FASTFORWARD is HERE

My New Book FASTFORWARD, a cosmically abstract and experimental surreal sci-fi graphic novel for robots and androids is now released unto the World. 96 pages, 8.5 x 11in. Published by and available through Moelle Graphik.

CONVERSATE

Place Into Being

 A New Book collecting 80 pages of my comic art is COMING OUT in April 2019 published by At Bay Press ! Here below is the cover - kinda cool that there is no title on it, just the art.

Place Into Being cover art

Two selected pages from Place Into Being. 

CANZINE 2017 & NEW STUFF

JOIN ME at CANZINE & the ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR this SATURDAY at the MILLENNIUM LIBRARY in WINNIPEG!

I always have NEW STUFF!!

INKLINGS is a new book of INK doodles 8.5 x 5.5 in. printed on heavy green card stock.

COMXSTRIP is a set of 4 comic strips each individually boxed - 2.625 x .75 x .75 in.
Each strip is 2.25 in. wide and unrolls to 14 inches long.

MEANWHILE... this past spring I printed up (at KROMAR printing) a collection of my abstract & surreal comics called Meanwhile...
Looks like a city map until you unfold it.(see above image)

There is a poster on the other side as well. One large comic with a few smaller ones.

Part of my table display at last year's Canzine.

Secrets & Lies - Book Launch

McNally Robinson Booksellers &

At Bay Press

are pleased to present the launch of

Secrets and Lies

The 2017 At Bay Press Fiction Annual

Thursday October 12, 7:00 pm
Grant Park in the Atrium

Cover Artwork by PAS.TER.NAK, Cover Design by Matt Joudrey

Hosted by Canadian writer, artist, and designer M.C. Joudrey and featuring contributors Karen Clavelle, Lisa Mendis, Van Kunder, Michael Joyal, Robert Pasternak, and Meghan Zahari.

The short stories and artwork included in this collection focus on the distorted and rearranged truths that we tell ourselves and others. What emerges from these pages is that loneliness is often the catalyst for how we reject or construct reality. In these stories, different considerations of loneliness are explored, and we get a sense of the solitude each one of us knows. The insightful writing that comprises this Fiction Annual captures the power that secrets and lies have in both the creation and destruction of the lives we build. By virtue of the mechanisms we rely on to elude, deflect and deny, we can find ourselves very alone in a world of our own design.

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Here's The Thing

HERE'S THE THING

(working title and cover art)

At Bay Press has agreed to publish a very large and exceptional collection of my new graphic/abstract comic work! 80 full color pages of art. 8.5 x 12 in. Scheduled release date is tentatively Fall 2018.

ZOiKs KaBlaMo ABstract-O-RaMo !  I can't wait.
In 2013 after moving out of my studio of 22 years and contemplating on being a City of Winnipeg Transit driver, my comics, if they were not already abstract enough, took an inevitable wider left turn,  then up and sideways. It'll be quite a diverse collection. I've really been having a lot of fun exploring and experimenting. This book will be mostly single page pieces along with some 2 and 3-page comics as well.

New Music Festival and Beyond

My short xperimental 2007 film 412222 will be shown at this years New Music Festival here in Winnipeg. This film was made entirely on 16mm film for my instalation component at PlugIn ICA's group show Scratching The Surface: The Post Prairie Landscape. The film is four and a half minutes long and will be show in between the two main performances for the evening.

Two stills from the xperimental 412222

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SAYSOME issue No.5
is available now in selected locations in Winnipeg and now in Montreal at Monastiraki.
....and remember, it's FREE! 

If you would like to carry Saysome in your store or other locale, please write me. Back issues are available. Each issue contains vatious ARTicles of ink drawings with regular installments of Super Secret Abstract Gadget Man, a comic strip called Meanwhile..., the Abstract Page  as well as other viewing devices. Each issue is 8 pages.

MONASTIRAKI and Billy Mavreas

Mini Comics Treasury

 NOW AVAILABLE!

TREASURY OF MINI COMICS Vol.1 
This volume collects a sampling of complete mini comic issues from 1969 to the present from about 50 artists.
To order your copy check out the Amazon listing here
or visit your nearest book seller or favorite comic shop.

Michael Dowers, Editor

Published by Fantagraphics
Hardcover
848 pages

Black & white throughout with 68 pages in color.

5 in. x 6.5 in. x 1.5 in.

One of my Mini Comics is published in this mini ginormous bible brick of a book.

Pages from Acid Man Society #9, 1989 by Robert Pasternak

Pages from Pink Slip, 1992 by John Porcellino

Pages from Wurst Funies,1986 by Brad Johnson

Pages from Year In A Cone, 1991 by Billy Mavreas

The first of two volumes collecting mini comics from the 1960s till the present, created by pioneers and champions of the form.
Fantagraphics’ 2010 NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s was such an unexpected hit that it inspired this first of a two-volume set chronicling the art of the mini-comic from the late 1960s to present—The Treasury of Mini Comics. The Treasury of Mini Comics charts the evolution of the art of mini comics over four decades of deliberate cartoon rebellion. This volume will reproduce some of the best mini comics ever produced by some of the most creative DIY creators in the world (many of whom, of course, have gone on to become familiar names among contemporary comics connoisseurs): Leonard Rifas, Justin Green, Gary Arlington, Jim Siergey, Larry Rippee, Richard Krauss, Bob Vojtko, Par Holman & Clark Dissmeyer, Matt Feazell, Matt Howarth, Steve Willis, Ronald Russell Roach, Edd Vick, Bruce Chrislip, Brad Johnson, Tim Corrigan, Macedonio Garcia, David Miller, Colin Upton, Robert Pasternak, David Lee Ingersoll, Roberta Gregory, John Porcellino, Dylan Williams, Eric Reynolds, Molly Keily, Blair Wilson, Jim Blanchard, Chris Cilla, David Lasky & Jim Woodring, Marc Bell, Ron Rege Jr., Leela Corman, David Heatley, Laura Wady, Fiona Smyth, Karl Wills, Onsmith, Travis Millard, Mark Campos, Nate Beaty, Peter Thompson, Carrie McNinch, Mark Todd, Esther Pearl Watson, Andy Singer, Noah Van Sciver, Kelly Froh, Aaron Norhanian, Max Clotfelter, and Marc J. Palm.

A NEW BOOK

A collection of poems by Andrew Vaisius

I have had the great pleasure to produce a book collecting a small sampling of poetry by my friend and fantastic poet Andrew Vaisius. I cannot believe that even though his poetry has been printed in countless literary publications as well as having reviewed hundreds of other peoples books and writings that this is his first ever book collecting his poetry.

I generally only make books containing my art, for myself, to varying degrees of technical might, man hours of assembling the large or few number of copies,  but I offered up this idea to Andrew to produce a chapbook of his poetry and this is the first time I have done this. I love how it turned out.

The cover for this volume reproduces a piece of art that Andrew chose from my "Ground" series and I created an original piece of artwork for the inside of the book that doubles as an art note card to send out to someone or an art print to frame or tape up to your fridge.... or you can even leave it in the book where it belongs so that it can appreciate in value for some future nest egg.

There are 18 poems collected within these 32 pages and there is a special numbered art card also included in each copy. The book measures 4.25 inches x 7 inches, so it will easily fit into your vest pocket or purse for your traveling pleasure.

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Come and help celebrate this event by coming out to
An evening of Sight and Sound......and Poetry
Friday, September 13th
7:30 pm
Winkler Library,  Winkler Manitoba

The original art for this cover will be on display along with many other pieces from this series & Paul Bergman will be performing some of his fantastic music and song!
.... and of course, Andrew will read from his new Book.