Sunday, November 23, 2003  
TORONTO COMIC JAM | RATBOY LAUNCH | ASKING FOR DONATIONS AT THE JAM | DTM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS +++

:: Posted by max @ 11/23/2003 11:28:00 PM
A big pile of news from Toronto



First, the Toronto Comic Jam is coming up this Tuesday, Nov 25, and is coinciding with the release of Tony Walsh’s newest Ratboy comic Rat and the Beanstalk! It starts at 7pm at the Cameron in the front room, with discs being spun by DJ Stardust Dakota, carrying on after 9pm in the back with the comic jam, and you can pick up your copy for a measly $2.00! Come on out and support Tony, and have some fun.



ASKING FOR DONATIONS AT THE JAM

We’re going to start asking people for small donations at the jams, to help keep it going, if you can. We’re going to ask for a $2 or $4 donation or ‘pay what you can’. No, it’s not a hard, fast thing, and you don’t have to pay if you can’t do it, because being free and accessible is an important and defining part of the jam (and part of it’s success, I think). This is possible because the jam right now is supported financially by a handful philanthropists (Tom King pays for the hosting of the website every month out of his own pocket; NELVANA supplies us with the jam books; I’ve paid for our supplies in the past; and our nicer paper is supplied by the generous guys at Open Mind Comics a.k.a West End Offset) but this, really, is not a sustainable model. The model I’m thinking that would best suit the jam is somewhat based on the Toronto Small Press Bookfair, which is supported (to the best of my knowledge) by arts grants and modest fees by participants, and provides a place for small press artists and writers to support each other. This way, the jam could become more stable, be better publicized, and perhaps more respected as a Toronto institution that supports artists in a meaningful way.



COMIC JAM ART SHOW

Off the Map Gallery is hosting a month long comic-jam based art installation at their gallery at 506 – 80 Spadina Ave., between January and February 2004. More details will follow, but this is done in part to publicize the Toronto Comic Jam in the fine arts community, and provide a voice which helps show comics not as ‘legit’ because they are legitimizing product-based/ junk culture, but a development of a graphic and image based language. More details will follow, as well as a curatorial statement, so stay tuned. Their website is at www.offthemapgallery.com.



DTM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Don’t Touch Me Independent Comics # 10 is scheduled to appear at the February 2004 comic jam, and we’re asking if people would like to submit their short comics stories. Dave Lapp is working on getting established Canadian artist and Governor General’s Award winner John Scott to do this issue’s cover, which is a great cross over. Here’s a bio on him.



This issue will have a theme too of ‘Angels’. We’re asking for no more than 3 pages, submitted as 8.5 by 11 inch photocopies, and that they show some kind of title on them (it helps distinguish one story from another in the anthology). Deadline is January 15th 2004



Don’t Touch Me

c/o Dave Howard

131 Lindsey Ave., Toronto ON M6H 1E5, CANADA

ph 416 534 8882

email daveATdavewhoward.ca

visit www.donttouchme.ca

Toronto JAM CONTACT EMAIL CHANGES



My email’s changed from davidhowardATpatsty.ca to daveATdavehoward.ca. The ‘patsy’ email will go out of commission soon.



Don’t forget to check out the jam discussion board and events listings for stuff to do, and people to meet or ideas to share!

    
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