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Sylvain Chomet profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times'Triplets' animator steps away from classic drawing board by MARY HOULIHAN "As a child growing up in a suburb of Paris, animator Sylvain Chomet satisfied his craving for animation with a steady diet of classic Disney films. To this day, his favorite remains "101 Dalmations." "I always saw something magical in animation," said Chomet. "I didn't know how or where it was created. Those Disney films were from a faraway country and I was mesmerized. It was the beginning for me; I knew I wanted to tell stories with my drawings.">>> - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Cartoonist captured rural Quebec:Pioneering comic strip Onésime had devoted following among farm-magazine subscribers for almost 60 yearsMontreal Gazette: Kazi Stastna "Quebec cartoonist and illustrator Albert Chartier was buried yesterday in St. Jean de Matha, the small town near Joliette that was his home and the setting for his beloved comic strip Onésime for more than half a century. Chartier died in a hospital on Feb. 21 at the age of 91 and is survived by four of his five children and five grandchildren. Although his brightly coloured illustrations appeared on the covers of such popular weekend supplements as La Presse's Le Samedi and the Montreal Star's Weekend magazine, Chartier remained largely unknown outside rural Quebec. It was there his pioneering comic strip Onésime - the first and for many years only one of its kind in Quebec - found a devoted following amid subscribers to the farming journal Le Bulletin des Agriculteurs, where it appeared monthly from 1943 to 2002." A decent little write up from the local team. The Montreal Gazette is operated by the same media group that brought us this sad excuse for an Obit last week in The National Post... "Drawing attention: Only now being given his due, the late Arthur Chartier spent his life in relative obscurity" With that headline I wonder if the flubbing of his name, a simple mater to faq-check, isn't an ironic and pointless jab...but given that they refer to one of the more well known Quebecois cartoonist as obscure - relative to what, world fame? – I tend to suspect that it’s just indicative of a complete lack of research of any kind. Feh! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, February 28, 2004 CGC, DAVE SIM AND TORONTO RETAILER ANNOUNCE 'OWN A PIECE OF ISSUE 300' PROMOTIONCo:comicbookresources.com Ug, Dave dips into speculators market tactics to mark his big finally... "Aardvark-Vanaheim, Inc. and Paradise Comics of Toronto have announced plans to produce a limited edition run of 100 CGC-graded Signature Series copies of Cerebus No. 300 - signed and numbered by Dave Sim and Gerhard, as part of Aarvark-Vanaheim's "Own a Piece of 300" promotion to coincide with the publication of Cerebus No. 300, the last issue of the 26+ year comic-book series. ">>> - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Girls Who Bite Back : Witches, Mutants, Slayers and FreaksPress Release: Coming in April: Taking on the bombshell spies, slayers, witches and assassins who are fighting their way into movies and television shows everywhere, Girls Who Bite Back examines what these new role models for young women are really about. Emily Pohl-Weary, co-author with Judith Merril of the Hugo Award-winning Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, puts her unique stamp on the field of speculative fiction and pop culture in this anthology of short stories, cultural analysis, comics and original artwork. Girls Who Bite Back cuts through the layers of the new "female power," questioning its corporate origins and investigating issues of race and sexual orientation. And it goes a crucial step further by asking: If you don't like what's out there, what do you want to see? In response, writers like Hiromi Goto (The Kappa Child, Chorus of Mushrooms), Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads), Larissa Lai (Salt Fish Girl, When Fox Is a Thousand), Nikki Stafford (Bite Me! An Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, How Xena Saved Our Lives), Mariko Tamaki (True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice, Cover Me) and more have chronicled good and evil supergirls, envisioned new role models and created a do-it-yourself guide to being a superhero. Talented artists, including Shary Boyle, Eliza Griffiths, Sonja Ahlers, Sheila Butler and Matthew Blackett, have imagined stronger, more intelligent superheroines and explored the ugly side of girls who fight back. There's even an illustrated recipe for action! Pohl-Weary has put together an assembly of fresh voices that bring rich insight, as well as wry irreverence, to this compelling and controversial issue. From Little Orphan Annie to Kill Bill, Girls Who Bite Back shows how far we've come, how far we have to go, and gives us a sneak peak of a future where all girls bite back. Visit the fabulous Girls site at: www.girlswhobiteback.com - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - The Cultural Gutter : A new web mag on culture beneath consideration"Eye mag videogame columnist Jim Munroe and comics columnist Guy Leshinski have established The Cultural Gutter wherein new articles will be posted weekly "about an artistic pursuit generally considered to be beneath consideration." Comics and videogames have been placed in the Cultural Gutter by Munroe and Leshinski, which may be a convenient and romantic way of lumping together their areas of interest, but it's simply too wide a brush." >>> more on Tony Walsh's clickableculture page here theculturalgutter.com Jim's blog post announcing the site - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - THE PANELIST : Off the wall, into the panels "The atmosphere is unmistakable. The scratchy scrivening of a dozen people hunched over drawing boards. The acrid fumes of Staedtler nibs rubbed raw, of wet ink, sweat and concentration. A comic jam is in progress. Like a guest saxophone squonking over a band's backbeat, the practice of "jamming" has long pervaded the funny-book business. Some of the earliest underground comics, beginning with issue No. 2 of Zap in 1968, were collaborations among different artists completing each other's panels or stories in their own unique style. The results of these conjugations are spontaneous and surprising, sometimes revelatory." links The Toronto Comic Jam Photos from the gallery show - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Photo's from the MMCJ of Feb 25th ![]() Guest list pending, but in the photos you'll see Carlos Santos; Jesse Bochner [young adonis]; Kurt Beaulieu [kb]; Francic Hervieux; Jane Tremblay; Jack Ruttan; Sherwin Tija [Sully]; Peter Ferguson [pete]; Bernie Mireault [bem]; Max Douglas [salgood sam]; Billy Mavreas; Olivier Mir [moog-lee]; Niall Eccles; Susanne Larner; Carey Chan [p-ro]; Sébastien Fréchette [sirkowski]; Karl Dupéré-Richer; Maclean; Marc Bell; Tom Devlin; & Megan Kelso. It was a excellent jam, I’ll try to find time to post some of the pages tomarow. We had Tom Devlin by for his first Montreal jam, and he brought NY doodler Megan Kelso with him. Also Marc Bell joined us for the last time, as he's heading back to BC this Sunday, happy trails Marc! It was great seeing him again after all these years. Having him at the last three get-togethers made it feel like the good old days when I was a 24 year old pup. *sigh* Marc, Tom, Megan, Jesse, Carlose and Billy really got into it with some silly stuff, bit of cartoon magic there. Sully and a number of the regulars begged off early, looking like February had beaten them silly. I know how they feel, Ug!! But spring is in the air! Maybe the next jam we'll have out doors..? And on a final note; we're setting up a Merch table at the jams from now on, bringing back the tradition from back when Rupert ran the show. So if you plan to come to a future event, and have a zine, bring some! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, February 24, 2004 DSTRBO cartoons : scapegoats ![]() About this strip: "Yesterday Nader declared that he’s running as an independent. I can’t decide if this is good news or bad. A lot of lefties call Nader the 'angry spoiler' and blame him for Bush being in power, but I don’t agree with this argument. Gore ran an inept campaign in 2000, he didn’t even win his home state- (not to mention the fact that he actually won the election)- The whole idea of strategic voting goes against the idea of democracy, and anyway, Nader’s message is important. He’ll never be president, but a lot of people agree with what he stands for. With Nader to kick around, the center-right folks might find it easier to vote for a democrat. Kerry (or Edwards) won’t look like such a godless liberal homo standing beside Nader. Damn, I do feel like a hypocrite though. I kind of wish Nader wasn’t running. My friend Keith made a good point: "I think that this is generally a bad thing. It's not because I think that the Nader voters are gonna tip the scales in Bush's favor. I mean, I think that after the 2000 fiasco, most Nader voters who were angry, fence sitting democrats realized that maybe it wasn't the time or place for a protest vote. This year, I think they'll realize that even more so, and steer clear of him altogether. The reality is he's going to get way fewer votes than he did in 2000 running as a Green, and I guess that the Nader votes may still play a role in some 'too close to call' states, but it's hardly going to be like last time." My friend Jesse continues this thread: "That said, even taking a few votes Nader might tip the vote in a state where it’s close. The big question is how close this election is going to be, which we won’t know until the week before the election itself. Bush is going to do everything he can to make Kerry or Edwards look like abortion-loving, bible-hating, gay-marriage having candidates as possible. And since probably 90% of the country is already decided, it comes down to that small margin in the middle. All in all, I’d say that if Nader is successful in getting many votes, it’s a bad thing." Both of these guys are American, and my heart goes out to them. The Presidential candidate they would both probably vote for has just announced that he's running, and we're all talking about how that's not such a great thing. That said, the way things are going here in Canada, I'm finding it easier and easier to identify with their plight." Dan B aka DSTRBO Previous DSTRBOtoons here, here and here and here, and more art by Dan at DISTRBO.COM Look for DSTRBO's comix and illustration in the weekly Montreal Hour - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, February 23, 2004 Getting a head start on spring cleaning... Renovations at salgoodsam.com. The illustration portfolio has been re-organized, with client info and stuff added for the more recent work. Also the Comix section has been cleaned up, and two new/old chunks of work are online: Art from TheLeader Of the Pack, a story done for Caliber's Raven Chronicles [#13] back in the mid 90's; 500 Pound Planet, a 7pg comix done in a 8-12hr session with Josh Dolgin & Jesse Brown. Intended as a storyboard 4 a sequel to their stop motion film 500 Pound Planet as seen on gorillacartoons.com. More old comics will be going up over the next month. Over on rise-fall.com, you'll find some new art posted from that graphic novel in progress. And finally, some doodles have just been posted in the sketchbook & workdiary blogg ici. I also added commenting to that blogg so drop me a note and say boo! cheers - Max - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - The Monthly Montreal Comix Jam 3.2 ![]() Now in our third year the monthly comix jam for February will be taking place this Wednesday the 25th at 8pm. You’ll find a few dozens doodlers and friends hanging out at Sala Rosa all night - 4848 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal - drawing comix, shooting the poop, and hocking their zines to one another and you. If you publish a zine and plan to attend we encourage to you bring some copies to set out on your own table or the merch table if there’s room [space is first come first serve. If you notify us in advance with details of you zine we will post the info on the Sequential news blog and the comix group here for you. As always the jam is free to all, participation is encouraged. Bring your pens, friends and imaginations. Previous issue of The Monthly Montreal Comix Quarterly will be available: the next issue will be published next month. Photos from the last Jam are here - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Francophone Comix linksQC Francophone News sites and message boards: Check out BÉDÉ-KA!, & BDQuebec Go free form with Fécond Wiki ( Fertile yokes ), a public Francophone BD & 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 - the Death of Albert Chartier ![]() Translated from : news@bede-ka.org A significant chapter of québécoise BD history closed today with the death of Albert Chartier, the creator of Onésime. Mr. Chartier died in the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudièr around 19:30 Saturday 21 February at 91 years old. Born in Montreal on June 16, 1912, he attended le Mont St-Louis and refined his graphic techniques at the Barnes School de Montréal and, via correspondence, at the Meyer Both Institute of Chicago. His first comic, "Bouboule", was published in La Patrie in 1937. In 1939, then living in New York, Chartier and its wife decide to return to Canada after the attack on Pearl Harbour. He worked for the "Bureau d'Information en Temps de guerre", as well as in advertising and illustration for Anglophone and French-speaking publications. In Quebec, his talent was recognised by all generations of bedeists and in the world Dictionary of the Comic strip (Gaumer, P. and Moliterni, C; éd. Larousse) one can read "Vis-a-vis the hegemony of comic books the come from the United States, he appears as a true leader, and defender a comic strips typically popular québécoise". There’s a nice little site dedicated to Albert and Onésime here. It includes a section on Al with a short bit of film from an interview, as well as photos of the man and his work. In print, Drawn & Quarterly Volume 5 includes a substantial retrospective of his work including full color reprproductions of his B&W artwork. other sources of info online [1] [2] [3] - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, February 20, 2004 Don't Touch Me Independent Comics Number 10 Launch Feb 24th at this months monthly Toronto Comics JamCo:Dave Howard
Number 10 will be one of our largest issues, with 16 contributors on 44 pages. The cover features work by John Scott, winner of the Governor Generals award for visually Art and Media, in the painting category, for 2000. Contributors: Dave Lapp -- www.childrenoftheatom.com Dalton Sharp Jason Turner -- www.strongmanpress.com Greg McCann Brett Lamb -- www.brettlamb.com Robert Klarer Fiona Smyth -- www.fionasmyth.com Steve McKay -- www.roscomagazine.com Zach Worton Patrick Hickey Graeme Adams Sean Ward -- www.sykoward.net Ruth Tait -- www.artbyrt.com Benjamin Rivers -- www.emptywords.ca Kean Soo -- www.keaner.net Tania Howells -- www.taniahowells.com Copies are $7 each, and are available at the Toronto Comic Jam, select stores around Toronto, and online at www.donttouchme.ca. Many past issues are still available, too. the Toronto Comic Jam is this Tuesday Feb 24thAlso, if you haven't seen it yet, there are only two more Saturdays left in the comic jam art show at the offthemapgallery.com (although it is also open during the week, Wed-Fri, 11-5pm). Come down and check out the show. There's paint, pencil crayons, illustration board, all kinds of different media to expand on the participatory jam experience. We'll also be auctioning off the jam pieces created at the show to help raise some money for the jam; pages will start at $20. Come on out, and support the comics small press here in Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, February 19, 2004 Cameron Stewart news: SEAGUY cover art unvialedco: Cameron's mailing list ![]() "Hi everyone, Just a quick update to let you know that my next major comics project - SEAGUY - has finally been officially announced by DC Comics. Here's the official press release..." He’s the world’s last super-hero…and the last one you’d expect! Award-winning writer Grant Morrison kicks off the first of three all-new VERTIGO mini-series with colorful heroes, sinister theme parks, beautifully bearded women, and a cigar-smoking tuna fish. Only one comic has it all: SEAGUY, a 3-issue tale with spectacular art by Cameron Stewart that begins with an extra-sized 40-page first issue at no extra cost. Morrison himself calls SEAGUY 'the true antidote to your military-industrial realistic super-heroes!' A wistful, would-be hero named Seaguy and his best pal — a floating, talking fish named Chubby Da Choona — live listlessly in a world obsessed by sinister brand names. From a rigged chess match against a skeletal, seafaring personification of Death to being chased by malevolent theme-park armies, Seaguy and Chubby undertake a fantastical, picaresque voyage through a post-Utopian world filled with bizarre adventure...and terrible sacrifice. "If you go to the front page of my website you'll be able to look at the cover for the first issue. The website still is in production, my work on SEAGUY has been keeping me from finishing it off but I guarantee that it will be open for business by the time the first issue of SEAGUY is out in shops. Also keep an eye out for the March issue of SPIN magazine, in which I provide that month's "Real Life Rock Tales" comic strip, featuring LA punk band The Distillers. That's all for now, thanks for reading!" -C - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Chester Brown's Louis Riel reviewed in the Minneapolis City Pages + upcoming radio interviewON a Mission from God : The man who made Manitoba--and died for it, too "Chester Brown is one of the comic book's great formalists" Grammar non-withstanding, high praise indeed from this US paper for our cartooning poet laureate of late. A nice bit for example... "Brown remains, above all, a storyteller. Even when his pacing is perverse, it's never dull. He has made substantial elisions and revisions to the facts for the sake of the story's flow. (Brown annotates every deliberate inaccuracy in the book's notes.) His line work is expressive and spare, almost ecstatically austere: He can suggest a coat or a tree--the light on an object and the weight of it--with a few judicious, scraggly lines. And he's a master of solid white and black spaces. The courtroom where Riel's sanity is debated is jet-black except for lawyers, witnesses, and their furniture. The battlegrounds that led the rebel to this gloomy chamber are bleak expanses of snow." >>>Not to shabby. Chester Brown on Northeast Public Radio on 2/23 David Doane interviews Chester Brown about LOUIS RIEL for The Roundtable, WAMC's three-hour daily talk show focusing on politics, art and culture. The interview will air Monday, February 23rd at about 10:35 AM, you'll be able to listen via streaming audio online at www.wamc.org D&Q links: Chester Brown; Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography (HC) - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - MG news: new Jimmy Beaulieu sketchbookCO:Jimmy Beaulieu @ mécanique générale [googled] Jimmy Beaulieu has started a new sketchbook, check out his latest doodles here on his web site [warning, he likes to draw cute naked Croquettes!] :)Motus! by Leif Tande wins BÉDÉLYS 2003 Quebec award for best title & author, Cheers to Leif Tande! Read a review of Motus [fr] here [googled version ici] And finally Jimmy tells about being on radio this last Sunday with Lucien Francoeur [host], Yves Millet, Michel Rabagliati, Michel Viau and Éric Thériault for an hour and half round table discusion of BeeDee in Quebec. He rants a bit about his soft dream, and then tells us about the state of affairs today for de cinémathèque québécoise, who's employees have had to accept a wage reduction of 20 %, and that the establishment will have to close its doors for the summer! mécanique générale - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - American Devices "Distroboto" mini-cd launch with The Other Thing & Esther B: Sun Feb 22 at Casa del Popolo ++ RICK TREMBLES' MOTION PICTURE PURGATORYThis week's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: BIRTH OF A NATION (1915): "KKK to the rescue!"Last week's review: Horror/Sci-Fi Valentine Cards 2 weeks ago: Monster "Maybe I fucked up a little bit" -Charlize Theron's Aileen Wuornos 3 weeks ago: THUNDERCRACK! (1975): "Realism only comes to the screen when the film jams in the projector & the image begins to bubble" -George Kuchar RANDOM BLATHER for Feb 19, 2004 Inside this instalment of snubdomizer’s random blather: American Devices "Distroboto" mini-cd launch with The Other Thing & Esther B Sunday, February 22, at Casa del Popolo, 4873 St-Laurent. Plus, RICK TREMBLES ART in brand new DEE DEE RAMONE documentary dvd "HEY IS DEE DEE HOME"! And, DEVICES NYC road-trip diary: ROCKIN' OUT THE LEGAL ACTION COMIX 2 LAUNCH AT CBGBS! >>> ![]() related: Distroboto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, February 18, 2004 nom d'un chien numéro 2 A preview of nom d'un chien numéro 2 is now online for your readingpleasuree. Featuring the adventures of Sampigc PI. Also up is a three page story about...PIGS! Enjoyy. Look for nom d'un chien at better shops around Montreall or iquire on the web site about ordering a copy.
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tony Walsh's Monday Comix Roundup! CO: Clickable CultureIt's time again for another Rat strip. This one's got Jenny Everywhere in it again, for those keeping track of her guest appearances. And here's Brian Fukushima's latest art attack: Feb. 10, Feb. 11, Feb. 12, Feb. 13, and the Valentine's-themed Feb. 14 strip. clickableculture.com - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Coordonneés des bédéistes de Québec-Chaudiéres-AppalachesL'Institut Canadien de Québec is conducting a census of the literary milieu, including all the literary genre and mediums, as well as booksellers, editors, school establishments, etc. This census is a significant stage for the opening of a House of literature by the Institute in autumn 2004 - winter 2005. An official request is thus made to the bedeists of the Quebec area and the Boiler-Appalachian Mountains so that we may collect their co-ordinates, including email addresses, telephone numbers and/or postal addresses. L'Institut Canadien de Québec is a non-profit organization, founded in 1848 in order to promote French-speaking culture. The Institute manages, for the City of Québec, 14 libraries as well as the services of support for the network of the libraries. For the benefit of the population, the Institute has the role of promoting and of democratizing the access to information, and sensitizing the public to the arts and culture, in particular by a universally accessible library service, the organization of structured events, and the development of permanent programs and the services council. The mission of the House of literature will be to develop collections, services and programming of activities with an aim of widening the literary assistance of creators and increasing the diffusion of the Quebec authors and their texts; amongst the population of the area, tourists, and abroad. Following the gathering of your coordinates, it will please to us to inform you of the various activities organized by the House of literature. Your information will remain confidential and will not be shared or published. You can send your info by email to Amélie Bédard Agente de développement Maison de la littérature Institut Canadien de Québec 350, rue Saint-Joseph Est Québec, G1K 3B2 Téléphone : (418) 529-0924, poste 225 Télécopieur : (418) 529-1588 Courriel : abedard@icqbdq.qc.ca - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Cinar sells out…?Just heard about this on CBC, the shareholders of Montréal animation company CINAR are meeting today to decide if they will accept the 143.9 million offer from an investor group led by Michael Hirsh. There are articles about the deal on canoe.ca, and the Montreal Gazette's site, though both declare it a done deal. A post on Yahoo finance lists the meeting as being today, which matches the CBC report. One way or another it looks like new management will be moving in sooner or later. Hirsh is one of the founders of Toronto based Nelvana Ltd & Teletoon animation TV channel. I believe he and his partners sold their controlling interest in Nelvana to Corus a few years ago. Update: Yep, it's a done deal. Shareholders voted over 99% to take the offer at $3.60US per share in cash. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Clément Suave Joins Micah Wright on STORMWATCHCo: BÉDÉ-KA! news & NEWSARAMA Suave will be replacing CP Smith as the regular artist on STORMWATCH as of #21 "EYE OF THE STORM"; MATURE READERS; 32 pg; $2.95 On Sale April 14th, 2004. Suave's recent work includes work on DC's Human Defence Corps - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 88MPH Studios Inc's Sebastien Clavet on WAITING FOR TOMMYco:BÉDÉ-KA! news An interview with Sebastien Clavet, éditeur/président of the Quebec comics publisher 88MPH Studios is on WAITING FOR TOMMY of this week.Founded in 2001, 88MPH Studios Inc publishes books and comic strips based on licences of pop culture icons such as Transformers and Tron. Sebastien explains how he manged to pick up the contract for the upcoming Ghostbusters book after toronto based Dreamwave studios droped the book. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Comics Interviews on Brave New WavesBrave New Waves is a long running late night new music and culture radio program on CBC. Many a night was spent buy young punks like myself staying up well past an hour that would allow my head not to bobble in class the next day so that I could hear the nightly broadcast. Over the years they have spent some [though not enough I think] time highlighting the efforts of underground comix creators in Canada and abroad. Recently they pulled some of this older content from their files and ran a comix heavy schedule for one night on Tuesday Feb 10th, featuring Interviews with Art Spiegelman [1990], Chris Ware [2001] Joe Matt & Seth [1992] Dave Collier [2000] & Jamie Hernandez [early 90s]. All pretty old ones. Here are the very few they keep online. An Interview with Ho Che Anderson. First aired: 28/02/03 Length: 33 minutes An Interview with Chris Ware. First aired: 25/05/01 Length: 32 minutes Not to much eh? Think they should run more content on this? Maybe get up to date and generate some new shows on the subject of comix? Let them know with some nice letters to their producers - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - GRAFIKSISMIK.NET GOES LIVE
The Quebec City based comics studios fully bilingual siteweb site is now online. Their galleries have been stocked with several never-before-seen new images for the occasion, and the front page sports a news blog so you can keep up with their latest projects. grafiksismik is Sebastien Caisse, Dub, Pierre-Andre Dery, Niko Henrichon, Joëlle, Phiz, Valerie Martineau, & Frederick Jourdain. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Periodical Writers Association Jams 4 JusticeNope, not a comic jam. Co: Jack Ruttan on the comix jam news group
Proceeds from the Jam for Justice will go to the Heather Robertson class action lawsuit fund. A freelance writer, Ms. Robertson has been engaged in epic court struggle with major media outlets for the past seven years. Ms. Robertson's case centres on the issue of electronic reproduction. Specifically, the common practice among newspapers and magazines of publishing a freelancer's work in both print and electronically on a website based on the assumed right to do so without additional compensation to the writer. Does signing a contract giving a paper or magazine "first print" rights automatically imply the granting of electronic rights for the same article? Ms. Robertson believes no, it does not. Media lawyers of course, disagree. Ms. Robertson and her legal team have spent over $9,000 in their struggle, and while fund-raising has covered most of this expense, the battle continues, and so does the need for financial support. Tickets for this fully licensed event are $10 at the door. For an additional $1, audience members can sing or play along with the house band on a song of their choice. Doors open at 7 pm, with the band scheduled to begin playing at 8 pm. The Only in Paradise Café is located at 360 Queen St. East, at the corner of Queen St. E. and Parliament in downtown Toronto. So, come on down Feb. 20 and support a great cause that benefits all Canadian creators! For further information, contact: Leslie Smith Incumbent President Toronto chapter of PWAC 416-481-4640 Nate Hendley Incoming President Toronto chapter of PWAC 416-469-0400 Ps. this is a fight that concerns all Canadian content creators. For all creators reading this, pass the word by mentioning the Jam for Justice in your newsletters and bulletins to your friends and association members. You’re more than welcome to bring some literature about your organization to the Jam. We will have a table where brochures, pamphlets and newsletters from creator groups can be stacked. The Periodical Writers Association of Canada (PWAC) is Canada's national organization of professional freelance writers. Founded in 1976, PWAC has been promoting the rights and careers of freelance writers and journalists for 25 years. PWAC has over 500 members across Canada. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, February 16, 2004 DSTRBO cartoons ![]() "So, Paul Martin has been PM for about twenty minutes, and there have been TWO meta-scandals concerning financial malfeasance linked not only to the Liberal party, but to Martin himself, personally. I really hope this doesn't just get bored out of existence. Throw the bum out." This weeks cartoon from DSTRBO. previous toons here and here and here, and more art by Dan at DISTRBO.COM Look for DSTRBO's comix and illustration in the weekly Montreal Hour - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, February 13, 2004 David Cronenberg to direct John Wagner's A History of Violence Canadaian film maker David Cronenberg (Spider) will direct A History of Violence at New Line Cinema, the first book in the Paradox Graphic Mystery line of books published by Paradox Press/DC Comics. The second book in the series was Road to Perdition, on which the Tom Hanks film was based on. A History of Violence is the story of a man who believes he's escaped his criminal past until it catches up with him and his new family. The novel was written by Judge Dredd creator John Wagner. "Violence" was adapted by screenwriter Josh Olson, who also wrote Three Gun Blues, set up at Paramount.- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - ¡Journalista! goes on hiatus I'm regular reader of the old lady and while I was enjoying Milo's tenure at the TCJ [sorry to see ya go], I think Dirks round at bat will likely prove interesting. Hopefully he'll eventually find a few folks willing to pick up the task of keeping ¡Journalista! going, it will sourly be missed if not. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 22 Stores to Host 24 Hour Comics Day Events
Comics retailers across the US and Canada host a 24rh comics marathon. "The organizers of 24 Hour Comics Day have announced the first 22 stores to host cartooning creativity marathons. On April 24th, these stores will bring together amateur and professional cartoonist who want to push their creativity to the limit. Each cartoonist will try to completely write and draw a 24 page comic, normally a couple months of work, in 24 straight hours. “We expect to have hundreds of cartoonists taking advantage of 24 Hour Comics Day to take the 24 hour comics challenge,” explains Nat Gertler, founder of 24 Hour Comics Day. “While many of them will work in the comfort of their homes, others are already signing up to create their comic at these events, with the support and camaraderie of their fellow cartoonists. The participating stores will make sure that everyone has food and drink and take care of other concerns, so that the cartoonist can stay focused on the creative effort.” more>>> Participating stores. Canada: * Hallifax: Strange Adventures * Vancouver: Elfsar Collection / Happy Harbor Comics & Toys USA * California: Brave New World in Newhall, Comic Relief in Berkeley, Comickaze in San Diego, Earth 2 in Sherman Oaks, Flying Colors Comics in Concord, and the downtown branch of Hijinx Comics in San Jose * Colorado: Clockwork Comics and Games in Englewood * Georgia: Batty’s Best in Atlanta * Indiana: Buy Me Toys.com in South Bend * Maine: Casablanca Comics in Portland * Massachusetts: Modern Myths in Northampton * Michigan: Green Brain Comics in Dearborn * New Hampshire: The Paperback Bazaar in Somersworth * New Mexico: True Believers Comics & Gallery in Santa Fe * North Carolina: Silver Bullet Comics in Winston Salem * Ohio: The Laughing Ogre in Columbus * Oklahoma: Atomic Comics in Oklahoma City, and Speeding Bullet Comics & Ricochet Café in Norman * Pennsylvania: Essential Comics in Exeter * Texas: Lone Star Comics in Arlington For more information on 24 Hour Comics Day including addresses, phone numbers, and website links for the event-hosting stores, go to www.24HourComics.com. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, February 11, 2004 A charitable exploitation of the collectors market : Canada Customs and Revenue cracks down on charity loopholeThe Canada Customs and Revenue Agency will shortly begin imposing penalties on people who donate comic books and trading cards to charity events and then claim tax deductions at an absurdly inflated rate, upwards of six times the value of the donated items. In the article "Taxman battles Superman in comic-book caper" James Daw of the Toronto Star sights how a group called Canadian Literacy Initiatives of Waterdown involved hundreds of people who were sold on the scheme by sales seminars and enthusiastic broadcasts hosted by nationally syndicated radio commentator Jerry White. "Now tax enforcement officers have started to write to participants to warn them they are about to be reassessed for unpaid taxes, plus a 50 per cent penalty. Interest on late payments will also apply, and will continue to accumulate if taxpayers decide not to pay the tax bill while they fight the reassessments. "We believe that you knew or ought to have known appraisals at least six times higher than your cost were not realistic and should have caused you to question and seek independent advice concerning the correctness of this scheme," said a letter to an Oakville man who spent $6,900." more>>> - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Jasper the bear sheds a tear : Jim Simpkins 1910 - 2004 ![]() Found this Obit by Seth on iJournalista! for canadian doodler Jim Simpkins yesterday, sadly Died Sunday February 1, 2004... "Simpkins was part of a small group of cartoonists who helped define the young pop-culture of Canada in the early 1950s. Peter Whalley, Doug Wright, Len Norris and Jimmy Frise -- these names are fading, as their work grows dusty on the shelves of neglected second-hand humour sections. Canada's homegrown media was small at the time, and our popular culture was still fresh and relatively undefined." more>>>....reading it this evening I did some research on Jasper and his creator. I found a good chunk of info on the The Canadian Cartoonists Club web site here where they have set up a section dedicated to him. " "I thought a had created a new cartoon character. Now I know I was trapped by a bear!" once said Simpkins. Either when the Trans Canada pipeline was being built over his pathway, or when he stumbled upon a Bomarc missile silo deep in Northern Ontario, Jasper never hesitated to enter any controversial debate in order to fight for his own survival. As the Quintessential Canadian, Jasper the Bear has been adopted by Boys Scouts Canada and well exploited by Jasper National Park, Alberta to promote fire prevention and nature conservation." more>>> Happy Trails Jim. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - DSTRBO cartoons ![]() This weeks cartoon from DSTRBO. previous toons here and here, and more art by Dan at DISTRBO.COM Q: What inspired this image? "The last one [cartoon] I did was pretty heavy handed, so I wanted to balance it a bit with a goofy one. I've been wanting to steer closer to issues that are a little more far-reaching in terms of scope, I tend to do cartoons on issues that are only in the public mind for a week or so, so that by the time they get to print they're already old news. This bird flu thing will probably be around for awhile, and, well, racial profiling isn't frigging going anywhere. Also, drawing anthropomorphic animals is cool." Look for DSTRBO's comix and illustration in the weekly Montreal Hour - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, February 09, 2004 DigestBeen busy working on a script synopsis for the rise and fall of it all, hence the brake in posts. But I've been book-marking things over the weekend so here's a mess o' links for you. First off, I hear word local doodlers Caro Caron & Richard Suicide have an exhibit in New Orleans this month with Josh Simmons titled 'BAD LOVE & VALENTINES'. Both Caro & Richard participated in the recent Cyclops anthology. Feb. 14 at L'Art Noir gallery on Mazant St. (beside the Mazant Guest House) in the Bywater. Jimmy Beaulieu covers the bases in the comics scene: Rupert profiles the mechanic behind Mécanique Générale, summarizing the many projects that earned Jimmy a spot on the Noisemakers 2004 list in the Montreal Mirror. Recently. Conundrum Press announces that they are starting a book club soon. . I helped my best bud George start up a web page of his own this weekend. If all goes as planed we’ll be adding new work by him there every week. Kristiana Clemens, TSPB co-coordinator announces that The Spring 2004 Toronto Small Press Bookfair will be held on Saturday, May 15th at Trinity-St.Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street West. They will have even more room this month, expanding into the back dance studio. And rumour has it that this fair could start off with some kind of crazy parade! Registration packages will be sent out by early April. If you've moved since the last fair, or have a new phone number, email address or website, or have never registered before Kristiana asks that you let her know so that she can update their mailing list. Contact info: production@ckln.fm by April 1st. Phone 416-534-2011. For more info you can read the newsletter posted here There are a few new short stories posted on Sherwin's The Hipless Boy. Suicide Party & Palm to Palm. Guy Leshinski Takes a look at the nomenclature of comics today in the latest THE PANELIST [eye - 02.05.04] Specifically the popular term graphic novel, and concludes that it works, cus it works. Also he reviews Billy Mavreas's current comix project, and ongoing anthology called MONSTER ISLAND, dedicated to, you guessed it, monsters. [the review is at bottom of the page under the heading ZINES ON THE SCENE]. Along simmer lines, Rick Trembles' MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY comic-strip review of MONSTER: "Maybe I fucked up a little bit" -Charlize Theron's Aileen Wuornos And capping the post off is some new news posts at D&Q: New York Magazine Spotlights Adrian Tomine's NYC event for Optic Nerve #9 : NY Post declares Optic Nerve #9 "Required Reading" : Daily Oklahoman features The Fixer & Louis Riel : And that's all for now! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, February 04, 2004 Vesna Mostovac’s Foolish Girl Launch Party in toronto Feb 7thJoin Vesna for her launch on the 7th, and catch Foolish Girl on zed on the 9th! Mostovac on Foolish Girl circa 1999"After being in an 11-year relationship," Mostovac says, "I went boy crazy and started writing Foolish Girl in order to contain my foolish behaviour on paper." The results have been published in Chart, Don't Touch Me, Exclaim and Twisted SuperFreak Times. "Foolish Girl first came out of her shell thanks to events like Cut & Paste, the Small Press Book Fair and Canzine, all Toronto-based. I'm also inspired by local bands like the Helens and Bodega, insane performance guy Corpusse and other comic artists like Lorenz Peters, Tim McGregor and Fiona Smyth. Plus, I'm hoping to someday be the subject of a Heritage Moment, just like the creator of Superman." info sorces eye mag for quotes Vesna edited Maow Maow - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Cut & Paste's 10th Anniversary! Sat. Feb. 7 @ Sneaky Dee's (corner of College & Bathurst) Noon to 6 pm Cut & Paste is Toronto's original and longest running Zine Festival. Created in 1994 by Stacey Case, Cut & Paste did, and continues to help to fill a void in the small press world. Toronto has a number of small press and zine fairs now, but Cut & Paste has remained a core event, building the community of Indy publishers that make those fairs possible. I remember first meeting Stacey (space man) Case at CIUT in around 94, where we both volunteered. Later on at a loft party in his studio he enthusiastically told me about the event he was planning and showed me the posters he was working on and pages from his own zine Rivet. That first Cut & Paste, like all the others that have followed, was a frenetic, colourful and cramped affair that left most participants smiling if not a few handfuls of zines lighter. A lot of new friends and connections have been made at the regualr events [2to4 a year], and more than a few dates. Not to mention an incredible number of cool and interesting zines, as well as more than a few curiosities, all in the name of having something ready for the big day. Creators across Toronto are, as I write this, pasting together their first, or latest efforts, in the time honoured right of last minute preparation so that they may sit in closed quarters with many of their peers and put their ideas and/or Ids on the table for all to see. Come join the fun and celebrate the ten-year anniversary of this pillar of the alt community and mass group therapy session! Vendor tables are $10, payable the day of the show. Tables are first come first served Bands and craft-y types are welcome to take part Info? Stacey Case 416.531.9506 cutnpasteATrogers.com - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, February 03, 2004 Dave Howard :Photos from Toronto Comic Jam at offthemapgalleryPulled from the Toronto Comic Jam Discussion Group Pictures of the show : taken by Peter Kambasis Left we see a page in progress: Done with conte crayon on newsprint, Dave Howard drew the first panel, and above we see Greg McCann in the process of drawing the second panel. They we’re both drawing from live subject, the model was Nadia Halim, who was sitting across the table. Nadia organized the jam at the gallery. At Right: Participants from Saturday Jan 31 : Clockwise is Stephen Burrell (tucked in the lower left corner), Nadia, two new people whose names Dave doesn’t know, then Robert Klarer and Dave Howard. ![]() Go here to see more of these… See here for background - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Exclaim takes a look at girls in tightsReality Bites : By Sarrah Young - January 30, 2004 Wonder Woman Gets A Fresh Start "Wonder Woman is going to lose her virginity. Ok, not literally, but her age of innocence is coming to an end; after the stagnation of the series and plummeting sales, a new creative team has been assembled to tackle the job of revitalizing the comic series. It’s a daunting task that will blend elements of politics, sex and fantasy in an effort to keep people interested in the Amazon princes." >>> Female Superheroes Face More Than Foes Even though they battle many of the same monsters and villains, female superheroes have to deal with more than their male counterparts. Not only do they have work harder to be taken seriously, but they’re also burdened with the weight of gender-oriented social issues. >>> [scroll down halfway] - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - JAMS BY THE CARTOONIST CONSPIRACY MINNEAPOLIS LOCAL:Some stuff from our comrades down south JANUARY 2004 - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, February 02, 2004 MENSUHELL #51 - Février 2004 The line up for issue 51 includes...p. 2 Éditorial + annonces diverses p. 3 La table mal située II (Michèle Laframboise) p. 4 Histoire de panier [Épisode 2] (Catherine Fréchette-Grégoire) p. 7 Histoire de la bande dessinée québécoise [suite] (Michel Viau) p.13 Picasso (Mathieu Benoit) p.14 Les impériales crampes de la vilaine impératrice (Jane Tremblay) p.18 J-F et tout ce qui a rapport avec la St-Valentin (Éric Piccoli) p.20 The Caustic Commentaries of Claude the Cloud (Jacques Boivin) p.22 Skinny Nameless Punk (Jack Ruttan & Rick Gagnon) p.23 Voir l'Alberta et mourir! [1ère partie] (Kurt Beaulieu) p.27 Miss Dynamite [suite de l'épisode 3] (Sirkowski) p.30 Tonton Robert (Pierre-Yves Clerson) p.31 Phax & Walton: Mauvaise Mine [suite] (Karl) p.34 BD Québec/USA : Jacques Boivin [2e partie] (Marc Jetté) p.38 C'est la révolution! (Sylvie Rancourt) p.39 Les danses gratuites (Sylvie Rancourt) p.40 Les Ayoyes (Jacques Boivin) On stands now at these shops in Montréal Fichtre 436 rue de Bienville, H2J 1S9, (514) 844-9550 Marché du Livre 801 De Maisonneuve Est, (514)288-4350 Millenium 451 Marie-Anne, H2J 2A2 (514) 284-0358 Monet 2752 de Salaberry, (514) 337-4083 in Québec L'Imaginaire 2740 boul. Laurier (Place Laurier), Sainte-foy, GiV 4P7(418)652-0545 MENSUHELL est publié par/is published by Francis Hervieux - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, February 01, 2004 WWW.DISTRBO.COM is online My man Dan, aka DSTRBO just emailed me to let me know his crib on the web is open for visitors. Still some stuff to go up but already you’ll find a big pile of his comics, paintings and drawings there. Dan’s been displaying a sharp wit in a running series political cartoons in the Montreal weekly the HOUR. Below you’ll find the latest and you'll find many of them on his site. He’s also a semi regular participant in the monthly jams, and a founding member of the HVW8 crew.![]() www.dstrbo.com - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Introducing Alejandro Boim ![]() ![]() I met Alejandro Boim at our most recent jam. He's the one on the right above. Like many artist who come to the Jam's for the first time, he was there with some friends, poking around the jam table and taking an earnest interest in the many zines [one of his friends snapped up a full set of the available editions of the jam zines! :) She's the one on the left above looking happy with her purchases] and asking about the sort of folks that show up. We got to talking and he showed me his first experiments with sequential art [he predominantly works as a painter] – I was struck with the sophistication of his first efforts, the work as seen below already displays a good grasp of narrative page structure. He also expressed an explicate interest in $working$ as a cover artists, so if your looking for a kickass painter to do your book’s dust jacket check this stuff out. ![]() ![]() www.aleboim.com.ar - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Montreal Gazette » It's time to change the comics, And we want your help! As well as announcing that they will be dropping Peanuts from their line up now that no new strips are being produced, the Montreal Gazette is opening their line up, sort of, to a vote. Asking readers to pick what they want from a list of six new strips and six to be cut...What do you think? MY FAVOURITE FOUR NEW STRIPS ARE... BABY BLUES - RHYMES WITH ORANGE GO FIGURE -SHERMAN'S LAGOON POOCH CAFÉ -TINA'S GROOVE The Gazette should stop publishing these three comics ... Beetle Bailey - Garfield Hagar -Herman r- Hi & Lois - Sally Forth Send entries by mail to: The Gazette "Comics Survey," Marketing Research Department [figures] 1010 Ste. Catherine St. W., Suite 200, Montreal, QC, H3B 5L1, or by fax at (514) 987-2399, or visit our Web site and fill out the comics survey To make sure your voice is heard, please have your entry to us no later than Wednesday, Feb. 18. Different samples of the new strips will be published Feb. 7 and 14 in the Weekend Life section. dsweet@thegazette.canwest.com (514) 987-2596 - 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 - |