Drawn and Quarterly 1997

Velcome to the wonderful world of Vellevision. In this eclectic, 11-year retrospective peopled by gay superheroes, pizza-loving prima donnas, mediocre film-score composers and tormented housewives, comics artist-illustrator Maurice Vellekoop explores themes of sexual identity, guilt, fear, work, highbrow culture and lowbrow kitsch. So put on your 3-D opera glasses and have a ball!

“Matt Groenig, Kaz, and Maurice Vellekoop share a clarity of vision that drives their cartoons straight into the psyche unimpeded. Maurice somehow achieves that clarity in ambitiously complicated scenes and makes it look effortless.” -Gary Panter

“Where else are you going to go for so much colour, glitz, and an almost iridescent sense of human fickleness? I just wish he gave art lessons.”-Chris Ware