Emil Ferris

Yeah, so people who, who look at my comics will probably guess right away that classic pen and ink cartoonists like Joe Sacco and Robert Crumb are big inspirations to me.

I love Emil Ferris and My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

A lot of my friends here in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia are huge inspirations to me.

Chris Burton and Alex Forbes from the, the Hopetown Mysteries.

And then also the Cartoon Museum, one of the fine institutions here in Basel, has two shows going on.

Emil Ferris, this comic sensation for her book My Favorite Thing is Monsters, is sort of in residence right now at the museum hosting workshops and talks.

And coming up next week, Joe Sacco, the famous journalist who works in the comics medium, is going to be giving a talk.

For anyone who's a fan of illustrated narrative art, this is a big time to be in Basel.

We are embracing the genre, but also we have the Cartoon Museum here, which puts on a lot of these displays.

They'd had a large show of Joe Sacco's work before, so they're bringing him back to talk about his work in general and also his new book.

And then Emil Ferris also had not had a retrospective before, and the Cartoon Museum is putting it on.

So I think the Cartoon Museum is really leading this charge, but it's a nice overlap having these Lichtensteins on display at the Kunstmuseum.