Saturday, October 02, 2004  
More catch-up

:: Posted by max @ 10/02/2004 02:21:00 PM
Guy's got a review up at The Cultural Gutter, of creatively vaclempt but slick and prolific, Adrian Tomine's Scrapbook: Uncollected work: 1990 ­ 2004. Though he's been stuck in a bit of a self-proclaimed rut in terms of development [time to toss the rulers and computers colours Adrian! Get you hands dirty and make a mess for a bit!] he's been putting out a string of successful and stylish books. This latest is a sampling of work spanning his career to date, and features the work that initially put him on the map in Pulse! Magazine [Tower Records]



"Some Nerve"

by Guy Leshinski



Adrian Tomine in one word? Clean. His unofficial uniform is pressed khakis and an oxford shirt, hair fastidiously parted, black-framed glasses polished to a glow. Clean, too, is his top-selling comic series, Optic Nerve. Not that he doesn't curse; his comic is full of four-letter invectives and frank sex-talk. But filtered by the machine-washed colour palette, the careful rulering, the pinpoint line, it's more like incidental punctuation spilling from his cast of beautiful young alt-beatniks.



The Canadian Comic Art Foundation has some new stuff online, Bio pages with Strips for Walter Ball, Palmer Cox, Violet Keene, C.E. Toles, & J.F. Wilson.



And from thier news page, this...

5th Annual "Rendezvous International de la BD de Gatineau" As part of the Salon du Livre de l'Outatouais, Oct 20-24, 2004. 5 days of exhibits, panels and workshops featuring Canadian cartoonists like Michel Rabagliati, Michel Grant, Paule Boisvert, Jean-Sebastien Berubé and Jean-Paul Eid --as well as a bevy of international stars from the European and Québec comics worlds. Events at select locations in Gatineau, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario.



There is a load of news posts at the D&Q site i'venot seen, going back to my birthday this, er, last month...

· D+Q Newsletter Volume 2004 #2 (September 24, 2004)

· Seth gets a New Yorker cover! (September 24, 2004)

· D+Q in NYC & Bethesda October 1-3 (September 24, 2004)

· D+Q at Toronto's Word on the Street 9/26! (September 24, 2004)

· Adrian Tomine at Toronto Harbourfront Reading Series 9/22 (September 20, 2004)

· Toronto EYE interviews Adrian Tomine (September 20, 2004)

· Boston Phoenix features Sacco's FIXER (September 17, 2004)

· Quill & Quire Reviews D+Q 5! (September 16, 2004)

· EW Reviews The Golem's Mighty Swing (September 16, 2004)

· LA Weekly reviews SCRAPBOOK! (September 16, 2004)

· D+Q Showcase 2 Reviewed in Booklist! (September 16, 2004)

· Sammy Harkham & Martin Cendreda In the LA Times (September 16, 2004)

· Quill & Quire Reviews THE FRANK RITZA PAPERS (September 15, 2004)



The October issue of the primire underground Montreal comics zine MENSUHELL is out, here is the table of contents...

Couverture par : Mathieu Benoit

p. 2 The Circle of Life (Daniel Vinh Ha Thé)

p. 3 Éditorial + annonces diverses

p. 4 La plume japonaise [3ème partie] (Michèle Laframboise)

p. 6 Comme les 3 doigts de la main (Mathieu Benoit)

p.10 Histoire de la bande dessinée au Québec [suite] (Michel Viau)

p.17 Le Général Tidéchet: Branle-bas de combat à Cocapabanana [suite] (Denis & Louis Rémillard)

p.20 Bébites ('El Quesnel)

p.22 Les impériales crampes de la vilaine impératrice: Mémoire vilaine! [3ème partie] (Jane Tremblay)

p.23 Voir l'Alberta et mourir! [fin] (Kurt Beaulieu)

p.27 Miss Dynamite [suite de l'épisode 3] (Sirkowski)

p.30 Il pleut à mort! (Catherine Fréchette-Grégoire)

p.35 The Bug-Eyed Monster: Halloween '99 (Bernie Mireault)

p.39 Le Petit MensuHell Illustré (Collectif)

p.40 Les Ayoyes (Jacques Boivin)





Christopher Butcher at comics.212.net covers the relaunching of Captain Canuck as a hero for our times....? welll.....



"...On the plus side, they've ditched the original rip-off-Captain-America costume and gone with something a little more contemporary (via New X-Men from 4 years ago, but still). The jacket looks stupid though. Who the hell goes out in a bright red leather jacket, except for possibly Michael Jackson? I get that he's supposed to be a mountie in disguise, but... yikes... The rest of the costume is a decent superhero costume though, and the mask design is sorta neat..." - Chris



Tony Walsh posted this in his seacret lair...



Toronto Sequential Art Fest Supports Literacy



A group of Toronto-based illustrators has organized a grassroots literacy drive in the form of the "Sequential Art Festival". There are three events in October at various locations in the city. The events serve as a "show and tell about the making of cartoons, comics, animation and film by cartoonists, comic book artists, writers, animators, collectors, producers and distributors." The project's goal is to help praise the awareness, profile and funds for adult literacy programming. I'll [tony] be a presenter for two of the events, sharing the story of my Rat Boy comic book exploits (Event 1) and flash animation chops (Event 2). More information is available here.



thats all for now kids, go out and play in the sun! Whats left of it anyway...

    
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