Comic Artist Cole Pauls gives you a first look at his latest graphic novel, Kwändǖr (Conundrum Press, November 2022). Learn how Pauls researches and creates his comics about Southern Tutchone culture, Yukon history, Arctic Games, identity and racism.
Talk will be hosted by Assistant Professor Sarah Leavitt.
Organized by Biz Nidjiam at CENES, part of Multilingual Week.
Speaker Biography
Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comic artist, illustrator and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls focuses on his two comic series, the first being Pizza Punks: a self contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, the other being Dakwäkãda Warriors. In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories, The Egghead & The Nipper.
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