#evin collis

[pigs-in-art]

Litterpig n°1 by fanzinepaper Via Flickr: by Evin Collis Selfpublished Barcelona 2020

[nudesreadingminicomics]

‘Transcontinental’ by Evin Collis

Here’s ‘Transcontinental’ by Evin Collis.  Seems Evin went to art school in Chicago and that would explain how I found this lil one on a recent trip to Quimby’s.  When I handed it over to model Jax Nippleson she exclaimed, “its only 2 pages!” and although it ins’t quite that small, it is a very short little number.  But its nice, its a little slice of life peep into life on a transcontinental train and it nails the mood quite well.  If you haven’t taken a 60 hour train ride, my friends, you haven’t lived.  For those of you in the states ya gotta take the Empire Builder or the Zephyr lines to get a great look at this ol country of ours and for the head space this kinda travel puts you in.  The domed viewing car is a great place to sit and stare and meet people but, sadly, the adventures to be had with the real wackos are no longer since the obliteration of smoking on trains.  I was never a smoker but I always made a point of hanging out in the smoking car because that is where the nut jobs would commiserate, the kind of people that would sneak in hard liquor and weapons.  I remember being cornered by a guy once, him exclaiming to me that “I worship Jesus because when I die I will go to heaven and in heaven the STREETS ARE MADE OF GOLD AND THE LAMPS ARE MADE OF DIAMONDS!!” That wasn’t much of a sell for me, though.  And the time I spent a whole 2 day ride wracked with the worst flu of my life and the blowjobs, oh the countless clandestine blowjobs offered by greasy italian men.  I haven’t really gotten to the comic, have I?  Well, ‘Transcontinental’ is a nice ‘drawn in the folksy style’ little book that does the job right to put you right on a long and musty train ride through the middle of nowhere.  Short don’t matter, its gonna go in a nice place on my shelf.  #evincollis #minicomic #comix #selfpublished #zine

you can buy the book here: https://fatbottombooks.com/author/8233/evin_collins

you can learn more about Collis here: http://www.evincollis.com/

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[naiwongbao]

I saw his solo exhibit Commerce, Produce, Industry which will be showing until the end of either January or February. Here is his website: http://www.evincollis.com/ His art is especially amazing if you're Manitoban or know about our history. The pieces are engaging and grubby. For me the pieces were a violent uprising of animals and the environment reclaiming itself and looked like the end of time.

[naiwongbao]

My art teacher told me I was a female Evin Collis and we went to see his show tonight and it was beautiful and he's so inspiring and the work was very Manitoba dystopic dirty and ugly but in the most beautiful way ever. He graduated from OCAD and is currently at Chicago Art Institute which is really rad.