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- Pick a winner: Eric Kostiuk Williams is an Eisner, two-time Lambda Literary, and three-time Doug Wright Award finalist. His recent comics include Our Wretched Town Hall (Retrofit), Condo Heartbreak Disco (Koyama Press), and Babybel Wax Bodysuit (Retofit).
- The Bold and Beautiful: Eric’s posters sold over a hundred events in the past decade because his art sells itself, and it’s all here in its bold, colorful, over-sized glory.
- Omnipresence: Eric’s comics have been featured in Dazed & Confused Magazine, the Believer, Now Magazine, and Carousel Magazine. He has contributed to several music projects, including illustrated music videos for Owen Pallett’s singles “Paragon of Order” and “Fire-Mare”, and album artwork for Fucked Up’s Dose Your Dreams.
- Hometown Hero: Eric’s work has received support from the Canada Arts council and the Ontario Arts Council. He was the recipient of the 2018 Queer Press Grant for his graphic novella, Our Wretched Town Hall.
- Road Show: With a residency in San Francisco and a year-long tour, Eric Kostiuk Williams spreads the love on both coasts and the middle, in the US and Canada - and the posters in 2AM Eternal prove he can pack a house.
About the author
Eric Kostiuk Williams is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from Ontario College of Art & Design University’s illustration program in 2014. Kostiuk Williams first came to international attention upon the release of his self-published series,
Hungry Bottom Comics, which fuses memoir and cultural critique to explore internalized homophobia in the gay community, the rise of hookup apps, and the struggles in finding community.
Summary
People and places come and go, but the after-party never stops when it's 2AM Eternal.
Your host, Eric Kostiuk Williams, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto’s queer community, from basements to the backstage to back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to 2022, short comics stories, and hand-written notes from the author, the organizers, the performers, and the crowd, 2AM Eternal makes a scene – until last call. The pandemic prompts a series of posters for cancelled events, and a pivot to digital events in the days of lockdown, before the manic, uneasy re-emergence of face-to-face, wall-to-wall living.
Foreword
- Author Tour: Toronto, ON; Chicago, IL; Bethesda, MD; Brooklyn, NY; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Montreal, QC.
- National Print Campaign: Advance copies to the following publications: C Magazine, Xtra Magazine, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlantic Monthly, Portland Monthly, the Portland Mercury, Bitch, Print, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Midwest Book Review, the LA Times, the LA Review of Books and many others.
- Advance copies to trades Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal.
- Online Media Campaign: Advance copies, interview and review pitches to: the Guardian, NPR, the Huffington Post, Comics Beat, the Comics Journal, Comic Book Resources, Flavorwire, Pop Matters, Under the Radar, Paste Magazine, the Onion A.V. Club and Slate among others.
- Promotion through the Secret Acres Scuttlebutt blog, Secret Acres Facebook and Twitter and through Eric Kostiuk Williams’s website, www.kostiukwilliams.com, and the artist’s Instagram and Twitter.
- Quotes to come!
