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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Mid-Week Round-up
:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/02/2008 03:48:00 PM A collection of links to stories about comic books and cartooning in the Great White North:
-Canuck actor Michael Cera talks about the forthcoming Scott Pilgrim movie.
-U.S. cartoonist Art Spiegleman will be spealing at U of T on Thursday, April 4. He talks to the National post today about "political correctness" in Canada and the Muhammad cartoon event.
-Jeff Lemire's Tales from the Farm graphic novel, which has just had its second printing, has made the TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVEL LIST FOR 2008, compiled by Booklist, an organization of the American Library Association.
-humourist and cultural historian Derek McCormack writes about the history of sneezing powder for the Post.
-last week's launch of the graphic novel Skim in Toronto
-Skim is reviewed by online fashion mag Gloss here and by myself here.
-Library and Archives Canada has acquired a rare Dutch children's book about the Canadian liberation of The Netherlands in World War II.(link via bookninja)
-For those who missed it, Bart Beaty clears up a few issues in the comments section of Jeet Heer's blog post devoted to the recent Wertham debate.
-Joe Ollman and Julie Doucet are part of a show at Billy Mavreas' Gallerie Monastiraki in Montreal. Art We Like runs April 1 to May 4. The gallery is located at 5478 St-Laurent.Labels: events links, graphic novels, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto
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