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Simon Orpana

Simon Orpana

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I will happily provide quotes or answer queries about illustration, research, public speaking, or writing work. Please send me a message.

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Graphic Novels

Gasoline Dreams: Waking up from Petroculture

Showdown! Making Modern Unions (with Rob Kristofferson)

Community Projects

The Brightside Neighbourhood Project

Workers’ City Walking Tours (with the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre)

Films

Beaz Steez: Skateboarding at Beasley Park

Awards

The Freeperson Award for Best Cartoon, Illustration or Infographic, Canadian Association of Labour and Media (2021)

Interviews

Helios (by Caleb Wellum)

Illustration

Hamilton’s LRT & Displacement

The Placebos aren’t Working

The Fight for Affordable Housing in Hamilton, Ontario (with Rob Kristofferson and Bjarke Skaerlund Risager)

May Day 2021 (with Tynan Liebert)

Exhibitions

This is Serious

Writing

Much a Donut about Nothing: Donuts, Gentrification and the Loss of the Commons in Hamilton

Interpellation by The Force: Biopolitical Cultural Apparatuses in The Force Awakens

Who Wouldn’t Get the Joke: Vile Sovereignty, Vanishing Mediators, and Trump (with Evan Mauro)

A Precarious Convergence of Light: the Photography of Peter Karuna

Spooks of Biopower: the Uncanny Carnivalesque of Zombie Walks

Reviews

Gasoline Dreams (Journal of Energy History, by Sophia Ahlberg)

Music

Inkfingers

Wheels of Steeltown