Land Acknowledgement comic for vanCAF 2020
Special thanks to Kwiigay Iiwaans for their script consultation
Panel 1: Backpatch by Mangeshig
Panel 12: Books on shelf are I Am Still Too Much by Brandi Bird, This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt, Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist and nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon
vanCAF: In Conversation with Cole Pauls and Whess Harman: Cole Pauls (author of Dakwäkãda Warriors and vanCAF’s 2019 land acknowledgement illustrator) and I talk about land acknowledgements, horror manga and why I love the colour pink.
snaring, 2020
written and drawn for the Goethe-Institut Kanada for the Frankfurt Bookfair (presented as a digital project following COVID-19 cancellations).
19 artists from Germany and so-called canada were asked to create a single page work on the topic of reconciliation. View the project at Goethe-Institut Kanada’s site for each page and the accompanying artist interviews. Works are translated into English, French and German.
Bottom left panel features an image of one of the Indigenous youth arrested at the vancouver port blockade in support of Wet’suwet’en and their fight for land sovereignty and against the canadian gov’t and CGL Pipeline. Bottom right panel features a screenshot of the gofundme for Eishia Hudson’s funeral, a 16-year-old girl shot by the police in Winnipeg on April 8, 2020.
Salmon Journeys for Comics in Transit, organized by Oliver McTavish @ Cloudscape Comics
installed @ 52 & Victoria in so-called vancouver, the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh
self-portraiture and bad advice, 2017