Twilight Of Echelon

 A new book published by At Bay Press is out now!

Four Fantastic writers independently explored the lands and imagery of Echelon and have returned to tell their tales in Twilight of Echelon. 

Event #6 featuring Robert Pasternak discussing the book 'Place Into Being'

TODAY, MONDAY, FEB 8, 2021

An intimate chat in my studio DISCUSSING my book of coMics+abstract comiCs  PLACE Into BEING

Hosted by my publisher Matt Jaudrey of At Bay Press and sponsored by Safe At Home MB.ca

7 PM Central Time

Via ZOOM

Registration is required. All ages event.

https://atbaypress.com/events/detail/at-bay-press-presents-the-better-book-club-event-6

Each registrant will receive a free e-book (pdf format) of the work being read and discussed.

The event will be approximately 1 hour long.

The event will also be live-streaming on Youtube and Facebook.

The Better Book Club

An intimate reading and discussion series, featuring authors and artists published by At Bay Press. Every Monday, we will host a session via Zoom with live-streaming on Youtube and Facebook for 8 weeks, starting Monday, January 4th 2021. Each week, an At Bay Press author (and artist if the book is a graphic novel or visual book) will read from their latest novel, poetry collection, or graphic novel. Readings will be followed by an open discussion with attendees, just like a regular book club, but better since the author of the work will be in attendance! 

Each registrant will receive a free e-book (pdf format) of the work being read and discussed prior to the event. Each event will be approximately 1 hour long. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear from your favourite authors and be able to speak directly with them from the comfort of your own home.

About the book: Robert Pasternak (NAK) is a virtuoso of the sequential art form. An adept panelologist and painstaking craftsman. Despite a loyal and attentive following, awareness of his work is limited. In many ways, what may appear to be a constraint is part of the NAK mystery and lore. The abstract comics medium is highly complex and only vaguely understood. For NAK, it’s merely a brushstroke. Yet, to define this artwork as abstract could be considered derivative. To the observer, NAK is ocular candy. Psychedelic sensuality.

Delve into the NAK experience, an explorative expedition contained in this first published volume of his work. This creative journey will compositionally challenge and cerebrally stretch the current understanding of comics.Each registrant will receive a free e-book (pdf format) of the work being read and discussed prior to the event.

About the author: Robert Pasternak (NAK) is an artist, father, illustrator, graphic designer, novelty product inventor / manufacturer and filmmaker, spanning the themes of the cosmic, surreal, technological, metaphysical and what it means to be human. He has been creating and exhibiting his art for almost 40 years. His science fiction illustrations have appeared on Amazing Stories and On Spec magazine, on book covers for Guy Vanderhague and Timothy Findley. In 1994 he won the Aurora award in Canadian Sci-Fi art. In 2012 The Wonderful Worlds of Nak, a documentary by Patric Lowe was produced by MTS.

Prairie Fire

 Super review of Place Into Being posted on the Prairie Fire website.

http://www.prairiefire.ca/place-into-being-by-robert-pasternak/

CANZINE 2015 & ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR

CANZINE - WINNIPEG

Saturday October 24,  12pm-6pm

The Carol Shields Auditorium and Buchwald Room

Winnipeg Public Library, Millenium Library

251 Donald Street  

Free !  or $5 suggested donation gets you a copy of Broken Pencil

Click here for more information or to register for a table.

http://www.brokenpencil.com/canzine-winnipeg

WINNIPEG COMIC TIME

COMIC CON
FRI-Oct.31st, SAT-Nov.1st, SUN-Nov.2nd
2-9pm            9-9pm            10-6pm
RBC Convention Centre (Winnipeg Convention Centre)

Once again I will be setting up my wares at this huge comic convention. I've been going to these things for years, since it was a single room with 20 tables or so back in the 80's.  I will only be in attendance Saturday & Sunday. For friday I will be represented by my table with some freebee art samples for you. See you there!

YES I CANzine

CANZINE 2014
Saturday Oct.25,2014 12-7pm
http://www.brokenpencil.com/canzine-winnipeg

Winnipeg ANARCHIST Bookfair Canzine DIY Fest!

Oct.24-26th  http://wpgbookfairdiyfest.com/

University of Winnipeg, The Bulman Centre, Riddell Hall
Spence Street Entrance

I will be setting up my NAKFACTORIUM table at the inaugural Winnipeg Chapter of Canzine! I will most likely bring all my book related items and the Novelty print related stuff. This will include my newest SAYSOME series along with ACID MAN society books, comics, art and MORE! There is always more and always something new!!

I will also Be set up on Sunday afternoon as part of the Winnipeg ANARCHIST Bookfair.

brokenpencil.com/canzine-winnipeg

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NEW ISSUES ARE OUT!

SAYSOME No.7
with special fold-out cover contains the staple that holds it all together!
also included:
-Meanwhile...
-SuperSecretAbstractMan
-somefineart
-tears

8 pages plus the fold-out cover 

4.25in x 5.5in - mini format

Available FREE at Comic Factory & Red River Books & Monastiraki

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AM34 (acid man #34)
2-color : xerox plus inkjet
8 pages on 70lb text
4in x 5.5in

Available only through The Man
PTTN-Pay Through The Nose

ZINE FEST in WINNIPEG

I LOVE THESE THINGS

I will be setting up a table this year at at the ZINE FEST here in Winnipeg.
But only on
SUNDAY-JUNE 8th, 12-5pm

I will have both new and old zines and books, including more copies of SAYSOME, as well as prints and  N E W  Novelty items like the Comic Foldies fidgit funpac shown below....and there's more! (There is always more crazy sh!t.)

PLUS, don't forget all the other incredible things you will see and buy from all the other assorted zinesters.  COME ON DOWN.

Get'em

NEW ACID MAN AVAILABLE

Issues No. 30,  No.32,  No.33

The continuing sag.
No.30 has a nice cover and 16 pages of writing writ and wrought.
Thoughtful art and questionable mind.
No.32 has 8 stiff pages and is a bit more artsy (that's code for WTF).
FIND Acid Man on every page.
No.33 is a very fair artifactual likeness of one of my pocket drawing books but the drawings are culled from 4 books from 1992-1993. Made with the same materials as I would use for my own sketchbooks and includes attachments, found inserts and an original one-of-a-kind photo cover on each. WoW! 32 pages. The only thing I did not do is wear it out in my back pocket for a month but I can do that for you for an extra fee. Only 30 made.

Available nowhere yet! Just from me. Contact hurry today write fast call right now. Get'em.

What happened to No.31 you ask? I did it ages ago. It's the one with Nostradamus.
Right now I'm working on No.29.

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AGLIFF
October 3 - 7, 2012
Thanks to Noam Gonick, our short experimental film A Place For Us will be screening at AGLIFF in Austin Texas.  The third collaborator of this film, Aaron Zeghlers was the catalyst for the making of this film by combining two super8 films, one by Noam and one by Robert, into something more.

ZINE SHOW

At Freud's Bathhouse & Diner opening Thursday, August 5th is a new Zine Show offering up all sorts of DIY publishing from a whack of crazy hooligan popes.....including myself with my BOOKLETS®  and flip books and other Printed Matter. The show continues untill August 29th.

42 Albert St., Winnipeg in the Exchange.

SHE CHEWS BOOKLETS

 

Booklets has been selected to be part of a group show at the Irvine Fine Arts Center. The opening is Tonight!

Visual Chomping

The show VISUAL CHEW at Martha St. Studio is a wonderful success. People are really enjoying it. Here is a preview article which appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press. The Opening was very very well attended and people seem to be coming out in numbers during the length of the show.

I hope to post some shots of the opening night soon. In the meantime here are a few shots of what you first see when you come through the doors. Then there is much more!

New Book Of Drawings

I just put together  a new book of some drawings that I've been doing since I started a full time position (Sept 08)at G/L Designs - a textile screen printing shop. Often I did not have much time to paint so I spent minutes at a time on this series of "doodles". They are in a style that  I have been doing since the 80's in my SF illustration days but these are much looser and abstract. They are also similar to my pencil phone doodles and a "mechanical cousin" to the breath drawings. There are 23 drawings plus a short introduction in this collection. I will be premiering the book at my show at La Luz De Jesus Gallery this Friday April 3rd!