“Old Trout” exhibit opens Friday – book to follow
A Cape Breton University Art Gallery exhibit celebrating the satirical comic book series, Old Trout Funnies, opens October 30 and runs to the end of January.
Paul “Moose” MacKinnon, a native of Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, initially created Old Trout Funnies as a student project for a commercial design course. It was a synthesis of the underground comics tradition of the late 1960s and 1970s and an Eastern Canadian self-deprecating sense of humour. It soon morphed into something far greater, including the genesis of the satirical Cape Breton Liberation Army.
Curated by CBU folklore professor Ian Brodie, the exhibit shows original materials from the archives of the Beaton Institute, copies of the original comics, MacKinnon’s sketchbooks and various Cape Breton Liberation Army calendars. Opening reception of the exhibit takes place Friday (Oct. 30) 6-8 p.m.
In November, CBU Press will launch Old Trout Funnies: The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army, by Ian Brodie and Paul “Moose” MacKinnon.
Link to a Cape Breton Post article on the exhibit here.