Wednesday, February 14, 2007  
Comics Love Letters

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/14/2007 12:01:00 AM
Happy St. Valentine's Day from Sequential!

Not much romantic going on in Canadian comics right now, unless you count all of the people who heart comics: people who create comics, people who find the love of their lives thru comics somehow (hint: try wearing a homemade Love and Rockets t-shirt on your second date --it worked for me!), and people who write blogs about comics. Below this entry you will also find a larger-than-usual helping of comics news and links about comics scholarship, exhibits, and webcomics. Some midweek links:

1. Mascot Battle. Ever since Conservative PM Harper muttered something about wolverines last week, the jokes haven't abated. Is the misanthropic, violent and stinky wolverine a better symbol for Canada than the industrious beaver? Let the blogosphere decide! I wanted to post pictures of John Byrne's Wolverine and Rand Holmes' cover to All Canadian Beaver Comics (or maybe Dave Sim's "The Beavers") but that seems like alot of work.

2. Blake Bell, the Toronto comics scholar and Steve Ditko expert, has a new blog with lots of interesting stuff (he's been doing a great job reviewing the Ignatz line of books from Fantagraphics, for instance). This post about "gateway comics" --those largely theoretical comics that might lead non-comics readers to become hardcore comics fans-- includes a short discussion of the "golden age" of 1980s alt comics output, including references to Dave Sim and Seth. Bell asks, what if non-superhero comics became so popular that "artists like Seth can abandon commercial illustration and start pumping out issues of Palookaville like Pez" (maybe forgetting that Seth has been devoting his time for the last six months almost exclusively to a weekly graphic novel serial for the New York Times?). Bell also talks about Seth and Sim in the context of the latest issue of Comic Art magazine.

3. There's a Joe Shuster Way? Learn how this blogger connects Chester Brown Bryan Lee O'Malley, and U.S. cartoonist Joe Shuster.

4. Lastly, Chris Butcher plugs a few webcomics at his blog, and includes a mini-review of Rosana Fung's Tomatoes and Other Stories.

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