- I was supposed to be lacrosse player.

My first name's Cannon to look awesome on a jersey, but Art took me and I took off with it.

- Today I gave a presentation here at SUNY Canton, my art, my fan art, and yeah, I talked to a lot of fellow nerdy art kids about the process of creating children's books and how my involvement with Marvel comics went - I've never had a art gallery solely to myself, so I have been part of the Akwesasne Juried Art Ahow.

I've had my art on display with a lot of really awesome artists, but I've never done something where I'm speaking about myself and my artwork.

I do a lot of vending events, I do a lot of public speaking, I do a lot of stuff with the kids where I'm talking about my artwork, explaining it and explaining the stories and doing storytelling.

But I've never had a space where I'm just talking about myself as indigenous folk.

That's not something that we really do.

And it felt foreign to me at first, but I'm really happy again that we were able to pull this together because having all of my art on the walls is like, it's, it's hard to explain.

- I wanted to create the exhibit in a way that I could go through the narrative and speak about indigenous history in the past, the present to my children's books, and then to contemporary issues that we face today.

Talking about residential schools, talking about police brutality, talking about stereotypes, talking about all of these things that we face today and that we've persevered through.

And I tried to lighten the mood with some of my nerdy stuff and we talked about Guwandio and Gaholui and we led slowly into the scarier stuff, which I love talking about.

So yeah, I was able to curate this exhibit in a way that helped me as a storyteller and helped me lay out how I want to speak about each one of these topics and make that flow work.

- Yep.

I grew up with comic books.

I grew up with Looney Tunes.

I grew up with Grew.

Does anybody know Gru the Barbar...?

Yeah!