Gerry Porter was a talented visual artist, designer, and humorist who made an indelible impact on the St. John’s arts scene.
He died in 2016, and on Sunday December 1st, a website of his work is being launched at The LSPU Hall, from 4 pm to 6 pm.
The website contains hundreds of Gerry’s cartoons, comics, posters, memes, and for his on-line followers, an archive of his twitter feed and news haikus.
When people use the term, they are referencing this feature article, by Sandra Gwyn, published in Saturday Night magazine in 1976, wherein she coined the phrase: “Destruction of the outports…
In trawling through older issues of Newfoundland Quarterly, I’m particularly looking for writing about landscape and place, stories about technology, and things that make me laugh. So far, the most perfect triangulation of those three things is The First Automobile in Bonne Bay.
Congratulations on your new memoir! I knew Openly Karl was going to be interesting – but it was a page turner. I could not stop reading it – and I…