Comic Book Special: Toronto graphic novelists sketch themselves
Comic Book Special: Toronto graphic novelists sketch themselves
Hundreds of graphic novelists will squeeze into the Reference Library on May 9 and 10 for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We picked the seven local stars to catch—and asked each for a self-portrait.
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- <strong>The Teen Whisperer</strong><br /><br /> <strong>Jillian Tamaki’</strong>s new YA comic, <em>SuperMutant Magic Academy, </em>is a brassy hybrid of <em>Mean Girls </em>and X-Men: it follows a group of teen mutants and witches balancing magic powers, popularity and turbulent adolescent angst.
- (Illustration: Jillian Tamaki)
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- <strong>The Quick Wit</strong><br /><br /> <em>Hark! A Vagrant, </em><strong>Kate Beaton’</strong>s wildly popular web comic, is a droll parade of squirrelly squiggles and inside jokes about Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. Her new anthology, <em>Step Aside, Pops,</em> is out this fall.
- (Illustration: Kate Beaton)
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- <strong>The Deep Thinker</strong><br /><br /> <strong>Michael DeForge’</strong>s comics look lightweight, with Lorax monsters, dreamy snowscapes and sherbet colours. But his books are deep and chewy: his latest, <em>First Year Healthy, </em>follows a woman’s return to the real world after a stint in a psych ward.
- (Illustration: Michael DeForge)
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- <strong>The Mythmaker</strong><br /><br /> In <em>Hyena in Petticoats, </em><strong>Willow Dawson</strong> transformed Nellie McClung into a badass suffragette superheroine. A new kids’ book she illustrated, <em>Avis Dolphin, </em>is just as fanciful, about a young girl shipwrecked on a magical island.
- (Illustration: Willow Dawson)
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- <strong>The Class Clown</strong><br /><br /> After building his reputation on the graphic novel <em>Sex Criminals,</em> <strong>Chip Zdarsky</strong> (real name Steve Murray) signed on to write Marvel’s new Howard the Duck series. His version is surreal, slapsticky and uproarious.
- (Illustration: Chip Zdarsky)
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- <strong>The Power Couple</strong><br /><br /> <strong>Kathryn and Stuart Immonen</strong> moonlight as graphic novelists when they’re not working on X-Men comics. Their latest collaboration is <em>Russian Olive to Red King,</em> a dark, dreamlike romance.
- (Illustration: Immonens by Stuart Immonen)
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Hundreds of graphic novelists will squeeze into the Reference Library on May 9 and 10 for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We picked the seven local stars to catch—and asked each for a self-portrait.
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One of this post’s image captions originally misstated the title of Avis Dolphin, a book illustrated by Willow Dawson. Also, the caption implied that Dawson had written the book herself. In fact, that job was done by Frieda Wishinsky.