Dave Lapp and Chester Brown: The Exchange
May 6, 2025 at 7:00pm
In partnership with Words, the Ting Festival is pleased to host a visit with cartoonists Dave Lapp and Chester Brown, who will join us to talk about their work.
Dave Lapp and Chester Brown: The Exchange
Two artists head-to-head in dialogue
6 May 2025, 7PM
Tap Centre for Creativity
203 Dundas St, London, ON
Our event will be hybrid: you can join us onsite at TAP Centre for Creativity or online via Zoom webinar! Your registration here is good for either an online or onsite ticket.
This is a first for the Ting Festival and TAP. We are putting two artists head-to-head in dialogue. The conversation is sure to inspire with insights into each creator and their artistic process, creative industry, and the breadth of all things comics. Sidle up to the bar, select a beverage, and then settle in for this dynamic pairing in conversation.
Dave Lapp is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Western Ontario (B.A. Psychology). He has been teaching cartooning at the Art Gallery of Ontario for over twenty years. Dave has created four graphic novels, Drop In, Children of the Atom, People Around Here, and The Field which have been published by Conundrum Press. Dave’s work was chosen for the Best American Comics series for 2010, 2011, and 2016. His work has also been nominated for an Ignatz and a Doug Wright award.
Chester Brown is the author of seven books and is best known for the non-fiction graphic novels Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography (2003) and Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John (2011). Chester was born in Montreal in 1960 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauguay. At 19, he moved to Toronto, where he found a day job while practicing cartooning in his free time. In 1983, Chester began to self-publish his work in photocopied mini-comics under the title Yummy Fur. These pamphlets attracted some attention in the industry, and in 1986 the Toronto-based comic book publisher Vortex Comics approached Brown. The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well, so Chester quit his day job to become a full-time cartoonist. In 2024, Chester created a Louis Riel stamp for Canada Post as part of a set honouring Canadian cartoonists. He still lives and creates in Toronto.
