In celebration of the release of Vera Bushwack, Sig Burwash is going on tour; catch them in Montreal, Toronto, Sydney, and Ingonish this June!
\nOn June 12, they stop by La Petite Librairie Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal, and will be in conversation with Lee Lai at 7 pm.
\nLa Petite Librairie Drawn and Quarterly is located at 176 Rue Bernard O, Montreal, QC H2T 2K2.
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\nSig Burwash is a visual artist whose practice includes watercolour, collage, ceramics, animation, illustration, and comics. Their work is both imaginative and rooted in their lived experience, including cabin building, forest stewarding, motorcycling and crewing on fishing vessels. They have participated in residencies internationally and have been exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe. Burwash attended the Centre for Cartoon Studies to work on their debut graphic novel \u2018Vera Bushwack\u2019. Originally from kEluwi’sst- Rossland, British Columbia, they now live in Unama\u2019ki- Cape Breton Island.
\nLee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio\u2019tia:ke (known as Montreal, Quebec). She has made comics for The New Yorker, McSweeneys and The New York Times, and her graphic novel Stone Fruit was released in 2021 with Fantagraphics, Sarbacane, Coconino and other publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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In celebration of the release of Vera Bushwack, Sig Burwash is going on tour; catch them in Montreal, Toronto, Sydney, and Ingonish this June!
\nOn June 12, they stop by La Petite Librairie Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal, and will be in conversation with Lee Lai at 7 pm.<\/p>\n
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