Fiona was commissioned by Anomaly Inc. to illustrate four panel posters for Hershey’s Jolly Rancher Misfits Launch. You can see the posters on outdoor wild postings and at convenience stores around Toronto.
May 24, 2019
Artists are elected to the Giants of the North Hall of Fame by the Doug Wright Awards executive committee, which solicits input and suggestions from across the Canadian cartooning community.
This year’s Giants of the North nominees will be inducted on May 11 at the 15th annual Doug Wright Awards, a featured event of the 2019 Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), which takes place May 11–12 in and around the Toronto Reference Library.
For more than three decades, Fiona Smyth’s work has straddled art, comics, and murals. Since her days as a student at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) in the mid-1980s, her comics have been marked by a bold and overt sexuality—groundbreaking comics tackling female sexuality. Alongside her countless self-published zines, her comics have appeared in Vice, Exclaim!, and her pioneering 1990s Vortex series, Nocturnal Emissions.
Fiona’s work has been exhibited in countries around the world, including the United States, Mexico, Berlin, France, Venice, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, and Torontonians are familiar with her eye-catching mural gracing the exterior of iconic local club Sneaky Dee’s, located at the intersection of College and Bathurst streets.
Fiona’s publications include The Never Weres, a science fiction graphic novel for teens, and a series of progressive “sex talk†books for children, created with the writer Cory Silverberg. In 2018, Koyama Press released Somnambulance, a career retrospective of Fiona Smyth’s work to date. Presently, she teaches illustration and cartooning at OCADU.
2019 Doug Wright Awards Ceremony
Forest Hill Ballroom, Marriott Bloor Yorkville
Saturday, May 11th, 2019
8pm – 10pm
Free
May 10, 2019
Carolyn’s short film, “Too Much to Dream?” will be shown daily at The Venice Biennale 2019 as part of the ALIVE in the UNIVERSE Project.
ALIVE in the UNIVERSE is an international short art-film project that explores our own emotional explanation of the universe through arts and ideas.
The short films will be screened at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava this year at the Venice Biennale May 8, 2019 – June 4 2019.
Bill Russell’s portrait of poet and social activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Designed for South Pond Farms by Reactor, this t-shirt features classic South Pond imagery. It’s available through South Pond Farms’ online shop or you can pick one up in-person at the farm.
March 19, 2019
R.O. illustrated the Ageism story in the Opinion section in Saturday’s Globe and Mail. The opinion piece explored the idea that “it’s time to get over our fear of growing old”.
Deshi Deng was commissioned by Jeffery Halcro and Jessica Keefer of BT/A to create the flagship illustration for their Royal Ontario Museum March Break campaign.
A recent project by Deshi Deng for Town Brewery in Whitby, Ontario
