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 Equally
Superior!
“With
flashing eyes, gnashing teeth, and pointy pens, we, the three members
of TRIO MAGNUS, let ’er rip. Sketchbook pages quickly fill
with stream of consciousness semi-nonsense. We are frenzied doodle
gurus. We are stupidly brilliant. Separately we are nothing. Together
we are equally superior!”
Thus begins the appropriately spastic introduction to this stunning
debut project from Toronto-based illustration collective, TRIO MAGNUS.
A phantasmagoria of funny, feverish and downright bizarre imagery
taken directly from the sketchbooks of collective members Clayton
Hanmer, Aaron Leighton and Steve Wilson, the book revels in visual
excess and celebrates the role of the subconscious in the art-making
process. Throughout the course of many beer-soaked sketch-a-thons,
these award-winning illustrators have created a strange, occasionally
dirty and entirely original world where a monster sits down with
a girl for a slice of cake, skeletons erupt out of volcanos and
massive robotic constructions offer helpful platitudes.
The title, “Equally Superior”, is suggestive not only
of the silliness which permeates the book. It is also reflective
of the TRIO MAGNUS members’ mutual admiration of each other’s
work and their assertion that by combining their visual powers they
can, in their words, create a “nuclear explosion of disturbing,
doodly magic” and have a hell of a good time along the way.
TRIO MAGNUS will be launching “Equally Superior” at
Design Festa in Tokyo, Japan, on November 17th to 18th, 2007; in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
on December 14, 2007; and in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at Uppercase
on January 5, 2008.
TRIO MAGNUS:
Equally Superior
Koyama Press
Softcover
25.4 x 25.4 cm, 120 pages
ISBN 978-0-9784810-0-1
Language: English
Price: $30 (CAN) plus shipping/handling costs if needed.
Press
Release (PDF)
Trio Magnus:
Equally Superior can be found
at
these equally superior retail partners:
Alberta, Canada
Uppercase - in store and online
Barcelona,
Spain
Vallery
Toronto,
Canada
The Beguiling
Book City in
the Annex (501 Bloor St West)
Book City on Danforth (348 Danforth Ave)
Book City Trinity Bellwoods (716 Queen St West)
David Mirvish Books
Indigo
Books (Manulife Flagship store only)
Keep
6 Contemporary Gallery
The
Labyrinth Store (book shop)
Magic
Pony: Artshop & Gallery
Pages Books
Swipe Books
on Advertising and Design
Type
Books Trinity Bellwoods
New
York City, USA
Giant
Robot NYC
St. Mark's Bookshop - NYC
To purchase
the book directly, or if you have any wholesale inquiries,
please contact Koyama Press.
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