Catching Up with the YEG Tales Project

What do you get when you combine two historians, an artist, and many local communities? YEG Tales! Supported by a ECAMP Partnership Demonstration micro-grant, the YEG Tales team met with numerous local cultural groups, connecting over their stories and reproducing them in comic book form! We spoke with historian Leslie Holmes about what they learned about art, story, and building relationships in Edmonton.

We only launched our website in the fall, but so far we’ve had a lot of positive feedback from readers. We have had teachers ask to use the comics as a resource in class, so it is getting out to younger generations too. If we can inspire Edmontonians to be interested in their city’s history, or create awareness about the different kinds of people in Edmonton’s past, then we’ve done our job.