COMIC ART AND COMEDY AT THE FEATHERTALE REVIEW CABARET LAUNCH
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Enjoy this brief video featuring some event highlights. More information follows below.
In celebration of Feathertale’s first full-length comics issue, This is Not a Reading Series partners with the creators of Feathertale to bring you a cabaret performance that will test this country’s obscenity laws and give insight into how a professional cartoonist actually works. Three Feathertale illustrators will take to the stage and create a comic strip before your very eyes in the Comic Idol showdown with host, Toronto actor and Improv Blackbelt, Ian Busher. Feathertale will profile the works of Feathertale artists like Graham Roumieu and JamieTucker and anxious fans will have a one-time only chance to pick up a copy of Review #8 before its fall release. Feathertale editor Brett Popplewell and regular Feathertale poets and writers will perform a few of the short stories and poems from the Review’s forthcoming memoirs issue. Half of what is to be performed on stage will be based in reality. Feathertale magazines, t-shirts and art will all be for sale at the launch. As if that weren’t enough, Iain Marlow and the Subordinate Clause will cap off the evening with a jazz performance that’s sure to bring a tear to your legs.
Wednesday, March 30
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen Street West
Doors open at 7 pm; Event starts at 7:30 pm
$5 or Free with book purchase
ABOUT FEATHERTALE: The Feathertale Review is one of the most successful Canadian literary journals to be entirely devoted to satire. An irreverent mix of irrelevance, The Feathertale Review looks like the bastard lovechild of Mad Magazine and the old Saturday Evening Post. Edited by a Toronto Star journalist and art directed by a top New York City designer, Feathertale has published hundreds of poems, stories and cartoons in its five years in print and online. Visit www.feathertale.com
ABOUT THE FEATHERTALE REVIEW 7 and 8: This launch party is a double bill as Feathertale prepares to unveil not one but two issues of The Feathertale Review. Featuring works by 75 writers, poets and illustrators The Feathertale Reviews #7 & 8 contain a wide mix of high- and low-brow humour. Feathertale’s seventh issue, which will hit magazine stands and bookstores on April 1, is the magazine’s first full-length comics issue. The issue features work by 20 artists whose work is more commonly found in The New Yorker, Globe and Mail and Wall Street Journal. Inside The Feathertale Review #7’s 64 pages of comics is work by several prolific Toronto illustrators including Graham Roumieu. Though The Feathertale Review #8 will not officially hit bookstands until October 2011, anyone present at the show will be able to see and purchase that Review at the show as well. For its part The Feathertale Review #8 is entirely devoted to stories told in the first person and features memoirs from 35 writers including Cathal Kelly (Toronto Star sports columnist) and a number of Canadian and American talents whose work has also appeared in publications like McSweeneys Internet Tendency and Tin House.
Brett Popplewell: A journalist by trade but a swashbuckling archeologist at heart. Brett currently resides in Toronto, where he's given up his hobby of blowing snowflakes toward the sea in order to pursue a gloriously unqualified career as Feathertale's editor.
Rebecca Hitchens is a freelance illustrator and animal rescuer. A long-time contributor to The Feathertale Review, Rebecca recently illustrated A Feathered Castaway Tale through the eyes of a pigeon. Visit Rebecca’s website at www.becca-illustration.com.
Jeremy Kaposy is a Toronto illustrator and comic book creator. He has been featured in American Illustration and produces an online comic. Find out more about Jeremy at www.jeremykaposy.com
Gavin McCarthy is a freelance illustrator who lives and works in Toronto. Often influenced by his many vices, Gavin’s work is a smoothie of pop-culture references and social commentary. His day usually starts with an espresso and ends with a rye, but occasionally it’s the other way around. To see more of his work visit www.artbygavin.com
Graham Roumieu is the only surviving biographer of Bigfoot and the author and illustrator of some of the oddest literature known to man. His work has appeared in six of the first seven issues of The Feathertale Review, as well as in a number of obscure publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s and the Wall Street Journal. Visit Graham at www.roumieu.com.
Dani Crosby is an illustrator based in Oshawa and a frequent contributor to the Feathertale Review. Visit Dani at www.danicrosby.com.
Jamie Tucker draws people, places and things. He most likely drew you somewhere, doing something of some sort. He might be watching and drawing you right now. He’s sneaky like that. Visit Jamie at www.jamietucker.com.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Feathertale Review: Brett Popplewell, bpopplewell@feathertale.com
This Is Not A Reading Series: Anna Withrow, awithrow@rogers.com
