PAULS Cole
A self portrait commissioned by Quill & Quire. Appeared in Kwändǖr.2022:131.
“Even though I drew these stories, I know they are not just mine, they are my community’s stories, they are my family and friend’s stories, they are my collaborators stories and they are stories for you to tell each other.” Kwändǖr, 2022:127.
Grew up in Haines Junction Yukon.
He acquired a BFA in illustration from Emily Carr University. Now living in Vancouver he has created two serials, “Pizza Punks” a cartoon strip about punks eating pizza and Dakwäkãda Warriors. In 2017 he was awarded Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic & Best ‘Zine Of The Year for Dakwäkãda Warriors II.
To see the origins of “Dakwäkãda Warriors” we go back to when Cole was in a traditional song and dance group the Dakwäkãda Dancers. There he learned the language of the Southern Tutchone. To revitalize the language he created a bilingual serial involving two characters the earth protectors Ts’ǘrk’i (crow) and Ägay (wolf). These became the “Dakwäkãda Warriors”.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC:
Content collection story & Cover wraparound:
Kwändǖr, Conundrum Press, 2022.
Content story & Cover front & back:
Dakwäkãda Warriors. Conundrum Press, 2019.
SOURCE:
Article book:
Dakwäkãda Warriors. Conundrum Press, 2019: Last page & back cover.
Kwändǖr, Conundrum Press, 2022: “Afterword”: 127.
GALLERY:
Dakwäkãda Warriors. 2019: Front cover. (Black border used to set off cover.
Kwändǖr. 2022: Front Cover.