This week we were able to catch up and conduct a mini-interview with Toronto-based artist and printmaker, Jamilya Lowe. Lowe is exhibiting works on paper within ‘A Clear Blazing Fire’, the group show currently being presented in the Magic Pony gallery space. Jamiyla Lowe&#
The latest issue of FLARE features the illustrations of the lovely & talented Ginette Lapalme! Lapalme is a Toronto-based illustrator, crafter, curator and cartoonist, as well as a co-founder of art collective Wowee Zonk. Read our Interview from May 2012 or view a selection of Gi
Jamiyla Lowe is featured in the newest issue of Pilot, a literary art magazine which highlights the best in new Canadian and international illustrators and writers. Pilot’s tenth issue, titled “Death in the City“, is curated by guest editor Amanda Nedham and include
Fanzine is having its second festival this fall, located in the Marguerite Duras Public Library in Paris, France. Fanzines and self-published books of all kinds from around the world will be gathered for this three-week event. It’s organized by Papier Gaché, an independent publi
My staff pick is a new zine released through Koyama Press called By This Shall You Know Him. This beautiful full colour comic was penned by artist and illustrator Jesse Jacobs and released at this year’s Toronto Comics Arts Festival. By restraining his use of any sort of text or
Souther Salazar will be exhibiting at Narwhal Art Projects this Saturday, June 16 in a solo show entitled “You and Me (And the Mouse in the Moon).” The lighthearted, illustrative style of his flat works comes to life when he applies it to 3-dimensional, installation pieces
To commemorate their second monograph, The Merlin Years, The Drake Hotel and Narwhal are hosting the members of Team Macho for a lecture and book signing–Chris Buchan, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Lauchie Reid, and Nicholas Aoki. Please join all of the members of Team Macho for this fr
Ginette Lapalme is a Toronto-based illustrator, crafter and cartoonist. She has been sharing with Magic Pony and Narwhal Art Projects her magical little treasures, fantastic zines, original drawings and beautiful prints! You have just been featured in Beautiful/Decay’s new Book
Toronto Comics and Arts Festival is an event that I most definitely look forward to each year. Thanks to the hard work from The Beguiling and all the participants and volunteers, it has united myself and many other fans with artists that we love and look up to. In the past years some
“My favourite product right now is the graphic novel we got in from Drawn & Quarterly: The Wrong Place by Brecht Evens. This Eisner-nominated comic is beautifully illustrated, and carries a strange and fragmented sense of magic-realism. The narrative revolves around of a dan
