The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is this weekend at the Toronto Reference Library! Conundrum Press signing schedule:

SATURDAY MAY 9
noon-1 Howard Chackowicz
1-2 Jillian Tamaki
2-3 Shary Boyle
3-4 Emily Holton, Kerry Byrne
4-5 Michael Hind, Ian Sullivan Cant

SUNDAY MAY 10
noon-1 Dave Lapp
1-2 Michael Hind, Kerry Byrne
2-3 Ian Sullivan Cant
3-4 Howard Chackowicz

Great review in Rover Arts

"Holton is one smart writer... a true artist."

Read the full review here

Dear Canada Council/Our Starland reviewed on The Link

"The stories unfold, each word a gift - much like poetry... Read it for an hour, read it for days, pick it up today and be reading it a year from now; Holton has made something that will make you want to open your mouth and lie in the sand, listening to the crickets with the stars above."

Read the full review here

Broken Pencil reviews Dear Canada Council/Our Starland, part of a great feature on Conundrum Press

"Holton's Dear Canada Council/Our Starland is a beautifully designed book... her sparse words punctuated by gentle line drawings rendered with a careful hand, every image poetic and powerful (and quite often perverse)."

"Whether their unique literary microscope reveals the absurd, the surreal, or simply the mundane, Conundrum has somehow managed to curate what could be considered the finest roster of female writers in Canada,"

Read the full article here

Ottawa's Canteen Gallery is putting on a show inspired by Emily Holton's drawings of Karl Lagerfeld. Runs April 2nd to 15th

Open Book Toronto interviews Emily Holton and J.R. Carpenter

New review in Halifax's The Coast

"Emily Holton demonstrates her artistic and literary talents... Once again, Conundrum Press makes a gorgeous, artful book that's just a little out of the ordinary."

EYE WEEKLY features Dear Canada Council/Our Starland in "Letter from an applicant - Emily Holton on the art of the proposal"

"With a fine, quick line, Holton’s drawings have always combined delicacy with decadence (and a hint of perviness)..."

Dear Canada Council/Our Starland is on the shelves!

Montreal Launch, with J.R. Carpenter:
Friday, November 7, 2008
7:00pm, Sky Blue Door
54038 boul. Saint-Laurent
Montreal, QC

Toronto Launch, with J.R. Carpenter:
Monday, November 17, 2008
Host:
7:30pm, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (Doors open 7:00)
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario

Strip Stories [Canadian Cartooning Right Now]

Exhibition runs August 7-23, 2008
Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects
1080 Queen St. W, Toronto
Opening reception: August 7, 7pm

Featuring works by: Ho Che Anderson, Chester Brown,
Ray Fenwick, Emily Holton, Jason Kieffer, Jeff Lemire,
Nick Maandag, John Martz, Joe Ollman, Lorenz Peter, Ethan Rilly, and Doug Wright

Zoe Whittall chose Little Lessons in Safety as one of
her books of the year for the Globe and Mail — along
with Elizabeth Bachinski’s Home of Sudden Service,
and Delible by Anne Stone

Celebrity Handjobs is now available in machines in Montreal!