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Only 35 seconds eh? oh well.
Oh were to begin. To start I’ll point to the links page at the MCC { the Montreal Comic Collective }[an informal web collective of Montreal – thought not limited to - comix creators & enthusiasts], there are oodles of sites listed there broken out into categories roughly analogous to those in the Topic Abstract here. Particular favourites of mine are as follows…
Artist/Writer Sites
Niko Henrichon -this site is very new. Montrealer who recently landed a Vertigo gig working on Barnum by Chaykin & Tischman. Some really nice work, I especially like his sketches.
Jimmy Beaulieu -Publisher of Mécanique générale (MG) & avid doodler of pretty girls. As of late themes of rural life and searching for deeper meaning dominate his work.
Luc Giard -Prolific artist, one of the MG gang, some really nice painting here in his galleries. A major influence on Jimmy.
Leif Tande -Another of the MG guys, very cool tripy comics.
Benoit Joly - And another of the MG guys, I really like his clear line influenced work, some neat comics stories, though rather abstract in narrative.
Denis Rodier - Another Montréaler, some nice illo work and very accomplished comics art.
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - A Haida artist based out of BC, very interesting stuff, not a lot online here just yet, I helped him get this site up and running & he's still learning how to post his art. He calls his comics art Haida Manga. I have a copy of A Tale of Two Shaman, he uses traditional Haida imagery like that you would see on dug out canoes and totem polls (he also carves those) in his work in some very interesting ways. For all of Two Shaman the pages are made up of large full-page characters, tradition imagery, with the spaces they create in and around them used as the panels. Wile it’s a dead language it implies an additional layer of meaning to the page’s narratives.
Onsmith -Neat Chicago based artist, heavily influenced by the Montreal crowd.
Marc Ngui - Cool political driven funny strips, you can read his Zak Meadow stuff here
Kagan Mcleod - If you like kung foo movies you'll love his stuff.
....ahhh...lots more but that's enough for now.
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