Sherwin Tjia is a Canadian artist, and medical illustrator.[1][2]
Sherwin Tjia | |
|---|---|
| Born | Scarborough, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | Sherwin Sullivan Tjia |
| Occupation | Artist, and medical illustrator |
He is the author of several graphic novels. His latest Plummet was listed on the CBC's list of recommended winter reads, for 2020.[3]
According to The Globe and Mail, in 2010, Tija was known as the creator of Toronto's strip spelling bee scene.[4] In strip spelling bees players who spell words wrong have to start removing some of their music, accompanied by burlesque strip-tease music. In 2014 the New York Daily News described how Tija introduced porn karaoke to the New York area.[5] In porn karaoke small teams have to improvise dialogue sung over silent clips of pornography.
The premise of Plummet is that his protagonist is in a constant state of freefall.[6][7]
In between his day job as a medical illustrator, this Scarborough-born artist (who has since relocated to Montreal) coordinates events across Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa with a twist.
Sherwin Tjia, poet, illustrator, and author of graphic novel Plummet.
Canada was the promised land, but when he didn't fit in and life was more difficult than he expected, Ali turned to drugs and partying before finding his way.
'You spell exquisitely,' says Sherwin Tjia, founder and host of the Honeysuckle Strip Spelling Bee, as the crowd of 80 roars in rowdy approval. A visibly tipsy Tjia manages to tap at his laptop and switch to a soundtrack of raunchy R&B, since the penalty for misspelling a word at this particular spelling bee is removing a third of one's clothing.
"It's more funny than sexy," says Sherwin Sullivan Tjia, a Montreal event planner who invented the smut-a-long after seeing a film about actors who do voice-over work in the porn industry.
Sherwin Tjia is an illustrator from Montreal. He spoke to CBC Books about Plummet, his 11th book.
Ever had one of those dreams where you’re falling and falling and never know if you’re going to hit the ground? Now comes a new graphic novel, Plummet, about a woman who’s perpetually falling yet never reaches the earth below. That may sound like a slender premise, but in the hands of Montreal’s Sherwin Sullivan Tjia, it becomes a metaphor for life and a way to explore the human condition.