C35 Contributor Eduardo C. Corral Wins Prestigious Poetry Prize

C35 Contributor Eduardo C. Corral Wins Prestigious Poetry Prize

We’d like to congratulate CAROUSEL 35 contributor Eduardo C. Corral, who just took home the 2016 Holmes National Poetry Prize. This prize was developed in memory of Princeton alumnus Theodore H. Holmes, and is awarded each year by faculty of the Princeton Creative Writing Program to a poet of notable merit. Corral’s debut collection of poems, Slow Lightning, won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and his poems have been featured in Best American

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Carnival Song (1967)

Tim Buckley‘s ‘Carnival Song’ is CAROUSEL’s official theme song (didn’t you know?) >>> From the album, Goodbye And Hello (1967)   >>> Live version — from a concert at the Folklore Center, NYC (March 6th, 1967)

Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2012!

Featuring more than 250 authors, artists and cartoonists from around the world The 2012 Toronto Comic Arts Festival at the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St) Saturday May 5th 2012, 9am-5pm Sunday May 6th 2012, 11am-5pm FREE ADMISSION A week long celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, which culminates in a two-day exhibition and vendor fair featuring hundreds of comics creators from around the world. Other Festival events include readings, interviews, panels,

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C29 pre-launch at KAZOO! Zine & Comic Expo (Guelph, ON)

The 5th annual Kazoo! Festival –  happening in Guelph, ON — includes a ZINE & COMICS EXPO this Sat Apr 14 from 11am-4pm … come join us @ Norfolk Street United Church (75 Norfolk St) in sunny downtown Guelph! The event is also the advance public launch of CAROUSEL 29, our brand new issue (it’ll be out in stores and sent to subscribers in mid-May). An afterparty will be held at the nearby eBar (41

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VICTOR ROMAO’s Through the Clearing We Could See Them

Victor Romão is a multi-disciplinary artist from Windsor, ON, whose work appeared in both CAROUSEL  23 and 26. His mediums range from ink drawing to performance, but he works primarily with illustration, woodcut prints and figurative sculpture. Through his work, Romão offers an all too rare voice on rural identity, malehood, otherness and violence. His monochromatic drawings depict anonymous masked men and half-male/half-beast figures partaking in bizarre schemes. He explores otherness and the fear it incites

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The 2012 BUFFALO SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR

Join CAROUSEL in Buffalo! Buffalo Small Press Book Fair Mar 24 /2012  (12 – 6 pm) @ Karpeles Manuscript Library (UPSTAIRS) 453 Porter Avenue / Buffalo, NY If you are in the Buffalo area on Saturday March 24th, the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is a FREE one day event that brings booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, and other cultural workers (and enthusiasts) together. Workshops are open to the public. >>> For

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DRAZEN KOZJAN in CAROUSEL 28

Do you know the work of Drazen Kozjan? Drazen Kozjan is an Etobicoke-based artist and illustrator who works with pen and ink, marker, gouache and Photoshop to create comic illustrations.  A three page spread of his strip The Happy Undertaker can be found in CAROUSEL 28. Kozjan cites Croatian folklore as an important influence on his work, but there is also a certain Tim Burton-esque quality evident at times. He has been illustrating children’s books

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BRIAN KOKOSKA in CAROUSEL 28

Do you know the work of Brian Kokoska? Brian Kokoska is a NYC-based Canadian artist who works primarily with oils on canvas to create large scale figural compositions. A full 12 page spread of his works as well as an interview (conducted by Rachel Anne Farquharson) are featured in CAROUSEL 28. Kokoska is very intentional with his brushstrokes and patterning and how they affect his whole composition. He works these elements in a way that

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ROBERT DAYTON in CAROUSEL 28

Do you know the work of Robert Dayton? Robert Dayton is a multidisciplinary writer, entertainer and artist from British Columbia who resides for the moment in Toronto; his ‘Fantasy Beards’ drawing series is featured in CAROUSEL 28. Dayton originally came from a zine background in the early ’90s, wrote a weekly newspaper column of ephemera that bordered on experimental fiction and non-fiction, and was a co-creator of the short-lived but well loved newspaper The Drippy

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AMBER ALBRECHT in CAROUSEL 28

Do you know the work of Amber Albrecht? Amber Albrecht is a Montreal-based artist specializing in illustration and serigraph prints; her work is featured in CAROUSEL 28. Inspired by folklore and children’s literature, Albrecht creates images of the impossible with strange creatures in dreamlike webs. Her prints are all highly detailed with intricate line work and geometric patterns. A self-identified escapist, she takes from the neo-romantic tradition, but is also noticeably influenced by magic-realism and

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CANZINE Toronto is back!

This Sunday, October 23rd CAROUSEL will be participating in Canzine Toronto, Canada’s largest festival of zine culture and independent arts, hosted by Broken Pencil Magazine. Now in its 16th year, Canzine is a prime opportunity to mingle with talented writers, artists, publishers and performers from across North America and search out new local (and non-local) gems. This year’s Canzine will include an underground food market, a 2 minute on-stage book pitch session, a VJ workshop

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Fausta Facciponte’s SLEEPY EYES Exhibition

Do you know the work of Fausta Facciponte? Fausta Facciponte is an emerging artist who uses a variety of photographic techniques, including traditional film-based and modern digital processes. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. A portfolio of Facciponte’s photographs appears in CAROUSEL 27, our most recent issue. For our readers in Toronto, note that Sleepy Eyes, Fausta’s newest exhibition of large-scale photographs, is opening at Stephen Bulger Gallery on Sat Sep 24

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HOWIE TSUI in CAROUSEL 27

Do you know the work of Howie Tsui? Ho Yan (Howie) Tsui is an Ottawa-based artist who works primarily with ink, pigments and mulberry paper to create scrolls of illustration; one of these scrolls, entitled Gangshi Creek (2008) was featured in CAROUSEL 27. Tsui’s more recent series ‘Horror Fables,’ probably the work he is best known for, combines traditional painterly technique with a contemporary illustrative and sometimes urban style. Perhaps what stands out most about

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JENNIFER LINTON in CAROUSEL 27

Do you know the work of Jennifer Linton? Jennifer Linton is a Toronto-based artist who works predominantly with illustration and print media. Her work My Alphabet of Anxieties and Desires appears in CAROUSEL 27, our current issue. In her recent print-based installation, The Disobedient Dollhouse, Linton meticulously crafted her own twisted version of a traditional Victorian-style dollhouse. This contrary miniature home is plagued with infestations of insects and snakes crawling on walls and sliding out

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TO♥JP Fundraiser opens April 1st

Hello readers — here’s a Toronto event worth supporting! Narwhal Art Projects and Invisible-Friends.com are excited to host Toronto Hearts Japan, a fundraiser and exhibit. All proceeds will be donated to The Red Cross and to helping rebuild the Birdo Flugas Artist Centre and Community in Shiogama. The Toronto Hearts Japan Exhibition and Silent Auction runs for 5 days from Thursday March 31 to Tuesday April 5th at the Gladstone Hotel, 2nd floor. It features

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