My cousin’s husband, Audran Guerard, is in a tight spot right now - he has worked as an art director for video game companies for years (he has worked for Ubisoft mostly, on popular titles such as Splinter Cell, Assassin’s Creed 2, Dead Space 3), working in different departments all over the world (China, France, Singapore), before finally landing a contract in my cousin’s hometown, Montreal.
He has been out of work for a while unfortunately, as his company has shut down to allow for restructuration work. His family’s savings have nearly depleted, but my cousin and her two children are hanging on. Her husband is starting a project in hopes that it will be able to support his family while he is not working on any video games - a graphic novel on the life of Frederick Douglass, born slave, later a political man and a writer, fervently fighting to abolish slavery in the United-States.
The project includes plans to make a trilogy, the kickstarter project funding only the first volume. My cousin’s husband hopes that the profits from the first book will be enough to fund the other two books. He has until the end of the month to gather CAN$30,000 to start his project. You can go to the kickstarter page to see more details on the ways he intends to use the donated money, but I assure you that your donations will not go to waste!
The book will be illustrated with gorgeous watercolors, painted by my cousin’s husband, and written by his coworker and friend Daniel Roy (who also worked on a few titles by Ubisoft, as well as for BioWare). Unfortunately, I cannot include any pictures seeing as I am typing this on my iPod in the middle of a lecture in uni (that’s how urgent it is), but there are plenty of previews and sample panels on the Kickstarter page, I hope that you will at least take a moment to look at these previews!
In this time in history, when slavery and segregation seems to have ended long ago (although it is not the case at all), I believe it is even more crucial that we remember the events surrounding slavery and make sure that they are never forgotten. Frederick Douglass’ name is slowly fading away from History books in schools, and we must not allow this to happen. If he is to be erased from school textbooks in favour of white abolutionists, then let’s make his name eternal through a unique tribute to his life, together!
If you do not want to fund this book but still wish to support my cousin’s family, you can buy my cousin’s children book “Little Fennec Rain Hunter”, written by Joëlle Tremblay and illustrated by her husband, Audran Guerard, on iTunes e-Book section!
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