Jesse Jacob’s By This Shall You Know Him

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 …..

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Souther Salazar’s “Alejandro and the Idea Machine”

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. Combining collage, sculpture, and …..

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An Interview with Ginette Lapalme

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 #7: Class Clowns. This issue places focus on artists whose …..

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TCAF Recap! An Inspiring Visual Experience

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 …..

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The Wrong Place by Brecht Evens

“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 dandyish man named Robbie and his various …..

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