Rocking Raven News: The Last Voyage of the Black Ship sells out at WORD UNDER THE STREET; Next: Tokyo!!

:: Posted by max @ 9/29/2003 09:12:00 PM

“a flurry of planning presentations to Manga classes at Japanese universities, finding a translator, booking accommodations and travel and planning meetings with potential partners Tokyo moves ever closer. “

”The exhibit opens October “

“The exhibit of the Canada National Design Team as organized by Vancouver's BARK collective is generating a good buzz in the islands.”

The presentation at WORD UNDER THE STREET (Sunday sep 28- Vancouver) went very very well.”



ROCKING RAVEN . COM

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The big news locally [montreal]: DRAWN & QUARTERLY hires Peggy Burns,

:: Posted by max @ 9/27/2003 04:22:00 PM

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London Free Press: News Section - Cartoonist has experienced better and worst

:: Posted by max @ 9/26/2003 06:45:00 PM

Ian Gillespie Interviews Canadian author, the classy Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or for Worse on how her past has informed her work, and her future plans for the strip.



Yesterday, Johnston visited UWO's bookstore and signed copies of her new book, Reality Check. Before the signing, I visited Johnston in her downtown hotel room and chatted about her wildly successful comic strip, which appears in more than 2,000 newspapers, including this one, and draws 220 million daily readers.



Read her strip here/ici

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Daniel Raeburn talks about the history and business of underground comix

:: Posted by max @ 9/26/2003 06:32:00 PM

Daniel Raeburn, editor and publisher of The Imp magazine gave a talk at the Elvehjem Museum of Art on the underground comix "movement"



The term 'underground' is kind of misleading," Raeburn said. He went on to explain that some of the earliest underground comic books had monthly sales of about 40,000 copies.

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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas on CBC Arts Canada: Artist combines native art, Japanese comics

:: Posted by max @ 9/26/2003 03:24:00 AM

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a BC Haida artists who’s chosen a hybrid form of sequential art to be he’s medium of choice as of late. He’s published two critically acclaimed graphic novels and several short works, and already has had his work purchased for the permanent collection of The Museum of Anthropology, a remarkable achievement by any measure and one that is as good for our favourite medium as it is for his own growing reputation.



Michael’s been getting a lot of attention as of late, the latest high profile spotlighting of him and his work is on CBC Arts Canada. Thanks to a link provided on that page his personal web page has enjoyed a flood of traffic! Approximately 250 in 24hrs, and he’s up to 29 at the time of the writing of this post, 2:49am central. This can only be good. AS amazing as all that is I suspect there’s more to come. Given that he is exceptionally talented, and that his work is about to be seen on what can only be described as an internationally LARGE scale….well….

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COMIX JAM TONIGHT!

:: Posted by max @ 9/24/2003 06:23:00 PM

this months flyer, art by Peter Ferguson

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Underground Comix on the CBC: More Please!

:: Posted by max @ 9/21/2003 04:21:00 PM

Arts Canada: Going Underground [posted 03-08-14]





I finally found a moment to sit down a look at the recent feature dedicated to the subject of underground cartoonists and comix put up by CBC Arts Canada. Going Underground features profiles on Seth, Ho Che Anderson, Julie Doucet, Chester Brown, & Jesica Abel. Audio Interviews with Chester and Jessica, some audio pieces on Underground Comics, Comics in the movies, and a Comic Convention Soundscape. A flash slide show reading by Seth, the opening monolog from ‘Clyde Fans’, a fairly decent interlocutory reading list, and a cute armature auto-bio comic set up by the gang at Arts Canada who put out the site.

A good website, defiantly the sort of thing we need to see more of on comics in general, and on the Underground. Possibly right here if I can rope some collaborators together for it…



Also if you’re in the mood for more of the same

check out this older site. A past feature by DNTO [who incidentally just interviewed Chester and Seth on the 20th of sept] from 2001.



Belgrade 2001:Back From the Brink. Going live just before 911 it was eclipsed by the news of the day shortly after being posted but it’s really worth a look if you missed it, and having just, also a revisit. An in-depth overview of the recovery of Belgrade, one section title ‘Ink on Paper’ covers the politically vital underground comics scene of Belgrade and tells of the roll they played during and after the war.



Not quite Underground, but akin in spirit, there's a great interview on NPR's Talk of the Nation this week with Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russel [mostly talking about Neil, or working with Neil, Neil Neil Neil Nil Nih Nih Nih Nih !] I tease but this is a fun listen, Neil is as ever the adept public speaker and charmer.

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Swizcorp online

:: Posted by max @ 9/20/2003 07:17:00 PM

Mr.Swiz has a cool looking new website, lots of cartoons, Flash animation, and more!





Also while your there check out the web site he built his buddy Carlos SANTOS!

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Vancouver Sun: Growing up with Stan Lee

:: Posted by max @ 9/20/2003 04:49:00 PM

"I would then race home on my bike, clutching my new titles, almost apoplectic in anticipation. When I opened each brightly coloured issue, it wasn't to find out the latest about Peter Parker/Spider-Man's ailing Aunt May, or even whether Doctor Doom's latest device for world domination had really -- as it seemed last issue -- killed off one of the magically empowered Fantastic Four."



Trevor Boddy [Special to the Sun] writes a sentimental and substantial profile on ‘Stan The Man’ to herald his upcoming appearance in Vancouver, Wednesday at the 18th annual Film and Television Trade Forum, a parallel event to this year's Vancouver International Film Festival. He will be interviewed by Vancouver writer/director David Hauka at the University of B.C. Robson Square theatre



Trevor hopes it will be filled to its rafters with "lapsed and superannuated members of the Merry Marvel Marching Society"



a little off his usual beat [the Sun's civics and architecture columnist] but he shows he's more then qualified to talk about the mastermind of Marvel Comics' formative years and co-creator of many of it's institutions. I liked that he did not fall, as many do, to crediting the world to him but still gives him his proper due, and he talks to some detail about Stan's own misgivings about Marvel's cooperate culture. On the whole this is one of the best articles I’ve read on the old dude in, ever!

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It's that time of the month again, Time for The Monthly Montréal Comix Jam

:: Posted by max @ 9/20/2003 05:33:00 AM

This months Jam will be held across the street from our usual digs, at la sala rossa - 4848 boul. St-Laurent.



Fun starts at 8 and runs till last call. Our host with the most for this month will Be the fabulous Tim Moerman!



This month we also have a theme. It's not mandatory but we're encouraging anyone willing to do stories and/or drawings in about or inspired by the late Great Antonio, who passed away this month. For more about him see this tribute on the web site , includes links to more info about the Great Antonio.



Bring you favorite pens, imagination, and a few friends, not to mention any zines you may have to sell!



What's that? You say that's not enough entertainment for your urbane self? Well, While you're there, you can go across the street to Casa del Popolo and catch some cool bands brought to town by one of the hardest working labels in Canada.



OX , Ten Year Drought, and Andy Magoffin of Two-Minute Miracles fame



Not sure what the door will be yet, but Jamers will get a discount on the show. So come over and take a crack at it before the show, if you think you're doodler enough for it : )

Note: Aimless Drunken Bar scrawls will NOT qualify for the discount, read An users guide to the Comix Jam for an idea of want a jam is -



PS: keep an eye out for a profile on the Jams in the next issue of The Link: Concordia's Independent newspaper, by Misha Warbanski.



this months flyer, art by Peter Ferguson





Montrealers, download the linked file and print it out to help spread the word

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THE RED HERRING opens cartoon contest to the public for it's October issue

:: Posted by max @ 9/18/2003 06:22:00 PM

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Toronto Small Press Book Fair October 18th

:: Posted by max @ 9/18/2003 06:00:00 PM

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Expozine 2003!

:: Posted by max @ 9/18/2003 05:31:00 PM

Montreal¹s 2nd Annual Small Press, Comic, and Zine Fair / Le festival de fanzine, bédé et de petits éditeurs à Montréal (2003)



Saturday October 25th, 10-7 / samedi 25 octobre (10h-19h)

@ Relais MontRoyal, 500A Mont-Royal East

(a coté du Metro Mont-Royal)

The fair is free to the public / entrée gratuite



"Last year¹s festival was a huge success. For the contributors and the public, Expozine represents a chance to see publications and meet writers and artists from a diverse array of vibrant communities which rarely comen together in the same place anywhere else in Montreal. This year we are expanding and welcome out of towners. Register soon for a table though because they¹ll go fast. There is a suggested donation of $10/table.



N'oubliez pas, la place est limitée alors nous premiers arrivés - premiers servient. Un dons suggéré de 10$ pour chaque espace simple est suggéré, et peut être remis durant l'évènement."



To book a table to sell your zine, books, or comics / Si vous voulez réserver une table en 2003 afin de vendre vos livres, fanzines, bédé et autres éphémère, contactez-nous :

Monastiraki: 278-4879 / archivemontreal@canada.com / PO Box 55003, CSP

Fairmount, Montreal, Quebec, H2T 3E2 / www.expozine.ca



Sponsors include: Vehicule Press, QWF, Matrix, conundrum, Archive

Montreal, Wired on Words, Yesway, L'Oie de Cravan, Cumulus, Maisonneuve.

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This week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY

:: Posted by max @ 9/18/2003 02:52:00 PM

CAPE FEAR (1962): "Vengefully violent "vagrant" invigorates vehemently vetoed vigilantism!"



by RICK TREMBLES

the MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY is printed weekly in the Montreal Mirror

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Chester Brown and Seth on the CBC September 20th

:: Posted by max @ 9/18/2003 02:32:00 PM

Chester Brown and Seth will be interviewed on Saturday, September 20th on the CBC radio show Definitely Not The Opera, between 3 and 4 pm EST. Those of you outside Canada can still listen to it live on the internet by clicking here.



Also, a geting this news a little late from the TCJ boards but...

Chester Brown's new eagerly-anticipated Louis Riel hardcover book will be officially launched across Canada in September and October with several dates at author festivals, libraries, art galleries, and book stores. Events will be held in Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, and Montreal (sorry, no U.S. or international events this time around). The book will debut exclusively at these events and will not be available in other stores until October 15th. Here's the listing for September events that are left:



—Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 7:00 pm the Dunlop Art Gallery will be having an opening reception for Louis Riel: Selected Panels by Chester Brown. This exhibition features original works by Chester Brown depicting the celebrated Métis leader. Location:

The Central Library Gallery

[The Dunlop Art Gallery]

2311 12th Avenue

Regina, Saskatchewan

S4P 3Z5

Tel: 306-777-6040

For more information about the Regina events contact:

Felipe Diaz at: fdiaz@rpl.regina.sk.ca



WINNIPEG, Manitoba

[1 event]

— Friday, September 19

Winnipeg Writers Festival

"Writing Fact, Writing Fiction" panel at the Univeresity of Winnipeg on Friday, Sept 19, 2:30-4:00, at Eckhart-Gramatte Hall. Here's the blurb from our program:

"How do writers negotiate their obligation to historical accuracy when it collides with the demands of story? Today's panellists have all wrestled with that question. Chester Brown's serial comic, a graphic biography of Louis Riel, has been recently published in book form. Margaret Sweatman has located two of her novels in specific historical moments in our local past; Louis Riel appears several times in When Alice Lay Down with Peter. Armin Wiebe's new novel, Tatsea, is set in the 1760s subarctic; his characters and their conflicts emerge partly from history and partly from his imagination. Join these three as they talk about writing history at a slant."



TORONTO, Ontario

[2 events, with more to come in October]



— Word on The Street writers festival

Sunday, September 28 at the Drawn & Quarterly booth, Queen Steet West.

Chester will be joined by fellow D+Q cartoonists Seth, Adrian Tomine, and David Collier.



—Monday, September 29th, 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

Chester will be giving a talk at the Toronto Children's Literature Roundtable:

Graphic Novels: author/illustrator discussion and hands on displays

with Chester Brown and Publishers Group Canada

Dian Borek, convenor

at the Canadian Children's Book Centre, 40 Orchard View Blvd., Suite 101, Toronto, ON M4R 1B9 (416) 975-0010.

http://members.rogers.com/borek/homepage/2003.htm



For more information on the October events planned for Ottawa, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal visit D+Q's website later this month:

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Jenny Everywhere in the NY times

:: Posted by max @ 9/14/2003 11:54:00 PM

this from Flat Earth!



In discussing the subject of file sharing on the web, the litigious ways of the music biz’s way of handling things, and other ways of doing things; Steve Lohr name dropped our favourite open source character Jenny Everywhere, and happily the print version included the excerpt seen above!.



Interesting article in general, and apparently it resulted in a jump of google direct traffic to the Jenny site, further spreading her sphere of influence, he he he he….[visualize me wringing my hands gleefully]



Read more on Jenny here, and visit her at home here

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Oliveros' Mighty Thing

:: Posted by max @ 9/14/2003 11:39:00 PM

found via Egon:

Fellow local publisher [Cunundrum] Andy Brown pens a write up in the current Maisonneuve Magazine [a mt based literature and culture review mag] on Chris's efforts to get sequential art it's own spot on the shelf in shops, as well as his and his small but mighty imprint's many other accomplishments. A good overview of the D&Q lineup and a few hints at thing to come.

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KISS MACHINE ISSUE 7: WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT

:: Posted by max @ 9/14/2003 11:17:00 PM

The "what we do and why we do it" issue overflows with diary excerpts, manifestos and personal essays about our obsessions. We brought columnists Tamara Faith "Too Pop" Berger, Jesse "Reality Hacking" Hirsh and Zoe "Take Your Passion, Make it Happen" Whittall into the fold. They join our long-standing illustrious advice columnist, Mr. Well Hung. Art folios this issue include works by Patricio Davila, SB Edwards and Wendy Lu. The superb red and black silk-screened cover is a limited edition print by Julie Voyce. We also enlisted the design skills of the lovely and talented Matthew Blackett (M@B). You can buy it on thier website here or at the Word On the Street: Sunday, Sept. 28 | 11 am to 6 pm | Queen St W, between Spadina and University in Toronto.



The yearly book and magazine festival, Word On The Street in Toronto will have a slightly different flavor this year. M@B's Matt Blackett, No Media Kings' Jim Munroe and Kiss Machine's Emily Pohl-Weary will be giving away free advice on self-publishing at the Kiss Machine booth. Read a press release ici.



When you check out the KISS MACHINE booth at Word On The Street, you can get your own copy of the new issue straight from the hot, grubby hands of editors Paola Poletto and Emily Pohl-Weary! Also, Emily will be reading from her Toronto Book Award nominated book, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, at the City of Toronto Book Awards Tent at 3:15 pm.



Also Introducing, INTRODUCING ME! AN INDIE MATCHMAKING SUPPLEMENT

Check out a few samples online ici.



"Which celebrity is most like you? Who is the most heinous person in the world? What is the most romantic time you're ever had? Find out how over 70 of your friends (and complete strangers answered these questions in Kiss Machine #7's Introducing Me! supplement. It's the first-ever indie press match-making guide! We collected over 200 of these introductions and selected dozens to be printed in the new issue. Find out what people doing and why they're doing it. Connect with like-minded individuals. Get inspired. Fall in love."



PS:

Kiss Machine #7 TO BE LAUNCHED AT CANZINE

Canzine: Sunday, Oct. 19 | 1 to 6 pm | Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street W, Toronto



"We're going to launch the new issue at Canzine, Canada's largest zine fair and festival of underground culture, with a roomful of secrets. That's right, we're renovating an entire room at the delightfully seedy Gladstone Hotel (where Canzine is being held this year). Come out and add your biggest secret to our little den. It will be cathartic, we promise!"



WHAT ELSE HAS KM BEEN UP TO?

"During the past six months, we've been busy. We curated our first art exhibition, Girls and Guns, at Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario. The show is planning to travel to other venues next summer. We also went on tour with the Perpetual Motion Roadshow! Wow, we still feel the rock star glow: zipping in and out of seven different cities in the same number of days. We met tons of interesting people. We forced them to fill out a form in which they introduced themselves to the world. We embarrassed them by reading their forms aloud onstage right then and there."

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Salgood Sam & John O'Brien present the rise and fall of it all

:: Posted by max @ 9/12/2003 09:19:00 PM

Chicago, today.

The bright lights,

the beautiful panoramic lakefront,

the great city, the beautiful city...

..... but the glittering lights don't cast their glow everywhere

or on everybody--

some live in the shadows and

some have to learn to step from the light into the dark......



A sequel to the Cannes nominated Life at Night, the rise and fall of it all is a collaboration between author & composer John O’Brien, and myself, Salgood Sam [max douglas].



Site update from salgood: redesigned the site in keeping with the substantial evolution of the project. We have begun posting photos from my research trip to Chicago as I go through them, as well as scans of some of the rough art work going into the graphic novella / multi media presentation. You can still see the old trailer and listen to a few samples of music in the form of audio sketches for the project.







www.rise-fall.com

[watch Life at Night ici]

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This week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY:

:: Posted by max @ 9/12/2003 08:07:00 PM

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (1939):

"Satire? Well whatever satire remains in our version is thickly sugarcoated" -Dave Fleisher



by RICK TREMBLES

the MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY is printed weekly in the Montreal Mirror

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MG news: Rascar Capac et le capitaine Fluide

:: Posted by max @ 9/12/2003 07:32:00 PM

Jimmy hands the Press hat to fellow MG author Phlppgrrd this month



"Today, Jimmy takes a pause of chitchat and the keyboard yields to me. It is thus with me that you will spend the next minute. I will try to be as short as possible."



“I am happy to announce to you that my first novel, titled " Gustave et le capitaine Planète ", has just appeared à la courte échelle."



"C'est moi qui l'ai écrit et qui en ai fait les illustrations." [he did it all!]



"It is the story of Gustave, an imaginative little boy, and du capitaine Planète, the hero of a book Gustave reads. In the head of the child the two realities mix and merge."



"The book is priced under ten dollars and intended for young readers."



"An ideal gift for Halloween. "



"A second volume titled Les Amateurs de Potins will be published in the neighbourhood of the same date next year."



"Some québécois authors, including some of the Mechanical General stable, had their fifteen minutes of celebrity in # 323 de Fluide Glacial (on stands at the time of writing these lines)."



"In it Yves Frémion underlines the quality of CYCLOPS, L'enfance du Cyclope and Le pitcheur pense à sa blonde."









"If you do not have them in your library yet, run in your local bookseller to get them!"



"Also, on September 11 the MG garage were invited to participate with a poetic attack by leaving a trail of books from our own library in public places."



"I personally gave up a specimen of "Life of pi" by Yann Martel in a phone box, one of my friends had the luck to trip on " Les sept boules de cristal " in the bus!"







PS: "this just in", P45|11

The most interesting, bulky, expensive and orange number ever produced by P45 will be soon available. Friday September 26, to be precise. What does it contain, this small jewels again new journalism? Full of things, including a page by Jimmy Beaulieu.



So long

Phlppgrrd



translated by salgood sam

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The Montreal Strip sessions Thursday the 18th

:: Posted by max @ 9/12/2003 05:46:00 PM

Sep 2003 Thursday the 18th the Roy street Collective is hosting it’s monthly Strip Session [comix jam]. Jam Host Jai Granofsky invites you all to join him and the gang at 111 Roy st [One st S of Pin, 2 W of st-Laurent] from 8pm to 1am. Info at 284 5211

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PopImage Con Report: The Canadian Everything Geeky In The Whole Wide World In One Place National Expo 2003

:: Posted by max @ 9/10/2003 05:40:00 AM

by Jay Laird



"We get out on to the Expo floor, which is certainly big enough to lose your friends on, and somehow manage to move our press blob over Artist Alley. When we emerge from the crowds already beginning to clog the aisles of the merchandise area, the first thing I spot is Chip Zdarsky's notorious cowboy hat -- about which you can read more elsewhere -- but Chip's not underneath the hat!"

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Victoria Times: Herman looses a funy bone

:: Posted by max @ 9/10/2003 05:29:00 AM

Gag-writing half of comic team dies: Robert (Bob) Unger wrote comedy material for the Herman cartoon strip drawn by brother Jim



Unger, who died Sept. 3 of an unknown cause, wrote for the popular comic strip for about eight years starting in the mid-1980s until about 10 years ago when the two brothers decided to retire.



"Sometimes he would think up 50, 60, 70 gags and leave them all in my apartment," said Jim.



"When I had deadlines coming up, I would sort through them and take the best, draw them and send them off and by that time there was another 60, 70 gags."



The pair often travelled around on book tours for the cartoon together and spent many a long night working under the pressure of an approaching deadline.

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Jam Photos

:: Posted by max @ 9/09/2003 10:51:00 PM

A bit late but here they are, photos from the Monthly Montreal Comix Jam of Aug 27 2003





It was a quite but fun one, -Frédérik volunteered to man the table and took care of business even though he was falling over with a cold. Also his apt had just been flooded leaving a chunk of his place, including the bit with his computers in it, soaked. You can send him your condolences ici You'll find some pics of my walk to and from the jam here, and in order of appearance, -Frédérik, Billy Mavreas, Eric Thériault, Peter Ferguson, Billy Mavreas again, Jai Granofsky (host of the Strip sessions), Sully, Bernie Mireault, a local artist reading the latest Jam Quarterly (vol4), the gang at the big back table (i can make out Marr facing us in the top left), Marr on the move, Peter checking out his copy of the Quarterly, blinding Billy, last call and the stroll home.



Also reposted are the photos from the l'Oie de Cravan's benefit festival [16-18 july 2003] - ici & ici & ici



Max

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Rick Trembles MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY

:: Posted by max @ 9/04/2003 12:45:00 AM

This week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY:

"I Captain Kidd you not!"

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

This one made me smile, a rant about cell phones and nice pass on the verdict-seq ED



Last week's: Freddy vs. Jason

"Being forgotten; now that's a bitch" -Freddy Krueger

Sounds about how like I’d have imagined...seq ED

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Sept 13: the Montreal book launch of Island Dreams and Open Space

:: Posted by max @ 9/03/2003 11:07:00 PM

this from Scott McRae of Véhicule Press



Greetings!

You are invited to attend the Montreal launch of two new fantastic fiction anthologies edited by Claude Lalumière, Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic and Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction.



Island Dreams serves up stories by such Montreal writers as Yves Meynard, winner of numerous awards for his French-language fiction and author of the English-language novel The Book of Knights; Glenn Grant, co-editor of Northern Stars and Northern Suns; Mark Shainblum, co-creator of Angloman and Northguard; Melissa Yuan-Innes, a Writers of the Future contest winner; Mark Paterson, a leading voice in the Montreal spoken-word scene; Maxianne Berger, author of How We Negotiate; Martin Last, co-founder of New York's legendary Science Fiction Shop; Shane Simmons, creator of Longshot Comics; and Dora Knez, author of Five Forbidden Things. Other contributors include Linda Dydyk, Elise Moser, and Christos Tsirbas.



Open Space, an anthology of daring ideas and distinctive voices, includes work by Mark Anthony Brennan, Matthew Costaris, Richard Gavin, Ahmed A. Kahn, Drew Karpyshyn, Murray Leeder, Catherine MacLeod, Derryl Murphy, Vincent W. Sakowski, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Steve Vernon, Melissa Yuan-Innes, and an introduction by Cory Doctorow.



Please join us Saturday, September 13, from 2 to 5 p.m. for an afternoon of the fantastic, the imaginative, and the weird. The event will take place at the McGill University Bookstore, 3420 McTavish. If you would like more details, please feel free to contact me.



Sincerely, Scott McRae

Véhicule Press, Montréal, Quebec

marketing@vehiculepress.com

Tel 514-844-6073 Fax 514-844-7543

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Broken Pencil News : Canzine 2003 October 19th

:: Posted by max @ 9/03/2003 01:28:00 AM

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D&Q NEWS: 5 Is The Perfect Number in stores now!

:: Posted by max @ 9/03/2003 12:33:00 AM

5 Is The Perfect Number, the first translated graphic novel by master Italian cartoonist Igort, is now available in many fine book and comic stores or directly through our website by clicking the title below. This book has been a huge success in Europe, with nominations for Best Book of the Year in France, Germany, and Italy. By clicking on the "Igort" name below you can also see a preview of the book.



Book Synopsis on D&Q

www.igort.com

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EYE weekly reviews Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night

:: Posted by max @ 9/01/2003 04:46:00 PM

***--

STEVE MURRAY: "...Unfortunately, the Little Lit series reads as though it's edited by a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and his New Yorker arts editor wife, which means it's probably too sophisticated and boring for the majority of kids whose upbringing doesn't involve whimsical bedtime readings of Dickens to lilting classical music. It's nice to aspire to something more refined, but it may not keep the little ones coming back for more. Call me old fashioned, but the best things about comics when I was a kid was when somebody punched somebody else in the face. Pow!"

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Jenny Everywhere in Exclaim!

:: Posted by max @ 9/01/2003 04:19:00 PM

Jenny's Everywhere

A Hero For The People, No Strings Attached

By Tony Walsh



"The pinstripe world of corporately-owned superheroes is about to get shattered by a time-bomb named The Shifter. This sassy superheroine was born in a colossal explosion of energy like many of her copyrighted cousins, but unlike Superman or the Hulk, she belongs wholly to the people."





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Creator of Miss Dynamite reports on his experiences of the National Toronto Expo

:: Posted by max @ 9/01/2003 02:49:00 PM

“So, was this a good convention? For the visitors, probably. But not for the exhibitors.

I talked to some people around in Artists Alley (and so did Damonin) and they told us this had been a pretty bad year. I don't know if it's the West Nile virus, the SARS outbreak or the blackout, but something went wrong... I returned home with a full backpack, a clothe baggage, a box of 75 comics, two foam-core cut-outs and a roll of 57 posters.”





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Christian Cailleaux At La Librairie Monet Sept the 4th

:: Posted by max @ 9/01/2003 02:15:00 PM

La Librairie Monet is pleased to receive Christian Cailleaux, author of the series Les Imposteurs & Café du Voyageurr, Thursday September the 4th at 19:00hr. It will be Christian Cailleaux’s first professional visit to Quebec.



édicace-rencontre avec Christian Cailleaux à 19:00 hees - La Librairie Monet aura le plaisir de recevoir Christian Cailleaux, auteur de la série Les Imposteurs, le jeudi 4 septembre prochain, lors d'une rencontre-dédicace. Ce sera une première visite professionnelle au Québec pour celui-ci, également auteur du Café du Voyageur.





Source: bedenaute@videotron.ca // infobd@librairiemonet.com

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