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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Maisonneuve Does Comics, Sort Of
:: Posted by Bryan @ 10/03/2006 05:45:00 AM Montreal-based maisonneuve magazine has a few interesting comics-related articles this month. The magazine is sort of the Harper's to The Walrus' New Yorker, as its "Eclectic Curiosity" subtitle makes clear, and this is born out in this issue's ("The Canada Issue") contents.
First up is a long comic strip about tree planting with art by Sherwin Tjia, followed by an interview with Bryan Lee O'Malley about being a hyphenated Canadian (obviously about being one-half of the Larson-O'Malley team). Lastly there is an excerpt from John Belll's upcoming book about Canadian comics, Invaders from the North. The excerpt covers the clamp-down on Canadian crime comics and the last hurrah of the major comics publishers of the 40s and 50s (Superior, etc.). The article contains some interesting tidbits, including great full-colour repros of reprinted U.S. horror comics. As well, the news that Brian Mulroney hated comics and gave a speech about them at the age of 10 (and I thought I hated him because his smirking son is on all those crappy tv shows), thus helping to bring to a close the so-called "Golden Age of Canadian Comics (1941-1956)", is also touched on. Both Bell and Bart Beaty have covered this ground before but its nice to see this obscure history presented in such a prestige fomat. Beautiful to hold in your hands.
The cover to the issue, a superhero parody, is by Geof Isherwood.
The magazine website has lots of bonuses, including the popular article about how Canadian bloggers are pussies and MediaScout, the great daily round-up of what the Big 7 Canadian news sources are saying (and why).Labels: Quebec
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