Tender Buttons Launch

I am proud to announce that my first book, for which I received the TAC grant for Emerging Artists, is being launched this weekend!

The book is called Tender Buttons, and it is a fusion of flash fiction and collage. Please go here if you want to learn more about Tender Buttons.

If you are in Toronto this week/end, I would love it if you would come help me celebrate. 

On Thursday November 29I will be reading Tender Buttons, accompanied by projections of the collages at the Neck of the Woods Art Show at the Norman Felix Gallery (627 Queen St West, Toronto), from 7 to 11 pm.

On Saturday December 1st, 2012, I will be displaying and selling Tender Buttons and my 2010 ‘zine Kitty Doodles as part of the Parkdale Bazaar at St. John’s Church at 186 Cowan Avenue, from 11am – 5pm

If you ain't in Toronto, or otherwise can’t make it but would still like to buy a copy of Tender Buttons, it can be purchased:

1)      by writing to me (ellieanglin@gmail.com)
2)      in store at Art Metropole (1490 Dundas Street W, Toronto)
3)      or from my Etsy shop (I’ll mail it to you and seal it with a kiss!)

Each copy is $12, and is signed, numbered, and comes with it's own one-of-a-kind collaged dust sleeve. Postage is $3.

Thanks so much y'all!  I love you!
Xoxo,

Ellie.

About Tender Buttons

Tender Buttons is a fusion of collage and flash fiction and was lovingly created by Ellie Anglin. Each full-colour booklet is numbered, signed and hand-bound by the artist, and has a one-of-a-kind collaged book sleeve.

“After surviving a mysterious and dark childhood, an emotionally stunted narrator struggles with mental illness, self-injury, and to reconcile her queerness with her strange spiritualism.  Our deeply repressed and simple heroine’s true sadness is only glimpsed at through frequent cracks in the delirious, slavish narrative about her prized Button Collection. The accompanying collages serve to open these cracks wider, giving a literal glimpse of her true desperation. If you like flash fiction, collage, and strange, sad women, Tender Buttons might be the one for you.”

Self-Published in Toronto, Ontario in 2012. 

76 pp. ISBN # 978-0-9879898-0-2, $12

Tender Buttons can be purchased from Ellie at ‘zine and art shows throughout the city, as well as at Art Metropole (1490 Dundas Street W, Toronto), or online at etsy.com/shop/ellieanglin

Get Ya Tenda Buttons Heah!

Tender Buttons now available in my Etsy Store.

Or directly here!

Hot Off The Press

These twenty tender booklets are all buttoned up, ready to go off to some publishers in the hopes that someone will help me to make more of these little Tender Buttons.  They each have their own individual dust vest - not quite a jacket.  I am very happy with how they turned out.  Thanks to everyone for your support.

More New Collages!

"Women in Print", for Tender Buttons, 2012

"Mother", for Tender Buttons, 2012.

 "Anna Nicole Smith", for Tender Buttons, 2012.

Tender Buttons, Snipperdoodles 2012

"Build the City of God", 201

"Homo", 2012

"horses?", 2008

"By Itself", 2012.

"Kill all Artists", 2010.

"Keep Parkdale Weird", 2012.

"HER FACE", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Sunday Night Button Party" from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Storm Approaches", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Colours", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"My Life with Biscuits", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Please", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Reaching", from Tender Buttons, 2012. 

"Stage Life", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"God Speaks to Me", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Healed", from Tender Buttons, 2012. 

"GED", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Mistress of Her Domain", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Anything is Bearable", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Cat Fancy", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Covetousness", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Aloe", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"For Britney Spears 1", 2008 - 2012.

"For Britney Spears 2", 2008 - 2012.

A scan of the lock of my hair that I buried with Betty, 2012.

New pages from Tender Buttons

"Fluid"

"HER FACE"

"Reaching, Reaching!"

Tender Buttons: Sneak Peek

Hoi Gois, Please check out this sneeeeky peek at some of the pages I've done on my up-coming book, Tender Buttons.  Let me know what you think because I still have a lot of pages to do!  Thank you.

Cover

Frontispiece

(Note: the letters that I'm using are from a 19th century children's science book!  How precious!  When they are printed they won't have the same shadow, nor will the individual snipperdoodles. ie the line around the flies won't be visible)

Page 2: "Staggering Gems"

Page 12 "it's too hard"