Doing a few watercolours in the neighbourhood this year as autumn fades away. ![]() ![]() November 22, 2023 A new home for one of the oils: ![]() November 12, 2023 A "four seasons" set of hand-coloured woodcuts going into a show at Petley-Jones Gallery later this month. ![]() November 10, 2023 Douglas Todd in the Vancouver Sun on Shaughnessy.... ![]() October 22, 2023 The sketchbook of our recent trip to Holland and northern France, added to my travel page. ![]() October 18, 2023 Reviews coming in for The Bund. And a talk at the San Francisco Jewish Community Library on Sunday October 22nd. October 10, 2023 ![]() Updated September 14, 2023 ![]() "The Bund" is printed and in bookstores. As I'm just the illustrator, I've linked it from my Projects Page rather than my Books Page, with a bit of a blurb about my part in it. Updated September 8, 2023 ![]() ![]() Two ink sketches from summers past in a show at Petley Jones Gallery for the next couple of weeks. Updated August 28, 2023 ![]() Sketchbook stuff from trips to Mayne Island in 2021 and 2023, added to my travel page. Updated August 23, 2023 Updates on two of the former Japanese-Canadian houses on Mayne Island. ![]() ![]() Updated August 6, 2023 ![]() Summer chugging along in the neighbourhood ... Updated June 9, 2023 My current project, a book to be published next spring... ![]() It's about "surviving" in two senses: the first as an adjective, the things that have survived, and the second as a verb (okay, a gerund), as in how you survive. More to come here and on the Facebook page as it develops. Updated April 2, 2023 ![]() Article about me in Inspired Magazine, available as a story online. Updated March 3, 2023 New Zealand and Australia sketchbook posted from the recent trip here ... ![]() ... and a little more about the success of The Rooming House. ![]() Updated January 9, 2023 A page of "small works" for a group show at Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver ![]() Updated December 29, 2022 ![]() I've put up my "sort of travel diary" for 2022 on my travel page – not an inspiring year leading to inspiring artwork, perhaps. But this image of the Kruger Homestead near Penticton has been added to the Vanishing BC pages in the hope that a local historian can fill in the details of its past. Updated December 18, 2022 ![]() Best of the season to all readers! And ... I've finished the illustrations for The Jewish Labor Bund, a comic book-graphic novel about the secular-humanist Jewish movement of the early 20th century in Poland, Ukraine and Russia, and how it fought against Russian aggression and anti-Semitism. It will be published in 2023 by Between the Lines in Toronto and distributed internationally. I'm not the author – she is Sharon Rudahl of San Francisco. Here are a couple of the page spreads... ![]() ![]() Updated November 16, 2022 Taking a break on the Bund book (see below), between Chapters 5 & 6, and doing a little website housekeeping, including getting ready for Christmas. If you're interested in a trouble-free Christmas gift (before December 10th, please), go to the Rooming House page or the Here & Gone page for directions on getting signed copies mailed to you. ![]() This also works for my graphic novels. See the books page for details. Updated October 18, 2022 And now for something completely different... An illustration job – a book on the Jewish Bund in Poland, Ukraine and Russia in the early 20th century. Deadline early in 2023.... ![]() And the talk below is posted onto YouTube. Updated September 18, 2022 I'll be giving this talk – the sort of non-fiction underpinning of The Rooming House, to the Vancouver Historical Society on September 22nd at the Museum of Vancouver, 7 pm. ![]() Updated August 19, 2022 Review by Valerie Green in the British Columbia Review ![]() Updated July 25, 2022 We keep bouncing back and forth between #7 and #9 on the BC Book Bestseller List, back to #11 on July 25th, but on the list for two months! ![]() and... The True North Country Comics podcast with John Swiminer. Click to go to the YouTube site: ![]() Updated June 24, 2022 An interview on Global Morning with Jennifer Palma about The Rooming House: ![]() Four weeks on the BC Bestseller list as of June 18th! And, a profile in the Vancouver Guardian: ![]() continue to more blogs.... |
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Michael Kluckner is a Vancouver-based artist and writer.
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