Lickety Split Issue 5 cover (designed by Sherwin Tiga)

Better late than never! The Expozine weekend was great, we sold a bunch of copies of Issue 8 alongside Cat’s Skull keychains and worked hard to pimp the forthcoming issue. We also picked up a ton of zines, books and stuff in general which we’re still slowly working through.

It was very nice to see Amber there peddling her smut (what a beautiful cover!). And after hearing our sob story, she’s kindly offered to help us with our launch. Which is great news, because this girl knows how to throw a party…

It was also really great to be tabling next to Dave at Cumulus Press. He’s just released Extraction, a great comix journalism book on canadian mining. He’ll also soon be releasing Picture This!, an extensive collection of political posters from Quebec featuring a poster and a chapter intro by yours truly!

Though there was far too much cool stuff to list here, I was really drawn to a “design” project entitled Bruno, Nadia, Victor that consisted of a series of books as abstract character portraits. I also got to meet Olivier from Camion de Pompier, a new(ish) store bringing toy and design culture to Montreal. Beautiful layered screenprinted posters from Sérigraphie 514, beautiful photos by Dita Kubin, and many beautiful books. And of course, much much more…

As for Issue 9, the problems continue… more printing (more specifically binding) problems have resulted in us not having copies in our hands yet. After much negotiation, we’ll be getting a reprint of the screwed up issues, so, we should have them finally by next week. Despite, all the setbacks, we’re still really excited to see the issue in print, we’re very proud of the content and can’t wait to get it out there.

To all contributors, we’ll be sending an email out soon to get all your addresses so we can send you a few complimentary copies. The good news is we’re now organising a big launch party for the issue to make up for not being ready for Expozine. We’ve been offered a lot of support from a lot of great people, and I think our launch will turn into Montreal’s party of the Winter! More updates soon!