RICK TREMBLES' MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY DECENSORTIZED

RICK TREMBLES' MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY DECENSORTIZED

Undead & in person next to the slithery slideshow screen, using hand-drawn biographical anecdotes, Trembles will make you tremble as he narrates how he first got into macabre movies & the comix medium as a youngster influenced by the Canadian World War Two comics his father published & what made him think he could merge the two! PowerPoint presentation details how the strip’s bumpy early controversial history meshes with Trembles' own personal life & obsession with censorship throughout filmdom & people's ever-changing thresholds & mores across the 20th century, all the while giving insight into how to pick apart films with his patented process of condensing pertinent plot points via creepy x-ray vision cross-sections, maniacal maze-like aerial views, & screwy schematics! From King Kong to Cronenberg, don’t miss Trembles’ alternate terror-tinged take on the history of cinema!

Come say hi face-to-face to the cartoonist THE GUARDIAN called “a genius” & ROBERT CRUMB declared “even more twisted & weird” than himself, & he’ll personally sign & doodle for you all over copies of his latest 192-page collection of film reviews from FAB Press; Motion Picture Purgatory Volume Two!

Rick Trembles’ critically acclaimed hybrid comic strip movie criticism column Motion Picture Purgatory has been appearing every week in the Montreal Mirror since 1998 (after originating in the same pages with the paper’s inception in the 80’s). Trembles continues to make animated short films that occasionally tour the globe (some award-winning), & play in his 30-year-old post-punk band The American Devices. His work has been featured in numerous galleries & published internationally. The L.A. Times called him “a famous free thinker.” English Professor at Concordia University, Marcie Frank, featured Trembles in her chapter about comix for the book QUEER DIASPORAS (Duke University Press).