We open our doors to the new year on First Thursday, January 3 from 5-9pm. We're celebrating with a fun show and book (published by Koyama Press) called Trio Magnus: Equally Superior. Sometimes, three heads are better than one: "With flashing eyes, gnashing teeth, and pointy pens, we, the three members of TRIO MAGNUS, let 'er rip. Sketchbook pages quickly fill with stream of consciousness semi-nonsense. We are frenzied doodle gurus. We are stupidly brilliant. Separately we are nothing. Together we are equally superior!"

Thus begins the appropriately spastic introduction to this stunning debut project from Toronto-based illustration collective, TRIO MAGNUS. A phantasmagoria of funny, feverish and downright bizarre imagery taken directly from the sketchbooks of collective members Clayton Hanmer, Aaron Leighton and Steve Wilson, the book revels in visual excess and celebrates the role of the subconscious in the art-making process. Throughout the course of many beer-soaked sketch-a-thons, these award-winning illustrators have created a strange, occasionally dirty and entirely original world where a monster sits down with a girl for a slice of cake, skeletons erupt out of volcanos and massive robotic constructions offer helpful platitudes.