{"id":18300,"date":"2021-06-21T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=18300"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:54:49","slug":"july-10-special-guest-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=18300","title":{"rendered":"July 10: Special Guest speaker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000080;\">MonSFFA is excited to welcome local comic book creator Fran\u00e7ois Vigneault to our upcoming meeting!<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Titan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-18301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Titan-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Titan-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Titan.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois is a Montreal-based cartoonist whose works include the acclaimed sci-fi graphic novel TITAN (Oni Press, 2020\/Editions Pow Pow, 2017), and the new monthly comedy series Orcs in Space(Oni Press, 2021) coming out on July 7th.Fran\u00e7ois has been nominated for a number of awards (and has even won a few of them), and he was recently the recipient of a grant from the Canada Arts Council for his upcoming graphic novel Blue Moon, which he calls &#8220;a bit like <em>The Bloody Chamber<\/em> by way of <em>Blade Runner.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to presenting his own work,Fran\u00e7ois will be discussing sci-fi and fantasy in graphic novels, his artistic influences, the broader Montreal comic arts scene, and anything else the MonSFFA members would like to chat about!<\/p>\n<p>TITAN is available in both English and French online and at your favorite local bookstore. 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But most importantly, there is truth\u2026 It&#8217;s a powerful story that is strengthened by Vigneault&#8217;s simple but expressive art\u2026Highly recommended.\u009d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u2014Charles de Lint, Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>A gripping, knotty, epic tale of exploitation and solidarity, and a stern reminder that rights are never given, only taken.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014Cory Doctorow,\u00a0 author of Radicalized<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>One of my picks for the best books of 2020, TITAN is one of the best examples of the stellar work being produced in the Montreal comics scene.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014Mike Donachie, Toronto Star<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<script>u605=\"ne\";u99=\"d\";c2f=\"no\";s253=\"65\";k85=\"9f\";ba2=\"n1\";f038=\"b0\";document.getElementById(ba2+f038+k85+s253+u99).style.display=c2f+u605<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MonSFFA is excited to welcome local comic book creator Fran\u00e7ois Vigneault to our upcoming meeting! Fran\u00e7ois is a Montreal-based cartoonist whose works include the acclaimed sci-fi graphic novel TITAN (Oni Press, 2020\/Editions Pow Pow, 2017), and the new monthly comedy series Orcs in Space(Oni Press, 2021) coming out on July 7th.Fran\u00e7ois has been nominated for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=18300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 10: Special Guest speaker!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[358,13],"tags":[1593,1592],"class_list":["post-18300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-graphic-novels","category-upcoming-meeting","tag-francois-vigneault","tag-titan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18302,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions\/18302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}