{"id":1393,"date":"2025-05-22T02:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:48:28","slug":"snubdomizer-new-rick-trembles-graphic-novel-memoir-gesticulating-gentrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"SNUBDOMIZER: New Rick Trembles graphic novel\/memoir Gesticulating Gentrification!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My brand new 64-page Conundrum Press graphic novel\/memoir Gesticulating Gentrification is having it’s official Montreal launch this weekend at MCAF<\/a> (Montreal Comic Arts Festival)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Conundrum Press<\/a> description: A graphic memoir about housing insecurity! Cartoonist & musician Rick Trembles grew up in the suburbs of Montreal, in the house his father, Canadian Golden Age cartoonist Jack Tremblay (Crash Carson), paid for as a commercial illustrator. Encouraged by his father\u2019s cartooning, inspired by underground comic artists like Robert Crumb, & propelled by the DIY ethos of the burgeoning punk scene, Rick gave in to his own natural drive to create & built a life full of art & music. But the comics industry had changed since Jack Tremblay found success, & Rick followed his heart into alt-comics. Mainstream cartoonists were already making less money, & alt-comic artists were making even less from their art\u2014if anything at all. When Rick first moved out, he couch-hopped from one messy band rehearsal space to another, finally settling on a small apartment above a pool hall, where he worked on zines & wrote music\u2014until he wasn\u2019t able to make rent. This is just the first stop in a series of insecure housing situations made worse by gentrification. In Gesticulating Gentrification, Trembles provides a close & honest look at the challenges faced by people living in precarious housing, the constant threat of being forced out by gentrification, & the social & health problems that result from all of it. But this graphic memoir isn\u2019t only about social issues\u2014it also provides a rare glimpse at a bygone version of Montreal & the DIY culture that thrived there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll be signing at Conundrum Press table D31 on St-Denis street (which will be blocked off for the event) Friday, May 23 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Saturday, May 24 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, & Sunday, May 25 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Scheduling info HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll also be part of an MCAF panel of cartoonists called \u201cHow to Kill a City: Housing Crisis & Comics\u201d on Saturday, May 24 from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm at Espace La Presse C21, Section C. It’ll be moderated by Cecil Castellucci & the guests, besides myself, are Shaghayegh Moazzami (Les coquelicots de Ridgewood), & Eleanor Hannon (Citymouse). More info on this event HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next stop, Toronto, for the official TCAF<\/a> launch (Toronto Comic Arts Festival)! See you all everywhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$20.00 CAD, 11 x 8.5 inches, 64 pages, black & white, trade paper, available from Conundrum Press HERE<\/a> (more sample images from the book at that link)! As of today, it’s also at the Drawn & Quarterly<\/a> bookstore if you’re in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEntertaining & compelling! A great story! Totally brilliant! A great book! Genius! Really!\u201d -Robert Crumb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA harrowing read & an important cultural record\u201d -Montreal Review of Books<\/p>\n\n\n

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From page 10: Doing the Transylvania Twist, paper trails be damned! Nothing spells questionable landlord\/tenant relations like verbal-only agreements! But two can play that game; Dracula & his Creatures of the Night might only come out to play at the witching hour, but so do \u201cmidnight movers\u201d! Buh-bye, bloodsuckers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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From page 14: The pros & cons of moving into an absentee landlord’s dilapidated 100-year-old building: If it happens to retain some of its 100-year-old furnishings you might have the pleasure of living on The Antiques Roadshow! But if it also happens to retain some of its 100-year-old wiring, you might have the DISpleasure of winding up like burnt toast!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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From page 45: Dear slacklord; these are not the kinda shrooms I was hoping to microdose & alleviate my winter-long cabin fever with! Way too maxi! Cut the dose! Cut the dose! Are those stray floaters swimming around inside my eyeballs, or the creepy-crawlies from my bathroom floor! This terrarium bum-trip’s harshing my non-buzz!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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From page 19: Phantom-limb-dreams about how the other half lives! Ever walk past a former habitat jam-packed with formative memories both bittersweet & bodacious? A habitat you’ve been uprooted from to make way for \u201cprogress\u201d? The house doesn’t get haunted by you after you’re gone, it’s YOU that gets haunted by the house after the HOUSE is gone!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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