Synopses & Reviews
Confetti, like its namesake, is a fun and explosive mix of color from the fertile mind of multidisciplinary artist Ginette Lapalme. In comics, paintings, prints, sculpture, and jewelry, Lapalme uses cartoons and junk culture as raw material to make "cute" subversive and "pretty" punk.
Ginette Lapalme is a Toronto-based illustrator and artist. Lapalme is a graduate of the storied OCADU Illustration program, and is one third of Wowee Zonk, a Toronto-based illustrator collective and contemporary comic book anthology. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across Toronto, and her client list includes the Walrus magazine, Threadless, and VICE magazine.
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"In the squishy, malleable bodies that rollick across the pages of Confetti, Lapalme has distilled all the pop ephemera of childhood--Lisa Frank sticker books, tie-dye T-shirts, Barbapapas, cootie-catchers--into something potent and exuberant." -- Sean Rogers,
The Globe and Mail"Ginette Lapalme is one of those talented artists who works in a variety of mediums and is that good that she excels at all of them." -- Zainab Akhtar, Comics and Cola
"It is a goal of mine to live alone in a big house surrounded by the work of Ginette Lapalme, kind of like a cat lady, but with drawings of cats instead of real cats. Taking in every detail of one of her zines turns me into a kid in a candy store; decorating public spaces with her stickers makes me feel like Santa Claus. Utterly delightful but never too cute, the world Lapalme has created leaves me more attuned to the perverse beauty of the one around us." -- Tavi Gevinson, founder and editor of Rookie
"I love Ginette Lapalme's work. It takes a cute and femme aesthetic and uses it to make sinister, smart and sexy images. To me her work is not about subverting feminine aesthetic but embracing it fully - as a powerful, complex and beautiful thing." -- Amy Lockhart, filmmaker, animator and artist; Drawn and Quarterly published their monograph Dirty Dishes in 2009
"Ginette Lapalme is the most powerful of all the Etsy witches of the Great North. I have procured an array of her zines, jewellery and mechanical poodles and they are all total DISPLAY ITEMS. <3><3><3" --="" simon="" hanselmann,="" author="" of="">Megahex (Fantagraphics)
Synopsis
A colorful celebration of cartoons, creativity and the culture of cute.
About the Author
Ginette Lapalme is a Toronto-based illustrator and artist. Lapalme is a graduate of the storied OCADU Illustration program, and is one third of Wowee Zonk, a Toronto-based illustrator collective and contemporary comic book anthology featuring up-and-coming international artists. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across Toronto, and her client list includes The Walrus Magazine, Threadless, VICE Magazine, Kraft, Circo De Bakuza, and Fuzzy Logic Recordings.