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Michael Comeau
Education
Ontario College of Art and Design 1999
Work
Penny Arcade, low art and print shop. Owner/Operator 2000
Cut and Paste scene fair/Director 2000-2004
PunchClock Print Collective/Member 2003-2009,2013-2015
Maclaren Art Centre/Workshop leader 2011
Art Gallery of Ontario/Serigraphy Instructor 2012
Gladstone Hotel/ Get School’d Instructor 2016
Humber College/ Teacher 2018-2020
Solo Exhibitions
Curbside Mosaics at Art Hut, Gladstone Hotel/Toronto, ON Oct 2016
Hellberta at Faith/Void/ Toronto, ON Dec 2015
Hellberta at Magic Pony/ Toronto, ON August 2012
Ministry of Casual Living/ Victoria, BC May 2010
Gaff Gallery/ Vancouver BC July 2007
Crazy Holes at Extra Gallery/Toronto, ON January 2007
Excretion Escapades at Magic Pony/ Toronto, On September 2006
Poster Show at The Artel/Kingston ON June 2006
Selected Group Exhibitions
Winter’s Cosmos/ The Beguiling May 2018
Game of Thrones Halloween/Gladstone Hotel Oct 2017
Moulin Rouge NYE/Gladstone Hotel Dec 2016
Tim Burton Halloween/ Gladstone Hotel Oct 2016
LookListen at Craft Ontario Gallery/Toronto, ON July 2015
Cloud 35/Mercer Union Gallery / Toronto, ON November 2014
The Reading Nook at Narwhal Art Projects/ Toronto, ON August 2012
History, Glamour, Magic; Will Munro at Art Gallery of York University January 2012
Pin Up at Mercer Union/ Toronto, ON November 2011
Imperial Six at Maclaren Art Centre/Barrie, ON September 2011
That’s So Gay at Gladstone Hotel/Toronto, ON July 2011
Drawing Expo 2010 at Galerie Rye/ Montreal PQ July 2010
Life Drawing at Narwhal Art Projects/Toronto, ON March 2009
Radar Eyes at Art Car Museum/ Huston, TX, USA September 2008
Radar Eyes at Co-prosperity Sphere/ Chicago, IL, USA March 2008
Inside Outside Overlap at Keep Six Contemporary/ Toronto, ON July 2008
Printed Matter 2 at Giant Robot NY/New York City, NY, USA April 2007
Cyclops Library/ St. Johns, New Brunswick April 2007
Japanada at Space 1026/ Philadelphia. USA September 2006
TAAFI at Gladstone Hotel/ Toronto, ON November 2006
Regal Beast at Magic Pony/ Toronto, ON June 2004
L. Majerie and M. Comeau at Armageddon/ Providence, Ri, USA May 2004
Sinbad in the Rented World agyu@Zsa Zsa/ Toronto, ON February 2004
Michael Jackson Project at Zsa Zsa/Toronto, ON August 2003
Reviews
Pop Matters/ Chris Gavaler/ May 22 2018
CBC Books/ Jan 24, 2018
Signal.04/ Dynamic Collectivity/ Ryan Hayes/ 2015
Comics Alliance/Report From the Brooklyn Comic Festival/Matt Seneca/December 9, 2011
blogto.com/Artist Gallery/December, 2008
Eye Magazine/Artful Year/David Ballzer/December, 2006
CBC.ca/Poster Expressionist/David Ballzer/ March, 2006
Now Magazine/Quotes of the Year/January, 2005
Now Magazine/7dollar Portrait Show/Dierdre Hanna/August, 2000
Awards
Hellberta/ Doug Wright Award/2012
Publications
Out North/ Craig Jennex & Nisha Eswaran/ Figure 1 publishing, the Arquives/2020
Slomeauzine/2020
Winter’s Cosmos / Koyama Press/ 2018
Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer/ Coach House Books/ 2017
Slomeau / Colour Code / 2017
Hellberta Collected / Colour Code /2015
Leather Vest / 2015
Nyjelle Jackston pro model skateboard/ Lewis Cruise/2015
Carousel Magazine/4Panel/ 2014/2015
Happiness Comix #4/ July 2014
Hellberta 3/ Colour Code/ 2014
Descant/volume 45/Cartooning Degree Zero/2014
Hazlit/no 1/Penguin Random House/2013
Prison Girls Deterred/ Colour Code/2013
Weight of Prayers/ Colour Code/2013
Malgre Tout On Rit A Saint-Henri/ Daniel Grenier/Boreal Compact/2013History, Glamour, Magic-Will Munro/ AGYU press/2012
Kus #12/ Future 2.0/November 2012
Hellberta 2/ Colour Code/2012
Troubled Masculinities, Reimagining Urban Men/Ed. Ken Moffatt/University of Toronto Press/2012
Hellberta/Koyama Press/ 2011
The Wilding/ Fiona Smyth/ 2011
Parade of Humanity/ Koyama Press/ 2009
Scott Pilgram/Oni Press/Issue#4/2008
Free Drawings 2, 3, 5 / Colour Code/2008
Picture Book/Ed. Angus Hyland/ London, UK/ 2007
Nog a Dod/Conundrum Press/ Ed. Mac Bell/2006
Paper Rodeo/Providence, RI, USA/Spring –Summer 2000