Helem

Runner-up at the 2021 Expozine Awards: Best English Comic categoryA surrealist journey through alienation, lost dreams, and...
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SKU: 9781772620634
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Author: Stanley Wany
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Language: English
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Helem by Wany, Stanley

Helem

$45.30

Helem

$45.30
Author: Stanley Wany
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Runner-up at the 2021 Expozine Awards: Best English Comic category

A surrealist journey through alienation, lost dreams, and self-redemption

A woman loses her sister to suicide and struggles with the overwhelming and confusing feelings that continue to plague her. A man reflects on a decade spent working in a call centre and the strange day-to-day momentum that caused him to unconsciously abandon his goals. Helem relies on a propulsive graphic narrative and evocative illustration to tell the intensely personal stories of two characters at a crossroads.

The nearly wordless stories contained in Helem, originally published by TRIP as "Agalma" and "Sequences", delve deep into the internal lives of their characters. Helem, created while Wany was in a hallucinatory state brought on by a severe lack of sleep, also provides an intimate look into his own personal dreamscape.



Author: Stanley Wany
Publisher: Conundrum Press
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.95h x 6.93w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781772620634

About the Author
Originally from Montreal, Stanley Wany is an Afro-Canadian artist based in Canada's national capital region whose practice includes graphic novels, pen and ink drawings, and paintings. He has recently exhibited works in Australia, at the Perc Tucker Gallery in Townsville, Queensland, as well as part of the exhibition Mix the Medias organized by SÕL-CON, The Ohio State University's Black, Brown, and Indigenous Comics Expo, and Glass Axis Gallery. Wany's works have also been shown in Canada, the United States, France, Portugal, and Finland, and are found in private and public collections in Canada, the United States, and Australia.

Agalma, his first graphic novel, was nominated for a Doug Wright Award, highlighting the best experimental comics at the Toronto Comics and Arts Festival in 2016. As an author, Wany has participated as a guest and panelist in festivals in Canada, France, Finland, Portugal and the United States. In 2018, he completed an artist residency at the Arteles Centre, west of Tampere in Finland, and over the years he has been the recipient of several travel and creation grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Since obtaining a bachelor's degree in arts, design, and bande dessinée from the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Wany has founded two independent publication companies, Trip Comix, and recently Argle Bargle Books. The basis of his practice in comics and visual arts explores mainstream culture, the subconscious, and myths, specifically as these relate the experience of people of African descent in Western society.


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