| Even now that individual members have began to build separate careers, undermining part of the group's original raison d'être as a mutual support network, the boyish thrill of being part of a secret gang seems to have endured. Conversationalist . Michael Dumontier's sparse images of dangling electric cables, unwound cassette tapes and tiny clapboard shacks, though not entirely free from the cuteness that fizzes around so much of this show, at least reveal an artist capable of resisting the urge to crack a stream of one-liners, however funny they might be.A compilation of Lodge video features some world-class larking about, while the Lodge's various bands, including Albatross, and Eyeball Hurt, chip in some fairly unlistenable but well-packaged home-brewed Daniel Johnston kookiness.
London-Ontario-born artist and cartoonist Marc Bell is the author of Shrimpy and Paul and Friends, Hot Potatoe, Pure Pajamas, and Stroppy (all Drawn & Quarterly).This year, Bell was asked to design the cover for the Best American Comics 2016 anthology, guest edited by Roz Chast. Current Lodge members Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Hollie Dzama (Marcel's kid sister), Neil Farber, Drue Langlois and Myles Langlois, along with former cohorts Adrian Williams and Jonathan Pylypchuk, have produced video, sculpture, graphics, puppets, dolls, music and thousands of drawings.
Chapterhouse reprints the Unholy War of the West Coast Captain Canuck by Riel and Drue Langlois. Drue Langlois' cack-handed dioramas and acrylics could have come straight from Jim Shaw's collection of thrift store art, while Hollie Dzama tries on identities for size via a felt-tip parade of morose but fashionably attired teenagers.
© 2020 Discount Comic Book Service (DCBS). by Drue Langlois (Author) See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. A couple weeks back I did an “ abandoned webcomics ” newspost talking about some of my favourite comics on DD that have been orphaned over the years.
Chapterhouse reprints the Unholy War of the West Coast Captain Canuck by Riel and Drue Langlois. These are decorated according to the quality of their contents, a skull and crossbones signalling those condemned to destruction.
Canada R3B 1H3 'Ask the Dust' (the title comes from John Fante's 1939 coming-of-age novel) also devotes plenty of space to members' individual efforts. Theirs is the ultimate 'kidult' art, but it is done well enough to suspend disbelief, for now. Michael Dumontier's sparse images of dangling electric cables, unwound cassette tapes and tiny clapboard shacks, though not entirely free from the cuteness that fizzes around so much of this show, at least reveal an artist capable of resisting the urge to crack a stream of one-liners, however funny they might be.A compilation of Lodge video features some world-class larking about, while the Lodge's various bands, including Albatross, and Eyeball Hurt, chip in some fairly unlistenable but well-packaged home-brewed Daniel Johnston kookiness. Drue Langlois' cack-handed dioramas and acrylics could have come straight from Jim Shaw's collection of thrift store art, while Hollie Dzama tries on identities for size via a felt-tip parade of morose but fashionably attired teenagers. His hapless anti-hero Jerry recalls Karen Kilimnik's Jane, forever on the receiving end of violent mishaps and sadistic practical jokes. Farber combines elements of Edward Gorey and Yoshitomo Nara in a series of gleefully Gothic cartoons. Chapterhouse Comics reprints the Unholy War of the West Coast Captain Canuck by Riel and Drue Langlois. BY drue langlois, dancing, animated.