Canadian Comix News & Culture

   Monday, June 23, 2008  
Monday Gazette

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/23/2008 04:01:00 AM


A miscellany of comics-related links.

1. After-the-Rapture-all-graphic-novels-will-have-trailers Dept.: Sequential's own Salgood Sam has put together a trailer for Therefore Repent, the graphic novel he created with Jim Munroe.

2. Listen-Closely Dept: Jamie Coville has audio recordings of several panels from last week's Sequential Art Symposium/Joe Shuster Awards.

3. Comics-are-Art Dept: The KRAZY! exhibit in Vancouver slights video games in favour of comics, etc, according to this Globe review.

4. Real-World Dept: More on one of the saddest stories of the year has got to be this tale of the 9-year-old autistic comic book collector from Montreal, smothered-to-death by his teachers.

5. Publishing Dept: IDW has just released the first volume of the complete Orphan Annie strip, one of the high points of 20th-Century cartooning, with contributions from Mr. Comics History, Jeet Heer.

6. D+Q Dept: We missed Chris Oliveros in Toronto (but they often show those ideacity things on tv) but Marc Bell's blog is ongoing.

7. Finland Dept: A new collaborative anthology from Finnish and Quebecoise cartoonist, 10x makes its debut. (see top)

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