Broken Social Scene Presents: You Forgot It in People - by Lonnie Nadler & Justin Peroff & Brendan Canning (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Rock and Canadian icon, Broken Social Scene collects their memories over the last 20 years in this once in a lifetime graphic novel!

Z2 Comics celebrates the most crucial indie album of the new millennium with Broken Social Scene Presents: You Forgot It in People, The Graphic Novel. Paralleling the confluence that led a community of Toronto musicians to craft a winding audio epiphany, this project unites one writer and and 13 artists to create a series of intertwining vignettes inspired by the 2003 record, You Forgot It in People, on its 20th anniversary. Overseen by Broken Social Scene's Justin Peroff and Brendan Canning, writer Lonnie Nadler (X-Men, Black Stars Above) joins Eric Orchard, Ray Fawkes, Mike Feehan, Diana Nguyen, and more artists to be announced for a fully Canadian sequential art jam session.

Within these pages, a collection of seemingly disparate strangers' lives weave in and out each others' orbits, touched equally by the mundane and unexplainable. The meta of music and people and ideas harmonizing together shifts to a new medium for this touching and ambitious graphic novel.

About the Author

Lonnie Nadler is a storyteller from Vancouver, Canada. He is best known for his work at Marvel Comics that includes showrunning the Age of X-Man event, and writing for titles like Cable, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Punisher 2099. He released his critically acclaimed debut graphic novel, The Dregs, in 2017 from Black Mask Studios. His 2018 follow up, Come Into Me, was named one of the best 100 horror comics of all time by Paste Magazine. In 2020, his historical fiction, cosmic horror concoction, Black Stars Above, was longlisted for a Bram Stoker Award. Nadler's latest series, Undone By Blood, is in development with BigBaldHead Productions and AMC.

He also currently writes for video games and his clients include Ubisoft and Lionshead Entertainment.

Lonnie's films have played at festivals around the world. His documentary, Co-Creators, held its world premiered at the DOXA Film Festival in 2018.

If you're still reading this too-long bio, Lonnie has also penned stories for VICE, Fangoria, HuffPost, Blood-Disgusting, Seraphim Films, PanelXPanel, Ahoy! Comics Magazine, Razorblades, and numerous other publications. When Lonnie is not building worlds, he's crushed under the weight of simultaneous imposter syndrome and delusions of grandeur.

Justin Peroff is the drummer of Broken Social Scene.

Mike Feehan is an illustrator from Newfoundland, Canada whose work includes the award-winning mini-series Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles from DC Comics. In addition to his comic book work, Feehan freelances as a storyboard artist and has worked on a variety of short films and advertisements for internationally recognized brands. He has also collaborated with IFC, Netflix and others on social media-based animations. Prior to working full-time in illustration, Mike also worked for several years as a graphic designer and printing technician.

Brendan Canning (born 1969 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian indie rock performer. He is a founding member of the band Broken Social Scene .

Ray Fawkes

Ray Fawkes is the critically-acclaimed author of the comics and graphic novels Underwinter, Intersect, One Soul, The People Inside, The Spectral Engine, Possessions, and Junction True, as well as Batman: Eternal, Constantine, Justice League Dark, and Gotham by Midnight (DC), Wolverines (Marvel), Black Hammer '45 (Dark Horse), Jackpot! (AfterShock) and more. He is an Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster award nominee and a YALSA award winner.

Ray has been making comics for over 20 years, starting with and continuing the tradition of DIY fiction as well as working for many major comics publishers in the U.S. and Canada.

Eric Orchard is a cartoonist, illustrator and writer who tells richly imagined stories for kids of all ages. He is the author and illustrator of the Maddy Kettle books and a number of picture books. He has won a Spectrum award for his illustrations and has been included in the Society of Illustrators annual exhibition. In school he studied painting, drawing and art history. On his own time, Eric has studied folklore as well as comic books. His first graphic novel with First Second, Bera the One-Headed Troll, was inspired by Norse fairy tales and illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Maurice Sendak. He considers himself very fortunate to be drawing books for kids all day. Eric currently lives in Toronto with his wife, two young sons, and studio companion: Albert Pineapple the parrot.

Diana Nguy?n is a Vietnamese-Canadian freelance illustrator and comic artist, currently based in Toronto. Her love of line and mark-making informs much of her work. She often utilizes negative space, intentional lines, and a minimal colour palette to amplify emotional undertones. She is interested in marginalized stories, memories, relationships between people, nature, and the magic of mundane moments.

In her spare time, she can be found watching movies, very bad tv, falling in a wormhole of random facts, sewing, reading, exploring nature, playing with her dog, and drinking too much coffee.