• Zeros 2 Heroes' latest endeavour involves recruiting a writer for an internship at big video game company BioWare. According to the Z2H press release, the contest is being co-sponsored by the National Screen Institute, a tradeschool with 60% of its funding coming from government sources: "As part of increasing their capacity, BioWare has joined the NSI playWRITE competition --a Telefilm-funded collaboration between the National Screen Institute and Zeros 2 Heroes --as a partner who will provide an internship to a winner announced in August 2008. To find out how to pitch, go here.

• Vancouver cartoonist Jonathan Dalton was the hit of the Portland, Oregon comics convention, Stumptown, according to Tom Spurgeon.

• Related: Tom Spurgeon has some nice things to say about Canadian resident Hope Larson's Chiggers graphic novel.

• Want updates? Cartoonist Jason Copland (Mortal Coils, Digital Webbing Presents) has just created a monthly newsletter with the promise of free art.

• Law student and D+Q cartoonist talks to the National Post about his collection, All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood.

• The son of political cartoonist Yardley Jones, Spyder Yardley-Jones, is an artist in his own right.

• The Montreal Gazette profiles Jesse Heffring's attempt to produce a sci-fi graphic novel.

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