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More photos from the Jam last night           More pics here - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments -   - we honor OpenID -
Jaming with Jenny Everywhere - a convergence of ideas  Steve from Flat Earth was at the Jam last night, we talked about the Jenny Everywhere open source character project that he’s helped to bring into the world. I clumsily tried to explain how the concept struck me when I first encountered it: A perfect structural fit for group projects/efforts such as Comix Jams! Also dovetailing nicely with the CC (creative commons) system. An interesting, creatively freeing way to produce comics that could fit a similar niche as the serialized MARVEL & DC comics of today do, without all the coprat and legal crap and suffocating restrictions on the authors and content. As a result of the Jams here in Montreal a few creators have already teemed up to work on stories, Peter Ferguson and Carlos Santos have been collaborating regularly for over a year now on long jammed narratives with amazing results. Starting at a jam in 1994 Jack Ruttan and Richard Gagnon have been working together on this strip. There are numerous other incidents of this sort of thing and more are sure to come, the jams being natural creative ‘get to know your neighbours’ gatherings. As one way to collaborate on an idea the idea of a open source character has a lot of potential in this environment. This conversation came about because he told me he’s thinking about doing a web based jam himself with the character on the Jenny web site as a way to have regular content on site. Also Steve tells me he’s going into grassroots promotional mode, he’ll be in Toronto next month pimping the shifter. He posted a list of his planed activities here at Barbelith. Keep your eye out for him if the above interests you. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
THE PANELIST: Toy story  Guy Leshinski writes on Todd McFarlane's toy biz. + ZINES ON THE SCENE profiles Not Yer Princess & All About Fuckin'- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Hulk video game a made-in-Canada  CJAD am ran a piece today on Vancouver's Radical Entertainment, the company that landed the HULK video game licence.
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The MONTHY MONTREAL COMIX JAM of July 30 2003: what wasPics freshly uploaded, & a few more to add tomorrow as well. Arrived late with things already brewing. So many zines tonight we had two tables covered with them. As well as a reprint of 'the day i met Leanne' from Steve Requin, there was Francis Hervieux with the monthly MENSUHELL, looking mighty fine with a Jacques Boivin cover (the artist on Melody) and some of the best looking guts yet. The Roy st collective via Jai Granofsky put out their first quarterly two weeks ago at their Jam and Jai was on hand with a few copies. More on both at a later date. And or course out own Quarterly was on hand - :)           
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003 The MONTHY MONTREAL COMIX JAM QUARTERLY Vol4  Working on the Jam Zine, putting together the layouts for latest issue, hitting the printers tomorrow morning and appearing at the JAM tomorrow night! (I like presenting it fresh from the printers)Here is a peek at the Jam pages going in this month, 45 pages in total!   Also appearing will be a selection of interviews and articles published this quarter on the web site here. Stay tunes for details later tonight.The MONTHY MONTREAL COMIX JAM this week! TOMARROW! wen/mac the 30th. Same Jam time – 8pm Same Jam location – Casa del Popolo; 4873 boul. St-Laurent See ya there! Max - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
San Diego coverage PT II  Add to the previously mentioned, Heidi Macdonald turns in a two parter, here and here at the Pulse. Big, crowded and a bit unfriendly sounding, and in pt2, LOR style geek out comparison to the social hierarchy of the comiccon social order and apparent segregation due to irreconcilable differences, according to her anyway. - So expecting the "civilians" to convert isn't always practical. But what about the opposite paradigm? Us Old Tribes are always expecting the New Tribes to somehow groove on what we're doing. Isn't there something we can learn from the newcomers? Comicon is a huge success and comics are cooler than ever before. And yet the problem is that everyone seems to want to spend time talking about comics instead of reading them. - This bit is particularly sad sounding.  -And then there was Artist's Alley – or Artist's Ghetto, as more than one wag called it. "It's desolate," said one artist, surveying the chill, remote aisles, and cold concrete floor. Indeed, situated on the far eastern tip of the floor, on beyond Ballroom 20 even, a trip to artist's alley was like a ferry ride across the North Sea: suddenly the lush carpeted walkways and deluxe booths gave way to aisles full of guys at tables drawing. -
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Monday, July 28, 2003 this from The MMCJ news group:David Abu Bacha Hello all, I just wanted you to know that "Spoons in the Couch", my first short animated film, is being screened at the fantasia film fest August 8 at 5pm  .See you all there! - David Abu Bacha - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
San Diego coveragePublishers Weekly, NY - 22 Jul 2003 Mangafest in San Diego: Comic-con Brings Fans, Random House and Everyone in Between CALVIN REID REPORTS ON San Diego, noting the rise of Manga Madness and highlighting some interesting and exciting news about the biz, And they promise more in next weeks Publishers Weekly. - Indie houses like NBM, Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics had big enthusiastic crowds at their booths. Craig Thompson's 600 page novel Blankets (Top Shelf) was all the rage. Chris Ware's beautifully produced Acme Novelty Datebook attracted much attention at the D&Q table and Humanoids Publishing drew long lines of fans with the appearance of French comics artists Alexandro Jodorowky and Travis Charest. - The Art of the Con: TIME.comix visits the world's largest comic convention ANDREW D. ARNOLD give his play by play of the highlights, reporting on the con and the 15th annual Eisner Awards. -Having been a judge who helped choose the nominees (see TIME.comix coverage) I got a front-seat, complete with complimentary chips and guac. Eisner himself handed out the awards, bounding up and down the stage in spite of being 86 years old. Neil Gaiman (best know for his "Sandman" series) opened the ceremony with a keynote speech. His "State of the Comics Nation," as he called it, was generally sunny. "I don't think we're doing that badly at all," he said. He felt that comix had graduated from a public image of forgettable trash to being "just another medium," like film and literature. Eisner echoed this when he got on stage, declaring, "We're almost at the top of the mountain."- I took particular note of this quote… - "It's just not working. ... Our future is not in pamphlets," Miller said. "This award [best graphic novel] will be the centrepiece of these awards in the future." His gutsy pronouncement, in front of an audience largely made up of pamphlet comic-makers, received mild, reluctant applause.- …I’ll second that. While I like the bight size digestibility of a 24-page story in terms of work, they make no sense to me in business terms or as a creator. I’m sure Andrew’s summery will make some folks in the alt circuit cringe. The winners of the Eisner Awards are listed here WALKING THE WALK: You know you had a good San Diego when you still can't feel your feet five days later. Andrew Wheeler at the ninth art turns in a mostly positive indepth report that heralds a very rosy but qualified forecast for the coming publishing season, fuelled in part buy a keynote speech by Neil Gaiman. - Of course, contrary to the signs, the period since 2001 has been rather a good one for the industry. It could be that my barometer is horribly off, and we're about to enter into a period of terrible creative and financial stagnation and this was the last hurrah. Neil Gaiman certainly doesn't think so. Gaiman gave the keynote address at the Will Eisner Awards, and spoke of his great hope that we're about to enter into a new Golden Age for comics; And not just because he's actually writing comics again and has two major projects out this year from Marvel and DC. - And possibly taking a note from the finally of Neil’s speech, goes into more depth on the Eisner Awards than Andrew does in his time report, expressing some lament at the inductees to the Hall of Fame. - And I wonder, if Hergé had not been picked by the judges, would he ever have made it in? If Osamu Tezuka had not been picked by last year's judges, would he still be languishing somewhere outside the Great Hall? René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, creators of ASTERIX, were also on this year's shortlist, but they were passed over. To me, that's an utterly appalling oversight. – He also spends some time in the middle considering the state of the ongoing soap opera of the industry, Marvel vs. DC: DC’s looking light in the feet as Marvel hides in the shower and mopes about the convention floor without a home, -One of the most miserably weary faces I encountered at the 2001 con was that of Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada. I missed him this time around, but I doubt he'd have been any more cheerful, given how successfully DC stole a march on the House of Ideas, dominating the news cycle and announcing exclusive deals with both WOLVERINE writer Greg Rucka and NEW X-MEN writer Grant Morrison. - Neil’s address as mentioned above can be read here at his site, and his other posts from the Con are here, here, here, here & here. Reliving Comics' Days of Infamy By Randy Dotinga WIRED takes the opportunity to give a crash course on comic’s recent history, focusing on the Seduction of the Innocen and the comics code. -Batman and Robin? Cohabiting homosexuals living in a home with pretty flowers and a male butler. Wonder Woman? A kinky, man-hating lesbian. Horror comics? Tasteless material that warps young minds. Fifty years ago, a German psychologist nearly destroyed comic books by alleging that degenerate story lines and artwork were turning a generation of children into juvenile delinquents. Shortly after he wrote an influential book, titles like Vault of Horror and Tales From the Crypt fell victim to a restrictive Comics Code.- And if that aint enough for you, there are several posts on Pulse from the con, one or two at Newsarama, & you can read some first hand accounts here at TCJ - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, July 24, 2003 Quebecor World to cut 1,000 jobs  From the CBC: "MONTREAL - Printing giant Quebecor World Inc. (TSX:IQW) is going to cut 1,000 jobs, the company said Thursday. It's part of an effort – the company's second in less than a year – to match the size of its business to weak markets. The company's stock fell $2.15 or 8.2 per cent to $24 on the news. A company spokesman wouldn't say where the cuts are coming, although about 80 per cnet of the company's business is North America, most of the rest in Europe and a small amount in South America. " Quebecor is, to my knowledge, the largest printer of comic books, handling the chores for publishers across the industry, from Marvel to Fantagraphics. Quebecor has been having a rocky few years, and their stock is currently at a 5 year low, hitting a record low this past March. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
This week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY  THE MAKING OF "TALES FROM THE CRAPPER" PART 1: DIARY OF A FIRST-TIME TROMETTE : "Traumatism Troma-style!"A first hand account by Isabelle 'Necrophilia' Stephen of her trip to TROMA FILMS HQ, as drawn by RICK TREMBLES the MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY is printed weekly in the Montreal Mirror - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Comics in literary and arts magazinesA lot of literary and arts magazine are embracing comix and comics art these days, both critically and on their own pages. Over the next little while for my own purposes I’m going to be digging around to bring a few suspects to light. To start I’d like to point out local mags Maisonneuve & Matrix Magazine and Vancouver’s Geist  Maisonneuve is the new kid, only 4 issues old so far. They describe themselves as “a high-end general-interest magazine similar to The New Yorker & Harper's”. Published quarterly in English out of Montreal the publication features a lot of illustration and is officially open to cartoons in it’s submission policies. So far the mag has been an interesting & entertaining if not completely consistent read. Matrix Magazine has been published irregularly in Montréal since 1975 and has had the work of many many Montréal artists, writers poets, photographers and BS artists grace it’s pages. Being a big grab bag of art and ideas it’s usually an interesting publication but also a bit hard to find. They are very open to illustration and comics and often have a theme or themed section. The last one was Public Domain, A special section edited by Andy Brown & Billy Mavreas. Their submission page is here. Geist magazine is a quarterly featuring the best in Canadian culture and ideas - "The Geist Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1990 to organize and encourage cultural activities that bring the work of Canadian writers and artists to public attention, explore the lines between fiction and non-fiction, and present new views of the connective tissues of this place Canada". Geist embraces Comix and includes them in its content. You can read a few of them online at their site here , and the submission guidelines are here.- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Niko Henrichon joins Grafiksismik studiosOfficial statement - Sources: news@bedeka.inxslutz.com - Grafiksismik Grafiksismik announces that artist Niko Henrichon is joining thier team as a colourist.  Niko Henrichon, who has worked on Sandman & Barnum! for Vertigo Comics in the past, has joined Philippe Nailsmith, Joelle Comtois and Valerie Martineau in the colouring department at Grafiksismik. While colouring will be his priority, Niko will also likely be involved in drawing, inking and the design of projects to come. Grafiksismik Inc’s team produces visual content for customers such as Marvel Comics, Hasbro, Dreamwave Productions, Dark Horse Comics, CrossGen Comics, Wizards of the Coast, Devil' S Due Publishing and several others. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Young Québécois author VoRo signs with the Éditions Vents d'Ouest!  This from BD Quebec: It is now official, VoRo announces to BD Quebec that his contract with Nucléa is broken and that his next album, volume #1 of Tard dans la nuit, will be with the very slick Éditions Vents d'Ouest.The album is almost finished but the readers will have to wait until February 2004 to find it on the shelves because the first volume in the series of three will be published in a new "suspense" anthology to be distributed in January 2004 by Vents d'Ouest. Good news for the young Québécois author.  Cover of the next album by VoRo VoRo's bio on BDQuebec [googled] - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, July 21, 2003 l'Oie de Cravan fundraising music festival: the photo essays   [Benoît behind the table on the first night] Last week’s l'Oie de Cravan fundraising music festival and book launch was a big hit for publisher Benoît Chaput, with the first two nights completely selling out and the third possibly as well, or at least VERY well attended. Attending each night I put together photo essays for the events which you can view in the Soap Box section of the site here, here & here. The yahoo server gets a bit sluggish when a lot of traffic comes through so be patient. You can also try going directly to the file folders to view the images here. Also in his new blog -Frédérik filed a Report on the last night as well. It seems we were both taken with one band that night in particular. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Rumble Royale & Above/ground press  Steve over at flat earth put me wise to this: Toronto's Royal Academy of Illustration and Design is publishing its first comic’s anthology, Rumble Royale. They unveiled it this past weekend at the SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON, the Canadian launch will be this Thursday, July 24, 2003. 7pm-2am @the Andy Poolhall, 489 College St. in Toronto. The anthology features contributions by Kagan McLeod, Chip Zdarsky, Ben Shannon, Samuel Hiti, Cameron Stewart and Ray Fawkes. There are some serious looking samples of the pages in the book to be found at the site. Soon as details can be had about when this hits the stands I’ll post them here.  Poking around the TCJ site I saw this: Above/ground press, 10th anniversary party in Ottawa for 10 years, Ottawa's above/ground press, edited & published by Rob Mclennan, has been one of the most active chapbook publishers in the country, with almost 400 publications so far, including chapbooks, broadsides, Missing Jacket magazine, The FREE VERSE Anthology, & the ongoing STANZAS & drop magazines. The event will include readings by John Barton, Stephen Brockwell, Michael Dennis, Anita Dolman, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, Gil McElroy, Colin Morton & Peter Norman. And musical performances by Red Wood Central & Emm Gryner. Thursday August 28, 2003. Club Awol. Corner of Bank & Sparks Streets, Ottawa (Formerly "The Cave"). $10 cover / 8pm - 2am / (includes a copy of the anniversary chapbook anthology "ten" featuring new poems from various a/g press alumni). - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Sunday, July 20, 2003 Who says Americans invented the comic book  What are the origins of the comic book? If you believed Bill Gaines it was his father who first recycled the daily newspapers funny pages, collecting them and binding them, and selling them at NY newsstands. Frequently, on the short list of cultural innovations American academia historically laid claim to, you would have, at least until recently, find comics or comic books listed along side baseball and jazz. But with the basic idea of pictures with words going back to the Stone Age the truth is that it was bound to have been tried somewhere else in the last thousand years or so. Stepping up to the claims counter for some time now is Switzerland, with the 19th century artist Rodolphe Töpffer and this has been backed up by the leading accepted authority on the subject in the US, Scott McCloud. The Vancouver Sun profiles an exhibition on Töpffer’s legacy this week, on displayed at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, in the North American launch of "Töpffer & Cie" (Töpffer & Co.), an international travelling exhibition of Swiss illustration brought to Vancouver by the Alliance Française, Consulate General of Switzerland and the E.C.I.A.D.. A few interesting samples of the art are provided and a few bits of history, enough to send you off on your own research on the topic. As a total aside, I love the typo in the quote here from Sophia Bookstore owner Marc Fournier, "There's three schools," explains Fournier: "the American superhero comic -- a good buy, a bad guy. It's very linear. There's the Japanese manga -- they're more of an esthetic. And then there's the European model, which is more like storyboarding a film: the text could just as easily be a voice-over." If that was intentional it was a dead on piss take of $mainstream$ comics. : ) - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, July 17, 2003 This week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY  2LDK & ARAGAMI:"Double duty, twice the booty!"the MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY is printed weekly in the Montreal Mirror - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 Reviews of Cyclops aim for the eyeAndy Brown of Conundrum Press sent me this link to a Review of this year’s English edition of ‘Cyclops: Contemporary Canadian Narrative Art', featured as the June 29th Book of the Week by The Danforth Review, a Toronto based literary magazine.  Aside from some minor factual errors early off in the review …“An anthology of comics is a little unique in itself. A book that collects fresh work by underground authors is still more unique.” Really? That’s odd, I guess my bookshelf is full of unique oddities. I suppose in TDR’s literary circles it might seem that way. But I mustn’t nit pick. Being an only party biast owner of a mostly signed edition of the book in question I’ll vouch. This is a good comprehensive and balanced review that specifically addresses several of the stories. A good take on the book itself and the larger issues it address simply by virtue of its existence. Did some more digging around and found some other reviews of the book as well On The Link, the independent student newspaper of Concordia university (this one singles out one of my personal favourites from the book by Rupert Bottenberg).  Next door at the McGill Daily, the independent student newspaper on campus at McGill University fellow cartoonist & writer Sherwin Tjia penned a review here. And Jade [le journal des Autres] (recently mentioned in the daily reports) reviewed both the English and French editions of Cyclops here (scroll down) and there are a couple of sample pages by Rupert Bottenberg & Marc Tessier respectively to found here. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, July 14, 2003 DARWYN COOKE @ CBR talking about the DCU  "With the Comic-Con International in San Diego almost here and Darwyn Cooke set to attend to promote the January launch of "DCU: New Frontier," CBR News once again discussed the six issue mini-series with Cooke and got a few more details out of the Canadian phenom.">>> Sketch found in Randy Lander’s Image Gallery @ 4th rail from the 2002 San Diego con - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
thestar.com - When a picture paints a thousand words"Graphic novels are moving out of specialty shops and into the mainstream" A very good article ran in the Sunday edition of the Toronto Star this weekend. Some glowing praise for Chris at D+Q and buzz on the movement of Graphic novels into the book market. Of paticulre intrest locally is the news that D+Q is bringing out an English retrospective of the work of  Albert Chartier, a classic Quebec cartoonist, still alive today at 91. "He was only known in Quebec. He had a monthly comic strip called Onesime that ran for almost 60 years in a farmers' journal available only by subscription. Only farmers read it — a very gentle, simple, beautifully drawn strip," Oliveros explains. >>> - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Acme Novelty Datebook debuts at D+Q booth this week in San Diego  Chris Ware's eagerly-anticipated new book, The Acme Novelty Datebook, will make its exclusive North American debut this week at Drawn & Quarterly's booth at the San Diego comic convention. Copies of this gorgeously-designed and produced cloth edition, Ware's first ever sketchbook, have just been received via Fed Ex from the printer in Holland (and as a result it will cost slightly more, $47, to help offset these expensive costs — it's a heavy book). Also premiering at D+Q's booth will be Italian cartoonist Igort's first graphic novel in English, 5 Is The Perfect Number.The D+Q booth will also be hosting signings by cartoonists Dupuy & Berberian (Friday - Sunday), Adrian Tomine (Saturday and Sunday), and Joe Matt (Saturday and Sunday). D+Q will be located at # 1329 and 1428 from Wednesday July 16th until Sunday July 20th in the San Diego Convention Center. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday, July 12, 2003 Broken Pencil's All Comics Issue is on stands now  Sporting a painted cover by Dave Cooper! Inside it you’ll find an article by Toronto Comics Jam organizer and publisher Dave Howard about how comics are a 'sleeping giant' about to awaken in North America, and the problem with the term 'comics'. An interview with Ottawa comic legend Dave Cooper by Rob McLennan, coordinator of the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair. An interview with Phoebe Gloeckner. ‘Sex and Violence: History of the Underground’. ‘M@B and Marc Bell Head to Head’. An Interview with Todd McFarlane's Dad. ‘Dirty Comics R Us’ & More.- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
in the Mirror this weekMATTHEW HAYS reviews American Splendor Sonic benefit - L’Oie de Cravan & Thurston Moore A pleasant side-effect for L’Oie de Cravan publisher Benoît Chaput when he launched Mike Watt’s spiels d’un minutemen was getting to know Watt’s friends, Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. Much less pleasant was the news he got six months later. “I didn’t get grants this year,” Chaput explains. “They were cut from $15,000 to zero.” >>>>more - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
THE PANELIST  GUY LESHINSKI profiles and interviews Kramers Ergot creator Sammy Harkham."I didn't really know what I was getting into," he said, fiddling with the strings of a tzitzit -- a Jewish prayer shawl -- he wears under his shirt. "It's been crazy." He shrugged. "I'm a big comics advocate. A lot of people see work in a photocopied zine and think, 'That's not art.' I want these artists taken seriously as cartoonists. I guess I've become kind of a ring leader." The Panelist appears every two weeks in the Toronto Eye Weekly. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Francis Hervieux @ BDQuebec  Francis Hervieux, Publisher/Editor of the Monthly MensuHell (#44 features a story previuosly only avilabl on my web site by yours truly) Reviews SMOKMIIT!, by Philippe Doyon aka Boussourir. [Altavista Translation] - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Marc Jetté @ BDQuebec  Marc Jetté, a clerk at my regular comic shop & publisher of 'Jean Nendur et compagnie' has been writing reviews and profiles of local authors and artists for some time now and is currently working on a book on the topic. As part of the renovations of the BDQuebec site he will now be appearing there as a reviewer.  For is first instalment he reviews CAFÉ NOIR no. 2 allongé, CAFÉ NOIR no. 3, SPÉCIAL THÉ CHAI & VADE RETRO HUMANO[Altavista Translation] - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
D&Q news - July 11, 2003  Paul Has A Summer Job reviewed in Toro Magazine Toro, the Canadian "men's lifestyle" magazine, reviews Michel Rabagliati's Paul Has A Summer Job in its June/July 2003 issue. "Rabagliati deftly explores Paul's world through simple black and white line drawings and a humourous, honest narrative."  D+Q interview on Booksense today Booksense, the online resource for independant booksellers in North America, features an interview with D+Q publisher Chris Oliveros today. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
JAE LEE TALKS 'TRANSFORMERS/GI JOE' @ comic Book ResourcesAn interview with Penciller Jae Lee. He and writer John Ney Reiber will be presenting Canadian comic book company Dreamwave Production's vision of the Transformers and G.I Joe crossover with Devil's Due Publishing (each company is producing separate mini-series). Lee's fans might not have expected this project from him and as the artist explained to CBR News, it wasn't the first thing that he thought he'd be doing either Founded as a studio in 1996 by brothers Pat Lee and Roger Lee, Dreamwave Production's first in-studio offering, a Anime style cop story titled Darkminds has enjoyed popular review. Lee has an interesting animation style of art that makes for super slick pages. And doing a little research it seems that he's been developing into a strong storyteller. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, July 10, 2003 This week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY  TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES:the MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY is printed weekly in the Montreal Mirror - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Words of Advice for young doodlers (from a not so old one)This started as a reply on a message board but turned slightly to rant, so I posted it here on my blog. It goes without saying but I will any way, the following is couched IMO - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, July 09, 2003 The Roy st Collective’s monthly Strip Session  If you’re interested in drawing some good ol' comics then you should come to the Roy St. building (111 Roy) next Friday the 18th at 7pm. Also we hopefully will have the first Strip Sessions Quarterly Zine printed, so if you've been to the first three gatherings you will most likely have your work in there. Like at the Casa monthly comix jams you must bring your own drawing supplies. If you don't, you risk borrowing some half worn out pen, or a crayon. We supply paper, a friendly environment, cold beer, and an open garage door. Hope to see there! -Jai Granofsky - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Trolling the MG news page, some points of interestJimmy has posted a 1990 portion of work by Benoit Joly titled le fil de la lumière, named for a song by Sylvie Tremblay. Originally published in a collection titled ‘les Immobiles’ The 9th edition of the French (euro) review ‘Égo comme X’ is now available and features 19 pages of classic Jimmy Beaulieu work. & a new local lifestyle & culture magazine titled "p45: Le grand magazine des nuits torrides" includes a one page story by Jimmy titled "Bapteme de Feu" about his noisy neighbours, printed in black & red ink. Available in stores around town for free. And Luc Giard shares his snapshots of the Montréal Grand Prix - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
A translation of the L'Oie de Cravan news page's latest postOrigial text here Monday July 7. Time and its geography Days of heaviness (the trees move but not the wind [ ed:glue like humidity for the last week ]), light nights (on bicycles the riders pass, watching for the paddle, slipping slightly into a rare freshness, in a beautiful intoxication). At the top One thinks much, obviously, with the festival benefit in a few days only; one worries and one hopes. The book of Gigi Perron, which will be launched Friday 18 at a special price (which salesman!), is already bookshops. The day of launching we had wanted to offer an additional publication of Gigi, a small book of 2 inches by 2 inches which is in fact a band 6 feet in length folded like an accordion!! The problem is that we have not managed to find a way of making this folding construction work. Perhaps a little later, It will be necessary, likely, to find an engineer of folding. The planed release of an Emmanuel Lechac book will possibly be delayed as well. ‘Slowness is a quality’ is what I repeat to myself [ this is the mantra of Le Movement Lent ‘the slow action movement’ ]. It is necessary. The poetry book Heureusement Chapugadget is indeed ready, thanks to the effectiveness of Julie Doucet [ in addition to her well know comics work Julie is one of the finest screen printers in town ]. It is of a small review of " Poétique lente [ slow poetry ]" entirely screen printed and limited to 100 specimens. 90 copies will be given to friends and the 10 others (exemplary of a luxury inouï) put on sale at a prohibitive price to refund the expenses of production. A snob review, lazy and popular, as it should be. [ I infer a smile here ] Soon to come The schedule for the festival benefit grows clearer. So many participants; friends presence calms many concerns. All the details are on the site, here [ TR ]. There will be certainly some changes of last minute. We will keep you posted. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7/07/2003 - Volcanic Replacement  Jay D'Ici- "Watching Adaptation for a second time, I decided to do a tribute of sorts based on my experiences in screen writing to make up for the last edition of Supersized. This time Volcanic Revolver the Movie gets Supersized!" TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO J. Donald Campbell sits in The Fauburg’s food court after having a double cheese burger, a small Coke sits at the back right corner of the tray. He open’s up a newly bought copy of Scott Morse’s Volcanic Revolver and reads it in 20 minutes. He decides he has to talk to Miranda Castravelli about turning this into a movie. >> - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
l'Oie de Cravan invites it’s friends to the LAUNCHING OF GIGI PERRON and fundraising events for the publisher  Received an announcement via Jimmy Beaulieu from local poetry and comix publisher l'Oie de Cravantoday In it l'Oie de Cravan bids their friends hello and tells us they would like to announce a small festival that will take place this July Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 and Friday 18 @ la Sala Rossa 4848 boul. St-Laurent & Casa del Popolo 4873 boul. St-Laurent. Wednesday 16 $10 in advance, $12 with the door. Thursday 17 Price: $5. Friday 18 $8 in advance, $10 with the door. tickets for all three evenings for $20. The tickets are on sale @ l'Oblique, La Casa del popolo, Cheap Thrills & CD Esoterik. The Festival is being put on to help raise funds to support the small publishing house in place of funds that were hoped to come from a failed Canada Council for the Arts grant proposal. In it’s place l'Oie de Cravan sees as the next best source of funding for the next year’s operation budget as the ‘le bon coeur de la fête!’, the good or generous heart of the festival. Thus they will celebrate with the assistance of some musician friends and will take this occasion to also Launch the very new comic book by Gigi Perron, "Bande d'humains". The celebrations will take place Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 and Friday 18. On the 18th the festival will wrap up with the launch party of Gigi Perron’s book. This new comix is a bitter sweet story in the same spirit of Gigi Perron’s previous book, its "Une Autre Histoire Triste [Another sad history]" which was published in 1995. Events beginning on the 18th for the book launch starting at 6.30 and running till 8.00 will be free so that those who will not be attending the concerts may have access. Starting from 8.00 hrs the spectacles of the benefit will begin with Frank Martel, Black OX Orkestar, Shit Happens (Simon Bossé and Marc Leduc), Hanged Up and Diebold. Details on the festival’s events * Wednesday July 16 @ la Sala Rossa – starting 9pm Price: $10 in advance, $12 with the door. -The "More to hair, less Bush turn", poetry and American dissenting music. Thurston Moore, Byron Coley, Charles Plymell and Valerie Webber read their texts. Music by Christina Carter' S blind date project with Thurston Moore; Dredd foole/Chris Corsano Aktion Links ; and Mvee Medicine Show. * Thursday July 17 @ Casa del Popolo. Starting at 9pm Price: $5. The following musicians will gather for and improvised set. Scheduled participants are Luc Bonin (Urbain Desbois), Will Eizlini (Shalabi Effect), Fluffy Erskine (Molasses, Set fire to flames), Nicolas Letarte (Urbain Desbois, Erri Kopter), Michel Meunier (Fly side amndt), Jonathan Parent (Fly side amndt), Mauro Pezzente (Godspeed), Sam Shalabi (Shalabi effect, Molasses), Pierre Tanguay, & Martin Tétreault. * Friday July 18 Price: Starting from 8pm free during the launching of " Bande d'humains " by Gigi Perron. Price: from 9pm on, $8 in advance, $10 with the door. From 9mp, music with - Frank Martel and his/her friends. Frank Martel published the collection "La lune a l'air ce soir d'un bout d'ongle arraché" with l'Oie de Cravan - Black OX Orkestar. Music klezmer. This group is composed of Gabriel Levine (Sackville), Jessica Moss (Silver Mount-Zion, Geraldine Fibers), Thierry Amar (Godspeed) and Scott Gilmore (Luftmentshn). Their first album will appear on the Constellation label. - Shit Happens. Blues-punk duet with the Conceited person Possum made up of Simon Worked with the batteire and Marc Leduc (both of Jérémi Mourand) with the guitar. - Hanged Up. Powerful duet made up of Eric Craven (Sackville) in the battery and Gen Heisteck (Sackville, Pest 5000) with the violin. - Diebold. Duet made up of Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed, Silver Mount-Zion) to low and Ian Ilavstky (Silver Mount-Zion, Co-directs the Constellation label) with the guitar. - Dj sundown, sundown (Roger Tellier-Craig de Godspeed). - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, July 07, 2003 The Exclaim funny pages.  Aside from a long tradition of publishing several alternative comic strips by Canadian authors on their pages Toronto based music mag Exclaim! Magazine has published many interviews and articles about our favourite medium in its pages, quite a few by Canadian comics Journalist and author Guy Leshinski who now writes on the subject for the Toronto Eye Weekly as well under the banner of THE PANELIST (mentioned in this previous post 2 days ago). Most if not all of the Exclaim! articles are available to read online, Some highlights include… Paul of Montreal: Cartoonist Michel Rabagliati Preserves Montreal’s Vanishing Past  For most artists, being an underground comic illustrator is the dream they give up, not the dream they realise after success in more commercial realms. Montreal’s Michel Rabagliati comes back to his past. By Guy LeshinskiKing of Dreams: Ho Che Anderson Explores the Myth of Martin Luther King  For the last ten years, Toronto illustrator Ho Che Anderson has chronicled, in comics, the life and times of Martin Luther King. Guy Leshinski finds him nearly the end of the journey as he puts the final touches on King, Volume 3, as Anderson reflects on what the last ten years of work have meant.Henriette Valium : Parody's Pope  In Montreal, he is called the Pope of Comics. "He's the master," says Hlne B., a local cartoonist and shopkeeper at Fichtre, the city's premiere comix shop. "A lot of young fans are, 'Oh Valium, you're my god!'" His name is Henriette Valium, though he was born Patrick Henley in 1959, the fourth of five children, and "the only one who went wrong," he says. The notorious appellation was given him by a fellow cartoonist in the early 1980s. It stuck - these days, he even answers the phone as Valium.By Guy Leshinski Billy Mavreas: At Home In Monastiraki  Billy Mavreas is sitting behind the counter of his antique shop in the north end of Montreal’s St. Laurent Blvd., inking a poster for a local metal band’s upcoming gig. "They wanted something ‘evil’," he says of its claw-like flames. Though he hasn’t drawn concert posters in years ("I was tired of working for free"), his reputation as the city’s premier poster artist holds fast, thanks to his prolific postering in the late ‘80s and ‘90s for musicians like Rufus Wainwright and Kinnie Starr, and a book called Mutations, which collected many of these works four years ago. Since then, though, Mavreas’s career has ignited.By Guy Leshinski David Collier’s Fictional Facts  There are countless stories swirling around David Collier’s head. Spend an hour talking to the 38-year-old cartoonist and you’ll find yourself in a torrent of loosely related anecdotes, witty and immaculately detailed, delivered with the verve of a teenager. Just don’t mistake the youthfulness for immaturity. Collier is one of the brightest and most respected comic artists around.By Guy Leshinski Private School’s Deadly Duo  Every school had them. The stuck-up girls that would put down everyone that walked by them in the hallways and muster up some snide remark or insult. No one was allowed to get close to them and find out what made them tick because those girls always put up a massive wall between the outside world and their true feelings.By Noel Dix Seth: Portrait of the Young Artist as an Old Man  Cartoonist Gregory "Seth" Gallant, known for his oft-autobiographical underground comic Palookaville, has released his choicest sketchbook drawings in one volume entitled Vernacular Drawings. Seth comes from a community of Toronto-based comic book artists like Joe Matt (Peep Show) and Chester Brown (Yummy Fur, The Playboy), who regularly use their own lives as raw material for stories.By I. Khider …and that’s just scratching the surface, drop by the Exclaim Comics page to check out the rest if you haven’t already. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Sunday, July 06, 2003 Sacco in the NY times & Countercultural CanadaSpotted on Egon - An four-page excerpt of Joe Sacco’s work on the Palestinian experience in Gaza titled 'Palestine' is up as a slide show on the NY times magazine web site presented as "The Underground War in Gaza" (it also appears in the July 6 issue of the print edition of the magazine). If you haven’t read this book you should, here’s an opportunity to check a bit of it out in advance. Also on the NY times site is a short interview with Canada's best-known political columnist outside Canada NAOMI KLEIN. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Manga #1  Icv2 has posted a report on the manga markets at mid-year 2003 for its just-released ICv2 Retailers Guide to Anime/Manga #3, stating that sales of manga trade paperbacks are going to pass graphic novels with American-sourced content in the U.S. this year. Personally I have to go where my muse leads me as a writer. But for those of you who consider yourselves professional genre writers, if you haven’t already noticed the Manga market is continuing to heat up like F1 engine at the starting line, take note. If the market in Asia is anything to go buy this is going to be huge! I’m sure Bernie is grinning. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday, July 05, 2003 Scaphandre 8  Interesting sounding new BD from Quebec creators Jean-Paul Eid & Claude Paiement. A 1930’s nior story under a sci-fi cyber punk suspense story “1930. Benjamin Blake is a taxi driver. He knows his city down to the last maze like nuance. Or, at least he thinks he knows it... A paranoid customer, a bag forgotten on the back seat, small nightmares that hunt him. There are truths that it is never to better know. Benjamin and his fellow-citizens are in fact only of simple data-processing creatures populating a virtual city. The holiday makers of the 21st century come there to revive the frenzy of the mad years and to appease their desires. The universe in which they are plunged is entirely synthesized thanks to the cybernetic plasmide, an intelligent liquid developed at the beginning of the new millennium. And Benjamin only a apparition in this formidable recreation park, an virtual toy in the service of virtual tourists, an intelligent toy, perhaps too... “  Many samples of Jean-Paul’s lovely art and quick time trailers to be seen on the site (here & here & here) More info on Jean-Paul Eid's web site (Google translated link to the site for unilingual Anglos) - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
07.02.03 - AROWWW! (Will Marry For Massages) I am very sore and very tired so I’ll just be rambling about odd shit crossing my mind at the moment. This is a look into some of the more intriguing questions in my life. Jay D’ici pops in for a few undersized words on the details of his life. Anyone who wants to tell him to stop his crybabying and get on with it, lift from your knees you silly man, or if you know where the panties are coming from, you can drop him a line here. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
:::THE PANELIST GUY Recently having returned to Toronto after trying to make a go of it here in Montreal, Comix Jam regular Guy Leshinski started writing a column for Eye magazine titled ‘THE PANELIST’. I've Been trying to keep up with his columns, here are a few of the latest. Inking the medium: “This summer, the big screens are blazing with that favourite goose of the unimaginative exec: the comic-book adaptation. Typically a cargo of unremitting camp, the genre has lately traded its roller skates for Hush Puppies, recruiting auteurs to wring cinema from chimera.” >>>more Stayin' alive: “It looked like one roiling, hairy-legged mother of a story: Seattle's legendary comix publisher Fantagraphics Books, the outfit that brought us the best of Crumb -- and Los Bros. Hernandez, Peter Bagge, Charles Burns... even Ghost World, for chrissakes! -- had split itself open on the crag of a serious business blunder, and was fast sinking like a ship full of smuggled booty.”>>> more Click art: “Comic books are crack to a small but devoted following. Like a freshly cooked rock, a newly minted comic -- crisp, unblemished -- can spark a buzz when caught in a buyer's clammy grip. The smell of factory-pressed pages, the swell of a lovingly groomed collection... potent bookish lusts keep the faithful at attention.” >>>more and his first, which I posted a link to before, but just to complete I’ll include here Montreal strippers: ”Montrealers are cuckoo for comic books. In every bookshop, every library, and in a healthy selection of record stores, there are comics prominently, even proudly, displayed. Not just the spandex melodramas from south of the border, but the bandes dessinées (French for comics; literally "drawn strips") from France and Belgium, the Tintins and Asterixes, all the way up to modern works by the major French-language publishing houses like Casterman and Delcourt, who print their books on glossy stock in large, hard-cover volumes.” >>>more Stay tuned for GUY’s own comix, which will be posted here on this site soon as a few dozen backlogged html chores are seen to. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
:::Putting panels on the shelves in BC Library  To help local librarian Kirsten Andersen rise awareness of her efforts to expand the Richmond Library’s comic book collection the Richmond News ran a better than usual ‘comics aren’t for kids anymore’ type piece that focuses on authors who draw from the Canadian experience. “Canadian comics often deal with questions about national identity. Comic-book artist Chester Brown, among other things, has serialized the life and times of Louis Riel, while David Collier has created "Surviving Saskatoon," his account of the David Milgaard saga, the man who was wrongly convicted in the murder of a Saskatoon nurse. “ A good little write up, better than most you see like this. A suggestion for some of the local authors I know are sleeping on stacks of copies of their books, get in touch with the Library and send them some of your books! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
:::Old Heroes fart away in nursing ward  The Whitney Museum of American Art is currently hosting a show titled "American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003". One of the installations is a white room featuring some of ‘mainstream comics’ most honoured totems looking a bit less than shiny new. Quoting GRACE GLUECK of the NY times, “ Captain America lies on a gurney, attached to an IV. Superman, long in the tooth, stands braced by a walker, its metal legs confining his flowing cape. A wizened Catwoman slumps in an armchair. And an elderly Mr. Fantastic sits glumly at a table, his played-out elastic limbs draped limply over and under it” A paunchy bedraggled Wonder Woman can also be seen in press shots as well as a sad looking old man HULK (bad reviews on the movie seem to really have had a an effect on the old boy). The piece titled ‘Nursing Home’ is the work of French artist, Gilles Barbier, and appears as part of the exhibit that includes work from 30 countries by 47 different artists and examines the bigger than life impression ameraican culture leaves on the world, and in some cases, such as the instillation by Gilles Barbier, takes some of the hot air out of our neighbours bravado. Interesting stuff. Read the Whitney’s press here and an article in the NY times here (Apparently our Canadian agent in the field, artist Mark Lewis, seems to have failed to impress the Times with a film projection that follows porn stars in various stages of dress as they cavort in an idyllic garden designed by a noted Los Angeles landscape architect Jay Griffith) - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, July 03, 2003 :::A whole bunch of MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY to catch up on Rick Trembles' posts a new MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY comic-strip review every week and i've been linking them here each time. But the last month was tight enough for me with work and all that I fell behind on posting a notice of them. Here is what’s been posted since that last time I looked.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2003 ::: Out of the fire and under the microscope  Fantagraphics announced Monday that it had reached it’s goal of $80.000 for their non-sale and thanked everyone for their help. Now they are turning there attention to both the daily business of publishing great comics and trying to catch up with royalty payments to their creators (something the publisher has always had a hard time keeping up with but has also enjoyed much slack on from their creators in exchange for the creative freedom and enthusiasm they put behind their authors work). You can read an interview with Publisher Gary Groth on Newsarama about exactly what happened, and further explanations and much banter about it all on the TCJ message boards here. Also, that thread exists because this one dose, where The gang at Savant raised question in response to the Newsarama interview about the true need for the non-sale. And finally I had a few thoughts on the mater and posted them on my own personal blog over here for your reading pleasure. Now, go order some more Fantagraphics books so they can pay some starving cartoonists. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
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