Dark Adaptation

Artist and writer Lorenz Peter takes to the tracks to explain what the phenomenon of Dark Adaptation means, and why he named his seminal full-length graphic novel after it. Between bizarro animation and a strange encounter on the railways, Peter walks us through his creative process, a hardscrabble upbringing in a Northern Alberta oil town, and the oft painful affair of transmuting personal experience into art.

This video is part of a series of profiles on graphic novelists and comic creators at Whazamo! Ontario Graphic Novel Month. Find out more about Whazamo! at: http://www.openbooktoronto.com/whazamo . Video produced by the fellows at Vepo Studios, at: http://www.vepostudios.com

This produced by Ian Daffern and Tate Young of Vepo Studios, with special thanks to Ho Anderson
and additional graphics by Liz Walker.

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[synthfreakify]

I liked it, but I can't believe you guys thought you could walk along the RR in Toronto with a full camera crew like you're out in the country. What was the northern Alberta town? Ft. McMurray?