Tagged: handmade book

May 10, 2013

Run from your houses! TCAF is coming!!!

Yep, TCAF (the Toronto Comic Arts Festival) is happening this weekend (Saturday May 11 9-5 and Sunday May 12 11-5) at the Toronto Reference Library. Already happening, in fact!

I’m in a whirlwind of prep and programming (I’m speaking on a panel at TCAF Librarian & Educators Day this afternoon on non-fiction comics!), so here’s just a quick peek of what I’ll have at the fest:

All me loot (clockwise from left): wordless linocut novel Back + Forth, stack of various zines and prints, 24 hour comic book day comic made in one week Good Morning!, my *NEW* mini comic Homeache, and wordless relief print erotic story anthology Boom Boom Boom.

Homeache, silkscreen cover on Stonehenge, 24 pages, 4.25 x 5.5″

Homeache is a memorial to an old Toronto apartment and the ways that a place comes to shape us as we fill it with experience.

October 19, 2012

Here comes Canzine!!

I’ll be tabling at Canzine this weekend and I can’t wait! This is a big, busy zine fest and I always find great stuff for sale and meet some really nice people.

I’ll have copies of Boom Boom Boom available, as well as older books, zines, screenprints and limited copies of my large linoprint. I’m also taking part in the Hollywood Rip-Off Zine Challenge, where I will put together a zine in one hour based on a well-known 90’s film that will be announced at the event (I have a shortlist so will be watching a few to prepare). Based on my experience putting together a zine in one hour with Static Zine at the 12hr Zine Machine event at Nuit Blanche, I know I will have to HUSSLE… one hour is barely any time!

Stop by and say hi if you can!

June 18, 2012

What’s up summertime?

A little update from my studio:

I’m still in the process of binding books. Who would have thought that binding 200 books by hand would take a long time? Ha! I have completed almost 40 books, have another 10 close to done and another 150 to go after that. Last night I finished collating all the books!!! Collating means putting the pages in order. Maybe it doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a dull process which requires a lot of space to lay out all the pages and a lot of time to put them all together. I also made headway on trimming the text blocks (the term for the stack of pages before they are bound). Only 130 blocks left to trim. Ha! It sounds like a lot, but with the beautiful ancient paper trimmer at my studio, it should only take a couple hours of work.
I’m still eating great snacks! This is a picture from last week. I neglected to photograph last night’s snack repertoire, which consisted of salt and pepper chips, salt and vinegar chips and dark chocolate with hazelnuts. Yes, two kinds of chips. I had a lot of work to do!
At the end of this week, I am leaving for Alaska for a month!! This means that production of books will slow down a bit (meaning they won’t be available online for at least another 6 weeks) but hopefully creative production overall will increase by a million. I’m so excited to hike, kayak, see special people and NOT WORK 40hrs/week!! Wooooo!!!!
I spent some time updating my website. Hope you like it! There’s some new content in the Comics, Drawings and Books sections. Check ‘er out!

May 10, 2012

Boom Boom Boom binding

Here is a little look at a copy of Boom Boom Boom. I sold out of the copies I had ready for TCAF but there are many left to bind. I’m going to have busy hands for the next few weeks!