We all know it's hard being Canadian and in this succinct six page booklet Wesley Mulvin lays out the physical and metaphysical origins of the difficulty from the beginning of Time with humorous quasi-scientific diagrams in coloured pencil. Printed in an edition of 60 signed and numbered copes. 6 full-colour pages. 19,5 x 13,5 cm. Perro Verlag, Mayne Island, BC, Canada, 2009
For her first chapbook with Perro Verlag, Malena Kirlianova has transcribed the tale of Heedless Screed's meeting with Gabb, (Gabb of the Raine Flank). Based on two found texts that were themselves based on a text translated from the Hittite, Kirlianova's reconstruction of the original narrative is both humourous and scholarly. Wesley Mulvin's primary colour drawings and oversized numbers mirrror the architecture of the text, creating a space for the reader to wander into scenes where Screed and Gabb share haunch loaves the size of hew-holes while listening for a jynx of banstickles. 24 full-colour pages. Printed in an edition of 80 signed and numbered copies. Perro Verlag, Vancouver, 2008.
Documents of Psychic Amateurs is the first volume in a quarterly publication dedicated to the dissemination of research by both faculty and students at the Institute for the Science of Identity. Volume 1 no.1, 2008, is 58 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect bound with 24 full colour pages and 34 black and white pages printed on various coloured papers. The first issue represents the work of 20 artists: Aby W. Blake, Mark Connery, Jo Cook, Mily Goodden, Claudine Hubert, Sally Ireland, Doug Jarvis, Malena Kirlianova, Chris Lloyd, Ross Angus Macaulay, Billy Mavreas, Michael McCormack, Tammy McGrath, Wesley Mulvin, Florentine Perro, Sally Rees, Liz Solo, Julie Voyce, Matt Warren and Frances Zorn. Published on the ocassion of the exhibition, International Psychic Amateurs Work/Study (iPAWS) at Lucky's Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. Printed in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies. Perro Verlag, Vancouver.
The bi-lingual text for this book was written in the Czech Republic one afternoon while Cook, Mulvin, and Poldlahová sat in the sun at a picnic table drinking Czech beer and playing the Surrealist language game of cadavre exquisse. Black and white ink drawings by Mulvin. 21,5 x 19,5. Soft cover. Japanese handstitched binding. 3rd edition, Perro Verlag, Vancouver 2008
For this new perfect-bound artist's book, Wesley Mulvin has sketched a variety of faces and invented episodes, using both art history and his own history to illustrate comic pseudo-narratives. Using chance operations to title each drawing, he arrives at phrases like "What is nicer and easier than falling asleep?" This phrase is repeated four times in variations for a portrait of a sleeping figure. In another drawing, a swimmer who may or may not be having trouble keeping afloat, appears to be asking the question "What shall we do in art?" while a dancing devil is titled "Last Day of School." Printed in a signed and numbered edition of 60. Perfect bound with black binding tape, 21.5 x 16.5 cm, 36 pages, including 33 black-and-white drawings. Two-colour screen-printed cover on Fabriano cover stock, with blue end papers. Perro Verlag, Vancouver, 2007.
Loose and humorous brush and ink drawings by Canadian designer/builder Wesley Mulvin. Represents some of the drawings exhibited at Lucky's Comics in Vancouver Canada, July 2005. 32 pages black and white. Colour facsimile covers . 19 x 13,5 Perro Verlag, Vancouver. Third edition 2007.
The bi-lingual text for this book was written in the Czech Republic one afternoon while Cook, Mulvin, and Poldlahová sat in the sun at a picnic table drinking Czech beer and playing the Surrealist language game of Cadavre Exquisse. Black and white ink drawings by Mulvin. 21,5 x 19,5. Soft cover. Japanese handstitched binding. Perro Verlag, Vancouver 2007
The bi-lingual text for this book was written in the Czech Republic one afternoon while Cook, Mulvin, and Poldlahová sat in the sun at a picnic table drinking Czech beer and playing the Surrealist language game of Cadavre Exquisse. Black and white ink drawings by Mulvin and hand-painted covers by Cook and Mulvin. 21,5 x 19,5. 2nd printing, limited edition of 30 numbered copies stapled with yellow binding tape. Perro Verlag, Vancouver 2007
A catalogue produced to document Wesley Mulvin's Modern Carpentry performance at the Ministry of Casual Living in Victoria BC Canada. Drawings, collage, helpful hints, a technical quiz and a free postcard enclosed. Colour covers inside and out, 24 pages, 4 colour and 20 black and white printed on various coloured papers. 20 x 13,5. Perro Verlag, Vancouver 2006
This passport breaks the rules and is printed on bright yellow paper. Never mind that the bright coloured paper is almost impossible to see through the solid black background on every page. Mulvin's drawings are ghostly apparitions of family members caught in activities in a dark past where bikes and strollers and sporty clothes can ne'er e'er do anything about the menace surrounding them. 20 black and yellow pages. Red cover stock with orange end papers. 18,5 x 13,5. Perro Verlag, Vancouver 2007
Drawing on the collaborative dinosaur drawings these four artists made for the exhibition, Welcome to Dino World , at the lower case gallery in Vancouver, this book is another in the Perro Verlag series of books generated while playing the Surrealist game of cadavre exquisse. Each drawing is printed on a different kind of paper. 22 pages, yellow covers stapled with red binding tape. 21,5 x 13,5. Limited edition of 30 copies. Perro Verlag, Vancouver 2007
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