Year: 2017

Here’s my schedule at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend:

Saturday May 13

10:00 AM – Canadian Reading Series: Conundrum Press Spotlight – Conundrum Press is making another big splash this year! Come and join David Collier (Morton), Lorina Mapa (Duran Duran), and James Cadelli (Getting Out of Hope) as they read from their newest Conundrum Press books! Hinton Learning Theatre, Toronto Reference Library

11-12 Lorina Mapa signs Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me at the Conundrum Table

Sunday May 14

10-11am James Cadelli,  Lorina Mapa sign at the Conundrum Table

See you there!

Here is a link to an interview by Joseph Planta, the host of the website thecommentary.ca which since 2004 has featured over a thousand audio interviews with unique and diverse guests from renowned bestselling and prize winning authors, Canadian newsmakers and political figures, internationally known print and broadcast journalists, prominent academics and public intellectuals, as well as noted artists and personalities.

Lorina Mapa

https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2017/04/17/Writing-the-World

(you have to scroll down on the actual link )

http://211blog.drawnandquarterly.com/2017/04/new-notable-graphic-novels.html

Amazing that I am occupying the same space as a “Love and Rockets” zine!

An article on the CBC’s “How I Wrote It” by Jane Van Koeverden. I was interviewed by phone and asked a number of interesting, thoughtful questions. Ms. Van Koeverden did a great job putting my random musings together.

“When I was telling my story, I didn’t want our culture to be so different and inaccessible to people in the west reading it. There are a lot of similarities and that’s why I included a lot of the pop culture references. That was very important to me because that was how I grew up. If someone living in the U.S. is reading about a girl in the Philippines, they might have some assumptions of them. But when they read about what she’s going through and find similarities to their own childhood, all of a sudden it breaks that barrier of the “other.” Maybe it will break a few stereotypes of what people think girls growing up in different parts of the world are like.”

Click on this link for the full article:

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/04/lorina-mapa-how-i-wrote-my-graphic-memoir.html