Trude
Recently, I featured my friend Iain on here but today, I want to talk about another friend doing awesome creative stuff. Meet Mathieu Trudel.
I think we first official met at the local punk bar, the Dominion Tavern sometime in summer 2001 shortly after I returned from my second trip to Nunavut. What an impressive first impression he made. There aren’t many of us francophones in Ottawa who are into rock and roll and to meet Matt was a special moment. For example, this was a dude that helped start a classic hardcore radio show called Shouting to be Heard on the University of Ottawa’s CHUO 89.1 fm. I also quickly learned that he had worked for John K’s Spumco
For a long time, I saw his work as a harking back to a mid-century animation aesthetic but now that he started using computers, I find his style has evolved a lot and while you can still see where he goes for inspiration, the form and colours Matt uses allows for rather unique results.
What inspired me to post this is that Exclaim and Pitchfork both picked up the story that Matt illustrated at 15-page colouring book for an upcoming King Khan and BBQ 7″ coming out on Fat Possum Records.
Since the record isn’t out yet, we have no examples of the colouring book. In the meantime, take a gander at a poster he created using one of my photos.
Also worth noting is that the photo included in the Exclaim article was most likely taken by one of the people in the second photo of my story about garage rock in Israel. On October 10, the guy on the far right of that photo will play with King Khan and BBQ on the same stage as The Mummies in Valencia, Spain too! Small world.
It amazes me everyday to think about how much creativity surrounds me. Sometimes things just fall into place like that.
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