Born in Macau and raised in Thornhill, Tings Chak chose Hamilton, Ontario, for a home for her university years. Her graphic novella, Where the Concrete Desert Blooms, tells the stories of Hamilton – the hammer, steel city, lunch bucket town – through its history, intimate interviews with its residents.

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I first saw Stephen Crowe’s work at Shakespeare & Company, nestled above a refined selection of antique books with beautiful spines in the main room. The page I saw looked like the beginning of an illustrated Grimm’s story. I pointed it out to my friend Lauren – whispering, as there was a reading taking place – and she told me that it was an illustration of Finnegans Wake. Curious about his project, I contacted Crowe to find out more.

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Badaude – (ba’daude; nf): a person given to idle observation of everything with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler – describes herself as a “writer with pictures”. I met Badaude (otherwise known as Joanna Walsh) for the first time in the gardens of the Musée Zadkine in Paris.

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