Contributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese,
Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, Paddy Johnston, Ivan Kocmarek,
Jessica Langston, Judith Leggatt, Daniel Marrone, Mark J.
McLaughlin, Joan Ormrod, Laura A. Pearson, Annick Pellegrin,
Mihaela Precup, Jason Sacks, and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge. This overview
of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as well as
unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that
English-language, Francophone, indigenous, and queer Canadian
comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to
dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories. In
contrast to the United States' melting pot, Canada has been
understood to comprise a social, cultural, and ethnic mosaic, with
distinct cultural variation as part of its identity. This volume
reveals differences that often reflect in highly regional and
localized comics such as Paul MacKinnon's Cape Breton-specific Old
Trout Funnies, Michel Rabagliati's Montreal-based Paul comics, and
Kurt Martell and Christopher Merkley's Thunder Bay-specific zombie
apocalypse. The collection also considers some of the
conventionally "alternative" cartoonists, namely Seth, Dave Sim,
and Chester Brown. It offers alternate views of the diverse and
engaging work of two very different Canadian cartoonists who bring
their own alternatives into play: Jeff Lemire in his bridging of
Canadian/US and mainstream/alternative sensibilities and Nina
Bunjevac in her own blending of realism and fantasy as well as of
insider/outsider status. Despite an upsurge in research on Canadian
comics, there is still remarkably little written about most major
and all minor Canadian cartoonists. This volume provides insight
into some of the lesser-known Canadian alternatives still awaiting
full exploration.
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