Alberta Comics: Home - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1989754163 ISBN 13 : 9781989754160

Editeur : Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

A collection of compelling stort stories on the theme of 'home' from a diverse range of Canadian voices.

The theme of our anthology is 'Home.' Be it positive or negative, our homes help create us, and these last few years of distancing, cohorts and quarantines have likely made that even clearer. A home might become a haven as the outside world descends into chaos or it might also feel like a cage. It can be both. A setting can be as much a character as a person. Sometimes we long for places simply for their beauty, but more often we're seeking a reunion with a person, family or community. We put out a call for stories that were quintessentially Albertan, and of course we got an amazingly diverse response, from slice-of-life to fantastical fiction. While one creator draws love-letter via a run-down of our 'World's Largest' sites, another hunts to feed their family. Teresa Wong drew a map of Calgary's Chinatown overlaid with personal family history. Some reminisced over summers' past – the party scene in Edmonton, and the buzz of activity in Okotoks when Pokemon Go was released – while another finds humour, and hope even, in the worst thing imaginable, zombies terrorizing the small town of Byemoor.

The characters within our comics frequently ask themselves just what makes a “good” home. Is it a crashed starship with only a glitchy hol-ographic attendant? Or something even more fantastic, a page of art through which the artist is spontaneously transported – along with her cat – into the vastness of space?

We’re giving you a little bit of everything. Mountains that loom, pen-ning the protagonists in, and mountains cared for by marmots in un-expected and comical ways. There are cowboys stalked by a deadly predator, and violence committed by cute furry animals. You’ll find invisible beings, crises’ of self, post-apocalyptic pedal punks, and a pilot crawling from the burning wreckage of a plane crash. These artists dug deep, pondering the idea of what constitutes a ‘real’ family, how we find comfort, what ‘normal’ looks like, and whether we need that in our lives. Home both inspires and motivates us… But houses often haunt us.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

"Alexander Finbow is a Canmore based filmmaker and author, creator of the award winning Loxleys series of original graphic novels, co-writer of The Loxleys and Confederation with Mark Zuehlke and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, author of the forthcoming historical-fantasy OGN Blood Light and action comic series 24 Hours in London. Originally from England, Alexander emigrated to Canada in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1989754163
• ISBN 13: 9781989754160
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Éditeur: Finbow Alexander, Proulx Shea, Pomeroy Emily
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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