Graphic novel Gary Topp Brought us the World explores the man behind Toronto’s pop-culture scene

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Cartoonist David David Collier explores the grittier parts of Toronto’s pop-cultural landscape in the 1970s and 80s in Topp: Promoter Gary Topp Brought us the World

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.He brought Toronto The Last Pogo concert at the Horseshoe Tavern, the Police Picnic festival and popcorn at The Original 99 Cent Roxy theatre. And while film-and-music impresario Gary Topp has been featured in a handful or more books on the history of the city’s music scene, he’s never had a title devoted to him alone.

Bob Dylan reportedly played his first professional gig in New York in 1961 at Gerde’s Folk City, where he opened up for John Lee Hooker. Topp, 16, attended the show: “Dylan looked only a few years older than me, Jewish-cute, with a voice rawer than I’d ever heard.” During the 1970s, Topp with Jeff Silverman ran The Original 99 Cent Roxy, a groundbreaking repertory cinema with midnight screenings at a self-advertised admission price. Eccentric musician Nash the Slash and Rough Trade gave their first-ever concerts at the Roxy.

 

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