HARRY MANX

April 29, 2018
West End Cultural Centre

PROMOTER:
West End Cultural Centre

11 x 17, colour

Available for purchase:
$20

The very last poster I designed for the W.E.C.C.

I started working as their exclusive poster artist in '98 or '99 but I had done things for them off and on going back to 1988. Around 2015 or so, I noticed a number of posters for WECC shows popping up that I had nothing to do with. Some acts supply their own, so it didn't seem that odd at first but they started growing in numbers quickly. Because I was quite desperate to hang on to the little freelance work I had coming in, I didn't say anything as to not rock the boat and endanger what work I did have coming in. Eventually I had to take a full-time retail job to make ends meet and after a year of doing that as well as the poster work I loved doing, it all became too much and I had to let one of my clients go. It hurt to resign duties from the WECC but it was obvious they had issues with me even though they never said a single thing to me, even after I'd routinely tell them I'm always available to discuss new directions or strategies if they ever wanted to. They never did. When I told them why I chose to let them go as a client, they claimed that an employee I had never dealt with before was supposed to have told me what was up but he had since been let go and they didn't know I was in the dark on my work being cut in half. To this day, they have never explained what it was that fall-guy was supposed to tell me. Payment for my last batch of posters I had done for them took 3 months to arrive after constant prodding from me. Shortly after I resigned, they put a poster gallery up on their website. 80% of the posters were designed by me. My name appears nowhere. Still don't know what their issues with me were. If you ever hear, I'd sure be amused to find out.