This is serious : Canadian indie comics / curated by Alana Traficante & Joe Ollmann.

"THIS IS SERIOUS reveals the considerable contributions being made by artists from across the country to the greater field of global comics--of which Toronto, Montreal, and Hamilton are significant creative centres. Surveying the work of forty-seven contemporary Canadian artists, THIS IS SERIOUS sho...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ont.) (Host institution, Publisher)
Other Authors: Traficante, Alana (Editor)
Ollmann, Joe, 1966- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Hamilton, Ontario : Wolfville, Nova Scotia : Art Gallery of Hamilton ; Conundrum Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > Canada > Exhibitions.
Cartoonists > Canada.
Artists > Canada.
Artists.
Cartoonists.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Canada.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Variant Title:
Canadian indie comics
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Director's foreword / by Shelley Falconer
  • A makeshift tradition: Canada's cartooning heritage / by Jeet Heer
  • Welcome to THIS IS SERIOUS! / by Joe Ollmann
  • This is serious: A cultural theory for comics / by Alana Traficante
  • The works
  • The future / by Peggy Burns
  • Artists
  • Contributors.