My first graphic novel: "Tales from Phantom City"
Now available!!! Here's the links: In stores and from At Bay Press as well as Amazon.ca and Amazon. com and Indigo.ca
Available in these Toronto area bookstores:
Book City # 3 and 6 The Beguiling Paragraph Type Books Book City Book Master Scarborough Another Story
and worldwide from your local bookstore
Available in stores and from At Bay Press A cat shaped pendant with magical powers, takes a detective on a precarious journey through a mysterious city. Award winning artist and animator Patrick Jenkins has devised a story as affecting as his complex line art. A mixture of film noir and magic realism that explores surrealism and metaphysics through graphic storytelling. A game where reality is always in question. Smokey halftones and sumptuous linework are binding elements in a sequence of bizarre twists. A layered vortex of visual delights without linear paths or escape.
Volume One: "Animation Noir: Films By Patrick Jenkins"
This DVD includes all my recent paint on glass animated films: Sorceress (2012), Labyrinth (2008), Amoeba (2012), Inner View (2009), Towers Rising (2009) and Tara's Dream (2010). 23 minutes in length. Here's some clips from the films on this dvd:
The cost is $25 per copy (shipping included) for Canada and the U.S.A. (NTSC) and $30 per copy (shipping included) for overseas (PAL version available on request).
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Volume Two: "Animation For Kids Plus Early Animated Films by Patrick Jenkins"
This DVD includes my award winning instructional film "Animation For Kids" (1994) that teaches you how to make flipbooks and other optical animation devices, as well as my early animated films: "The Skateboarder" (2005), "Man Versus Geometry" (2004), "The Flipbook Movie" (1990), "Making Faces" (1986) and "The Magician's Hat" (1986).
29 minutes in length, Colour, Sound, 3:4 aspect ratio
Here's clips from two of the films on this dvd:
Volume Three: "Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry, The Poetry of Ralph Alfonso"
This DVD contains "Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry" my 2001 documentary on Montreal poet, musician and zine creator Ralph Alfonso. Inspired by the Beat writers, as well as jazz and rock music, he began publishing his poetry 'zine "Ralph", on his antique Gestetner machine. His poems document his life and focus on love, both joyful and bitterweet and memories of places he visits.
"Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry" features live performances of Ralph's poetry and songs along with interviews that explore the poetic traditions that have influenced Ralph's poetry and outlook on life. His poems "Venus In Violets", "The Goatee Club", "Crawling Around In A Fountain" and "This Is My Corner Of The World" are brought to life through animation by Patrick Jenkins.
Volume Four: "Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures of Mark Adair"
This DVD contains "Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures of Mark Adair" my 2007 documentary portrait of Canadian artist Mark Adair. An environmentalist, Adair’s Gothic style sculptures comment on contemporary man’s relationship to the natural environment and the stress of urban life. His sculptures explore such diverse subjects such as violence, sexual politics between men and women, pollution, spirituality, consumerism and the devastating force of nature. This documentary explores the artwork Adair has created over the past 25 years and traces the themes in his work to his childhood experiences of growing up in the country and seeing noticeable environmental degradation in his lifetime.
45 minutes in length, Colour, Sound, 3:4 aspect ratio
Volume Five: "Of Lines and Men: The Animation of Jonathan Amitay"
This DVD includes "Of Lines and Men: The Animation of Jonathan Amitay" my 2007 documentary portrait of Canadian Independent Animator Jonathan Amitay who has created innovative stop motion animated films using thin gold chains and sand. Amitay's award winning films about ecology, nuclear war and human rights, have been screened at film festivals around the world and have been honoured with retrospective screenings at Cinematheque Ontario and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. This documentary explores Amitay's films and traces the themes in his work to his childhood in Palestine during the Second World War.
59 minutes in length. , Colour, Sound, 3:4 aspect ratio
Flipbooks:
"Books that Move" Flipbooks
Colour Covers, 2.5" X 4", Perfect Bound, 96 Pages (except Morphing City Hall which is 60 pages)
Flipbooks are books that contain a series of drawings. As you flip the pages the drawings come to life in a short animated movie.
Click here for more info. about my flip books!
Play Ball!
In this flipbook a Baseball game comes to life before your eyes.
Out Of This World
In this flipbook an Alien makes a surprise visit to Earth!
ISBN 978-0-921374-07-7 Now Back In Print!
Click on the cover to see an animated sequence from this book.
A Fishy Tale!
An undersea adventure!
ISBN 978-0-921374-08-4 Now Back In Print!
Morphing City Hall!
Toronto's Old City Hall is transformed into New City Hall
Now perfect bound! Please note this book is 60 pages long.
Slap Shot!
In this flipbook you can watch the exciting action of a Hockey Game
In The Wink Of An Eye
This flipbook is about an optical illusion. A lot can happen in the wink of an eye!
Flipbooks are $8.00 (USD) per book plus shipping. Minimum order 2 books. Please email me at
for shipping price information.
Payments can be made with PayPal or an International Postal Money Order.
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