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the 7th edition of Exil ![]() Les 400 coups and Dominique Desbiens are lunching the latest edition of the antholagy Exile with a party Wednesday December 13, 2006. Festivities start at 17h/5pm and go to 21h/9pm officially at Cafe/Bar Romolo, 272 Bernard Ouest, the Mile End district, Montreal. 514.272 5035 This edition features work by Bruno Rouyere, Leif Tande, Domenica Desbiens, Olivier Martin, Jerome Bretzner, Voro, Numa, Leou, Jeanlo, Billy and John Mavreas, Djief, Nickartoon and Stef Lemardele. This is a serious line up of local talent, should be a good book! Here's some info, & a google translation. Labels: events, new books, news, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Makeshift MiracleJim Zubkavich launches a 200-page, full-colour print collection of his webcomic in Toronto. Scott McCloud calls it "a melancholy, enchantingly drawn meditation on imagination and yearning.": Also on hand will be Rob Walton who is launching a collection of his Ragmop webcomic/comic book: Makeshift Miracle / Ragmop Book Launch Thursday, November 30th @ 7PM The Victory Cafe 595 Markham Street, Just south of The Beguiling FREE Torontocomics.com Labels: new books, news, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Toronto Kids Create Comic BookSomewhere, a Warner Brothers lawyer is firing up his Cease and Desist template: Grade seven students launch their own comic book - Shazaam! Press release Labels: new books, news, Ontario, people, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, November 29, 2006 14 new books from Mecanique Generale! ![]() Hey, this is a rough tech assisted translation of an email I received today from an exceedingly busy Jimmy Beaulieu. I blame all oddities on the google translation algorithms and Jimmy’s sense of humour! : - ) Hello-hello, it pains me to Spam you thus… but in a good way. I want to announce two get-togethers this week. This evening @ 20h at the Zoobizarre - 6388 St-Hubert, Montreal, corner of Beaubien & St-Hubert, 3 steps from the Beaubien metro stop. And, this Saturday December 2, @ 17h till 19h, when the kitchen closes. Location [un named] is 205 Saint-Vallier street E, Quebec city. The first will celebrate the publication of the 5 new Mecanique Generale publications and 9 new ones under the Colossi imprint [a small format chap book series]. The nights festivities will be in the presence of the authors who can make it. That can also be our “assessment 2006” party, because we published 25 pounds in all this year (12 MG and 13 colossi). In six years, one will have published not less than 55 pounds (29 MG and 26 colossi if one counts Voitures)!!!! It is perhaps the last gathering which one will have before spectacular the burnout that I envisage (meticuleusement) for 2007. The party will also mark the end of session for my workshop at Cegep Montreal. Who knows, if I am feeling sufficiently pompous, perhaps I will be making a speech! For those that know and those who do not, Colossus is not a collection of General Mechanics, as it is trying to believe. It is rather his/her small sister with glasses, a shy person, fragile and disturbed, which one discovers with rapture the depth when one tries hard to approach it stylishly in the evening, in the small corner where it hides, almost behind the curtains, close to the fire of hearth, while his/her frivolous older sister disrobes in the vicinity of the powers that be. Also, I'm trying to start a web comic series on my blog: See you this evening or Saturday, Yours Jimmy MG les coulisses mecaniques la chronique velue Labels: new books, news, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - House of Sugar: comic strips by Rebecca KraatzThe inaugural publication from Hope Larson's new imprint, Tulip Tree Press, is now available for purchase online. The book is House of Sugar by Halifax cartoonist Rebecca Kraatz. We here at Sequential haven't seen a copy yet, but the book is being solicited in the December Previews and should be in comic book stores by February. Meanwhile, a few reviews are out. Labels: Halifax, new books, news, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Scott Pilgrim NowBryan Lee O'Malley posts his recent Scott Pilgrim strip from Toronto's Now Magazine over at his livejournal site. Labels: new books, news, people - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Kowsar on Mana NeyestaniIranian Cartoonist Seeks Safe Haven In a press release from the International Cartoonists Rights Network, Nik Kowsar, the exiled Iranian cartoonist who now lives in Canada, talks about Mana Neyestani, another Iranian cartoonist who has just left Iran and is looking for a new home: Neyestani's months-long search for an appropriate visa has been followed by his cartooning colleagues and they are alarmed that UNHCR seems to be his last resort. "Western countries who claim to have enlightened policies in support of freedom of expression like to have their cake and eat it, too," said Nik Kowsar, a cartoonist who encountered Iranian protesters in 2000 due to one of his cartoons. He, too, fled Iran and now lives in Canada. "They position themselves as supporting freedom of expression, but now make achieving asylum almost impossible for the individual who is at risk for exercising it." Kowsar serves on the board of directors of Cartoonists Rights Network, International. Cartoonists Rights Network, International - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, November 27, 2006 Monday Morning Links ![]() Comics-related links from here and there: 1. Scott Chantler is profiled in the Toronto Star about his Northwest Passage series and has a few words to say about the evolution of the graphic novel:
Chantler was scheduled to be at the Triple Threat event in Toronto last night. The Star hypes the event and ABC news has a piece on female manga fans that quotes Svetlana Chmakova. 2. Expozine In addition to Jack Ruttan's slide show that Max linked to yesterday: -Comics and Collectibles has a few photos -Manga pornographer and Miss Dynamite artist Sirkowski has a great dark and blurry YouTube video over at Eva's Blog of Terror -D+Q has Gabrielle Bell in rehearsal -Denyse Juncot has a few comments about new discoveries from the show -BDQuebec forums have a link to a Flickr set and a brief show/buying report 3. Aislin provides some nice full-colour illos for Mordecai Richler Was Here. 4. Robin Crossman The Victoria BC Victoria news profiles local cartoonist Robin Crossman who has a show on at a local coffee house. Crossman has worked in animation and for Sesame Street and is currently working on a Gary-Larson-style strip, apparently. 5. BlogTO pimps 3rd Quadrant Comics in Toronto 6. Michel Viau posts some pics from last week's Salon du Livre de Montreal. Labels: British Columbia, events, links, news, Ontario, people, Quebec, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, November 26, 2006 Expozine 06 photosSunday after, the dust has settled, and another Expozine is done. I did very well myself, sold about 30 books in all, including more than 15 of my newest. There will be more undoubtedly to say, including soon we hope the announcements of the 2nd Expozine Alternative Press Awards. But for now we have Photos. Taken by local writer/artist Jack Ruttan, here are first in!. Jack's been very thorough, so if you click on the pics, you'll get some info. Only thing in...where am I!? Well, I'm sure one man cant have taken the whole show, but if any of you out there have some photos from the event or even better stories, send us a link and we'll be more than happy to post them! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, November 24, 2006 RevolveR Two Co: Salgood SamSo I was waiting to post this till I knew for sure I'd have this done - there were some last minute problems with the printing, and the reprints for One didn't work out so I won't have more than a few of those on hand, but... Just in time for the holiday season, RevolveR Two will be lunched at this weekend's Expozine in Montreal. As with the first, this edition of RevolveR will be a bit of a mix, but mostly it features the first 33 page instalment of Therefore Repent!, a new Novel I'm working on with Jim Munroe. Set in a Chicago neighbourhood after The Rapture, once the righteous have floated bodily into the sky, and life goes on pretty much as usual for the immoral majority. Except that magic works, if you're willing to risk demonic mutations. CNN reports that Mr. Christ and Mr. Bush are on a speaking tour of the red states. And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners. But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world; the end of their relationship. In the tradition of The Book of Revelations, Therefore Repent! is a lurid dark fantasy tale. Taking apocryphal scripture as literal truth the story explores the political and spiritual ramifications of God abandoning humanity, and humanity abandoning itself. Also there are illustrations, and a few peeks at Dream Life, a second Novel, that I'm currently finishing the script for. Cover price is $5, 40 pages of art, colour cover, 7" x 8.5". Available via the site here as of the 26th of November. See you at Expozine! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - This Weekend: Toronto Pow Wow, Triple Threat, etcComics-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." Labels: British Columbia, events, news, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, November 23, 2006 Dave Cooper's Garage SaleYou won't know what he's selling unless you go: "more than 30 local artists are hoping to sell all the art they've made for the new exhibition Design Emporium at SAW Gallery's annual fundraising garage sale dubbed Item. The exhibition was originally created to draw attention to the ingenuity of the local arts community with designers, architects, fashionistas, photographers and illustrators coming up with redesigns of everyday objects. But when curator Stefan St-Laurent saw the mind-boggling imagination and productivity at work, he also saw a chance for Item to raise more money for the gallery. So now, patrons will be able to buy one-of-a-kind artifacts -- costing between $1-$1,000 with the majority falling in the $50-$100 range -- by local notables such as architect Douglas Cardinal, illustrator Dave Cooper, cartoonist Howie Tsui and 2006 Sobey Art Award-winner Annie Pootoogook." ottawasun.com - Other Showbiz - Household items turned to art for SAW auction Labels: people - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, November 22, 2006 L'oie de Cravan ProfileEric Lamiot interviews Benoit Chaput over at BEDEKA.ORG. Chaput is the publisher of L'Oie de Cravan, the small Montreal publisher behind books by Genevieve Castree, Simon Bosse and Julie Doucet, among others. The interview covers the intersection between poetry (another of l'Oie's specialities) and bande dessinee. (Google translation)
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Comics in the TrashThis profile of the Lt. Governor of Ontario, James K. Bartleman, a career diplomat and former Chretien advisor, has one of the most affecting tales of comics literacy ever. In a discussion of his drive to stock libraries in Native communities, the article delves into a very interesting fact about Bartleman's early years, noting that when: "Bartleman was a child, his family was so poor, he and his three siblings learned to read from comic books abandoned at the town dump. Sudbury - Northern Life - Lt. Gov. has made job crusade against illiteracy, racism - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Shahid Mahmood: the latestIn the wake of the Harper government's announced plans to implement a version of secret U.S. no-fly lists --lists of suspected terrorists who are not allowed on planes-- comes an update on Canadian editorial cartoonist Shahid Mahmood's efforts to find out why he is on a U.S. list and why Canadian airlines seem to be taking their cues from foreign governments. The oronto Star: "Shahid Mahmood is still awaiting an answer as to why he was denied a ticket for an Air Canada flight. Despite his tenacity, an impressive array of correspondence from government agencies and an appearance in Parliament, Mahmood is really no closer to finding out on what list his name appears, why it's listed, or if it's a case of mistaken identity. All he has been told is that in 2004, Canada did not have a no-fly list. He has been left to speculate that the airline was using an American list on a domestic flight, a claim Air Canada denies. Mahmood said he is also haunted by a meeting he and his wife had last February with a senior official in former transport minister Jean Lapierre's office. According to Mahmood, the official had specifically requested that the three meet away from his office because he had to tell them something in confidence. Mahmood's plight had already been covered in the Star, and two days before the official contacted him, he had given an extensive interview with CBC radio. So Mahmood drove to Ottawa, believing, he said, he would finally get answers. Instead, Mahmood claims, the official had the facts of his case wrong, and then asked him about his politics. "The first thing he said," Mahmood recalled in an interview this week was "`why do you think you're on the list? Don't you think what you do is enough to get you on the watch list,'" which Mahmood took as a reference to his editorial cartoons that are often critical of American foreign policy. Mahmood also claimed that the official told him the more media attention he seeks, "the thicker his file" becomes." - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - AC CubedAC Cubed, the annual Ottawa anime convention, wrapped up over the weekend. Anime fans seem different from comics fans --they experience their hobby mostly in groups and there is lots of dancing. A much more colorful culture in many ways. Anyway, besides group viewings of Japanese cartoons and a big dealers room, the convention offered a modicum of comic-related content, including panels on webcomics, manga dealers, and tons of cosplay. On hand were webcomics/animation entrepreneurs Les Major & Mandy St. Jean, and Gisele Lagace, creator of the now-defunct Cool Cat Studio webcomic and comic book series as well as the newish Peggy and Aggie webcomic --a professional, slick teenage humour strip with overtones of Archie, but hipper (Lagace has been courted by the Archie folks but nothing has materialized except some Josie and the Pussycat samples --Archie may be too lame for her). The convention has been running for 3 years now, put on by an Ottawa anime society known as SOAP. Their forums have lots of discussion about the con, including memories and photos, like this set from a dealer who was at the show. Princess Mononoke meets glo-sticks. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, November 20, 2006 Expozine 2006: Montreal's annual small press, comic and zine fair!Co:Andy Brown ![]() This year's fifth anniversary edition of Expozine will take place on Saturday, November 25, 2006 from 11 am to 6 pm, at 5035 St-Dominique, between St-Joseph and Laurier. FREE. This incredible event brings together over 200 creators of all kinds of printed matter in both English and French. In the past five years, Expozine has grown to become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from as far afield as Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, and Quebec City! It is one of the city's cultural success stories, and this year's edition promises to be the biggest yet! This year we are celebrating our 5th year of bringing alternative culture to the people by throwing an anniversary party. The event will take place in the same location, after the fair, with the doors opening at 9 pm. The show will be FREE and will feature: -The spoken word stylings of Corey Frost, launching an updated version of his book My Own Devices: Airport Version (conundrum). -The powerpoint doodlings of Gabrielle Bell in town from New York to launch her graphic novel Lucky (Drawn and Quarterly). -The sketch artistry of Simon Paquet with Stéphane Surprenant as well as Stéphanie Millar with MC Jean Giscagne. -The hilarous tales of Ryan Arnold, in town from Vancouver, launching The Coward Files (conundrum). -Music by Firewood for the Sun. -Prizes, raffles, fun... For more information and to see a list of sponsors: www.expozine.ca Expozine acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Communiqué de presse Pour diffusion immédiate Expozine 2006: le salon montréalais des petits éditeurs, des bandes dessinées et des zines ! Montréal, le 17 novembre 2006 - La cinquième édition aura lieu samedi le 25 novembre 2006, de 11h à 18h, au sous-sol de l¹Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus, au 5035, rue Saint-Dominique, entre Saint-Joseph et Laurier. L¹entrée est GRATUITE. Cet événement incoyable rassemble plus de 200 créateurs de la chose imprimée, autant en anglais et en français. Ces dernières cinq années, Expozine a grossi de façon à devenir un des plus gros salons en Amérique du Nord, attirant des milliers de visiteurs autant que des exposants provenant d¹aussi loin que Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa et Québec ! C¹est un des success story culturel montréalais, et l¹édition de cette année promet d¹être la plus grosse jamais tenue. Cette année, nous célébrons notre cinquième anniversaire consacré à la diffusion de la culture alternative en organisant un party d¹anniversaire. L¹événement a lieu au même endroit que le salon, après celui-ci. Les portes ouvriront à 21 heures. Le spectacle est gratuit et on pourra y voir et entendre : -Une performance spoken word de Corey Frost, qui lancera une nouvelle version de son livre My Own Devices: Airport Version (conundrum). -Les griffonnages powerpoint de Gabrielle Bell, qui vient de New York pour lancer son roman graphique Lucky (Drawn and Quarterly). -Les sketchs de Simon Paquet, de Stéphane Surprenant ainsi que Stéphanie Millar et MC Jean Giscagne. -Les contes hilarants de Ryan Arnold, qui vient de Vancouver spécialement pour lancer son livre The Coward Files (conundrum). La musique de Firewood for the Sun. -Des prix, des tirages, des surprises et du plaisirŠ Pour obtenir plus d¹information et pour connaître la liste des commanditaires de l¹événement : www.expozine.ca Expozine est rendu possible grâce au soutien du Conseil des arts du Canada. Labels: British Columbia, events, news, Ontario, Ottawa, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Ryan North and WikipediaI'm probably the last person on the internet to blog about this but since I read about it in an actual hard copy newspaper last Friday, it actually qualifies as pretty close to news (and since it involves a made-in-Canada comic strip, this is the place where you'd expect to see it, since Sequential is compelled by law to link to every Canuck comics-related story online). So: prankish Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North has incited a spate of Wikipedia vandalism by proposing a method to curb Wikipedia vandalism. I would say "ironically" but the term doesn't really apply. Anyway, North, whose clip-art style strip is generally smart and contemporary, as well as quite tech-savvy, suggested in one of his strips that the Wikipedia gods sacrifice a boring entry (the entry on Chickens) to people who love to mess with Wiki entries, adding false info, etc. This would, Ryan reasoned, tongue-in-cheek, leave all the rest of the entries for the truth-lovers out there. Predictably, minor nerd chaos ensued. The whole affair is written up by Ivor Tussell at the Globe and Mail. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Toronto Comic Book Fan SuperShow The Toronto Comic Book Fan SuperShow, a relatively tiny 70-table convention put on by the Paradise Comics/Toronto Comicon folks, was held yesterday. I'm sure there will be more community coverage elsewhere but for now, Alison of Paradise comics blogs the show from set up to tear down, including lots of pics of vendors and artists alley (that's a cropped version of one of her photos above). As well, Jason Truong files a short report, including a shopping list and Dale Keown sketch. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, November 17, 2006 This Weekend ![]() Events -Toronto Comic Book Fan Supershow Sunday, November 19th, 11AM-5PM Featuring over 20 exhibitors and cartoonist guests like Dale Keown, Ken Lashley, J. Bone, Sean Ward, and Jim Craig (70s Marvel artist and co-creator of 3-D Man with Roy Thomas). Craig also illustrated the Canadian superhero The Northern Light for seminal fanzines Orb Magazine and Power Comics. Holiday Inn at 370 King Street West, Regency Ballroom] admission is $5 (kids under 12 free with adult) http://www.torontocomicon.com -Gilded Lilies Booklaunch Wright Award-nominated Jillian Tamaki launches her latest collection in Toronto. Sunday, November 19th @ 8PM The Cameron House (Back Room), 408 Queen St. West FREE (Gilded Lilies review at Frequential) -Salon du Livre de Montreal This giant event featuring lots of cartoonists continues all weekend. (see yesterday's post) News and Reviews -Chris Butcher reviews the first issue of Steve MacIsaac's Shirtlifter, "an examination of contemporary gay relationships set against the backdrop of Japanese culture and a stage-performance of the classic kept-woman play [sic?] 'Madame Bovary'." -The Toronto Star reports on an Ontario government website that uses cartoons as part of a "campaign on dating violence and sexual harassment" that "encourages equal, healthy relationships between boys and girls." Labels: Ontario, Quebec, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Salon du Livre de MontrealMichel Viau posts all the cartoonist appearances for the Salon du Livre de Montreal, the giant book festival that begins November 16th, at the BD Quebec Forums. Besides many of the usual suspects, visitors like Jeff Smith will be making appearances as well. ![]() Labels: Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, November 14, 2006 More on Censorship in CanadaSimon of Manga porn publisher Icarus talks about the recent kerfuffle over Lost Girls by Canada Customs, placing the censorship of the graphic novel in context. Everyone knows Canada Customs is capricious and illogical, but this blog post has some nice links to a watchdog group and earlier cases. Labels: links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Johnston talks about ending Strip(via Journalista!) In an interview with the Grand Rapids Press in Michigan, For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston talks about ending the long-running strip and her plans for the future:
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, November 13, 2006 Monday Morning LinkologyTidbits of note from the world of Canadian Comix Culture: 1. Gordie Brown, the king of Las Vegas, was once a political cartoonist in Ottawa, according to this Ottawa Citizen profile. 2. City tv: Etobicoke artist creates comic book blaming Toronto Mayor for toxic mold. 3. Chris Butcher has a preview of some retro Cold War-themed DVD box art by Darwyn Cooke. 4. Publisher La Pasteque is resting on its laurels, declaring the publishing year over with 12 new graphic novels/albums and 3 reprints published! Labels: Ontario, Ottawa, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, November 10, 2006 Elle Humour : Doucet Booklaunch in Montreal ![]() Julie Doucet and U.S. cartoonist Brian Chippendale are launching their respective book projects next week in Montreal, according to publisher Dan Nadel:
Labels: Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Rebecca Dart InterviewJeff Vandemeer for Bookslut offers a short interview with Rebecca Dart about her 2004 Wright Award-nominated book Rabbithead, whic is included in the Harvey Pekar-edited Best American Comics anthology (described by the Onion as "more story-oriented and overtly political than the medium tends to be these days"): I was watching a Polish Movie from 1965 called the Saragossa Manuscript. It's a great movie, a little long and slow in some parts, where a couple of characters start to tell a story and the narrative switched to that story and this continues until you have all these stories that have to wait their turn to be told. I thought this was a really neat structure, but it was easy to get lost and forget who was whom. I thought it would work better as a comic [because] you could have the stories running simultaneously on the same page. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, November 09, 2006 Canada Customs Admits Lost GirlsThe excerpts from the "thoughtful letter" from our censors and tax-collectors are hilarious and sad. via The Beat: Top Shelf Productions is pleased to announce that the Canada Border Services Agency (Canada Customs) has formally cleared Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's LOST GIRLS for importation into Canada. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, November 08, 2006 Ollmann / Brown book launchFrom Insomniac Press: Insomniac Press present Labels: British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Chuckle BrothersThe Ottawa Citizen profiles the sibling creators of a new daily panel, The Chuckle Bros. In this newspaper and others across the country, Chuckle Bros, a single-panel comic strip he co-created with his brother Ron and area illustrator Ronnie Martin, is making its debut. Labels: Ottawa - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, November 07, 2006 Lost Girls Banned in CanadaLost Girls, the new graphic novel by UK writer-artist team Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie has been declared pornagraphic and banned in Canada by Canada Customs, according to Matt at blogT.O.. The book, published by U.S. publisher Top Shelf, is printed overseas. "When I called The Beguiling a couple of weeks ago to ask after additional copies, though, I was told that the publisher had explicitly asked them to stop selling Lost Girls in Toronto, until their appeal against Canada Customs can go through. In the meantime, Chapters has put a hold on all orders for the book in Canada, and most of the other comic book stores in the city won't stock it, or weren't ever planning to. Writing in a comment on the same blog, Beguiling employee Chris Butcher notes that the Beguiling will continue to defy the import "ban". - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tracking Chester - some photos from Chester's book tour on flickrMark Saunders gets his book signed by Chester Brown at the recent signing at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg. This was taken by local artist Allan Lorde. There are more photos on his flickr site here. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, November 06, 2006 Degrassi: from TV to Comic to TVFor those keeping track, the J. Torres-penned series of Degrassi comics --an adaptation/continuation of a defunct Canadian tv series-- have become a moderate financial success and are in the weird position of being on the brink of tv adaptation. The TV Squad blog has all the links rounded up. Labels: links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Comics and Fashion in EdmontonThe Edmonton Journal profiles Jorden Oliwa, author of a graphic novel series set in Edmonton. The latest volume, E-Town Envy, was recently released to coincide with the launch of Oliwa's brother's clothing line. The two brothers head up related companies, No Dice INK and No Dice ThreadZ: "As the title of the latest book suggests, this chapter of the story is based in Edmonton and features characters dredged up from Jorden's life. Edmonton Journal: Staying in Character Labels: Edmonton - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, November 03, 2006 24hr Comics Day KingstonNick Csernak, the illustrator and cartoonist behind The Kitschen has put together ablog collecting the sometimes funny/sometimes beautiful/sometimes sad comics that resulted from 24Hour Comics day in Kingston a few weeks ago. The event took place at the Artel, an arts friendly hotel space in Kingston.
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, November 02, 2006 Some late photos from the 2006 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning! ![]() You can hear the Chester Brown and Seth interview here.... - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - The Carless Cartoon Collection ![]() Hamilton cartoonist Roy Carless is profiled in this Hamilton Spectator article archived at the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists website. The one-eyed, 86-year-old firebrand has just published a book collecting his work as a labour cartoonist. Carless has been an assembly-line worker, union organizer, and editorial-page mainstay during his varied career. His most prolific period was 1970-86 but he was in a car accident in 1990, losing an eye and the ability to draw. He snapped out of it in 2003 and has been back at the drawing board ever since. The book chronicles his growth as a cartoonist, tutelage under Duncan Macpherson and encounters with his famous subject matter, including Lyndon Johnson. ![]() (above: 2 labour cartoons from different periods) - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Kagan McLeod Wins Illustrator AwardsNational Post illustrator and Infinite Kung-Fu cartoonist Kagan McLeod has won two awards from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles as part of their "Illustration West" competition. "Mr. McLeod took the Patrick Nagel Award of Excellence, the society's second-highest award, for an illustration that was part of the Post's coverage of the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. He was also awarded the Silver Award in the editorial category for a Kung Fu illustration in the CanWest commuter publication Dose, which now publishes exclusively online." Full article - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - GENE SWARM - WORKS ON PAPER & PLASTIC -friday, nov. 3rd openingCO BILLY MAVREAS ![]() hey folks there is an art opening this friday, nov. 3rd at 6pm at le kop shop, 111 roy e. corner coloniale hope to see you there! -billy GENE SWARM - WORKS ON PAPER & PLASTIC RUPERT BOTTENBERG BILLY MAVREAS MARC NGUI LUKE RAMSEY - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, November 01, 2006 Drawing Table or Factory?The Ladysmith Chronicle profiles its editorial cartoonist, 52-year-old Rob Kernachan of Chemainus, B.C. When not drawing cartoons for two local papers, Kernachan puts in a full workday at the local Mill. Working-class hero material: Kernachan is always on the lookout for absurd or unfair situations. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Cameron Stewart: Live from VietnamThe Wizard magazine website posts a selection of Cameron Stewart's emails from Vietnam, where the Toronto cartoonist was researching The Other Side, his new miniseries from U.S. publisher Vertigo (DC Comics).(link via Journalista) Wizard Entertainment Labels: links, Ontario, Toronto - 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 - |