![]() (Drawn & Quarterly’s website indicates this is a fictional memoir. ![]() This mother represents the citys next wave of inhabitants-the artists and young parents who swarm a run-down area for its affordability, inevitably reshaping the neighborhoods they take over. ![]() She illustrates Hamilton’s neighborhoods with more detail than the people in it, though she’s able to invest everyone she draws, even when she uses only a few lines, with a lot of character. A new mother takes us on a tour of Hamilton, a Rust Belt city born of the Industrial Revolution and dying a slow death due to globalization. Nickerson’s black, white and gray art suits the setting - it feels a bit hazy, like the pollution from the dead factories is still hanging about. ![]() Somehow so does life in the imperfect city. Is she part of the problem? Motherhood isn’t quite the overwhelmingly hopeful, joy-filled time it’s normally presented as in the media, but it tilts toward joy. Even though art is reinvigorating the neighborhood, the artist’s studio used to be cheap, substandard housing. Second place, comic arts for Creation, The. Gentrification is underway, there’s a lot of poverty, people are being displaced and excluded. City of Hamilton, University of Toronto, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Government of Canada. 192pp.Ī new mother (an artist) reflects on living and creating in Hamilton, Ontario - “known as the armpit of Ontario…” - a city struggling through a transition from it’s industrial past. ![]()
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