Canadian Comix News & Culture
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Canadian Comix News
:: Posted by Bryan @ 9/11/2007 03:00:00 AM 
Another link round-up of comics and comics-related news from across the dominion:
1. Via The Beat comes this Editor and Publisher profile of Lynn Johnston explaining recent changes in her comic strip and recent major changes in her life (quick version: she's splitsville with her husband).
2. The Harvey Awards were handed out in Baltimore over the weekend, and several Canucks were honoured with awards named for the cartooning genius behind Mad, Frontline Combat, Trump, Goodman Beaver, and Help. Congratulations to J. Bone, Darwyn Cooke, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Niko Henrichon, and the Canadian contributors to the Flight anthology: Johane Matte, Michel Gagne, Kean Soo, and Matthew Forsythe! As well, D+Q tied with itself for the best foreign reprint award with Moomin and Abandon the Old in Tokyo.
3. Ho Che Anderson and Dave Cooper are among the cartoonists donating art to the Fantagraphics legal defense fund.
4. The CBC profiles Troy Little's Chiaroscuro. Originally self-published by its PEI creator, the book has been picked up by IDW in the U.S.
5. Nathalie Atkinson's quarterly round-up of graphic novels for the Globe and Mail focuses on comics for younger readers but includes Jeff Lemire's Essex County trilogy, the first two volumes of which have turned out to be one of the delights of 2007.
6. (Via BDQ Forums) The super-long-running Quebec comics anthology Mensuhell has been nominated for Best Fanzine by the Aurora Science Fiction Awards.
7. Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis gets a screening at TIFF.Labels: awards, Global Links, graphic novels, links, Lynn Johnston, misc, Quebec
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