It's Comics Industry Night at The Vic! The last Friday of every month, comics industry pros and their friends are invited to come out and enjoy a drink at The Victory Cafe, just south of The Beguiling.
This month's event just happened to fall on Halloween, so what better way to celebrate than to officially launch Jeff Lemire's new graphic novel GHOST STORIES? Jeff will be doing a short reading, and we'll all enjoy a quick pint or two before heading out for our various spooky shenanigans.
Almost Missed this one...But I'll be there, not square!
Toronto
Hotel Canzine Sunday, October 28, 2007 The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin) 1pm - 7pm
$5 at the door gets you the new Horror Issue of Broken Pencil Magazine and access to hundreds of zines, all-day horror screenings, DIY Gore workshops, readings, and all sorts of other madness.
Canzine is an annual event organized by Broken Pencil, the Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts.
Contact Broken Pencil, PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S7, email: editor@brokenpencil.com, phone 416-204-1700
Hotel Canzine Giant Zine Fair!
Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale! The heart of the event, indie publishers both in print and online come from across the country and the continent to show their wares! Be amazed at the creativity, ingenuity, and sheer weirdness! (Those interested in booking tables can register online at www.brokenpencil.com.) Launch of the New Issue of Broken Pencil "Indie Horror"
Featuring Ghost Stories at the Canzine Camp Fire, all day Indie Horror Videos, and our Cheap Thrills Special Effects exhibit In celebration of the brand new Horror Issue that will launch at Canzine, we feature six great indie writers telling ghost stories in front of the Canzine Campfire. The fake log will be glowing weakly, the marshmallows will be room temperature straight from the bag, but that shiver up your spine will be real! Also: Canzine Gorefest! Take the Canzine workshop on do-it-yourself gore, then ham up your fake black eye, bloody lip and severed hand at our "Cheap Thrills Special Effects Exhibit". Plus: All day indie horror movies in the Canzine screening room.
The Canzine Whodunit
Help! Someone's killing local zinesters, picking them off one by one like ripe grapes plucked from the vine! Can you solve the crime and stop the serial destruction of our indie culture? This year, for the first time ever, Canzine will present an all day murder mystery game going on all over the Gladstone! Join the game and solve the crime or just watch the antics. Hotel Room Installations
Canada's brightest and weirdest will be creating one day unique environments to explore. Including: Tara Bursey's Haunted Room of worry bead diet pills and baby rat bedsheets. Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People's room of scary music and tortured puppets. Shannon Gerard's room of crocheted cancer prevention. The Special's room of mystery featuring the amazing Mysterion.
Campfire Ghost Story Readings
Sit around the Canzine campfire and enjoy 10 minute ghost stories throughout the day by great indie writers like Tony Burgess, Kate Story (an up-and-comer featured in our new horror issue), Maggie MacDonald and more! Free marshmallows! All Day Underground Video Screening
Open Screening and Curated program by James King. Special horror program. All are welcome to bring videos (VHS or DVD only, 10 minutes and under) to show to the world. Register in advance by emailing canzinevideo@brokenpencil.com. Or just show up with your video.
Workshops
Do It Yourself GoreFest: Special Effects on the Cheap
Indie Artist, Promote Yourself: A How-to Guide to DIY Promotion lead by indie promoter extraordinaire Trevor Coleman.
So there. You drink, you draw, the more you drink, the sillier your drawings get, and the more fun you have. There are gonna be people who can draw and people who can't draw. People who can drink and people who can't drink. And if you get bored with drawing (which you shouldn't because drunk drawing is FUN~) then you can just go look at other people's funny doodles -we usually maskin-tape them to the wall. Seriously, when was the last time you sat and drew, eh?
FR
Bon ben c'est simple, tu bois et tu dessines. Plus tu bois, plus tu dessines des niaiseries et plus c'est drôle. Il va y avoir des gens qui savent dessiner et des gens qui ne savent pas dessiner. Des gens qui savent boire et des gens qui ne savent pas boire. Et si vous vous tannez de dessiner vous pouvez vous promener et regarder les barbos des gens qui dessinent encore... on a l'habitude de les maskin-taper au mur. Mais sérieusement, quand est-ce que vous vous êtes assis pour dessiner la dernière fois? Hein, hein?
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 9:00pm to 2:00am 5390 St-Laurent Montréal, Qc drinkanddraw@gmail.com
Brad Mackay returns from Montreal with some pics of the D+Q Store opening. The store looks very nice, with a mix of classic comics collectibles and original books and art from some of the best living cartoonists.
We will be launching issue #17 of dtm comics next week, on Thursday Oct 25, 7pm - 10pm, at The Cobourg, a much-loved lounge/bar in Toronto's east end (visit link). We'll be handing out a smattering of drinks and snacks to help get the party started in it's comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.
Much has happened over the last year with Don't Touch Me. Dave Lapp and Dave Howard are very happy to announce they have been joined by Toronto Comic Jam co-ordinator Dalton Sharp, and local teacher and comics artist Nina Bunjevac, to round out the editorial team, and spread the work out.
Issue #17 is $7.00. Issue #16, the 'Animal' issue, edited by Dalton Sharp and released in February, will also be on sale, as well as other back issues.
All of the news and reports from the Rendez-vous International de la Bande Dessinee de Gatineau are at the BDQ Forums, including your guide to yesterday's panel discussion: "Are you a Franquin or an Herge?" This is one of the bigger comics events in Canada, with a very unique personality and international (albeit largely unilingual) focus.
Some news items from the world of Canadian comic books and graphic novels:
1. Chris Oliveros is profiled by the Montreal Mirror on the occasion of the launch of the D+Q store and the translation of Pascal Blanchet's White Rapids.
5. Trampoline Hall: Comics stenography is tonight! Come see a phalanx of Toronto's top cartooning talents record the proceedings of Toronto's top literary salon.
Don't forget the coming Comix jam will be at our new usual place of Cafe l'Utopik, 552 Ste-Catherine West, near Berri-UQAM metro, Next Thursday, October 25, 8PM. It will be a good time to tell each other scary and comix stories.
it's two days until the jam and I have still not been able to secure a venue. I've followed up on all of the leads that have been sent my way but none have panned out - either the place is already booked or they have some sort of event going on already.
I'm still looking, but things are not looking good for this month.
HOWEVER, someone brought to my attention that this Saturday is ALSO 24 Hour Comic Day. So, instead of meeting at one venue, why don't we have pockets of people meeting all over during the day (an idea suggested by someone else here) and then meeting later in the eve at a pub to celebrate. This way, we can have smaller groups pushing each other to create their 24 hour comic.
The easiest thing to do, might be to comment here or go over to the Crown Commission message board (www.crowncommission.com/phpbb2) and discuss in the VCJ October thread. Arrange where you guys want to meet. Suggest pubs and I guess we can all meet up at whatever seems to be the better idea.
As for venues -- I'm still looking. I'm open to all suggestions. I have a couple places that might work for November, but nothing for this month. What I would ideally like to do is find a cafe that is licenced and maybe closes earlier on a Saturday. I could pay for a staff member if they're willing to open up for us. OR, if there is a hall/meeting space/centre/theatre/whatever, that could be rented for a couple hundred bucks (or less) on a regular basis. It would have to be someplace that would allow us to serve booze.
it's the Rendez-vous International de la Bande Dessinee de Gatineau this week-end. Among the authors present, you'll find: Christian Darasse, Bosse, Boulet and Emmanuel Lepage (fron Europe), Francois Miville-Deschenes, Philippe Giriard (phlppgrrd) from Quebec. And this year, there will be some english-speaking cartoonists too: Tom Fowler and Bill Slavin.
"More fun than an idiot yeti investigating his grandfather's death in a seaside town"
For the month of October, Insomnia is displaying work from local comic art collective Transmission-X. TX is the brainchild of a group of Toronto-based career illustrators who are currently creating serialized graphic novels, available for free on the web at transmission-x.com. Come in and see a sampling of the comics, and on Sunday October 21st, from 7pm - 2am, we invite you to attend the Insomnia/TX party, where you can socialize with the artists, see more artwork, and watch a video presentation of TX:TV, the internet broadcast documenting the creative process behind Transmission-X.
News of the most recent Trampoline Hall event at Fort York featuring a bevy of Toronto area cartoonists in a cultural salon-type setting. The event takes place this coming Monday, Oct 22. More details soon. Confirmed cartoonists include: Zach Worton, Arthur de la Cruz, Ben Shannon, Steve Manale, Emily Holton, Shannon Gerard, Kagan McLeod, Roxanne Bielskis, Diana Tamblyn, Reverend Aitor, Stuart Immonen, Katherine Immonen, Blair Kitchen, and Jeff Lemire.
via organizer Sean Craig:
Wanna witness the first ever attempt at comics stenography?
Moved by the old American fable that recounts Francis Scott Key's inspiration to write the Star Spangled banner as he watched the bombardment of Baltimore's Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, I've decided to drag a ragtag team of Toronto's best comics artists to Fort York and have them document the city's most famous literary salon and lecture series, Trampoline Hall, with their artistic medium. You'll get to see lectures by non-experts. You'll see hipster girls, who tend to be very cute. You'll drink beer.
All this will take place at Fort York's Blue Barracks next Monday, October 22nd at 8pm sharp (show early, no latecomers admitted!).
Tickets are five bucks and sell out in a heartbeat. Trampoline Hall always sells out. If you'd like to be on the guest list for the show, let me know and I'll reserve a spot or two for you.
Read about Trampoline Hall at http://www.trampolinehall.net
The show has been covered by everyone from the New Yorker to the Globe and Mail to the Toronto Star. This is a great opportunity for the city's comics community to make inroads with the city's literary and visual arts scenes, both of which are heavily involved in Trampoline Hall.
In conjunction with the launch of Pascal Blanchet's White Rapids, Drawn and Quarterly hosts the grand opening of their new store front operation in Montreal this Friday, 7 PM. Pascal will be presenting and signing White Rapids. See the entry from Oct. 1st for his awesome poster... To mark the occasion the D&Q crew have wrangled posters out of two D+Q artists - the one of the left here is Julie Doucet's.
That's about it for info on the shop for now, but there are photos of, taken by local aspiring photographer Alison Naimark.
On White Rapids, by Pascal Blanchet
Award-winning Quebecois cartoonist Pascal Blanchet's graphic novel is a compelling account of the rise and fall of the small northern town of White Rapids. In the first English translation of his work, Blanchet seamlessly blends fact and fiction as he weaves together the official history of the town and snapshots of the quotidian life of its residents. Founded in 1928 in an isolated region of Quebec forest, the town was conceived and constructed by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company to function as a fully-equipped, self-contained living community for workers at the nearby dam and their families. Intended as an incentive to lure workers to the remote and inaccessible region, White Rapids provided its residents with all the luxuries of middle-class modern life in a pastoral setting - until the town was abruptly shut down in 1971, when the company changed hands.
Blanchet's unique, streamlined, retro-inspired aesthetic draws on Art Deco and fifties Modernist design to vividly conjure up idyllic scenes of lazy summer days and crisp winter nights in White Rapids, transporting the reader back to a more innocent time.
Misanthropia Chapter One: is the opening act of a bizarre and entertaining story that takes place in the past, in the future and in the subconscious. It follows Paul Saint-Claire, a ne’er-do-well who finds himself stranded on a tropical island. Dumbfounded with amnesia, he enlists the aid of a mysterious woman to help reassemble his shattered memories. His journey draws him back through his horrifying jobs, and tenacious revenge fantasies.
This book is the first in a three part trilogy, as planed now the first is 48pgs. $8.95. the next will be 96, and the finally 128.
The festivities are to start at 9:30/10pm not sharp. 5311 Ave du Parc, unit 310, Montreal, Qc.
The official book launch of the 'Chiaroscuro' graphic novel by Troy Little, published by IDW Publishing (Transformers, 30 Days of NIght, Star Trek)!
Come by and meet the author/illustrator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on November 9th at 7 pm. Get your book signed with a sketch! Books will be available for sale at the show compliments of The Comic Hunter.
Over 40 pages of original art are on display from the graphic novel as well as works by Seth, Charmaine Wheatly, Marc Gallant & Robet Harris as part of the on going "...And Other Stories" exhibit.
Chiaroscuro is the story of Steven Patch, an unemployed artist with a single blank canvas. Steven's busy living the introspective, angst-ridden life of your average twenty-something; drinking too much and complaining about his situation while doing little to improve it. A case of mistaken identity pushes Steven into a flow of events that bring him places he'd never imagined and forces him to make a choice between art and mere existence.
Six months after the events of the first volume, "After the Cape II" #1 finds Ethan in worse shape than ever and with even more on the horizon. Trouble is on its way in the form of the Russian Mob, with whom Ethan became entangled previously, as well as his former teammates from the United Heroes, a group he alienated deeply when they discovered how low he'd sunk. Worst of all, Ethan's wife Ellen and their children have left him, and she's determined to move on.
"After the Cape" is by most standards an indie comics success story. Then an aspiring writer, Wong placed an ad online in hopes of finding someone to illustrate his story. Artist Marco Rudy answered the call, and their collaboration in-progress caught the attention of Image co-founder Jim Valentino, who worked closely with the pair of first-time creators to fine-tune their project into a three-issue miniseries that exceeded all parties' expectations.
Passing through Edmonton, comic book writer Derek McCulloch flashes back to the heady days of the black and white glut:
This is McCulloch's first graphic novel, but he's had a long history within the comic-book universe. In the '80s, he joined a coalition of comic book enthusiasts, which would eventually come to be known as Strawberry Jam Comics. Through this group, a total of 14 issues of two titles were published in a time that McCulloch refers to as the "black-and-white boom."
"[The boom] followed the advent of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, when all of a sudden, a whole bunch of people at the same time realized that it was actually pretty cheap to publish a black and white comic book," he recalls. "And, as evidenced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it didn’t really have to be that good to do very well.
"Following the boom, very quickly there was a bust," he continues. "Unfortunately, our publication schedule was very erratic, and we managed to put out a bunch of them before the boom happened, and a bunch of stuff after the bust happened. So we completely missed the window when there was money to be made."
Memorial University's The Muse student newspaper profiles George F. Walker, whose new woodcut novel is part and parcel of a revived interest in the genre, including the work of Canadian cartoonist Laurence Hyde:
"We can naturally read symbols," said Walker to the small group cluttered inside the Eastern Edge Gallery on Sunday afternoon.
"These artists were aware of comic books and the funnies in the newspaper. They were aware of sequence-based art, and how you can tell a story just in images. It's not a new thing. Even the Egyptians knew it. Cavemen knew it. It's in us."
Some of the earliest works of engraved literature have fallen to the wayside, says Walker, because their art was often leftist and therefore repressed.
But Walker believes we owe a great deal to these early, wordless storytellers. So he selected four stories from his personal collection, edited the original prints in Adobe Photoshop, and reproduced them for the world.
"I said to the publisher, 'You have to reproduce these artists or otherwise they'll fall into obscurity,'" he said.
"They had been the inspiration for other artists who had gone on to create the graphic novels in the 20th century we're so familiar with, like Will Eisnor's Contract With God and Maus by Art Spiegelman, which have made a great impact and brought the graphic novel out of the darkness of being just comic relief and funny paper entertainment, to serious literature," he said.
The Comic Books Bin's Herve St-Louis issues a manifesto/business plan for developing something he calls a "Local Comic Book Industry":
Several cities, such as Montreal, have jamming sessions organized by local comic book creators. Why not try to schedule one of them during a comic book convention and invite the public to watch how comics are made on the spot? One of the best cross promotion effort I have witnessed was in 2005 at a Montreal fashion and art show with a comic book theme. The problem organizers had was convincing local comic book artists to participate with the organization. They were reluctant to see paintings and sculptures inspired by comic book themes.
It strikes me that there are already several thriving "local comic book industries" in this country and in the U.S. that have developed both organically and through various forms of central planning since 1980, but St-Louis' article, besides including some impressive business-school-style graphics, has some interesting suggestions.
So, I just got off the phone with Original Joe's. They called to cancel our reservation for the Comic Jam on the 20th (UFC again!). With this, I feel that it's time to look elsewhere. So, if anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears. I don't want to move the date, so I would need to find something for the 20th.
At this point, I am prepared to pay for a hall or studio rental for the night -- provided we can serve booze.
Here is the criteria:
•Must be somewhat central or easily accessible via transit. •Must be open/available until at least midnight. •Must have tables/chairs and be able to accommodate up to 40 people.
Any studio, hall or cafe might be a good place.
Anyhow, if anyone has any ideas, please let me know asap. I don't want to have to cancel 2 months in a row.
Part of SLG new digital comics line [Eyemelt.com] is Contraband, a sophomore title from writer TJ Behe [can] and cartoonist Phil Elliott [uk].
Some months ago, cartoonist Phil Elliott was approached on the street by a teenage girl asking for money. It's a sad but common enough occurrence in cities, but when Elliott refused, the situation became something much different from anything he'd experienced. "A younger kid -- he must have only been about ten -- started swearing at me, 'Give us some ******* money!'" he recalled. "I was then aware that there was another girl filming all this on her mobile phone. What was going on here? Were they trying to provoke me? What happened to the video?"
The incident took on a greater significance for Elliott when writer Thomas Behe contacted him to see if he were interested in drawing a comic he'd written, which explores a voyeuristic underground where profit-hungry youths prowl the streets secretly filming violence and catastrophes with mobile devices. That comic became Contraband, the new digital comic from SLG Publishing, distributed on their online comics site Eyemelt.com.
The four-issue series will begin its serialization in October 2007, and a print collection of Contraband will be published in February 2008. A preview is available here at SLG's website, www.slgcomic.com.
Behe was inspired to write the story after he noticed people worrying about cell phones. "The new concerns were more social-related," he said. "Kids receiving intimidating texts from class bullies. A mate of mine was even propositioned to subscribe to some sort of spy-cam exhibitionist mobi-blog. I had no idea why these folks were secretly filming everyone, but there was tons of stuff on there."
In the near-future society of Contraband, bands of content-hungry amateurs armed with camera phones record violent scenes, some of which they instigate, to satisfy society's demand for ever more shocking on-the-go entertainment. Toby, a self-styled "citizen journalist," is documenting this underground when he is discovered by agents for a cell-phone channel called Contraband. Forced to work for them, Toby is assigned the task of finding a female activist set on sabotaging Contraband and must navigate a difficult path where he must choose between his own safety and the greater good.
Woven throughout Contraband are key elements of modern wireless communication, including text messaging, online blogging, avatars and alerts, gaming and live video broadcast, reflecting Behe's vision of a future society in which people can view customized video content on their mobile phones.This vision was part of what drew Elliott, a respected cartoonist known for his work on Illegal Alien and the SLG graphic novel Tupelo. "Contraband interweaves the controversial aspects of the mobile phone industry with a storyline involving a disparate bunch of characters who find themselves drawn together by the device in their pocket," said Elliott. "Each character has a story to tell and each one of them needs to find a way to come to terms with their predicament."
Contraband is available now at www.eyemelt.com, downloadable in PDF format for only $0.89. New issues will be added monthly. The SLG Publishing print graphic novel will be available for pre-order at comic book stores in December 2007. For more information about comic book publisher SLG Publishing, visit their website at www.slgcomic.com.
Kicking off the Expozine launch season, Cumulus Press presents EXTRACTION! A new Journalistic graphic novel about the dirty business of global resource extraction in the 21st century.
Edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier & David Widgington. Featuring comix art by Joe Ollmann, Phil Angers, Ruth Tait & Stanley Wany. Reportage by Dawn Paley, Petr Cizek, Sophie Toupin & Tamara Herman. And additional illustration by Alain Reno, Jeff Lemire & Carlos Santos.
Since 2000, most energy and mineral prices have been skyrocketing. Junior mining prospectors and unscrupulous transnational corporations rush into new territories to suck what's hot out of the earth's lucrative veins. In today's gas, oil and mining industries, the pace of exploration, extraction, transformation and delivery of the world's resources is mind boggling. The German magazine Der Spiegel speaks of a Third World War for the world's resources. It is more like a blitzkrieg.
EXTRACTION! looks into the exploration, exploitation and extraction of oil, uranium, bauxite and gold, from a common-good social justice perfective.
David Widgington Cumulus Press 514-523-1975 info AT cumuluspress DOT com
EXTRACTION! Comix Reportage Edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington November 2007 ISBN 978-0-9782474-1-6 128 pages
Some reports from the various Word on the Street events from last week. I spent a fun 2 hours at the Toronto event myself. Brad Mackay and I talked onstage about cartoonists from Canada's past. Later, we watched Chester Brown talk about the series of strips he did for the Live with Culture program. Chester created a zombie romance comic that is currently being serialized in NOW magazine --his first new published work in a while! Chester is very funny and it's too bad that the Live with Culture hierarchy nixed putting his strip on giant banners around the city (the banners they are currently using have generic clip-art style images on them). I also took in the panel on artist/writer collaborations hosted by Chris Butcher. Writers Jim Munroe and Ray Fawkes talked about divvying up the cash and riding herd on artists, while artist Willow Dawson talked about how not to waste a cartoonist's time if you have a pitch to make. This panel was a real eye-opener for me in the sense that there were people (wannabe published writers, mostly) actually taking notes and asking questions about how to meet cartoonists, etc. Butcher is a good host for these sorts of events and kept the ball rolling smoothly. Most of the talks at the Comics and Graphic Novels tent had a fair crowd of between 25 and 50 people. The Beguiling had a book table set up as well as its own tent where artists were doing signings, as did several comics publishers.
Award-winning graphic novel writer and former Edmonton resident Derek McCulloch will return to his old stomping grounds this October to pass on a little of what he's learned about the blues in his time in America. On Friday, October 5th, McCulloch will appear first at Happy Harbor comics, where he will sign copies of his graphic novel, Stagger Lee. Later that evening, he will appear at the Edmonton Public Library, where he will give a slide show and lecture on the history and myth of Stagger Lee.
Appearing with Derek is local comic historian and professional reviewer Tim Lasiuta who will be signing copies of his book "Brush Strokes With Greatness - Life & Times of Joe Sinnott" and will be available to talk to fans about other great comic legends. You can listen to Tim's weekly, live comic webcast on World News Radio's COMIC ZONE every Wednesday at 2 pm Pacific!
Friday, October 5th, 4 p.m - 6 p.m. - Signing at Happy Harbor Comics, 10112 - 124 Street, (780) 452-8211 7 p.m. - Slide show, reading, Q&A, and signing at Edmonton Public Library, Centre Core, Centre for Reading and the Arts, Stanley A Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, (780) 496-7000
Thanks to Kevin Boyd, this story from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, which claims that Now and Then, the venerable Kitchener comic book store, was to close by the end of September. Now and Then's closing has been erroneously reported here and elsewhere previously, so I am holding my tongue. The last time I was in the store (June 2007) owner Dave Kostis claimed that he was moving to a new location but was not closing. Kostis is not quoted in the Record article:
Sim was not the only local cartoonist supported by Now and Then. Kremer carried the work of fledgling area artists as well.
For instance, before Rick Taylor of Mississauga began drawing books for DC Comics, Kremer sold his Wordsmith book series at Now and Then, said Mel Taylor, Rick's cousin and collaborator on the book Bootleg Comics & Stories.
Kremer would help young people interested in comics by giving them jobs at the store. Sim worked there in his early 20s, while Peter Birkemoe, now co-owner of The Beguiling comics store in Toronto, worked at Now and Then in his teens.
The current owner, Dave Kostis, also worked under Kremer. Kostis bought the store after Kremer's death. It would have been almost impossible for Kostis to live up to the standard set by Kremer, Mel Taylor said. Even after he died, people referred to the store as "Harry's" rather than by its official name.
"People were so heartbroken when he died," Taylor said. "I seriously think it was a phenomenal thing to take on your shoulders."
"Dave's had to live with that, to put it succinctly." Kostis declined to be interviewed for this story. For months, the store has been open irregularly, and its phone has been disconnected. But the comics community is not going to let the store die without its due regards.
"We're actually planning a wake," Brast said. "A lot of people are going to get together and celebrate the store and tell stories."
Catching up with some news links that we missed over the last little while :
1. David Watkins, a teacher at Weston Collegiate Institute in Toronto is being awarded a Governor General Award for history teaching: "In one assignment students, after studying a newspaper article about the Hero Deficit within the Black community, create a super hero who addresses problems exclusive to Black people. They design a costume and come up with abilities relevant to their environment. They also dream up a character flaw for their hero. The project concludes with the creation of a one-page comic strip."
2. Herve St-Louis profilesFisher by Philip Street.
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