Emily Ragozzino has been drawing since she could pick up a pencil. As a child she was already doing her own sequential art influenced by comics in the Newspaper. Cartoons of the 80’s and 90’s were also a big influence on her. She took Fine Arts in college, graduating in 2005. Later she moved on to Toronto and began attending comic conventions. At this time she started specializing in drawing comic books about female outcasts. Tom Boy Tara was meant to be a temporary project, but it grew on her. Being a tomboy herself she enjoys continuing to write and draw it. Check out her webpage tomboytara.com.
Letters To Jonah is a solo acoustic act out of Brampton, Ontario. Heading up the solo project is Abe Dos Reis, the guitarist/vocalist in LTJ. The ambient soulful, folk sounding acoustic guitar is not all LTJ is limited to as Abe also plays Drums, Piano and Bass however the music still consists mostly of its original acoustic sounds. In all of LTJ's lyrics there is a notable connection to poetry and profound messages ranging from love to desparation. Launching in November of '09 Letters To Jonah has quickly risen the Myspace charts currently peaking at 32 out of all Canada's unsigned acoustic artists.
Liz Jukovsky spent the first 85% of her short life in Cambridge, Mass.–home of Matt Damon&Ben Affleck, Harvard&MIT, and (apparently) Bob Vila of 'This Old House' fame. She moved to Toronto for school and has been inconsolable ever since. Her page: blogspot.lizjukovsky.com. Come for the prose & poetry, stay for the shameless self-promotion and self-deprication.
My name is Kyle Gallagher (KyleStrong if you're nasty), I'm a radio DJ, writer and overall angry man. I've kicked it in Canada all my life, bouncing around through a few different cities for school and jobs, and living the extravagant (HA!) life of a radio personality. "Standing Up For Your Right to Get Falling Down Drunk".
Foad H.P. is an exiled Saudi Prince whom now resides deep in the heart of Toronto in his palace-like penthouse suite. Being of royal blood, he has been known to piss excellence and bleed handsomeness. His works have been published in many European magazines that you the reader have not heard of.
Sadie-Avalon Culver was raised in Edmonton, she's just 18 and works as a screenprinter for Punk and Metal bands at Graverobber records. An artsy person, she works in many medias, loves to paint most of all. "I don't think there's anything more beautiful than someone expressing them selves through silence, art to me is more powerful than words could ever be."
hello good people. I'm A.J. Valadka (website). my roots lie in PEI, but Calgary is home. I've had drinks in Asia, Europe, Africa, South America and of course LasVegas. every place i've been has stunned me or awed me somehow. thankfully so. freshness. you can't beat freshness. i suppose the status quo is over-rip, so i hope to keep things fresh.
Photographer Jim Gaines (website) "We all look at things differently in life, with a different perspective. What I try to do is to express something that I’ve seen. What I think needs to be expressed so that others might see it too. If I’m lucky, someone will say ‘I get it, I understand what he’s trying to say’, that’s the person I’m trying to reach."
Manny has been a paperboy, dishwasher, busboy, baker, park guard, security at a punk show, IKEA furniture assembler, construction worker, demolisher, snow shoveler & painter, dog walker, lifeguard & alcohol drinker(for science), salesman, graphic, portrait & cartoon artist. He currently lives in Montreal.
Vancouver-born Margaux Wosk likes.. art... junky art, Warhol, kitsch, piet mondrian, monet, retro art, op art, pop art & shag, garden gnomes & pink flamingos, colorful vibrant things with good vibes.. She belongs in Miami in a retirement home watching antique roadshow, and she's only 20. Her art pages are here and here.
Sabine Barbeau has been writing for independent publications for 2 years. She was deeply inspired after experiencing the vibes of the spoken word/slam poetry community in Vancouver, BC. Her new poetry is often a true reflection of those deep Hip Hop influences.
Trisha Kendrick is a 26yr old from Muskoka, an area of Ontario she calls "a very cottage-y, commercial, tourist trap". Her artsy erotica has been published in Black Heart Magazine out of Montreal. "I need to write. The pen is the only tool that eliminates the infinite grey (and/or gray) of the human condition for me."
Toykult is the Montreal-based brainchild of Henri Spartan. Their video for Automatic Addict is featured here. Also, the track 'Chinwaggin' Shit' is part of the inaugural STSQ Iconoclast podcast. To visit them at home, check out toykult.com
Check out the Migrating Birds feature on STSQ here. Or, head to the bird's nest on myspace at www.migratingbirds.ca
'Black Ops film group', based in Vancouver BC, is the brainchild of Gordon Rowell. Check out more videos here: www.vimeo.com/surfdub
Madison Brown is a poet and student living in and slowly learning to love Calgary after spending a year writing in and learning to leave Paris. Madison is always learning something.
Eric J. Thompson is a young artist and musician from Edmonton, who works in his own world of modern alien hyphy. view more of his work here
Christopher Conte is a Norwegian-born conceptual artist. Combining a background in prosthetics with his passion for art, Conte has fashioned his own unique aesthetic in the medium of sculpture. View his 'Microbotic' page.
Bob Cole is a Vancouver-based songwriter who contributed the song 'Shelter'. His website: bobcolemusic.com
Jerry Grandbois is an Ottawan currently travelling Australia and New Zealand. Several of his creative writing pieces are featured on STSQ.
Andy Ristaino is a San Francisco Bay area illustrator/animator. His 'Post-It Project' is regularly featured on STSQ. Check out his cool artwork webpage @ skronked.com
Kris Gillis hails from the GTA, and is both a strong believer in technology and art. He thrives on putting these two together and loves to communicate in diverse mediums, including images, comics, music and more. Kris' contribution to STSQ was the short story, 'The Dark One'.
Derek MacDougall, of Calgary, Alberta has contributed a poem entitled, 'Bar Treatment'.
Guido Daniele - Lives and works in Milan, Italy. His 'Handimals'are featured on STSQ.
