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New Toutoune Gallery Blog's First Post!!!

Hello all : o )

Thank you for joining me here! If you are familiar with Toutoune Gallery, you may have already visited the space at 998 Bathurst St, in Toronto, Canada. If you haven't had the chance yet, maybe you've come across the website www.toutounegallery.com or the instagram account @toutoune.gallery and have been a fan from afar!

Toutoune Gallery first opened to the public on October 8th, 2021! Wow! It's hard for me to believe it sometimes... Time flies as they say.

To introduce myself a bit, my name is Ginette Lapalme and I'm an artist who has been living and working in Toronto since 2005. I graduated from the Illustration program at OCAD in 2009 and have been active in the Toronto independent art scene ever since.

I have always made work in a variety of forms and mediums, including but not limited to: zines, comics, stickers, sculptures, arts & crafts, ceramics, animation, paintings and drawings... For a time I helped curate a portion of TCAF from 2009-2019 called the Woweezonk Browsery with my best friends Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma <3 and I also previously worked for Page & Panel TCAF Shop (2014-2017) and the Beguiling Comic Shop (2017-2021).

Toutoune Gallery is the culmination of my artistic career as well as my passions for collecting, all made possible by my experiences working in comic book retail, almost two decades of self-employment as a art-object maker as well as my time with the Toronto Comic and Arts Festival.

Anyway! All that to say thank you for joining me here. This blog will be a space for me to share some works and images from Toutoune on a more regular basis. I will still keep up with the shop's instagram account too but I needed a place where I could rant a bit more and not be so annoyed by the algorithm lol.

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Hello All !

This is just a little update to announce that we have been quite the early birds this year with planning the Woweezonk Room for TCAF 2018. In years past we waited until the February before TCAF to curate the space but this year we wanted to plan early while the applications to the festival were still open. That date is coming up super fast unfortunately! The deadline for applications is Halloween night (Oct 31st)! 

http://www.torontocomics.com/2017/08/14/apply-now-for-tcaf-2018/

As of Saturday Oct 28th (how is it this feels early and late at the same time?), we have been in contact with all the people tabling in the Woweezonk Room for next year’s TCAF (2018). 

We know this might come as a surprise for a lot of folks who usually expect an invite in early spring!  We love and want to keep supporting everyone who’s tabled in the Woweezonk room throughout the years ~ (2010-2017) ~ and we hope to have you all back : ) 

We’ve been curating this space for seven years and even though our familiar roster of artists and small press publishers has grown we always aim to invite new creators. Even so, we’ve slowly been trying to incorporate the idea of having people table every other year. This is honestly hard to enforce when everyone is always so productive at creating new comics and other art/works all the time!

Frankly we believe that this year is our best attempt at enforcing this balance. Here's how it breaks down at the moment, though some numbers may change before Festival time. Counting the three curators (Myself - Ginette Lapalme, Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma) as well as an OCADu student comics table; 15 individuals, collectives and publishers will be returning from last year’s festival (2017). Eight creators who have previously tabled 2 or more years ago will be returning in 2018. And of those who have never tabled in our space before (for some it will be their first time at TCAF); we are welcoming 16 creators/collectives/small press groups! 

We’re very excited to eventually announce our guests!!! …. At the start of next year when it will feel just a little more concrete. 

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We hope that even though we haven’t reached out for you to table in the Woweezonk room this coming year, that you will consider applying to TCAF 2018. Otherwise we will be in contact in future years of the festival so long as we still have access to this great opportunity provided to us by TCAF itself!!! <3 >>>http://www.torontocomics.com/2017/08/14/apply-now-for-tcaf-2018/ <<< (To reiterate the deadline is fast approaching! You only have 2 more days to apply so please consider it) Yipes! Sorry!

On that note, although we three as individuals are often approached in person with requests to table in ~ the zone ~ we’ve recently created the email address woweezonkTCAF@gmail.com to refer to with any inquiries. This email will be super helpful for us because we need to consider every request as a group rather than as individuals. We are also pretty forgetful to be honest! We’ve sometimes said yes to someone a year in advance and then have had to scramble when we’ve forgotten who we’ve said yes to. Which is the worst. >__< !

With all that said, thank you for understanding and for reading all of this! ~It’s so long and I feel I’m rambling~ but we hope everyone will be as excited about TCAF 2018 as we are! 

-Ginette (on behalf of Patrick & Chris) 

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found some long lost woweezonk totes the other day (originally designed for the release of the Woweezonk 4 anthology published by Koyama Press) and now they’re hand-dyed and in my shop ♥

only 7 of these left ! 

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MODEL SHEET DRAWINGS, BY JASON MURPHY 20 PAGES, 3 COLOR RISOGRAPH, CLOTH TAPE BINDING, EDITION OF 150, PUBLISHED BY STiLL LiFE IN ATLANTA GEORGIA 2015.

debuting in the wowee zonk room at TCAF.

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Cover of Wowee Zonk issue 3 (currently out of print)

"features new work by Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme, Patrick Kyle, Michael DeForge, Chris Simonen, Andrei Georgescu, Daniel Rocca, Jan Avendano, Selena Wong and Zach Worton"

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Woweezonk Zone ~ come visit us this weekend ~~~~ !!!

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TCAF is coming up and this is just a reminder that Woweezonk (a.k.a. Patrick Kyle, Chris Kuzma & Ginette Lapalme) were generously given space to curate a small press room yet again in 2015 !!! (((much ♥♥♥ to TCAF organizers for inviting us back)))

If you’ve visited in years past, you won’t find us in front of the giant windows this time because this year we’ve moved into the Beeton Auditorium (just off the main room/1st floor) so don’t forget to stop by ~~ ~~ ~~ 

Our Small Press Room has more ppl tabling in it than ever before and here is the full list with links : 

Adam Buttrick Aidan Koch Alicia Nauta Andy Burkholder Ben Urkowitz Brandon Celi Brie Moreno Chris Kuzma Conor Stechschulte Daryl Seitchik E Howey / Sever Press Eric Kostiuk Williams Ethan Rilly Eunice Luk / Slow Editions Ginette Lapalme Hudson Christie Issue Press Jason Murphy Jesse Jacobs John Porcellino Keith Jones Kendra Yee Katie Ridley Murphy Lala Albert Laura Kenins Laurence Philomene Leah Wishnia / Happiness Marc Bell Mark Connery Michael Comeau Mimi Chrzanowski Morgan Criger Noah Van Sciver Noel Freibert Nosebleed Comics OCADU Comic students Patrick Kyle Peter Kalyniuk Phil Woolam Rosena Fung Ryan Dodgson Sab Meynert Space Face Books Starchild Stela Susan van Beek Swimmers Group Ted Gudlat Zach Hazard Vaupen Zuzu Knew

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We are so happy to announce that thanks to the very generous people at The Beguiling and TCAF we are curating a small press room yet again this year!!! ♥♥♥

We've a really sweet lineup for 2014, so please do stop by the Wowee Zonk Small Press Area @ the Toronto Reference Library on May 10th & 11th ☺.☺

Our area will include the following awesomeee list of artists/publishers: 

Chris Kuzma - www.chriskuzma.com Patrick Kyle - www.patrickkyle.com Ginette Lapalme - www.ginettelapalme.com Closed Caption Comics - www.closedcaptioncomics.blogspot.ca Mark Connery Marc Bell - www.marcbelldept.blogspot.ca Amy Lockhart - www.amylockhart.ca Breakdown Press - www.breakdownpress.com Keith Jones - www.keithcomics.tumblr.com Ryan Dodgson - www.rjdodgson.tumblr.com Phil Woollam - www.philwoollam.tumblr.com Lauren Albert - www.plslala.com Adam Buttrick - www.adambuttrick.com Andy Burkholder - www.andyburkholder.blogspot.ca Sab Meynert - www.sabmeynert.com Eric Kostiuk Williams - www.ericdraws.com Lale Westvind - www.lalewestvind.blogspot.ca Michael Comeau - www.comeaumichael.blogspot.ca Rosena Fung - www.rosenafung.com Selena Wong - www.selenawong.com Juli Majer - www.wimpi.tumblr.com Space Face Books - www.spacefacebooks.com Eunice Luk - www.euniceluk.com Alabaster - www.illustriousalabaster.com Ethan Rilly - www.popehats.ca OCADU Student Table Crew

We can't wait to see you there!!!  

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The first page of my comic for Woweezonk 4 ! !

~ You can buy the new Zonk on our website  ~

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Woweezonk editors Ginette, Chris and Patrick at TCAF 2012

Thanks to our fellow illustrator Fern Choonet for the photo capture! 

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diseased phalluses 

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August 2010: Patrick and Chris working with me on our Magic Pony display in my messy studio. 

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Woweezonk totes in da house!~.~

Fresh outta Punch-Clock Studio (Thanks to Matt King!) this first run of Woweezonk totes, designed by Ginette Lapalme, will be available at TCAF (May5th-6th)! Soon after the festival, the totes will be available for purchase on our website too. 

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most flattering photos of the woweezonk editors

Thanks to lala for developping these