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- ↑ Chandler Levack (November 3, 2011). "Sherwin Tjia pushes Toronto out of its comfort zone". Blog TO . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
In between his day job as a medical illustrator, this Scarborough-born artist (who has since relocated to Montreal) coordinates events across Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa with a twist.
- ↑ "AELAQ And Quebec Writers' Federation Team Up For A Holiday Book Fair". Broadway World . November 6, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
Sherwin Tjia, poet, illustrator, and author of graphic novel Plummet.
- ↑ "The CBC Books winter reading list: 40 books to read to kick off 2020". CBC Books . January 28, 2020. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
Canada was the promised land, but when he didn't fit in and life was more difficult than he expected, Ali turned to drugs and partying before finding his way.
- ↑ Ryan Bigge (May 14, 2010). "Strip spelling bees are the latest hipster twist on burlesque". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
'You spell exquisitely,' says Sherwin Tjia, founder and host of the Honeysuckle Strip Spelling Bee, as the crowd of 80 roars in rowdy approval. A visibly tipsy Tjia manages to tap at his laptop and switch to a soundtrack of raunchy R&B, since the penalty for misspelling a word at this particular spelling bee is removing a third of one's clothing.
- ↑ Justin Rocket Silverman (March 26, 2014). "'Porn and Karaoke': They supply the porn, you supply the dialogue". New York Daily News . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
"It's more funny than sexy," says Sherwin Sullivan Tjia, a Montreal event planner who invented the smut-a-long after seeing a film about actors who do voice-over work in the porn industry.
- ↑ Jane van Koeverden (December 4, 2019). "Sherwin Tjia imagines what it would be like to fall forever". CBC Books . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
Sherwin Tjia is an illustrator from Montreal. He spoke to CBC Books about Plummet, his 11th book.
- ↑ Dan Brown (December 7, 2019). "COMICS: You'll fall for this graphic novel about a world of intense gravity". Stratford Beacon Herald . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
Ever had one of those dreams where you're falling and falling and never know if you're going to hit the ground? Now comes a new graphic novel, Plummet, about a woman who's perpetually falling yet never reaches the earth below. That may sound like a slender premise, but in the hands of Montreal's Sherwin Sullivan Tjia, it becomes a metaphor for life and a way to explore the human condition.