Fiona Smyth<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work has straddled art, comics, and murals. Since her days as a student at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) in the mid-1980s, her comics have been marked by a bold and overt sexuality\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgroundbreaking comics tackling female sexuality. Alongside her countless self-published zines, her comics have appeared in Vice, Exclaim!, and her pioneering 1990s Vortex series, Nocturnal Emissions.<\/p>\nFiona\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work has been exhibited in countries around the world, including the United States, Mexico, Berlin, France, Venice, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, and Torontonians are familiar with her eye-catching mural gracing the exterior of iconic local club Sneaky Dee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, located at the intersection of College and Bathurst streets.<\/p>\n
Fiona\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s publications include The Never Weres, a science fiction graphic novel for teens, and a series of progressive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sex talk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d books for children, created with the writer Cory Silverberg. In 2018, Koyama Press released Somnambulance, a career retrospective of Fiona Smyth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work to date. Presently, she teaches illustration and cartooning at OCADU.<\/p>\n
2019 Doug Wright Awards Ceremony
\n<\/strong>Forest Hill Ballroom, Marriott Bloor Yorkville
\nSaturday, May 11th, 2019
\n8pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 10pm
\nFree<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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