Confetti

by Ginette Lapalme, Karie Liao (Foreword)

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.

Genres: Art, Graphic Novels, Comics

200 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2015

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Groovy, girly, gronky art book from Koyama Press, like a candy necklace dipped in mild hallucinogens.

[Speed]

I love it! The art was really cute!

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

she’s one of very few North American who can make REAL cute stuffs like East Asian!

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately, the longest and best piece in this is the first. The rest is a handful of abstract comics and a lot of paintings, drawings, and ceramic work with repeating themes and motifs of women bending over, dog and cat faces, human bodies merged with those animal faces. Most of it is pretty charming and fun to look at it. Lapalme's strength is in her work with color which is really impressive. There's plenty of funny stuff in here. My only complaint is some of the typical LSD-type imagery that I see again and again of wide-eyed animals and diamonds and drippy textures. Compared to the personality shown in the other pieces, these images feel very generic.

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

a little too "out there" for my tastes...

[Emilia P · Rating 3 out of 5]

A picture book of butts and kittens on LSD and butts of kittens on LSD. Or something? And sparkles? And ice cream. And stuff. I'm not sure why I perused it (it's basically wordless), but it was a fun and grotesque little time.