Posts Tagged ‘vancouver’
Lucky’s Launch
Thanks to Lucky’s Comics, the most colourful and magical shop, for hosting my West coast book launch. Fun times!! I also got to meet the wonderful Sean Cranbury of Books on the Radio for a wee interview, coming soon.
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Process
Often, when I describe the process I used to create the prints for Back and Forth people ask, “why did you do that?”. Admittedly, in the age of hi-res scanning and photography, adobe illustrator, corel draw and MS paint (still a personal favourite), I could have made this book in a variety of ways that […]
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Landscape and Location
Back and Forth is a book created in Canada, inspired by the vast contours of this grand old land. When I immigrated to this country as a small child, these great distances were beyond even my fertile imagination. For years I stayed cloistered in the suburbs, developing an ever irritating itch to discover what lay […]
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Welcome
You have come here because you are interested in the new graphic novel Back and Forth by Marta Chudolinska. Congratulations! You are in the right place. Back and Forth is a story told without words. The narrative is shown in 90 black and white images, made by printing carved linoleum blocks. Carving (or ‘cutting’) involves […]
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Tags: art, book, canada, graphic novel, porcupine's quill, toronto, vancouver
