Sunday, November 30, 2003  
Browsing BD/comics/comix news in Quebec

:: Posted by max @ 11/30/2003 04:56:00 AM
For English readers so far, this site is the only local (Qc) based comics news site. But francophones have had accesses to wed based news and publicity for some, both in the European BD Press, and locally. For those of you not familiar with Quebec’s francophone BD scene, BD Quebec is a good place to start.



A regional Quebec City based comics news site, BDQ features articles from a small but hard working roster of dedicated volunteer writers, message boards that, though predominantly in French, seem general friendly to English posters looking for info. Listings for BD/Comics oriented events in the province (en français), bios for many of the provinces creators in residence and fairly detailed listings of a goodly portion of the local comix/comics/BD publications.



There’s a LOT of content and local history on this site so if you really want to learn about the regional francophone scene, mainstream and underground both, then this site is for you. If you really just can't read in en français then you may find that the googled version of the site still very informative, though amusingly garbled somewhat.



BDQ has been around for a while now, making it the old man of the Qc Internet comics community. The new kid on the block en français isBÉDÉ-KA!. While their server seems to be rather unreliable, knocking the site out quite often, the message board is run buy Pierre-Andre Dery of the grafiksismik.net gang, also out of Quebec City. While less technologically reliable Pierre-Andre maintains a comprehensive local News section and the boards are very English friendly. Most of the Qc provincial mainstream comics scene and a fair chuck of the web-active underground post their news here as well so a good place to find out what’s up.



A recent addition to the pack is the CBC sponsored site and radio show "bande à part" which dedicates a fair amount of time on the air and online to comics related interviews and reviews. And the Local weekly papers [we have 4, two Fr two En] give a fair amount of space over to the subject of comics and related stuff.



After that it's down to the individual publishers. Mécanique Générale, Drawn&Quarterly, La Pastèque, L'Oie

de Cravan, Conudrum Press/Crunchy Comics, Le Pape est un Ours, Scribe, & Mensuhell all offer news of varying depth on their sites. Also several local authors do so as well. Most notably off the top of my head are Eric Thériault, Jocelyn "Strob" Simard, & Rick Trembles' sites, which all offer amongst other things, news on their friends and their own activities in the community. For more links to creators sites look to the right side of this page under 'Qc Artist's web pages' to find one of the most comprehensive lists of local creator's sites >>>



[we strive to keep this up to date so if you know of a creator's site that should be listed there that's not send us the link!].



Oh, yes, and then there is Sequential ici. Mustn’t forget to plug ourselves in all this, the only currently active English language, solely Canadian oriented, QC based, comics news page. Your gateway to comics in the great white north eh!







    
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