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WENDY ELLIOTT: Conundrum Press deserves to be better known

In a bright room where yoga mats used to fold out, today there are small piles of cardboard boxes containing Conundrum Press books.

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The comic arts press, which was founded by publisher Andy Brown in 1996, has now been in Wolfville for 15 years. But it is not well enough known.

You can purchase Conundrum books in Dublin, Ireland, and Barcelona, Spain, and in eight American cities, but in this province, you have to visit Halifax or drop into his headquarters on Front Street.

Originally from Vancouver, Brown discovered Tintin and Asterix in the public library. He had no notion they were originally published in French.

Eventually, he started Conundrum Press in the midst of the political turmoil and cultural vibrancy of the ’90s in Montreal.

Originally a publisher of chapbooks, short stories, novels, comics, and zine collections, the press began exclusively publishing literary graphic novels in 2010.

“Publishing books is one of the only enterprises that combines commerce and industry with creation and art,” he says. “I initially began Conundrum as an art project.”

Three decades later, Brown says, “my hobby has become my job. One could do worse.”

He describes being in London, England, once for an art book fair and being derided for selling comic books. Brown tried to counter with........

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