Friday, November 24, 2006
This Weekend: Toronto Pow Wow, Triple Threat, etc
:: Posted by Bryan @ 11/24/2006 09:58:00 AM Comics-related events this weekend:
1. Expozine
The Montreal Zine and Small Press Festival:
Saturday, November 25, 2006 from 11 am to 6 pm,
at 5035 St-Dominique, between St-Joseph and Laurier. FREE.
5th Anniversary Party from 10:00PM and on, also free!
Www.expozine.ca
D+Q publicist Peggy Burns writes to remind us that D+Q will be at Expozine as well and are bringing US cartoonist Gabrielle Bell along to sign copies of her new book "Lucky" at the D+Q table from 2:00-6:00PM. Bell will also be the entertainment at the Expozine party, performing a slide show from her new mini-comic, "My Affliction", and signing "Lucky" during the party.
2. Chad Solomon at Toronto Pow Wow
from a press release:
"Visitors to Toronto's annual Pow Wow held at the Rogers Skydome November 24 th to 26th 2006 will be excited to see Rabbit and Bear Paws in their very first collected volume of comic strips Adventure of Rabbit and Bear Paws - The Sugar Bush.
Chad Solomon will be signing copies of the all ages graphic novel Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws at the booths of the Union of Ontario Indians, Say Magazine and Goodminds for all three days of the event.
Other merchandise featuring your favourite Rabbit and Bear Paws characters will also be available, including t-shirts, prints, stickers and posters.
Rabbit and Bear Paws - Aboriginal Comics and Cartoons
3. Triple Threat
TRIPLE THREAT II
Featuring the creators of Degrassi: Extra Credit, Dramacon, and Northwest Passage
Sunday, November 26th, 2006 @ 3PM
Toronto Reference Library, Yonge St. North of Bloor
FREE!
Last fall The Beguiling teamed up with the Toronto Public Library to bring you TRIPLE THREAT, three great Canadian comics creators working in three different genres within the medium! Now get ready for TRIPLE THREAT X 2, our second Triple Threat event with 3 graphic novel series and 6 amazing creators! Featuring the official Canadian premiere of the DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION: EXTRA CREDIT series of graphic novels, this event will be one of our best of the fall!
Participating in the event are:
J. Torres, Ed Northcot, Ramon Perez, Eric Kim! Plus, Svetlana Chmakova, and Scott Chantler, author of the graphic novel series Northwest Passage.
4. Vancouver Culture Crawl
According to the WestEnder site, at least one stop on The Eastside Culture Crawl has a comics connection:
At 713 E. Pender, just a few blocks from Paneficio Studios, sits a funky little house called Alley Gallery, the colourful hideaway and studio of Gerry "Mad Dog" Dallman, an artist whose exhibit could best be described as A Midsummer Night's Dream meets sadomasochistic nightmare. Culture crawlers will be given a comic book before entering the gallery, minutes before finding themselves in the comic characters' territory upon walking through the Alley Gallery's doors. Dallman has fashioned a mind-bending concoction of taxidermists' models, reworked purse buckles, leather, rubber, mannequins and detritus from movie sets, and morphed them into sinister, fairytale-like shapes.
"I like fantasy," says Dallman, "and I like to take fantasy one step further."
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