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:::Thumbs up from CWN One Bloody Year: Fall by Michel LacombeReviewed by Michael May @ CWN. A few flaws pointed out but in general a positive review. Also happily a well considered and well written one. One Bloody Year: Fall is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (page 345, order code JUN032415) for release in August. Samples of the comic are available on the author’s site - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - :::Epic and what every one wants Andrew Wheeler’s editorial this June at Ninth Art is on the topic of the Epic call for submissions and the flack there of. I highly suggest reading it if for no other reason than the paragraphs where he eco’s some of my own most strongly felt opinions on what the medium need more of. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - :::Todd Buys More Balls - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: I hit mute during commercials Ok, well I still haven’t had a chance to see this book, but as I mentioned a few posts down, Dogsbody, TCJ's online review column pans Raisinlove Graphix's Zombie Commandos From Hell #1 this month, mostly on the basis of the fact that Raisinlove chose to put adds on the bottom of their first issues pages (2 thirds of the text is dedicated to this complaint). It seems that Dogsbody failed to mention that these adds only appeared in the first issue of the book, which was also accompanied by a CD soundtrack (provided with the book). And Dogsbody may or may not be aware that the adds are from Internet sites and magazines which had offered advertising spaces in exchange for the banners on the comic's pages, music labels which bought copies of the books to sell their catalogues, operators of vending tables at concerts promoted by Raisinlove, and artists who contributed to the comix themselves. Which makes them all as relevant to the book as anything you would find advertised in a Fanta book. I realise Fantagrafics & TCJ has a ethical issues with advertising in comics and wrestles with the question of what’s appropriate in their own publications all the time, but ultimately they too place them in their books, all be it on separate pages from the comics. Dogsbody’s assertion that these ones, appearing on the same page as the strips, invade ‘sacred space’ is at best taste making, which I suppose is the territory of a column like Dogsbody, but none the less has little to do with the story content of the book being reviewed (that would primarily be the story and not the adds). So for an opinion of that you may want to skip directly to the third paragraph of the review, where they basically say it’s bloody minded crap the President of the United States would enjoy. High praise in some circles and more or less what the publisher expected to hear from them. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, June 28, 2003 The sign in sheet for the June 25 2003 Comix Jam @ Casa Del Popolo Jane TremblayBilly Mavreas Kurt Beaulieu Tim Morman Young Adonis Susanne Larner Peter Ferguson Bernie Mireault Frédérik Langlois Rick Gagnon Niall Eccles Francis Hervieux Marr Henry Fong Salgood Sam a.j.duric Jack Ruttan Eric Bouchard Steven Wintle Technogotika And here are some highlights of the night, two pages completed. ![]() - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, June 27, 2003 :::Another Jam another month It was a sticky one but a few really nice pages got done and a nice vibe was in the air (to bad it was sharing space with a tone of smog). Got to meet some nice new folks, including Steven, the author of Flat Earth who came to us all the way from Ottawa! Some photos care of our roving shutterbug Brad Simpson are pending, & I'll be posting the sign in sheet and some other goodies a little later today. But until Check out this Photo Essay on Éric Thériault's Johnny Dollar Book Launch this past June the 21st. Photos by Brad.
Over in Mécanique Générale's neck of the woods there's some new news to be had, Notification of various updates to the MG site and news about reviews and items of interest elsewhere on the web. For the unilingual glean a bit of insight via google.
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, June 23, 2003 Francophone Comix linksFrancophone News site and message boards: Check out BÉDÉ-KA!, Go free form with Fécond Wiki ( Fertile yokes ), a public Francophone BeeDee & sequential art Wiki, and excellent resource site that seeks "to explore the limits and potential of communication technologies ( Fécond Wiki ) by studying their characteristics - Means : Critical Observation , Theoretical Synthesis and Ludic Experimentation - Yokes of Interest : the Comic strip and Systems Of Data-processing Publication (I.E.webloggs)". Attention unilingual Anglos! Use google'stranslator or Babel Fish to glean a lot of the basic knowledge to be got from these sites, or other international news sources. Also you can slowly learn to read French by puzzling out the garbled bits with an English-French dictionary. Another good, international translator is worldlingo's Online Translator. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, June 22, 2003 ::: Still catching up Gleaned this from Dirk over at ¡Journalista! :: Hard work key to comic-book success…or…not…? The Edmonton Journal interviews Kim Hoang and Jordyn Bochon, the young BC publishers of Doujisou, a soon to be concluded comix anthology. The headline for the article seems to run counter to the story, where it is emphasised by the young publishers that if you want to publish comics, EXPECT to lose money and work hard for little more reward than having done it. Sage advice. Do it for the love kids. Dogsbody, TCJ's online review column pans Raisinlove Graphix's Zombie Commandos From Hell #1 bottom of the page - ...Apparently mostly for being crassly commercial buy creating banner space on every page in the book for advertising or self promotion. I haven’t seen the book in question but it sounds pretty tasteless. I like zombies as much as the next kid who saw night of the living dead on the late show in the 70’s, but someone might want to suggest to the Raisinlove gang that they spend a bit more time cultivating some stronger narrative content before they try shilling stuff. CO flat earth - It seems my old friend Jay Stephens has gotten his Oddville strips running in a special section of the Toronto Star now called Brand New Planet. That’s quite the shift of venue from his alt days in Exclaim magazine. The Star is a national daily newspaper, plus the special section is also distributed separately as a free weekly in Toronto schools, libraries, sports arenas, and shops. Jay - "I'm thrilled to say it runs as a full-colour, half-page (tabloid size) strip. The pay ain't too shabby, either. And the best part is, I haven't had a single edit yet! I'm in cartoon heaven!" For any one thinking of pitching the new EPIC with a book proposal: While you read Dan Wickline's THE 12 STEP PROGRAM over at CWN (a good how to series of articles on developing a comic book for the adventure/action market) to figure out how to go about putting together a sound pitch, also take some time to look in on how things are progressing for the apparently anonymous amateur author of Writer@Large, "A weblog dedicated to my efforts in the field of writing. Currently, it records my efforts in submitting to the new Marvel EPIC line" If there are many pitfalls to be encountered in dealing with EPIC light, it’s likely that you’ll here about them here. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - :::Catching up Doing some trolling about to catch up with things after taking a few days off from everything at the end of a contract…speaking of which, T3: Before the rise is in stores this month (release date 6/25/2003) …And the hype machine is in full swing. The comic is even getting mention on the tube, the E! NEWSLIVE hosts flipped through copies (see a clip:real- Low–High) and the CBS Early Show had the books laid out along with a bunch of the other tie-ins. You can check out samples of the book at the Beckett Comics site and if you poke around my blog you’ll find some more unlettered copies of the pages I inked. More news about the T3 books & Beckett on their press page. Also in the mainstream… Yanick Paquette on TERRA OBSCURA (release date 6/25/2003) ![]() Local boy Yanick Paquette teams up with Karl Story to render the Alan Moore/Peter Hogan scripted ABC adventure book. "The heroes of Terra Obscura continue to adjust to life after 30 years in suspended animation — their world has become a different place. Can they come together to defeat a mysterious threat that could overtake the western United States?….." cue music. Clement Sauvé & Ty Templeton Defend the Human Body…? (release date 6/18/2003 – as in already in stores!) Toronto native Ty Templeton is penning a new series for DC titled HUMAN DEFENSE CORPS. Issue 2 hit stands this week and the series features the art of local québécois artist Clement Sauvé. " When superheroes can't save the Earth, the Human Defense Corps steps in! A deep-water training mission takes a desperate turn for the strange as parasitic aliens breach the undersea naval base and latch onto the new recruits of the Human Defense Corps. Now it's soldier versus soldier in a fight to the death — but the mysterious talking gorilla in the white lab coat may know more than he's letting on. " - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, June 21, 2003 Supersized 06/19/03 ![]() Jay D'ici Interviews the guys @ Oni Press. Joe: "After a bad experience working for another company, I decided I'd only put my best effort into something that I owned. While having a talk with friend of the family who is a successful business man, I mentioned what bad shape the comic industry was in. He said that that was the time to enter an industry. It's cheaper to get in and you make a bigger splash. Bob Schreck was going nuts at Dark Horse, so I approached him with the idea and he and I decided to start Oni." Jamie: "With the pop element, I think there are certain things that are universal and will always remain popular. Like, we've had great success with love stories, which never go out of fashion. But, we don't really worry about trends, overall. You will drive yourself crazy trying to chase the popularity train. You'll just end up looking like a johnny-come-lately chancer, since particularly in comics, with the long lead-time, the trend might be over before you even get a book out." >>>MORE! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: "Dancing to Your Own Tune" TIME.comix on Marc Bell's "Shrimpy and Paul"By ANDREW D. ARNOLDAndrew reviews our favourite stream of consciousness cartoonist, Mr Marc Bell's brand spanking new book from high water books. A good succinct description of Marc's work here, and if that's not enough to make you go out and buy the book or order it from high water, then the 26 page pdf sample care of the publisher provided in the catalogue should do the trick. And you can get to know a bit more about Marc himself in this short interview. Goofy and delightful indeed. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, June 14, 2003 ::: Present and accounted for Almost forgot about this. The sign in sheet for THE MONTHLY MONTRÉAL COMIX JAM of May 28 2003 F Langlois Rebecca Rosen Aloysuis Nat Rutjack Rick Gagnon Tim Morman Young Adonis Henry Fong Susanne Larner Niall Eccles Kurt Beaulieu Jane Tremblay Francis Hervieux Stephanie Gangnon Marr Paul Grubernachuk David Wies Vladimir Gaillard Salgood Sam a.j.duric Billy Mavreas Sully - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, June 13, 2003 ::: Scribbling and acting out at the Roy Street Collective ![]() Michael Hopkins of the Roy Street Collective (home of the other monthly comix jam in Montreal, the Strip Sessions) is having his “ver-nee-saj” today, Fri the 13 of June at 111 Roy Street (corner of Coloniale). If you are free in 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. time slot then swing on by, have a few drinks and maybe do some Crayola colouring. If you can’t make it to that tonight you can drop by over the next 5 days while the Roy Street Collective holds an open house. Lost of stuff going on there, like for example . . . ![]() Click to download printable version of the flyer - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: JOHNNY DOLLAR @ the Green Devil Éric Thériault would like to invite you all (reading this) in the Montréal area Thursday June 19 to the Book Launch of YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR: The Brief Candle Matter. Written by David Gallaher, art by Éric Thériault with inks on the first half by Serge Lapointe.
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, June 06, 2003 ::: Fantagraphics in the news & on Blogs worldwide News has been spreading far and wide about Fantagraphics' predicament, a good thing probably if they are to succeed in garnering the attention they’ll need to move enough stock to meet there short fall. Here are few of the notable postings to be found online, and you can drop by their own message board to see what’s being said in their backyard. the Stranger - 06-05-2003 ![]() FANTAGRAPHICS COMIC TRAGEDY - Seattle Alt-Comics Publisher Fantagraphics Faces Financial Peril by Sandeep Kaushik Lying In The Gutters – 06-02-2003 GROTH CULTURE: The Fantagraphics Appeal continues apace by Rich Johnston Seattle Post-Intelligencer – 5-30-2003 Comics publisher Fantagraphics drawn into a financial crisis Contemplating sale of warehouse stock for 'Ghost' of chance Comicon.com: The Pulse - 05-29-2003 GARY GROTH GIVES MORE DETAILS OF FANTAGRAPHICS FINANCIAL SITUATION The comics industry woke up today to a startling call for help: "Fantagraphics, one of the pillars of alternative comics publishing and a star of the bookstore revolution, was revealed to be in severe financial hardship, and was calling on readers to buy books to give them an immediate cash influx to help them get past the crunch." By Heidi MacDonald Brainpowered - 05-29-2003 Saving Fantagraphics: "Fantagraphics has been in business for 27 years, formed around the critical magazine The Comics Journal. As they put it, "we are proud of our long-term commitment to comics as an art form and our dogged determination to push excellence down everybody's throats." by Warren Ellis ...So the good news is there is light at the end of the tunnel, but don't let that stop you from ordering a few books, every bit helps. And if you are an artist, publisher or seller of comix, consider buying and add in the Journal. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: Luc Giard, roi du web (king of the Web) ![]() Over at the MG web site, Jimmy has taken a few moments to update the galleries of some of the artists working with him in the Mécanique Générale Collective. In particular in his latest news update he calls attention to the work of Luc Giard , one of his mentors, and in his opinion he and Benoît are "En fait, je les considére comme les deux plus grands artistes vivants au Québec” Two of the greatest living artists in Québec. In his latest posting he tells us that Luc’s work can not truly be judged by his work in comics alone, one would have to go to his Studio and look through the piles of work strewn about as though they were rags. He is prolific and in Jimmy’s opinion, a profound talent. You can judge for yourself by dropping by his web page and flipping through a few of the choice rags Jimmy has scanned and mounted there. There are selections of work sorted out by the categories of à la maison 'at home’ - portraits et autres 'portraits & others’ - pitounes 'women’ - charres 'cars’ - she wanted a future - un monsieur en janvier 'a Mr in January’ & more. Whether you agree with Jimmy or not, it is undisputable that Luc is one of best artists working in QC today, and that he does indeed transcend medium and form, his is the work of an highly accomplished artist, sans qualifiers. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, June 05, 2003 ::: Supersized Fill in ![]() An interview with The heads of Oni Press Jamie S. Rich and Joe Nozemack was planed for this weeks edition of Supersized, but life makes it’s own plans and it's been put off till the next instalment in two weeks. In the meantime Jay takes aim at Fantagraphics small problem with foot-in-mothus - can't say I totally agree with his call on whether they deserve help but he has got a point - considers how one creates a serialized story/franchisable series, & whether or not he loves his work. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, June 04, 2003 ::: NikoHenrichon.com Online Québécois BD artists Niko Henrichon has just christened his new web site. There's a lot of very fine art to be found here, with substantail Comics, Illustration, & Sketchbook section, including a pile of samples of work from his pending VERTIGO title Barnum, written by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman, On Sale May 28th, 2003. First rate stuff, defiantly worth a prolonged Perusal.- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: Not the face Not today ![]() Dan Dstrbo [of HVW8] and Luc Plowboy Paradis are unveiling a batch of new paintings @ 4064 boulevard St-Laurent, suite 3, Thursday/Jeudi 12 June/Juin. Fun Starts at around 7pm / 19h and will go till whenever. It's free to get in, & the work affordable. Music will be provided by Sixtoo, dj GStarship, dj Soundbwoy, dj Jeremiah, and others that haven't been confirmed yet. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: Sammy: Tourist Trap # 4 in stores ![]() Published by Image Comics, Sammy: Tourist Trap # 4 contains 22 pages by Azad as well as a Pinup by Michel Lacombe. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: MensuHell #43 ![]() The June issue of MensuHell is now available in bookshops. Sporting a cover by Mathieu B, & the return of collaborators Shine Firns and Marc Jetté. Information on the contents of this issue and where you can buy or order the Anthology drop by the web site here - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, June 02, 2003 ::: Ho Che’s odyssey Toronto author Ho Che Anderson has just completed his 13 year long project chronicling the life and times of Martin Luther King with the third and final volume of his 200 page graphic novel KING, available in Canada as of this week and release in the US on the 11th of June. You can read a piece on him and his work in the Toronto Star here, check out some samples from book 3 at Fantagraphics site, order it (this would be a very good idea right now), and while you wait for it to be delivered to your door, you can read this old review of book 2 @ Time.com & flip through some art from the books available at the beguiling’s web site for sale. Hey, if you see something really nice snatch it up, they guy’s going back to school so I imagine every cent will help in his pursuit for self improvement! Congrats Ho Che.- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: Chesters’ latest yummy works Canadian Trail blazer Chester Brown receives a glowing review from Time.com’s Andrew D. Arnold for his recently completed graphic Novel Louis Riel. If you haven’t read this yet, you can order the individual issues from D&Q, or wait a bit for the cloth covered hardbound edition of the complete novel this September! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, June 01, 2003 ::: White Space [black ink] ![]() To take her mind off the fact that her dear sweet younger brother went and did a boyishly foolish thing that resulted in his SHATTERING his ankle into FIFTEEN pieces and is now TWO TIME ZONES away lying in a hospital bed hopped up on morphine awaiting a SECOND surgery, a.j.duric finally got around to the third installment of White Space. This entry is on the rather appropriate topic of endings, in salute, she hopes, to the end of her brother's foolish exploits. Is she stressed? Damn straight. He could have killed himself. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: MANIFEST.E : Reports From The Frontlines The newest member of the Montreal Comic Collective in up and running with his own column, MANIFEST.E. Actually, to be truthful he’s not the newest member, Frédérik has been a collaborator on this little project of ours from nearly the very start. But his responsibilities at F52 and his other, second day job have kept him busy. Things are settling down for him now so expect to see more of him around here, he’ll be involved in getting a French language version of Sequential up and running, and as well as his column, is threatening to start a personal blog for his more casual musings. Just one thing though, his reference to me as some sort of “Commander in Chief” makes me squirm, I swear if anyone starts saluting me I’ll have a fit. :P - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: the Curious Bulge Ethan has been posting fairly regularly in his blog, there are a few more episodes of I AM NORMAL for your reading pleasure as well as some other toons, bits of musings and even a haiki poem! Check it out… ![]() - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: On Saving Fantagraphics Over at Art Bomb Warren Ellis returns to Brainpowered this week with a few choice words on the current crisis the Indy comix institution is currently going through. Warren and his many readers had a big roll in the recovery of Top Shelf last year. This time around he’s calling for the same sort of response on Fantagraphics behalf, and explains (if you need it to be) the very good reasons for why this should happen. Also I personally liked the way he framed the subject of Fantagraphics relationship with comics specialty shops on this mater. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: This week at www.snubdom.com ![]() "A Peek Inside Rick Trembles' Pupa"! The continuing adventured of RANDOM BLATHER: In honor of an upcoming show by Rick Trembles' band The American Devices; an exclusive interview with Rick by current coordinator of the Montreal Comix Jam, Salgood Sam [ed:hey, that's me!] (AKA Maxim Douglas)! ![]() Rick Trembles' MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: This week a comic-strip review of GOD TOLD ME TO (1976): "Anybody who starts telling you what god thinks should be locked up immediately" -director Larry Cohen - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ::: New pages @ nomdunchien.com New work online by Sabine Allaire and Bob Loblaw ![]() ![]() - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Archive by Region Alberta - British Columbia - Calgary - Gatineau - Halifax - Moncton - Montreal - New Brunswick - Newfoundland - Nova Scotia - Ontario - PEI - Quebec - Saskatchewan - Saskatoon - Toronto - Vancouver - Victoria - Winnipeg - Archive by Month August 2002 - September 2002 - October 2002 - November 2002 - December 2002 - January 2003 - February 2003 - March 2003 - April 2003 - May 2003 - June 2003 - July 2003 - August 2003 - September 2003 - October 2003 - November 2003 - December 2003 - January 2004 - February 2004 - March 2004 - April 2004 - May 2004 - June 2004 - July 2004 - August 2004 - September 2004 - October 2004 - November 2004 - December 2004 - January 2005 - February 2005 - March 2005 - April 2005 - May 2005 - June 2005 - July 2005 - August 2005 - September 2005 - October 2005 - November 2005 - December 2005 - January 2006 - February 2006 - March 2006 - April 2006 - May 2006 - June 2006 - July 2006 - August 2006 - September 2006 - October 2006 - November 2006 - December 2006 - January 2007 - February 2007 - March 2007 - April 2007 - May 2007 - June 2007 - July 2007 - August 2007 - September 2007 - October 2007 - November 2007 - December 2007 - January 2008 - February 2008 - March 2008 - April 2008 - May 2008 - June 2008 - July 2008 - August 2008 - September 2008 - October 2008 - November 2008 - December 2008 - January 2009 - February 2009 - March 2009 - April 2009 - May 2009 - June 2009 - July 2009 - August 2009 - September 2009 - October 2009 - November 2009 - December 2009 - January 2010 - February 2010 - March 2010 - |