“Entertaining & compelling! A great story! Totally brilliant! A great book! Genius! Really!” –Robert Crumb”With Represented Immobilized, a graphic memoir published by Conundrum Press, Trembles takes us beyond his impenetrable appearance, additionally defined by an all-black wardrobe and an unruly mop of jet-black hair, through a series of autobiographical strips, each describing a different moment in the artist’s life. Unsurprisingly, considering the way Trembles’ mind is tuned and his eclectic body of work, the memories chosen are scattered and seemingly random: a childhood nightmare about statues in a basement, getting robbed while buying comic books, being kicked out of a Who concert, chopping down a tree on Saint-Laurent Boulevard to try and stop gentrification.” –Montreal Review of Books“I considered that scene where I first encountered Rick Trembles to have been my education as an artist. It was there that I learned to have a voice. And one of the things I would like to time travel back to was the feeling of authenticity and newness that I felt when first encountering the art of Rick Trembles.” –Heather O’Neill

Rick Trembles is a Montreal-based illustrator, post-underground cartoonist, writer, filmmaker, and musician. Two books of his Motion Picture Purgatory comix have been published by the UK’s Fab Press. His comix have been published in internationally distributed books, periodicals, and anthologies, including Robert Crumb’s Weirdo, and Fantagraphics Books’ Pictopia.

Three of his books, Represented Immobilized, The Weakly Dispatch, and Gesticulating Gentrification, have been published by Conundrum Press.