Description
Cole Pauls is a Champagne and Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory). He holds a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls has created the graphic novels: Dakwäkãda Warriors (2019), Pizza Punks (2021), Kwandür (2022). In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine's Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II . In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for two Doug Wright Awards. In 2022, Artspeak Gallery, in Vancouver BC, held the first solo exhibition of Pauls' work. In 2023, Kwandür won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize from the BC & Yukon Book Prize.
We See Stars Only at Night is a surrealistic landscape of Tahltan shapes, culture and motifs. Originally created for the Nanaimo Art Gallery's group show "Gutters are Elastic" in 2023, Pauls decided to expand the work into a full length book. Playing with the connection between land, regalia, performance and heritage, Pauls follows in the footsteps of Tiger Tateishi, Hironori Kikuchi and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas with his dreamlike narrative.
This is a second edition new format reprint of the original Conundrum 25 book, printed in duotone and in landscape format to better highlight the art. This book contains 50 duotone illustrations.