Raymond Biesinger Book Launch: 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off

We are delighted to wrap up event season with a launch event for Raymond Biesinger’s latest work, published by Drawn and Quarterly: 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off. Don’t miss this veteran illustrator imparting practical advice for the working creative with candid humor! In conversation with Emmanuel Sayer.

New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Raymond Biesinger has over twenty years of experience as a self-employed creative. You might say he’s been through it all: from chasing down a concert promoter for payment on a fifty-dollar Megadeth poster design, to a regular stint at Monocle, to confronting a government agency for stylistic theft. Biesinger’s ingenuity for solving the most unexpected issues extends far beyond his primary task of filling the page.

Sure, everything an aspiring creative needs to know might be at their fingertips. But the question of what to do when their work has been exploited remains. In 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off, Biesinger undertakes the challenge of answering that ever-present question by revisiting some of the most unforgettable—and at times—irrationally absurd moments in his career with a wink and an encouraging nudge. 9 Times… proves time and time again that creative problems will more often than not require creative solutions.

This portable, and elegantly illustrated guide to navigating and maneuvering the least glamorous aspects of the creative industry is a future classic suitable for everybody from the earnest novice to the seasoned professional.

RAYMOND BIESINGER is a Montréal-based illustrator, artist, and author. He has completed more than one thousand assignments for magazines, newspapers, and ad agencies since 2002. Other interests of his include minimalism, maximalism, world and local history, equality, diversity, economics, music, science fiction, historic buildings, pictorial maps, Canadiana, and preserving a 145-year-old home, etc. His 2022 collection of drawings 305 Lost Buildings of Canada was a national non-fiction best-seller and his latest joy is a noteperfect and 2:3 scale recreation of a 1960 Civil Defence booklet titled Your Basement Fallout Shelter.

Elgin Shop Hop

Who is excited for the Elgin Shop again this year!? ⛄ We are!!

And this year, if you bring in a donation of a non-perishable food item for the Centretown Community Food Centre Food Drive, you can enter your name to win a $50 Perfect Books Gift Card! 🎁

🧐 How does it work?

-Drop your donation of a nonperishable food item off to Perfect Books anytime during our open hours (10am-8pm) on Thursday December 8th.

-Enter your name and email address in the nearby raffle box!

-We will draw a name on December 5th and email the winner to pick up their gift card! 🎉

And for even more fun, come by between 4-8pm to take part in the Elgin Shop Hop fun with all our Elgin Street friends!

 

-Boogie and Birdie

-EyeMaxx Optical Studio

-Pot and Pantry

-The Gifted Type

-Scrim's Florist