CHACKOWIEZ Howard
Born 1969 in Laval Québec.
This Montréal based cartoonist, musician and radio actor is known for his “Howie Action Comics”. They first appeared as minicomics distributed by distroboto a network of vending machines in cafés and night clubs launched in the fall of 2000 by Archive Montreal founded in October 1998 by a group of local writers and small publishers. In 2000 he was named one of the five top cartoonists in Montréal by the Montreal Mirror. These cartoons were collected and published by Conundrum Press under the titles, Howie Action Comix (1 March 2008, Bdang series), Howie Action Comics (26 March 2008) and Nothing To See Here (November 2019). His painted cartoon mural work was selected for the Angoulême International Comics Festival France the second largest in Europe and third largest in the world.
In other activities, he was a drummer for bands American Devises (1980) and Nutsak (1996). And from 2004 to 2015, a regular on the CBC Radio One program “Wire Tap”. He taught at the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts a trilingual, gallery and theatre complex in Montréal. It was later renamed and refocused as the Segal Centre For The Performing Arts. Following that stint, he managed a comix and cartooning workshop for Drawn and Quarterly. He has also written restaurant reviews as well.
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BOOK TEXT:
Content description:
BDQ: Essays & Interviews On Quebec Comics. Ed., Andy Brown. BDang/Conundrum, 2017: “Montréal Comix Scene In The ‘90’s”:174-176.
SOURCE:
Article book:
Twenty Years of Conundrum Press. Ed., Andy Brown. Conundrum Press, 2016: “1999: Howard Chackowicz”: 44-45.
Internet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Chackowicz. Accessed 3 May 2018, 11 January 2025..
https://conundrumpress.com/product/nothing-to-see-here/. Accessed 11 January 2025.
https://www.distroboto.com/. Accessed 11 January 2025.
GALLERY:
Twenty Years of Conundrum Press. 2016: 45.
Twenty Years of Conundrum Press. 2016: 44.