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22 - wsremuoutlourcrz - Wednesday. March 27. 2013 Getting graphic 0 I . O O O O 0 Canadian Comic Creators exhibit at City ofWaterloo Museum highlights history Brno-Vilma: MulePersepoflsbecmneanOscnr-mminat Chm-blag ed movieexploringthe Iranian Revolution. Chander said those books helped kick (30mm books and their creatorsasthe downthedoorsltxfilphicnovelstobecon- firemafamuacumexhlbhmflitseem .5 sidaedfltummeandlwwaszbe likeasuetdiwithdiegenenlpereep- W irrtbesuneoonversatioml-lewnsalso‘surâ€" tiontheyareaeatingacartoonworldmeant 3 ' prisodtinthlsbookwouldonedaybethe lorkidsandnotlerlwsadults. 3 budget-mammalian But those too quick to dismiss the art 1‘ 3 _,. "it‘s art. literature and all ofthose firings," form that comics have become, and the said Grinder. 'But when l was a kid and you modern mythology they have created, are brought a comic to salted you would have it missingasomceofimponantsocialhistory .. ‘ takenawayNowl'mbeinginvited tocome As proof, the City ofWaterloo Museum’s lat- i and speak in schools every time I turn est exhibit. Canadian Comic Creators. high- ‘ 1' aroundâ€"it's amazing.” lights the work of Waterloo cartoonist Scott a Karen Vandean'nk, the city’s manager of Chantler and his graphic novel. Two ' 4"” _. heritage services at the museum. said the Generalsbasedonthewartimediariesothis . ‘ breedthanddepthofthematerialsandexpe- grandfatherlawdmnder: ' ’ rlenceput togtherforthebookbyChantler “It comes from a family history,” said ~ servedas lnsplrationfortheerdu'bit. Charmer. 'My grandfather died in 1997 and ’ “When I called him up. he said. ‘Me in a during the process of cleaning out the house % i museum?‘ the concept was completely for- lmme moss his 1943 diary. , 3. :' eiyi.” said Vandean‘nk. “I told him I would “I started reading it. and had no idea of T i really like to bring the pages of his book to doing a book at that time. but certain parts of ‘ life.” it stuck with me.” 5 The exhibit also features Canadian contri- The book has earned strong reviews since butions to the comic culture. including Cana- it was first released in 2010. and has since dian Joe Shuster who helped create the icon- made the top 40 in the 2012 edition of the ic Superman character, and other comic creâ€" CBC's Canada Reads book competition. It ators like Jim Lee of X-Men and Alpha Flight also has been nominated for an Ontario fame,andTodd McFarlane, creator ofSpawn. Library Award for non-fiction and has made , . . _ Other local highlights include a section on it into the curriculum of some of the Wammmwm “no Generals. is featured in a new exhibit at the Cerebus creator Dave Sim. who grew up in province's high schools City of Waterloo Museum until May 31. not VII-M more Canada and helped pioneer self-publishing It follows the lives of Law and his best of comics. and Andy Brast, owner of Carryâ€" friend lack Chrysler from small-town Ontario entries and letters home from his grandfa- serve and carry on. On Comics, which keeps the comics tradition before the war to the preparation and train- ther and his best friend. Those pieces of his- “I just wanted to make sure a lot of this alive in his uptown Waterloo store and was a ing that went into the Normandy invasion. It tory and inspiration are also on display at the information got handed down in some kind source for Canadian comics creators travels from the mundane to the profound. museum. including the diary flipped open to of form.” said Chander. “l staned to do the “In working with Scott, we became aware sometimes just using illustration and a pri- the first page that the author ever read. research and transcribing the diary and ofhow our Canadian comics and creators got mary colour to portray the emotion of an “As the years went along I had a bundi of doing some research at the amwury in Cam< started,” said VandenBrink "lt was really that event. stuff at my house â€" a lot of the stuff that's bridge." war period that the golden age of comics was The Waterloo Museum exhibit includes here â€" the helmet. the maps. the flags all It has turned into an interesting piece of created. and Canadian-produced comics some of those panels as well as mementos sorts of that stuff.” said Chantler. “People social history. including snapshots of his werean to get noticed. from Chantler's grandfather. who served in would come over to the house and want to grandfather soaking his feet. He did it not “That was a little bit of serendipity I must the Highland light infantry. It includes pho- see it, so l'd pull out all the cool war stuff and because they were sore from the training. but say, it wasn’t part of the initial plan. but we're tos. his kilt and the equipment he used as they would bug me that this should be a to get him acclimated to being wet when he lucky to pull this off. We have some really well as uniforms and other memorabilia on book. departed the landing craft on D-Day. great examples of Canadian comics that were loan from the Cambridge Armoury. which “The idea horrified me at first because my Comics have come along way from the produced, and the wider comic industry has no“ houses the regimental collection. grandfather was very private and didn't talk superheroes Chantler grew up with. Works a lot of big Canadian names attached to it." Those pieces allowed Chantler to do about thewarmuch. likealotofveterans" like Mans. about the concentration-camp The exhibit runs unto May 31 at the City hands»on research into the look and the feel But when he had two boys of his own. he experience of the Second World War. won a of Waterloo Museum. housed at Conestoga of the book. but the story is based on diary thought it was an important legacy to pre. Pulitzer Prize for creator Art Spiegelman. Mall. Visit www.waterloo.ca/museum. WAIâ€"I. 'l O WALL CLEARANCE - . ll! '15" 1373 swarm. ‘ ' - @5330”)! lâ€"IQ nag-.1“ 3'