“As Cape Breton as it gets”: review
Great story on Old Trout Funnies in the Cape Breton Post yesterday (Nov. 26, 2015, p. B10). Old Trout Funnies: The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army (CBU Press) by Ian Brodie and Paul “Moose” MacKinnon (the original artist) has been in stores for just a couple of weeks now. OTF is also the subject of an exhibit in the Cape Breton University Art Gallery (until Jan. 29, 2016), curated by Ian Brodie.
Columnist Ken Macleod calls Ian Brodie’s contextual work a “perceptive” examination of the “uneasy subtext from the era,” and its “larger-than-life counterculture heroes.”
The collection hits so “close to the mark,” writes Macleod, “and as Cape Breton as it gets.”
Ian will be giving a “Curator Talk & Tour” of the exhibit on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 12-1 p.m. in the gallery.
The official launch of Old Trout Funnies, the book, will be December 16 at the McConnell Memorial Library in Sydney. The book available at the Cape Breton Curiosity Shop, Indigo Spirit (Mayflower Mall), the CBU bookstore and the CBU Art Gallery. It is also available from on-line stores and as an e-book.