about Lionel

So in case you didn’t know, I’m a cartoonist. Arna my mother is an artist, she works in animation. In part this explains my involvement in the arts. But not only was Lionel also very creative, he was a avid reader of comics, introducing me to my first undergrounds and superheros. And […]

Some Silly Doodles

March 7, 2011 in doodles / Lionel's works tagged about Lionel / art / drawings / Lionel by Salgood

http://www.theitalianmachine.spiltink.org/av/Lionelprose.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:36 — 5.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSSLionel Douglas: Selected excerpts of “Collected Works” published in 1980 by Emanation Press. This is a book of my fathers work published a year after his death by friends. Not sure if they have it in […]

Lionel Douglas. The collected works

February 20, 2011 in books / Lionel's works / Media / Other people telling stories about Lionel / photos / poems / prose tagged about Lionel / animals / Arna / book / boys / cats / children / collected works / Emanation Pess / family / girls / John McNeily / Lionel / machines / Max / men / old cars / people / photos / poems / portraits / prose / still life / tables / talking / text / Toronto street / women / writing / youth by Salgood

So, why “The Italian Machine Project”?Lionel was Jew-ish after all…? The machine in question was a bike,a Ducati Super Sport in a film that featureda fictional version of Lionel and captured a bitof the mythical version of him many remember. The Italian Machine was actually meant to be a 60 minute […]

The Italian Machine

February 20, 2011 in Media / Other people telling stories about Lionel tagged about Lionel / film / Leather Jackets / Lionel / Motorcycles / stories by Salgood

Lionel left a big impression. I’ll post other bits of evidence of this, but it goes a long way towards making the point, to post this. A two page spread published in one of Toronto’s major weekly papers, three months after his death. It’s an impressive hagiography, if not a little bit biased. Like most things […]

A well remembered friend

February 20, 2011 in Other people telling stories about Lionel tagged about Lionel / news paper clippings / stories by Salgood