TCAF: So Pretty / Very Rotten Book Launch
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May 11th, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
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The Japan Foundation, Toronto and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival presents the book launch for So Pretty / Very Rotten, part of The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 13-14, 2017. Illustration by Jane Mai and An Nguyen.
So Pretty / Very Rotten: Comics and Essays on Lolita Fashion and Culture by Jane Mai and An Nguyen, with additional materials by Novela Takemoto, Published by Koyama Press, April 2017.
In a series of essays and comics that are at once academic and intimate, cartoonists Jane Mai and An Nguyen delve into Lolita subculture and their relationship with it. Empowering and beautiful, but also inescapably linked to consumerism, the Rococo-inspired fashion is indulgent and sublime, pretty and rotten. The book is published by Koyama Press.
An Nguyen is a Canadian cartoonist and illustrator best known for her romantic comic series Open Spaces and Closed Places. She has drawn comics for Spera: Ascension of the Starless, Electric Ant zine, and various Love Love Hill anthologies. In addition to So Pretty / Very Rotten which makes its debut at TCAF this year, she and Jane Mai also released a zine titled Don’t Talk to Me or I’ll Set Myself on Fire. More on An Nguyen here > Link
Jane Mai is an award winning illustrator from Brooklyn, New York. She has written several books including Soft and See You Next Tuesday. More on Jane Mai here > Link
Novala Takemoto is a Japanese author, fashion designer and prominent promoter of the Lolita lifestyle.
Artists Jane Mai and An Nguyen will be in attendance.
More about the book here > More about the publisher Koyama Press here >
In conjunction with So Pretty / Very Rotten book launch, there are two special events taking place at the Japan Foundation, Toronto;
May 8 to 15, 2017 – Exhibition of Comics & Illustrations by Jane Mai and An Nguyen
May 14, 2017 – Lolita Culture Panel Discussion
