Back in 1989 Coupland was doing an article on his ideas about a Generation X for a small Canadian newspaper, Vista, and as an illustrator the newspaper hired Paul Rivoche. The article went well, and they decided to turn the concept into a regular comic strip for the back page of the newspaper. About one year later, the entire newspaper went down, and so did the comic strip. We all know how it went from that point for Douglas Coupland. Paul Rivoche is now working as animator for companies like Warner Brothers, but also as illustrator for advertising and with various comic books.

Paul has said, that the comic strip served as a place for Doug to get paid to experiment with his ideas. Coupland usually gave him a scribble-script with the basic situations and dialogue for the comic, which Paul then would refine into the final product. The paper or magazine, they both worked for, was very well funded so they were basically allowed to do whatever they wanted.

They did talk about releasing all the strips in one single comic book, but never came around to actually doing it. In my opinion that is very sad, since they are very funny and very well illustrated. I have put three examples from the comic strip on line for all of you to read. Lets hope one day we can go down in our local bookstore and buy them.

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