Co:THE MONTHLY MONTRÉAL COMIX JAM
Round up your sweethearts and enemies and join GOLDA FRIED and MARC NGUI as they launch their new books at PHARMACIE ESPERANZA (5490 Saint-Laurent) on JUNE 21 at 7 P.M.
Golda Fried will read sections of her new novel, NELLCOTT IS MY DARLING, while Marc Ngui will perform his Œdub trance operetta' version of THE UNEXPURGATED TALE OF LORDIE JONES, complete with slides, sampler and music by The Defence. The event is free and will be followed by a DJ LOUNGE after party.
ABOUT NELLCOTT IS MY DARLING:
It's 1991, and nineteen-year-old Alice has never had a boyfriend, doesn't know how to do laundry and has just started her first year at McGill. She joins the Film Society and meets Rally, a hip events coordinator who invites her to a party where she spots Nellcott Ragland, a 23-year-old guitar-playing, black eye-makeup-wearing record store employee. Their budding romance, made up of meetings with parents, cold nights in unheated apartments and visits to record stores, evolves within the frame of the turbulent undergraduate comings-of-age going on around them. Honest and compelling, Nellcott Is My Darling shines a light on freshman relationships in flux and the way lives can so easily become hitched and unhitched without warning.
PRAISE FOR NELLCOTT IS MY DARLING:
ŒA sensitive, sensual, funny and accurate map of the rocky and mystifying territory between childhood and maturity. - The Globe and Mail
GOLDA FRIED grew up in Toronto and then went to university in Montreal, where she wrote poetry and was involved in spoken-word events such as the one at the Lollapalooza rock festival in 1994. Her collection of stories, Darkness Then a Blown Kiss, came out in 1998 and was named one of the ten best books of the year by NOW magazine. She teaches freshman composition in Greensboro, North Carolina.
ABOUT THE UNEXPURGATED TALE OF LORDIE JONES:
What happens when you try to double-cross the tooth fairy? Marc Ngui's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Enter Avariz answers this question with an intricately crosshatched cartoon conflation of several popular childhood fears and a morally ambiguous suburban fable. Taunted in the schoolyard, Lordie Jones slowly realizes something is wrong inside him, a secret that continues to grow. Told with wicked delight and dark humour in the tradition of Roald Dahl, Edward Gorey, and Tim Burton, Toronto native Marc Ngui has created a graphic novel with all the ghoulish verve of a classic unexpurgated fairytale.
PRAISE FOR LORDIE:
" Neither confessional nor ironic, Ngui's work is wonderfully out of step with trends and can sometimes read like a comic collaboratively created by Terry Gilliam and Naomi Klein." - eye magazine
MARC NGUI is a graphic novelist and artist whose work is firmly rooted in diy/zine culture. For the past two years, he¹s given workshops and presentations at libraries, schools, bookstores and art galleries about the rapidly evolving North American Culture of Comix. He spent the 2004200 season as Toronto diy arts correspondent for ZeD Television on the cbc, and is currently interacting processing in Toronto.
For more on Golda Fried's Nellcott Is My Darling, contact Christina Palassio at 416 979 2217 or christina@chbooks. com.
For more on Marc Ngui's The Unexpurgated Tale of Lordie Jones, email Andy Brown at conpress@ican.net.
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