Walter Scott launches new book: The Wendy Award
CityNews | Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed | July 10, 2024
Walter Scott talks Wendy with CityNews
The Wendy Award by Kahnawake-raised Montreal based New Yorker cartoonist and fine artist Walter Scott is in stores now. He went from a fine artist self publishing comics on the side to an internationally renowned cartoonist. It is a story about a young contemporary artist who is nominated for a national art award.
“What is it like to create a thinly veiled piece of fiction that is so inseparable from your personal life that it completely exposes the private life of you and those around you?” Said Scott while reading from his book.
Scott says, “I made zines growing up just like the self-published stapled things that I would hand out or sell or whatever. Never really thinking that it would go anywhere necessarily except sharing with my friends. But then one of my zines got into the hands of a publisher and they asked me to create a little bit more material and then we published it as an official book.”
“Let me be clear. It’s fascinating to me how it seems to have no concern for protecting the people around you whatsoever. I could never do something like that,” said Scott while reading from his book.
Scott explains, “I feel like I’ve always been making comics. I stopped making comics in art school for a little while and then after I graduated it just naturally came back to me as something that I wanted to do. So I would say my whole life really.”
“Surely there must have been some personal consequences. Aesthetic choices put lives on new courses,” said Scott while reading from his book.
Check out the whole feature here!
“What is it like to create a thinly veiled piece of fiction that is so inseparable from your personal life that it completely exposes the private life of you and those around you?” Said Scott while reading from his book.
Scott says, “I made zines growing up just like the self-published stapled things that I would hand out or sell or whatever. Never really thinking that it would go anywhere necessarily except sharing with my friends. But then one of my zines got into the hands of a publisher and they asked me to create a little bit more material and then we published it as an official book.”
“Let me be clear. It’s fascinating to me how it seems to have no concern for protecting the people around you whatsoever. I could never do something like that,” said Scott while reading from his book.
Scott explains, “I feel like I’ve always been making comics. I stopped making comics in art school for a little while and then after I graduated it just naturally came back to me as something that I wanted to do. So I would say my whole life really.”
“Surely there must have been some personal consequences. Aesthetic choices put lives on new courses,” said Scott while reading from his book.
Check out the whole feature here!