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2025
A History of Violence
The Criterion Collection
for David Cronenberg's
2005 film
2025
Chambers' Ring
Lisa Lipton - Calgary
Painting for a billboard in Calgary (10th ave) as part of Lisa Lipton’s boxing exhibition “Chambers' Ring”
“Chambers’ Ring explores the history, spectacle, and materiality of boxing. Through the lens of media archaeology and process art, the work analyzes the rhythmic active body, how its perception is influenced via the mediation of technology, as well as the rules and formalized structures of game.”
2025
Love Bug.
Sex Magazine
*NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER*
7.875" x 10.5"
48 Pgs
Edition of 1000
A Fashion Fumetti in 3 Acts By Shahan Assadourian, Fatine-Violette Sabiri, Connor Willumsen & starring Carole Methot
2024
Total Screen Time
@ Ithakis 28 Kypseli-Athens
Nov 21 2024
Group show Curated by Adam Bartholl, Socrates Stamatatos and Theo Triantafyllidis, a one-night exhibition exclusively on phones.
2024
Feral Metaverse
Theo Triantafyllidis' "Group Hug" at WSA NY through Oasis ONX
from Sept 26
to Nov 20
A continued collaboration with artist Theo Triantafyllidis' videogame / performance / sculpture "Feral Metaverse" for which I participated in development with writing and conceptual art. For this show I also contributed designs for the tapestries, writing and storyboarding for the promotional video, and the poster illustration.
2025
Love Bug.
Sex Magazine
*NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER*
7.875" x 10.5"
48 Pgs
Edition of 1000
A Fashion Fumetti in 3 Acts By Shahan Assadourian, Fatine-Violette Sabiri, Connor Willumsen & starring Carole Methot
2023
Bradley à Bradley
Éditions çà et là
8.5" x 11"
120 pages
"Bradley à Bradley est un véritable tour de force. L’auteur canadien virtuose Connor Willumsen montre une impressionnante maîtrise graphique, dans une histoire mêlant réalité et imaginaire avec en toile de fond Las Vegas, symbole d’une société en trompe l’œil dévorée par le consumérisme, la fascination pour les célébrités et l’ultra capitalisme."
2023
Big H
Breakdown Press
148 x 210mm
28 pages
A selection of sketchbook illustrations by Connor Willumsen, from his recent time in Greece.
2022
The Nominal Scale
McSweeny's #69
2022
Bitter Little Cup
Featured in
Sex Magazine #13
8 pages
Writing, Layout & Story:
Connor Willumsen
Direction & Photography:
Fatine-Violette Sabiri
Styling:
Shahan Assadourian
Casting:
Michèle Arismandez
Makeup:
Carole Méthot
Models:
Pleure, Henri, Boudah & Caroline
2022
Gray Green
Ongoing Web Comic since spring 2022
2017
Anti-Gone
Koyama Press
8.5" x 11"
120 pages
LA Times Book Prize:
Best Graphic Novel (Nominated)
Ignatz Awards:
Outstandng Book (Nominated)
Doug Wright Awards:
Best Book (Nominated)
Anti-Gone is a vague and expansive ocean world in which every comfort is availabe to those willing to kill their time searching for it - a book designed to chart an outline around the invisible territory that gratification excludes.
"Readers who enjoy the boundary-pushing work of cartoonists such as Dash Shaw and Olivier Schrauwen will freely surrender to Willumsen's equally dreamlike world."
- Publishers Weekly
"Connor Willumsen is a blackbelt of formalism in comics. There is an unending sense of "thinking" in this book. Every angle and every option is considered."
- Caleb Orecchio, Comics Workbook
"From beginning to end, Willumsen pushes you in the deep end and forces you to tread over adroit uncertainty, using water as a stand-in for not only the fragile nature of nostalgia and relationships, but your very own mind. Anti-Gone is about all these things. At least I think so."
- RJ Casey, The Comics Journal
"Connor Willumsen's first graphic novel, Anti-Gone, beautifully follows a couple who drift on a small boat and go see a movie on drugs. It felt to me a bit like a Tao Lin novel in that it focuses on young people who spend their time shopping for clothes and entertainment/drugs."
- Dash Shaw, The Comics Journal
"Willumsen's [Anti-Gone] might be the indie house's crowning glory."
- Abraham Riesman, Vulture
"Illustrated with a virtuoso command of pose and movement, with imaginative and surreal flourishes throughout, Anti-Gone is one of the year's most impressive releases."
- Gosh! Comics
"With beautiful line art, Willumsen tells one of the oddest stories of the year, but also one of the most visually compelling and formally striking."
- Shea Hennum, The A.V. Club
"You get an odd combination of super contemporary, minimalist, and economical cartooning - the sort of artistic sensibility you expect from a young author, but with a maturity of voice suggesting a master playwright or screenwriter."
- Peter Birkemoe, Quill & Quire
"Willumsen's fantasy involves two tourists, Spyda and Lynxa, who explore an island that turns into a futuristic city or an apocalyptic nightmare depending on what drugs they’re taking."
- Heidi MacDonald, The Comics Beat
"Willumsen's book demands that you spend time looking at it from multiple angles, then trusts you to make up your own mind."
- Ryan Carey, Daily Grindhouse
"Anti-Gone is likely one of the strongest long-form formalist comics published this year. Willumsen's pages made me gasp, and flinch, and read and re-read, and re-read."
- Alex Hoffman, Sequential State
"Book of the year for me, and probably an absolute game-changer for a generation of cartoonists about to emerge"
- Brian Nicholson, Are Comics Even Good
2019
Bradley of Him
8.5" x 11"
80 pages
Koyama Press (ENGLISH ED)
Alpha Decay (SPANISH ED)
Éditions çà et là (FRENCH ED)
Doug Wright Awards:
Best Book (Nominated)
The runner believed life was a linear mechanical process of perpetual momentum endured in activewear, and the impersonator saw it as self-actualizing power struggle for identity and a quest for gold. Burdened by their own success and an aimless desire, they embark on an odyssey that takes them from the cavernous buffet halls of the near future Las Vegas strip, and into the a scorched earth stretched out before them.
"Connor doesn't just show celebrity for what it is (an unread contract, hastily signed); he doggedly pursues its terms and repercussions into a familiar, shifting zone of comic unreality, a psychic space more intuited than defined. Improbably, Bradley of Him finds the whole world in fame and its ubiquitous cosigners--a book as sensitive and sweeping in its observations as it is sly."
- George Elkind (contributing writer, The Comics Journal and Detroit Metro Times)
"A masterpiece. With a virtuosic hand that positions cartooning in all its various modes—as design, as symbol, as representation—Willumsen burrows into the psychic torture of the self amid the entitlement and narcissism of a culturally bereft Las Vegas. It ripples outward, to the limits of the American ethos that anything wanted—intellectually, spiritually, physically—can be grabbed with both hands if desired, and to the acute melancholic madness of our intense yearnings."
— Sammy Harkham (cartoonist-editor, Kramers Ergot, Crickets)
"One way or another, Willumsen always finds a way to translate his extraordinary imagination into imagery that not only catches, but fully absorbs, the attention of the reader, and that’s no mean feat considering the sheer size, scale, and scope of his ambition. Like his protagonist, he’s forever pushing himself — he never stops running ... Bradley Of Him is a book that you’ll want to obtain immediately, and one that will probably be much-discussed come our own end-of-year “awards season” in comics as many of us will be in the midst of our fifth or sixth re-read of it at that point, and picking up something new from it each time."
- Ryan Carey, Solrad
"The morphing story line is perfectly matched by Willumsen’s precisely modulated pencil drawings that shift effortlessly from confident minimalism to detailed landscapes. This artful, ambiguous character study will both challenge and fascinate adventurous art comics readers."
- Publishers Weekly
"Willumsen is an expert draftsman and designer, presenting pages that swirl with action and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny dialog as scenes segue into one another with an often dreamlike quality ... Willumsen pokes fun at the vapidity of celebrity culture and seems interested in satirizing a particularly American sense of entitlement, but ultimately he obscures whatever point he has in mind in favor of remaining willfully, and fascinatingly, perplexing."
- Thomas L. Batten, Library Journal
"From the image of a stubborn runner in an inhospitable landscape, Willumsen has built up a hilarious and philosophically challenging meditation on individuality, capitalism, celebrity, connection — and, under it all, absurdity."
- Etelka Lehoczky, NPR
"Bradley of Him is as much a Challenging Work as any Willumsen, an avant-garde comic that uses its author's incredible skill to attempt maneuvers which would completely derail a project by a lesser talent. It's manifestly the work of a genius, but one whose delights beg consideration more than enjoyment. It's really, really weird. If you're not down for that, it runs right past you."
- Matt Seneca, The Comics Journal
"Bradley of Him feels like a new cult classic, an addition to the lexicon of modern outsider storytellers and haunted urban dreamers. It’s densely packed with exchanges, inventories, people. It’s Nevada, your choices are crowds and air conditioning or nobody and the baking sun. Willumsen loads each page. Figures appear over and over, a phénakisticope of myriad angles, a hundred bees locked into a honeycomb with largely invisible edges. Willumsen has mostly done away with drawing panel borders. The art is held behind walls that aren’t there, contained by where the panel should end, phantom gutters."
- Arpad Okay, The BEat
" Bradley of Him delivers an engagingly idiosyncratic visual approach that challenges comics conventions while still providing the pleasures of a vividly told visual tale."
- Chris Gavaler, Pop Matters
2020
My Grandma Was My Bounty
EX. Mag #1
Peow Studios
6.5" x 8.25"
18/192 Pages
Edited by Wren McDonald
A genre-based comics anthology: Cyberpunk. Featuring comics by Freddy Carrasco, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Kelly K, Giannis Milonogiannis, Mushbuh, Jonathan Djob Nkondo & Tonči Zonjić. Cover by Freddy Carrasco.
2019
Europe
Kramers Ergot 10
Fantagraphics Books
11" x 14"
13/168 pages
Edited by Sammy Harkham
Eisner Award
Best Anthology (Nominated)
Curated by cartoonist Sammy Harkham, KE10 features work by R. Crumb, Dash Shaw, David Collier, Anouk Ricard, C.F., Jason Murphy, Blutch, Shary Flenniken, Johnny Ryan, John Pham, Ron Regé Jr., Simon Hanselmann, Anna Haifisch, Ivan Brunetti, David Amram, Helge Reumann, Frank King, Steve Weissman, Aisha Franz, Leon Sadler, Adam Buttrick, Archer Prewitt, Connor Willumsen, Bendik Kaltenborn, Will Sweeney, Rick Altergott, Kim Deitch, Marc Bell, and Harkham himself.
2020
I Needed the Discounts
The New York Times
Art Directed by Nathan Huang
Eisner Award:
Best Short Story (Nominated)
"I Needed The Discounts" is a full tabloid sized comic printed in the January 5th 2020 edition of The New York Times as part of "The Privacy Project", a section of original art and writting covering the subject of tech and privacy. A web version was also made available on nytimes.com.
2019
Punctured Sky
Excerpted in NOVEMBRE Magazine
2021
Hype Pup
Ongoing Monthly Comic Feature since 2021
2012-
Treasure Island Part 1
Breakdown Press
1-3 60 Pages
3-Part series publushed by Breakdown Press in 2012, 2014, 2016
2025
A History of Violence
The Criterion Collection
for David Cronenberg's
2005 film
2024
Group Hug
Poster for GROUP HUG Exhibition @ WSA NY depicting “Feral Metaverse” by Theo Triantafyllidis
On view
Sept 26 - Nov 17
2024
"Onassis ONX is pleased to announce Group Hug, a landmark exhibition of large-scale, site-specific video game installations. Presented with Water Street Projects in collaboration with curators Julia Kaganskiy, Serpentine Arts Technologies, and Rhizome, the exhibition invites visitors to play together and lose themselves in the sensorial worlds of each game through sight, sound, and touch."
2025
Chambers' Ring
Lisa Lipton - Calgary
Painting for a billboard in Calgary (10th ave) as part of Lisa Lipton’s boxing exhibition “Chambers' Ring”
“Chambers’ Ring explores the history, spectacle, and materiality of boxing. Through the lens of media archaeology and process art, the work analyzes the rhythmic active body, how its perception is influenced via the mediation of technology, as well as the rules and formalized structures of game.”
2014
Scanners
The Criterion Collection
2019
Mikey & Nicky
The Criterion Collection
Illustration and Packaging Design in Collaboration with Art Director Eric Skillman
2022
Faults
Yellow Veil Pictures
Blu Ray Cover
for Riley Stearns'
2014 film
2020
Tough Age:
Which Way Am I?
Album Jacket Design
2019
Balenciaga
"The Ride Never Ends"
for Jon Rafman Studios
Concept Art
2012
The Killing
The Criterion Collection
Illustration and Packaging Design in Collaboration with Art Director Eric Skillman
2024
Total Screen Time
@ Ithakis 28 Kypseli-Athens
Nov 21 2024
Group show Curated by Adam Bartholl, Socrates Stamatatos and Theo Triantafyllidis, a one-night exhibition exclusively on phones.
2024
Feral Metaverse
Theo Triantafyllidis' "Group Hug" at WSA NY through Oasis ONX
from Sept 26
to Nov 20
A continued collaboration with artist Theo Triantafyllidis' videogame / performance / sculpture "Feral Metaverse" for which I participated in development with writing and conceptual art. For this show I also contributed designs for the tapestries, writing and storyboarding for the promotional video, and the poster illustration.
2023
Feral Metaverse
Collaboration with Theo Triantafyllidis
@ Galerie Nagel Draxler Berlin
On view
April 29 - Sept 2
2023
In 2023 I collaborated with Theo Triantafyllidis on concepts for his videogame project "Feral Metaverse". The game debuted at Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, where my original concept drawings were on display
2020
Anti-Gone
a Mixed Reality Play by
Theo Triantafyllidis
Sundance Film Festival
New Frontier Official Selection
"Anti-Gone is a new mixed reality performance by inspired the comic book of
the same name by Connor Willumsen. Anti-Gone incorporates live performance with real time
simulation to explore the social impacts of technology, privilege and the beginnings and ends of
worlds."
In the midst of uncertainty, Anti-Gone is offering a soothing experience with a critical view on the privilege of escape.
More Info:
http://slimetech.org/anti-gone/
Credits
Director: Theo Triantafyllidis
Writer: Connor Willumsen
Production Manager: Polina Miliou
Key Collaborator: Matthew Doyle
Performance Team
Cast: Lindsey Normington, Zana Gankhuyag, Matthew Doyle, Sam Congdon
Composer and Live Music Performance: Cameron Stallones
Sound: Jeffrey Alan Scudder
Game Engine Performer: Theo Triantafyllidis
Motion Capture and Movement Coach: Rachel Ho
Game Engine Team
Lead Artist: Theo Triantafylldis
Lead Programmer: Stalgia Grigg
Lead 3D Character Designer: Joseph Melhuish
3D Artists: Sara Drake, Ryan Decker, Siyao Zheng
Commissioned and Produced by Onassis Culture
Motion Capture technology provided by Noitom MoCap.
Special thanks to:
Sundance New Frontier
The Breeder Gallery
Meredith Rosen Gallery
Human Resources Los Angeles
UCLA Design Media Arts
2021
Video Portraits
Virtual Residency & Exhibition
at The Phi Center Montreal Through June 15
"As part of Parallel Lines, Connor Willumsen’s project consists of live portrait sessions over video chat with other home-ridden individuals from around the world. His drawings are made simply and directly, allowing him to only draw what he can see on screen. Bizarre glitches, visual artifacts, and low resolutions are incorporated into the drawing process, resulting in a somewhat deformed but accurate depiction of a video chat."
2015
It's Two If He Had The New That's What
Solo Exhibition & 3 Books
BOOKS
2019
Anti-Gone (Excerpt)
Best American Comics Anthology
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2019
Featured Drawings
Excerpts
American Chordata
2018
The Spa
Comic in Freaker UNLTD 5
dd00gg
2016
The Twelve Lies for Seeing
Mirror Mirror Anthology
2D Cloud
2016
Portraits
Book
Comics Workbook
2014
When Damo Met Can
Comic
Redbull Music Academy
2014
Swinespritzen
Book
Self Published
2014
Sunset People
Comic
Study Group Magazine
2012
Untold Tales of Punisher Max #2
Drawing
Marvel Comics
2012
Passionfruit
Comic
Dog City Press
2012
Mooncalf
Comic
Descant #164
ILLUSTRATION / DESIGN
2024
Quantum Supercomputer
Illustration
The New York Times
2024
Illustration
Bloomberg
2023
Illustration
Bloomberg
2022
Robinson's Garden
Poster & Blu Ray
Kani Releasing
2022
What's Up Connection?
Blu Ray Cover
Kani Releasing
2022
Don't Let The Angels Fall
Blu Ray Cover
Canadian International Pictures
2021
Illustration
Full Page
The New Yorker
2021
Illustration
Full Page + 4 Spots
The Globe and Mail
2021
Illustration
Bloomberg Green
2020
Illustration
Op Ed "Women in White Supremacy"
The New York Times
2020
Portrait of Bill Gates
Op Ed
The New York Times
2020
Cigale Journal Issue 2
Cover Illustration
Cigale
2019
Illustration
Op Ed. "Teens Lured to White Supremacy"
The New York Times
2019
Poster / Pamphlet
Anti-Gone: A Mixed Reality Performance
Theo Triantafyllidis
2018
Poster
"Soon All Your Memories Will be with Me"
Lisa Lipton
2017-18
Poster Series
35mm screening series
Cinema 1999
2017
Illustration
Op Ed
The Globe and Mail
2015
Illustration
Cover & Spots
Zeit Campus
2015
Illustration
Spots
The Walrus
2014
Criterion Designs
Featured In
The Criterion Collection
EXHIBITION
2023
Bradley à Bradley
Rencontre/Déballage - Exhibition/Lecture
Festival Formula Bula, Paris
2023
Bradley à Bradley Exhibition
Original Art Exhibition & Signing
Librairie Super Héros, Paris
2021
Riptides of the Mind
Colab video with The New School Policy and Design for Outer Space
17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion
2019
Punctured Sky
In Collaboration with Jon Rafman
Sharjah Biennial
2019
This is Serious: Canadian Indie Comics
Group Exhibition
Art Gallery of Hamilton
2016
CCS: Ten Years of Fellowship
Group Exhibition
Society of Illustrators
2016
Blue Line
Group Show
The Southern Alberta Art Gallery
2015
Words and Pictures: Ten Years of CCS
Group Exhibition
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
2015
The Work of Connor Willumsen
Solo
HQ Gallery
2011
Bad Summer
Solo
Pop Montreal
2010
Neointegrity
Group Exhibition
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
2008-9
Sketchbook Display
Moleskin
London World's Book Fair
SPEAKING/EDUCATION
2023
Mentor
MFA in Visual Narrative
School of Visual Arts, New York
2022
-24
Instructor
Dynamic Drawing
Syn Studios
2023
Bradley à Bradley
Rencontre/Déballage - Exhibition/Lecture
Festival Formula Bula, Paris
2020
Visiting Artist
Lecture & Workshop for Art X
Concordia University
2020
Visiting Artist
Artist Presentation
Fashion Institute of Technology
2020
Visiting Artist
Lecture
Center for Cartoon Studies
2016
Workshop
With Comics Workbook
Lakes Festival
2015
Visiting Artist
Lecture & Workshop
Color Gang Comics
2015
Residency
Wanusay Gallery
2015
Fellowship
1 Year
Center for Cartoon Studies
2015
Lecture
Visiting Artist Series
Center for Cartoon Studies
2012
Residency
Inside Out Museum Beijing
2012
Lecture
Speaking Seris: "The Art of Survival"
Concordia University / Art Matters
PRESS
2023
Connor Willumsen Explose les cases
Arte France TV
2023
Critique BD : "Bradley à Bradley"
Radio France
2023
"est-il un imposteur ?" Bradley à Bradley
Radio Nova France
2023
2023
La sélection livres de l’été
Libération
2021
Novelas gráficas y libros ilustrados
Vogue Spain
2020
2020
Bradley of Him Review
Politiken
2020
Bradley of Him Review
Solrad
2019
Bradley of Him Review
Publisher's Weekly
2019
Bradley of Him Review
Library Journal
2019
2019
Bradley of Him Review
The Comics Journal
2019
2019
2019
Bradley of Him Review
Comics Beat /
Publisher's Weekly
2019
Bradley of Him Review
Pop Matters
2018
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalists
Los Angeles Times
2018
8 Questions
CBC
2017
2017
Anti-Gone Review
The Globe and Mail
2017
Anti-Gone Review
The Comics Journal
2017
Starred Review for Anti-Gone
Publisher's Weekly
2016
Artist Spotlight
BOOOOOOOM
2015
An Interview with Connor Willumsen
The Comics Journal
2015
Interview
Inkstuds
2015
Feature
It's Nice That
2014
Treasure Island Review
The Comics Journal
2013
Feature
It's Nice That
Connor Willumsen is a cartoonist, writer, and visual artist whose work spans from mainstream comics to experimental theatre. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Kramers Ergot, and The Best American Comics anthology, and has been published by Marvel and DC Comics, Breakdown Press, Koyama Press, Éditions çà et là, and Casterman. Willumsen’s graphic novels Anti-Gone (2017) and Bradley of Him (2019) have earned critical acclaim and nominations for the LA Times Book Prize, Eisner, and Ignatz Awards. Anti-Gone was adapted into a play showcased at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and a recent French translation of Bradley of Him was featured on Arte France and in The Walrus for its uncanny foresight into Bradley Cooper’s career.
Breakdown Press / Bloomberg / Casterman /
The Criterion Collection /
DC Comics /
Éditions çà et là /
Galerie Nagel Draxler /
The Globe and Mail /
GQ /
Image Comics /
Koyama Press /
The New York Times /
Marvel Comics /
McSweeny's
Moleskine /
The New Yorker Magazine /
Nike /
Novembre Magazine /
Phi Center /
Pop Montreal /
Redbull Music Academy /
Sex Mag /
Sharjah Biennial 14 /
Slate /
Sled Island /
The Walrus /
Warner Brothers /
Vice /
Zeit
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