Feb. 4 – MEAN GIRLS CLUB release party and exhibit with Ryan Heshka

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“I call to order the 113th secret meeting of the… MEAN GIRLS CLUB!”

We join Pinky, Sweets, Blackie, McQualude, Wendy and Wanda, the menacing powerhouse of ruthless rebels as they pay tribute to the ghosts of their founders… but be warned, few eyes have ever witnessed a secret Mean Girls Club gathering and fewer have lived to see another day… With ceremonial insect venom transfusions and snake worships just the start, these subversive sirens cause all kinds of mayhem as they seek out pure fear, intoxication, vice and adrenaline, sweeping like a cruel plague of pink and black.

Ryan Heskha truly turns the image of the stereotypical 50’s female upside down and inside out to give a new, sassy and defiant voice to these ladies of leisure. In addition to the Mean Girls Club comics book published by Nobrow, Ryan will also have giclee prints from the book for sale.

WHO: Ryan Heshka
WHAT: Mean Girls Club release party and exhibit
WHEN: Thursday Feb. 4, 6-10pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

Based in Vancouver, Ryan Heshka is a self-taught artist and illustrator. His childhood influences of antiquated comics, pin-ups, pulp magazines, sci-fi, natural history, music and movies persist to this day, and his paintings are full of pop-culture references through the ages. Ryan primarily works in acrylic paint on wood panel, frequently embellishing with cuttings from pulp magazines. Ryan has exhibited extensively across Europe and North America including at Roq la Rue in Seattle and the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.