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. The town is home to Acadia University and Landmark East School.
The town is a tourist destination du ...
,
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
Elisabeth Belliveau (born November 27, 1979) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist and author of four graphic novels. Currently based in Treaty Six Territory, Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Edmonton, Alberta, she is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at G ...
,
Lance Blomgren,
Shary Boyle,
Howard Chackowicz, Joey Dubuc,
Meags Fitzgerald
Meags Fitzgerald is a Canadian drag king, illustrator and cartoonist.
Career
Fitzgerald earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in 2009 and a certificate in design from NSCAD University in Halifax i ...
,
Golda Fried, Corey Frost, Philippe Girard, Lesley Johnson, Valerie Joy Kalynchuk, Liane Keightley, Catherine Kidd,
Julian Lawrence, Suki Lee, Amanda Marchand,
Billy Mavreas,
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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