When look­ing at Ginette Lapalme’s work, it’s impor­tant to look at not only her web­site, but her blog, Flickr, and artist col­lec­tive she’s apart of, Wowee Zonk. They all pro­vide the fod­der from which her work is derived.

Ginette is an artist liv­ing and work­ing out of Toronto, Canada, and her art revolves around a myr­iad of dif­fer­ent media, includ­ing video, silk-screen, fig­urines, and jew­elry, in addi­tion to illus­tra­tion. It all looks like it’s by Ginette, and her sen­si­bil­i­ties stay the same no mat­ter what she’s creating.

I really enjoy where Ginette comes from with her work. She’s heav­ily inspired by car­toons and comics, and repli­cates this sort of style in her work. She’s cre­ated ani­mated gifs of car­toons (like the Mup­pet Babies!), she has this way of extract­ing the tini­est details that make them seem some­what gra­tu­itous and add a hint of dark­ness to some­thing whose orig­i­nal intent was some­thing inno­cent. I like how it’s appro­pri­ated. This aspect comes through on her printed work — it’s the smil­ing char­ac­ters that are some­times being subversive.

All images via her web­site.

And of course, a cat!