Subject to Financing Part I

My short story comic - Subject to Financing - has its first part in the first issue of Spiked!Punch.

The comic and Spiked!Punch can be read in its entirety here

My piece is about two roommates who live in an apartment together in East Vancouver. They are facing a variety of issues when their landlord decides to sell the apartment and refuses to acknowledge their lease to sell his property faster.

Vancouver is currently going through a real-estate market boom. It is the result of a variety of factors: the 2010 olympics, lax regulation on development and the increasing demand for housing from people moving into the city. The fact is, there is so much residential development going on, and it's worth so much money, that the Vancouver municiple government recently put regulations on building residential in our downtown core. Aparently there is more residential there than commercial space and businesses are being pushed out.

When something of this nature happens, the people who are usually left out in the cold are the ones who can't afford to stay in the system. Due to the increased cost of mortgages, rental prices in the lower mainland have soared, and many people find themselves evicted or forced out of their homes to make way for people who will pay higher rent.

The second part of the comic will be out in the next edition of Spiked!Punch in January 2008. I will be posting pages as I work through it as well.

For more information about Spiked!Punch, go here