Conundrum Press is a book publishing company located in
Wolfville
Wolfville is a Canadian town in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, located about northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax. The town is home to Acadia University and Landmark East School.
The tow ...
,
Canada
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, founded in 1996 by Andy Brown.
Affiliated authors
Conundrum is renowned in Canadian publishing for its innovative, wide-ranging, often genre-defying books of fiction,
cultural history
Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...
,
graphic novels
A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...
,
spoken word
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and artist projects. Conundrum authors include Dana Bath,
Marc Bell,
Elisabeth Belliveau,
Lance Blomgren,
Shary Boyle
Shary Boyle D.F.A. (born May 26, 1972) is a contemporary Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture, drawing, painting and performance art. She lives and works in Toronto.
Early life and education
Boyle was born in the Toronto s ...
,
Howard Chackowicz, Joey Dubuc,
Meags Fitzgerald,
Golda Fried
Golda Fried (born 17 November 1972) is a Canadian/American poet, short story writer, novelist and teacher.
Biography
Raised in Toronto, Canada and later graduated from York Mills Collegiate Institute, she received her undergraduate degree from ...
, Corey Frost, Philippe Girard, Lesley Johnson, Valerie Joy Kalynchuk, Liane Keightley, Catherine Kidd,
Julian Lawrence
Julian Lawrence is a Canadian cartoonist, educator and comics scholar. A longtime member of Vancouver's DIY independent art scene, Lawrence is also an arts educator and researcher, with a specialization in using hand drawn comics as a tool to imp ...
, Suki Lee, Amanda Marchand,
Billy Mavreas
Billy Mavreas (born August 14, 1968) is a Canadian cartoonist and artist living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada whose mostly silent or wordless comics revolve around the themes of language, sexuality and spirituality. He is of Greek descent from the ...
,
Chandra Mayor, Maya Merrick, Nathaniel G. Moore, Marc Ngui, Stéphane Olivier, Joe Ollmann, Meg Sircom, Victoria Stanton, Julia Tausch, Marc Tessier, Vincent Tinguely, Dakota McFadzean, David Collier, Henriette Vslium, Alex Fellows, Michel Rabagliati, Zach Worton, Sarah Burwash, Shary Boyle,
Jillian Tamaki
Jillian Tamaki (born April 17, 1980) is a Canadian American illustrator and comic artist known for her work in ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker'' in addition to the graphic novels ''Boundless'', as well as '' Skim'' and ''This One Summ ...
, Robert Allen, Sean Karemaker, and Rebecca Roher.
History
The release of Catherine Kidd's early works, such as ''everything I know about love I learned from taxidermy'' in 1996, brought a "modest" amount of publicity for the company, allowing them to expand and publish more of Kidd's works and works from other authors.
In 2006, for the ten-year anniversary of the company, Brown commissioned "new work from all the people he has published through the decade to include in a lovely, fuchsia-covered, juicy little book called ''The Portable Conundrum''." The release of the
anthology included a large party with all of the contributing authors attending and special readings from the authors' individual works.
In 2016, Conundrum released ''20x20'', an anthology celebrating 20 years of independent culture. The mandate of Conundrum Press has shifted to literary graphic novels.
References
External links
official website
Further reading
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