Featuring some of our favorite local artists, Wowee Zonk 4 is a new and ambitious experimental comic anthology that showcases some extremely unique approaches to narrative art and the comic format. Flipping through each page introduces a completely new and unique visual language that makes it totally worth it to go back for a second or third read-through just to make sure you have properly digested all the insane goodness.
Each of the Wowee Zonk anthologies is curated and edited by a local comics arts collective that goes by the same name. The group is comprised of Patrick Kyle, Chris Kuzma, and Ginette Lapalme, all of whom are artists and illustrators who live and work in Toronto. They have been working collectively under the moniker of Wowee Zonk since 2007 when they were all still studying Illustration at OCAD University. At this time they were hand-printing all of their various zines and comic project,s but since then have expanded significantly and are now able to have their books published professionally with Koyama Press, a very successful and credible publication house within the small press community.
This newest issue which premiered at the recent Toronto Comics Arts Festival, will include new works by Marc Bell, Adam Buttrick, Mark Connery, Steph Davidson, Donald Dixon, Ryan Dodgson, Andrei Georgescu, Benjamin Hettinga, and Alex Schubert, as well as contributions from the each of the three editors.
Also check out this sweet looping preview from Wowee Zonk’s site. You can also browse through it in person here at the store, or view some sample pages on our online store.