A Love Letter to Comics From a Filmmaker

The Wellington Advertiser wrote about a filmmaker, David Antoniuk, who’s now produced a comic book of his own: Award-winning film director David Antoniuk has always considered himself a writer, and the Guelph/Eramosa resident has now published his first comic book. “If I could do anything I would sit around campfires telling stories,” Antoniuk told the Advertiser. “In my bones, it’s who I am.” Shortly after moving to Toronto from Winnipeg to go to film school in 1989, Antoniuk wrote a short story that was published in Ice magazine. Antoniuk was a young man grappling with age-old questions: “Why are we here? And what happens to us when we die?” The story explores the question with both comedic and serious tones. “I never want to preach to people,” Antoniuk said. “I want them to have an enjoyable experience” that gently leads to self reflection. […] Nearly four decades later, that story – Time Spent – has taken on a new life in the form of a comic book. I certainly hope he means it when he says he doesn’t want to “preach” to anybody, or lecture them, because there’s been too much of that in the past quarter century or more, and it’s hurt the entertainment scene very badly. But there’...