SMYTH Fiona
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This Toronto based artist teaches illustration and cartooning at Ontario College of Art and Design University.
Her cartoon strip “Cheez” ran in the weekly newspaper Exclaim! for nearly ten years. Cheez a collection of 100 strips was published by Pedlar Press in 2001. In addition her strip “Fazooza” ran in Vice Magazine for eight years. She branched out into the black and white comic book industry cartooning a story that appeared in Vortex. She also collaborated with Maurice Vellekoop and Gregory Gallant (Seth) to produce the mini comic called Fabulous Babes.
She created the science fiction graphic novel The Never Wares which was published by Annick Press in 2011, and illustrated What Makes a Baby (2013) written by Cory Silverberg and published by Seven Stones Press. This was followed up by Sex Is A Funny Word (2015).
In 2018, she contributed to the Four Panel and North Wing Projects. “Maw Spoke” is an experimental work based on the four panel format which appeared in 4 Panel 2. In the Four Panel Project she adapts Marie Claire Blais’ novel Mad Shadows to a two page graphic story.
Somnambulance is a retrospective of her work.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content experiment:
4 Panel 2. Popnoir Editions, May 2018: “Maw Spoke.”.
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
Vortex, 1-13, 1987: “Gert The Mannequin”: 7-12.
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content story graphic:
Descant, 164, Spring 2014: “The Maul.” 68-77.
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story graphic:
Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: “The North Wing: Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit Graphic Novels Episode Twenty-Four, Marie-Claire Blais’ Mad Shadows’’, as adapted by Fiona Smyth.” 32-33.
Owl, 37-2, March 2012: “The Pest.” 19.
Taddle Creek, V-1, Christmas 2001: “Caught”: 10-11
Taddle Creek, XII-2, Summer 2009: “Knows Swonk”: 26-31.
CARTOONIST & ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:
Content & Cover:
Somnambulance. Koyama Press May 2018.
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Bedside Press, 2015: “Montreal, 1993.” Writ., Mariko Tamaki: 243-247.
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content
Decoration:
Taddle Creek, 28, Summer 2012: 8, 14, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 45.
Game:
Owl, 20-4, April 1995: “Frog Leapin’ Puzzles ‘N’ Fun”: 18-19.
Owl, 22-3, April 1997: Bring two halves of a picture together: Back cover.
Cover front:
Taddle Creek, XXII-1, 42, Winter 2018/19: “The Rheum”
CO-ILLUSTRATOR:
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Cover front:
chickaDEE, 30-2, March 2008, co-illus., Steve Manale.
SOURCE:
Article book :
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Bedside Press, 2015: “Biographies”: 276.
Article periodical:
Descant, 164, Spring 2014: No title. 254.
Owl, 37-2, March 2012: “Creators”: 24.
Taddle Creek, 42, Winter 2018/2019: “Fiona Smyth”.
Vortex, 1-13, 1987: “Editorial”. Ed., Deborah Marks: Inside front cover.
GALLERY:
Taddle Creek, V-1, Christmas 2001: “Caught”: 10.
Taddle Creek, V-1, Christmas 2001: “Caught”: 11.
“The Ruem.” (cardboard, paper, polymer clay, and acrylic gouche) Taddle Creek, 42,Winter 2018/2019. Front cover. In this image Fiona sought to illustrate “… female angst and dread, the sometimes ill-at- ease feeling of introspection. This room is not a safe space or escape from external threats.”
Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: 32.
Canadian Notes & Queries, 104, Spring 2019: 33.