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Monday, October 23, 2006
News & Reviews
:: Posted by Bryan @ 10/23/2006 12:26:00 AM 
Events coverage and press about comics in Canada from this past weekend:
-Bedeka.org provides a few links about the Rendezvous BD that has wound up in Gatineua Quebec, including an interview with the team behind a zine dedicated to the event, Collection Quebec. (Google trans.)
-blogTO covers part of the International Festival of Authors and French cartoonists Dubuy and Berberian being interviwed by Seth. Lots of information about charming French accents.(And don't forget the latest installment of Seth's new graphic novel in the New York Times Magazine.)
-Ryan Bigge reviews 2 comics-related outings for the Toronto Star: iGeneration: Shuffling Toward the Future by Jason Logan & Archetypes: Social Animals in Our Midst by Mireille Silcoff & Kagan Macleod (collecting a series of articles that originally appeared in The Globe, I think).
-Nathalie Atkinson has her monthly roundup of graphic novels in the Globe Books section. This time around she annoints Joe Ollman's latest collection as the most noteworthy Canuck release of the season:
The most notable collected Canadian offering is This Will All End in Tears (Insomniac, 168 pages, $21.95), the third book of collected stories by Montreal-based cartoonist Joe Ollman. Ollman's narratives aren't happy tales; in Big Boned, Charlene lives with her bossy mother, eats in secret, obsesses about her weight and nurses an unrequited crush on her pimply office-mate Donny. Other characters are burdened with sadness, alcoholism and unwanted responsibility as Ollman's characteristic cartooning captures the everyday grotesque. Ollman's increasingly complex storytelling also grows more assured with each book and it's an aptly titled collection. Labels: links, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto
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