONNOR WILLUMSEN: ANTI-GONE
Join an oneiric odyssey through a slacker second life.
Reality’s grip is loosened as Spyda and Lynxa explore a potentially constructed environment that shifts between dystopic future and constructed virtual present. Like a form of multistable perceptual phenomena, Anti-Gone exists in ambiguity.
CONNOR WILLUMSEN is
a Montreal-based artist originally from Calgary, AB, where he received a
design degree at The Alberta College of Art. He began making comics
while attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Since then, he has
drawn stories for Marvel, DC and Dynamite and illustrated the covers for
Criterion editions of David Cronenberg’s Scanners and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing. He has self-published a number of zines and comics and Breakdown Press published volumes one and two of his book Treasure Island in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
PATRICK KYLE: EVERYWHERE DISAPPEARED
Collecting a cornucopia of short comics by one of the medium’s most inventive artists.
A
keen observer of the absurd, Patrick Kyle’s stories defamiliarize the
machinations of life, work and art with droll dialogue and his angular,
humanely geometric drawing and sci-fi settings that recall set design
more than satellite images. Kyle’s figures may be foreign, his settings
strange, but his stories resonate deeply.
PATRICK KYLE lives and works in Toronto, ON. He is the author of the graphic novels Black Mass (2012), Distance Mover (2014) and Don't Come In Here (2016). At the 2016 Doug Wright Awards, he won the Pigskin Peters Award for New Comics #6 and 7.
NOEL FREIBERT : OLD GROUND
Sam Beckett and Sam Raimi intersect in an outsider art graveyard.
A
cemetery so old that the names on the graves have eroded into nothing
and no one remembers the dead is razed to make room for a retirement
home for folks who’ve also been forgotten. Ambience and slapstick
combine as an absurd cast of characters inhabits and haunts the home.
NOEL FREIBERT currently resides in Baltimore, MD. He is the editor of WEIRD Magazine and
was a member of the influential comics group Closed Caption Comics. His
work has been shown internationally and is featured in the book
collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
