Between Gentlemen

Featuring the four short stories “Between Gentlemen”, “Babellion”, “Box Populi”, and “SKLH” for the first time in one pocketbook format. These short stories, reprinted from various anthologies, play with the medium and language of comics, and explore the unique properties of telling a story in comics form. Bottenberg has been a driving force in the Monteal comics community for decades and this book proves why.

About the Author

Rupert Bottenberg is an editor, writer, visual artist, event producer, and content curator. In the early 1990s, Bottenberg founded the Montreal Comic Art Jams, a series of multidisciplinary events centred on the creation of improvised, collaborative comics. Bottenberg also organized satellite Comic Jam events in other cities including New York City, Ottawa, and Toronto.

After contributing to Vice in its early newspaper stage, Bottenberg served as music editor of the Montreal Mirror, the city’s leading English-language newsweekly, from 1998 to 2011. During this time, Bottenberg also curated several group art shows at independent galleries, and taught comics workshops for teenagers in conjunction with the Blue Metropolis literary festival, including a workshop in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik.

Bottenberg then spent a decade as a co-director of the Montreal-based visual art initiative En Masse, an extensive series of improvised collaborative mural productions, and participated in En Masse For the Masses, the initiative’s pedagogical offshoot. Bottenberg’s 2012 book of graphic literature, Traumstadtdenken (Éditions Trip), won Quebec’s annual Bédélys Indépandant award. Further books of comics and graphic literature include Traumstadtdenken 2 (Trip) and Fourscore Phantasmagores (CZP).

In 2019, Bottenberg returned to cultural media as co-founder of the bilingual music website PANM360. He is also the director of Axis, the animation section of Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival.

About Conundrum 25

CONUNDRUM 25, a landmark series of gem-like volumes, presents masters of the graphic short story form at work in a range of styles. From precious rediscoveries to gender-playful fictions, fabular futurism to uncanny imaginings, there are stories by a new generation of Conundrum artists alongside classics of the form. Bringing together past, present, and future in our 25th year and beyond, CONUNDRUM 25 is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.

Publication Details

ISBN: 9781772620900
64 pages, 4.25 x 6.25 inches
b&w, trade paper
August 2023