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Chester Brown interviews Dave Lapp for Lapp's launch for "Drop-In"  Dave Lapp's DROP-IN Book LaunchFeaturing Dave Lapp in conversation with Chester Brown Wednesday, December 3rd 2008 @ 7PM The Central, 603 Markham Street (Next to The Beguiling) FREE The Beguiling is proud to present the official launch for cartoonist Dave Lapp's new graphic novel, DROP-IN. A surprising, insightful look at some of Toronto's most economically disadvantaged communities, DROP-IN chronicles Lapp's experiences as a teacher at a drop-in art centre, and the children he meets there. The book launch event will see Dave Lapp perform a multimedia reading from DROP-IN, and following that Lapp will be interviewed on stage by long time friend and colleague Chester Brown (Louis Riel) about his career in comics, and the specific challenges of creating DROP-IN. A signing will follow. DROP-IN is currently available for sale at The Beguiling, and will be available for sale at the event. Labels: book launches, graphic novels, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments -   - we honor OpenID -
Friday, November 28, 2008 Sequential's Holiday Wish List  Based on the success of our 2008 Summer Reading List, I plan on running a series of "Wish Lists" from Sequential readers and comics people during the final weeks of the year. Yes, it's time to put on your "looking back" cap and ponder the past year's worth of comix. Please respond with your own lists via email. Please feel free to add any categories you see fit. And please feel free to forward to anyone who's opinion you value. Happy Holidays! The 2008 Sequential Comics Holiday Wish List (Please be as brief or as detailed as you please, and answer any or all questions.) 1. Your name and weblink/current project. 2. What was the overall best book published in 2008? (comix/graphic novel/manga/strip/history/webcomic/floppy/etc) 2. a) Best Canadian book? 3. What 2008 comic would you recommend for a young boy (5-10)? 4. What 2008 comic would you recommend for a young girl (5-10)? 5. What 2008 comic would you recommend for a teen boy? 6. What 2008 comic would you recommend for a teen girl? 7. What 2008 comic would you recommend for an adult woman 18-100? 8. What 2008 comic would you recommend for an adult man 18-100? 9. What comic would you most like to receive as a gift? 10. Was 2008 a good year for comics? Was it a good year for you? What effect will this recession thing have? 11. (suggested by Diana Tamblyn) Best guilty pleasure of 2008? Labels: holiday wish list, publishing - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Toronto ComiCon Fall Convention  Co: Facebook Join us Sunday Nov.30/08 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center (North Building) Labels: conventions, hobbystar, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, November 27, 2008 EXPOZINE 2008 | Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30 EXPOZINE 2008 will take place on Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30, 2008, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique [map] (Eglise Saint-Enfant Jesus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Metro). Free admission! "This incredible event brings together over 250 creators of all kinds of printed matter – from books to zines to posters and comics – in both English and French. In the past seven years, Expozine has become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from as far afield as Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, and Quebec City!  Labels: conventions, ephemera, events, events links, Expozine, Montreal, new books, Ottawa, photos, poetry, small press, Toronto, undergrounds, zine fair, zines - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday: Pohadky Launch, MontrealLaunch of Pohadky by Pat Shewchuk and Marek Colek 7 pm, Friday, November 28th Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Book Store 211 Bernard Ouest, Montreal (514) 279-2224 (an exhibit of work by the duo is also coming up at Resistor Gallery in Toronto!)  Labels: book launches, publishing, Quebec, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Weekly Bestsellers: November 26  The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list. Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada 1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC) 2. (2) Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop) 3. (3) Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 4. (6) Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House) 5. (5) Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 6. (4) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 7. (30) Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK) 8. (11) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) 9. (7) Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins) 10. (-) Chibi Vampire 11, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop) ----- 11. (14) Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso) 12. (-) Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 19, Clamp (Random House) 13. (16) Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ) 14. (8) Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ) 15. (13) Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ) 16. (9) It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Charles M Schulz (Perseus) 17. (27) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 18. (23) Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf) 19. (-) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC) 20. (10) Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ) ----- 21. (29) Naruto 30, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 22. (12) Black Cat 17, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ) 23. (19) The Joker (Hardcover), Azzarello/Bermejo (DC) 24. (-) Simpsons Comics Dollars To Donuts, Groening et al (Harpercollins) 25. (-) Scientific Progress Goes Boink, Watterson (Andrews McMeel) 26. (-) Death Note 13, Ohba/Obata (VIZ) 27. (17) 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House) 28. (-) Marvel Encyclopedia, wallace/Brevoort (DK) 29. (18) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 30. (-) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion) The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. This week, Louis Riel is bumped down to #40 overall by Asterix, Lynda Barry, Stephen King, and some manga. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Popeye (#164) to Bat Manga! (#200) duke it out, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from: Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager 1. (1) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) 3. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q) 4. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 5. (6) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 6. (5) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume) 7. (10) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q) 8. (7) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 9. (27) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 10. (8) Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) ----- 11. (9) Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q) 12. (11) Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 13. (12) Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 14. (14) The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx) 15. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 16. (17) Emiko Superstar, Mariko Tamaki/Steve Rolston (DC/Minx) 17. (13) Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) 18. (15) Rex Libris: I, Librarian, James Turner (Slave Labor Graphics) 19. (16) Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 20. (18) Dramacon 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) ----- 21. (19) Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 22. (20) Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker ed (Firefly) 23. (21) Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 24. (22) the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press) 25. (23) The New Frontier 2, Darwyn Cooke (DC) 26. (24) The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC) 27. (25) Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q) 28. (26) She's Turning into One of Them, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 29. (-) Ojingogo, Matt Forthythe (D+Q) 30. (-) Pohadky, Colek (D+Q) You read it here first: For Better or For Worse is the Naruto of Canada. Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Sequential Reports: Seth Opening  The North Star Talking Picture House The opening for Seth's latest gallery show, The North Star Talking Picture House, took place Sept. 19 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, in conjunction with Render Gallery. The installation features a life-size, three-dimensional rendering of the movie theatre from Seth's tiny cardboard city Dominion (60 houses from the city are currently on display at the Render Gallery). Thanks to this exhibit, which runs until January 4, you can actually walk around and into one of Seth's drawings. Inside the cinema are seats and a screen. Viewers can watch a cycle of National Film Board of Canada documentaries selected by the artist. See the full series of photos from the opening here! Labels: art show, events, graphic novels, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, photos - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Publishing: Colosse x 4  Just in time for this weekend's Expozine in Montreal, a collection of four new books from Mecanique Generale: 1. (sans-titre) pascal girard colosse 006 ISBN 978-2-923664-05-7 6" x 3" 56 pages couleurs reliure allemande novembre 2008 (see above image)  2. Encore ca Julie Delporte colosse 007 ISBN 978-2-923664-06-4 6" x 4" 46 pages n+b reliure allemande novembre 2008  3. La Suite de Minerve David Turgeon colosse 008 ISBN 978-2-923664-07-1 6" x 9" 120 pages n+b reliure allemande novembre 2008  4. Demi-sommeil Jimmy Beaulieu colosse 009 ISBN 978-2-923664-08-8 5,25" x 7,25" 98 pages couleur reliure allemande novembre 2008 Labels: bd, graphic novels, publishing, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, November 21, 2008 Saturday: Seth and Chris Ware in Cambridge, ON  SETH & CHRIS WARE: RENDER @ WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE Saturday, November 22, 2008 1pm - 4pm with Jeet Heer RENDER is pleased to be able to present Seth in conversation with the American cartoonist and graphic novelist Chris Ware at the UW School of Architecture in Cambridge. Best known for his works Jimmy Corrigan and Building Stories, Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Seth and Ware's conversation will be preceded by an audiovisual presentation prepared by Ware and This American Life radio host Ira Glass entitled "Lost Buildings" concerning the demolition of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan's buildings and one person's efforts to save them. This presentation is free and open to the public. UW School of Architecture 7 Melville Street South, Cambridge Saturday, November 22nd, 1:00-4:00pm Free Admission (limited seating) map Labels: events, graphic novels, international, Ontario - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday: Matt Forsythe in Vancouver  OJINGOGO'S MATTHEW FORSYTHE IN VANCOUVER Join D+Q and Lucky's Comics in launching Matt Forsythe's Ojingogo this Saturday! 5 pm, Saturday, November 22nd 2008 Lucky's Comics 3972 Main St, Vancouver (604) 875-9858 www.luckys.ca Labels: book launches, British Columbia, events, graphic novels, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday: Lynn Johnston in North Bay  from the press release: Cartoonist Lynn Johnston will sign her latest book, Home, Sweat Home, at Gulliver's on Saturday, November 22, from 1-3 pm. Lynn has been drawing the Patterson Family's stories for over 25 years. The comic strip has been completed, and she is now retelling the earlier stories with new artwork. This is the last in the annual collections she has been publishing for many years. Lynn has won every major award on the continent for cartoonists, and was the first woman to win many of them. Join us on Saturday, November 22, to celebrate the laughs and memories her characters have given us over the last 25 years. 157 Main Street West, North Bay ON 1 (705) 474-7335 or Toll Free at 1-888-bay-book Labels: comic strips, events, Lynn Johnston, Ontario - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
This Weekend: Salon du livre de MontrealThe 31st Salon du livre de Montreal Lots of comics people! website Place Bonaventure 800, rue De La Gauchetiere Ouest, Montreal Labels: events, Montreal, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
International Comics Melt-down Round-up1. Thanks to Tom Spurgeon's continuing coverage of the economy and comics, two links: Sean Kleefield explains why Americans can buy 8 U.S. comics books for every 6 a Canadian buys; and Stuart Immonen charts the cost increase in comics over the last 30 years. 2. Is a Norwegian man being held in a Winnipeg jail for having a porno comic on his laptop? His family says so. 3. Two views of the Comics Craze show in Cambridge, from the K-W Record and Echo Weekly. Labels: crime, dollar, events, graphic novels, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, November 20, 2008 Weekly Bestsellers The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list (well, 2 weeks ago...). Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada 1. Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC) 2. Fruits Basket 21, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop) 3. Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 4. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 5. Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 6. Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House) 7. Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins) 8. Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ) 9. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Charles M Schulz (Perseus) 10. Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ) ----- 11. Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) 12. Black Cat 17, Kentaro Yabuki (VIZ) 13. Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ) 14. Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso) 15. Asterix and the Falling Sky, Albert Uderzo (Orion) 16. Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ) 17. 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna, Jim Davis (Random House) 18. Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 19. The Joker (Hardcover), Azzarello/Bermejo (DC) 20. The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, Butcher/Syaf (Random House) ----- 21. The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, King et al (Marvel) 22. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q) 23. Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf) 24. Bionicle 3: City of Legends, Elliott/Farshtey (St. Martin's Press) 25. Chibi Vampire 1, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop) 26. Rosario+Vampire 1, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ) 27. Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 28. Cartoons From The New Yorker: 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar (Andrews McMeel) 29. Naruto 30, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 30. Marvel Chronicle, Tom DeFalco (DK) The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. This week, Skim benefits from the Governor General's bump --moving from somewhere below 30 to #11. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from Tite Kubo to Lynda Barry duke it out, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from: Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager 1. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 2. Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) 3. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q) 4. The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 5. Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume) 6. Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 7. Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 8. Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) 9. Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q) 10. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q) ----- 11. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 12. Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 13. Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) 14. The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx) 15. Rex Libris: I, Librarian, James Turner (Slave Labor Graphics) 16. Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 17. Emiko Superstar, Mariko Tamako Steve Rolston (DC/Minx) 18. Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) 19. Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 20. Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, George A Walker ed (Firefly) ----- 21. Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 22. the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press) 23. The New Frontier 2, Darwyn Cooke (DC) 24. The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC) 25. Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q) 26. She's Turning into One of Them, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 27. Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 28. White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q) 29. I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q) 30. Hall of Best Knowledge, Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics) The first appearance of Ray Fenwick on the list, who has recently been featured in the Weekend Post. Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 For the RecordMissed It By This Much  Skim did not win the Governor-General's Literary Award for Children's Literature yesterday. The book, a graphic novel by cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, was beat out by John Ibbitson's The Landing, a prose novel about life in 1930s Muskoka. In related categories, Sylvie Desrosiers' Les trois lieues won in the French-language category. The winning illustrators were Stephane Jorisch (an adaptation of Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat) and Janice Nadeau (Ma meilleure amie, text by Gilles Tibo). See the full list of winners here. See Neil Gaiman (bottom item), The Vancouver Sun and Heidi MacDonald for more reactions to the controversy surrounding Skim's nomination. (above Jillian Tamaki illo: a James Bond article on cbc arts) Labels: awards, British Columbia, graphic novels, skim, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, November 17, 2008 Weekend Round-UpThe Gazette on webcomics Quebecor World News: trouble may be brewing among creditors of insolvent comic book printer Related: Quebecor spin-off printer Grafikom goes under The fascinating history of L'oncle Pacifique, an obscure 1940s Quebec bd (Google trans) Labels: links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Sunday, November 16, 2008 More on GGs and Skim  Following up on his initial response, Brad Mackay has the latest on his blog about the Canada Council's response to the Skim controversy, including interviews with several jurors. Other links: Quill and Quire The GGs Need to Read Understanding Comics Controversy "Shows the Weakness of "The Canadian Comic Book Industry" Skim on New York Times, Quill and Quire 'Best of 2008' Lists Labels: awards, graphic novels, skim - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday, November 15, 2008 'Maybe Next Time': GGs to Skim  The Globe and Mail's James Adams has done the journalistic legwork and has dug up a response to the open letter from Seth and Chester Brown to the administrators of the Governor General's Literary Awards in regards to the slight of Jillian Tamaki's contribution to the graphic novel Skim, for which her cousin Mariko Tamaki has been nominated in the Children's Literature --Text category. The open letter argued that the contribution of the artist must be considered equal to the contribution of the writer in a graphic novel --especially one as sophisticated as Skim. The response, from a spokesperson for the Canada Council, the body that funds and administers the awards, was basically 'Maybe next time': "We're a little bit late in the game" to either discuss the issue or make the addition, Melanie Rutledge, head of writing and publishing for the Canada Council, said Wednesday evening. But "we'll take it under consideration going forward. ... We're always wanting feedback like this." It seems like this is a mistake on the part of the GGs since the matter basically comes down to credit where credit is due. There are simply two authors of Skim and one of them was left off of the nominations list. This is not a case of an illustrator making a substantial contribution to a text. As both of the creators have repeatedly asserted, the book was a joint effort and it is impossible to consider it as a work of art solely from the point of view as 'text' or 'illustration'. The Governor General's Awards do not have to create a new category. They simply have to acknowledge the contribution of both creators. The winners of the awards are to be announced this coming Tuesday. --- Follow-up: Tom Spurgeon interviews some of the principles at Comics Reporter. (above: Mariko and Jillian Tamaki by Jillian Tamaki) Labels: analysis, awards, graphic novels, skim - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, November 14, 2008 Saturday: Igort and David B in TorontoAn Evening with Igort and David B. Discussing the international Ignatz publishing line Rocco’s Plum Tomato, Plum Room 585 Bloor Street West (Enter off of Markham Street) Saturday November 15th @ 7PM (doors open at 6:30pm) FREE Two of Europe's most acclaimed cartoonist are in Toronto this weekend. Just down the street from the Beguiling... Labels: events, floppies, international, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, November 13, 2008 News-y LinksQuick comics-y links from the mainstream press: Miriam Libicki's "jobnik!" in the Jerusalem Post New Brunswick cartoonist exhibits plaster faces Canadian copyright law The Vancouver Province tries to replace Berke Breathed A great report from the Marc Bell opening the other night in T.O. Jeet Heer on Barack Obama, comic book nerd Jay Stephens profile in Guelph Mercury Joe Sacco on Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicle Labels: British Columbia, links, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 An Open Letter to the Governor General's Literary AwardsThe following letter, written by cartoonists Chester Brown and Seth, and endorsed by some of the most respected graphic novel creators in North America, is addressed to the Governor General's Awards, which recently nominated Mariko Tamaki for the graphic novel Skim, co-created with her cousin Jillian Tamaki. (BM) AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS November 12, 2008 As individuals involved in the art form of comics and graphic novels, we are glad to see that a graphic novel has made the short-list for this year's Governor General's Literary Awards. SKIM (by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki) is a wonderful book and deserves the attention. But we're troubled by the fact that only one of its co-creators is receiving credit for the creation of the book's text. We understand that an award-category exists for illustration, but to have nominated Jillian in that category would not have rectified the problem. Indeed, that would have highlighted how our medium is misunderstood. We're guessing that the jury who read SKIM saw it as an illustrated novel. It's not; it's a graphic novel. In illustrated novels, the words carry the burden of telling the story, and the illustrations serve as a form of visual reinforcement. But in graphic novels, the words and pictures BOTH tell the story, and there are often sequences (sometimes whole graphic novels) where the images alone convey the narrative. The text of a graphic novel cannot be separated from its illustrations because the words and the pictures together ARE the text. Try to imagine evaluating SKIM if you couldn't see the drawings. Jillian's contribution to the book goes beyond mere illustration: she was as responsible for telling the story as Mariko was. In an October 21st article for the CBC website, one of your jurors, Teresa Toten, was interviewed: "Toten praised SKIM for using the graphic novel format to tell a sophisticated story about what life is like for teenaged girls. The work is remarkable in part because of how the words and pictures both contribute to the literary quality, she said." And that is the point of this letter. "[T]he words and pictures both contribute to [SKIM's] literary quality". A new category does not need to be created to properly address the graphic novel. In fact, it is best to see graphic novels appear in literary awards only when they deserve to compete equally against prose on their literary merit alone. In writing this letter, we don't mean to slight Mariko. One of the reasons this collaboration works so well is because she understood how to write for this medium. But we feel that as things now stand, Jillian is being slighted. We want both of the enormously talented creators of this book to be honoured together for their achievement. Yours, Chester Brown (Author of Louis Riel) Seth (Author of It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken) NAMES IN SUPPORT OF THIS LETTER Lynda Barry (Author of What It Is) Peter Birkemoe (Owner of The Beguiling) Dan Clowes (Author of Ghost World) David Collier (Author of The Frank Ritza Papers) Julie Doucet (Author of 365 Days) Chris Oliveros (Publisher of Drawn and Quarterly) Joe Ollmann (Author of This Will All End in Tears) Bryan Lee O'Malley (Author of Scott Pilgrim) Michel Rabagliati (Author of Paul Moves Out) Art Spiegelman (Pulitzer Prize winning author of Maus) Adrian Tomine (Author of Shortcomings) Chris Ware (Author of Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth) Labels: awards, graphic novels, skim - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Publishing: Good-bye Marianne  For Remembrance Day: Good-bye Marianne: A Story Of Growing Up In Nazi Germany story: Irene N. Watts pictures: Kathryn E. Shoemaker Tundra Books 978-0-88776-830-9 (0-88776-830-X) 14.99 Labels: graphic novels, publishing - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Marc Bell Show, Toronto  Strips about music by Marc Bell. Paul Bright Gallery 1265 Bloor W, Toronto November 6-December 8 - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Watchmen in Toronto  Sure to be one of the big international comics stories of this year and next, the attendant fanfare for the Watchmen movie, including the tie-in book Watching the Watchmen by Dave Gibbons has been hard to ignore. Gibbons was in Toronto last week for a signing. Quillblog has some photos here (that's one above, with Mark Asquith as Dr. Manhattan). The guy in the Rorschach costume has a blog here. As well, Gibbons and Beguiling owner Peter Birkemoe were interviwed on CBC's Q and you can hear the podcast here. Best quote: Birkemoe's closing opinion of the movie. You can also watch the whole interview on Q-Tube. Labels: blogosphere, graphic novels, international, interviews, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, November 10, 2008 Sean Ward, man of a million hats, is getting back into the comics thing  Counter to the popular notion that you have to be a neurotic introvert to play with funny books, Sean Ward proves you can be a sparkling super geek with good taste in cloths.Makes me all fuzzy inside! Go Sean go! For a while the Media thing has been keeping him busy but seems he's been hearing the call of his markers! He's working on some new characters and stuff; check it out, and let a little enthusiasm rub off on you. Also he posted links to these cool videos. One is a short City tv interview, and the other is a short profile on Sean and how he does his 'thang'. Laugh if you will but the guy has parlayed all this into late night tv appearances, so..... Labels: comics on tv, Ontario, people, small press, Toronto, video, zine fair, zines - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, November 07, 2008 Friday: Atomic Comic Jam, Montrealfrom BDQ  Vendredi 7 novembre,et puis mensuelle a partir de. Atomic Comic Jam "Notre but est d'avoir du plaisir avec des gens qui partagent des interets communs c'est-a-dire : dessiner, faire de la bande dessinee et raconter des histoires. Vous pouvez dessiner seul ou en groupe en dessinant une case et en passant ensuite votre feuille a votre voisin pour que celui-ci continu votre BD et ainsi de suite pour le reste de la page.  De cette facon, une mrme page peut avoir plusieurs styles et aboutir a des histoires tres loufoques. Chaque premier vendredi du mois."  A new Monthly Comic Jam has been started in the East end of Montreal, at Cafe Atomic. Their goals are to "have fun with people who share common interests ie: drawing, comics and telling stories."They have liberal guidelines for the event, you can collaborate with your neighbors or doodle on your own, up to you. The event will be held every first Friday of the month! Labels: comic jams, events, events links, Montreal, Quebec, social ink - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, November 06, 2008 Comic Book Syndicate A Windsor Ontario based comics review cable show.  Labels: comics on tv, Ontario, reviews, video, windsor - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Speakeasy Comic Book Show TONIGHT  Co:kevthemevSpeakEasy is a monthly gathering of Toronto’s creative community. It’s an opportunity to network, share ideas, and keep in touch with the pulse of Toronto’s creative professionals. Since 1996 it has grown from a get-together of a few friends to an event that now draws regular crowds of up to 300. SpeakEasy takes place 8 times a year, on the first Thursday of the month, at The Gladstone Hotel. About the SpeakEasy Comic Book Show Toronto is home to some of the best known comics artists in North America. We have an active and vibrant community putting out some of the highest quality comics to be found anywhere. The SpeakEasy Comics Show features an eclectic mix of Toronto’s talented comic book artists - from those who do newspaper strips and political cartoons, to underground comix and mainstream superhero comic books! The event promises to display an exciting cross-section of the comics community here in Toronto, as well as a glimpse into how good comics are made. As the old cliché goes, there really will be something for everyone. Details: Time & Space: Thursday November 6th, 8pm-Midnight The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen West - Second Floor Lobby Toronto, Ontario This Month's Featured Artists: John Lang Graeme Maitland Spent Pencil Studios Milé Murtanovski Chris Hatzopoulos & George Todorovski with DMF Comics Benita Hsueh Willow Dawson stef lenk Ian Daffern, Blowout Productions Charlene Chua Sarah Ennals Craig Marshall Bruce Outridge Productions David James Jesus: The Awkward Years, Chris Henderson, Matt Burke, and Deann Parker Tyrone McCarthy Visions of an Icon: Superman art display courtesy of the CCBCAA About the Visions of an Icon: Superman art display: This is a final showing of the Visions of an Icon: Superman artwork created by Canadian creators in 2008. Some pieces will be available for sale at the show, the remainder (including pieces by Dave Sim, Todd McFarlane, Tom Grummett) will be auctioned on eBay as fundraising for the 2009 Joe Shuster Awards. The artwork (42 pieces) has only been displayed to the public once before - at the Sequential Art Symposium back on June 14, 2008. CCBCAA membership will be on hand to discuss the Joe Shuster Awards and we will have prints and other related items available at the event for sale. Local artist and Visions contributor ALEXANDER PERKINS will be joining us in the Visions room. Pay What You Can ($4.00 Donation Suggested) For more information contact: David Brown email: david@blttogo.com telephone: 416.533.1374 http://www.SpeakEasyTO.com Labels: events, events links, exhibits, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Weekly Bestsellers in Canada: November 6 **Note: This post marks the return of the Sequential Bestseller lists after an absence of 6 months. No promises, but I hope this can become a weekly event again, although when you compare the list below with the list for April 17, you may notice that not much has really changed --a handful of manga series continue to dominate the charts. You may also note that there haven't been that many new Canadian titles published in the intervening months.** The Top 50 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list is available here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores. Sales through comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 50 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. Top 40 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada 1. Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC) 2. Naruto 32, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 3. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown , Schulz (Perseus) 4. Naruto 31, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 5. Simpsons Treehouse Horror, Groening et al (HarperCollins) 6. Fullmetal Alchemist 17, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ) 7. Garfield Spills the Beans, Jim Davis (Random House) 8. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q) 9. Bleach 24, Tite Kubo (VIZ) 10. The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, Butcher/Syaf (Random House) ----- 11. Naruto 30, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 12. The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home, King et al (Marvel) 13. Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 14. Complete Persepolis, Satrapi (Knopf) 15. Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 16. Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure 2, Shigekatsu Ihara (VIZ) 17. What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q) 18. Death Note 1, Ohba/Obata (VIZ) 19. Che, Rodriguez/Buhle (Verso) 20. Vampire Knight 4, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) ----- 21. Persepolis 1, Satrapi (Pantheon) 22. Bionicle: Challenge of the Rahkshi, Elliott/Farshtey (St. Martin's) 23. Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 24. Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume) 25. DC Comics Encyclopedia Updated, Greenburger et al (DK) 26. Ouran High School Host Club 11, Bisco Hatori (VIZ) 27. Vampire Knight 3, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 28. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 29. One Piece 19, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ) 30. Vampire Knight 2, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) ----- 31. Marvel Chronicle, DeFaco et al (DK) 32. Rosario+Vampire 1, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ) 33. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Miller et al (DC) 34. Kitchen Princess 8, Ando/Kobayashi (Random House) 35. Batman: Year One, Miller/Mazzucchelli (DC) 36. Get Fuzzy: Take Our Cat, Please, Darby Conley (Andrews McMeel) 37. Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 38. Cartoons From The New Yorker: 2009 Calendar (Andrews McMeel) 39. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Ito/Tsugano/Tanigawa (Yen) 40. Negima! 19, Akamatsu/Yoshida/Hiroe (Random House) The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections. It is a wondrous, scary place, where everyone from David Heatley to Oor Willie duke it out, and where one sale in one tiny bookstore can move a book from #999 to #200. This is also the place where you find books by Canadian creators and where our Canadian Top 30 comes from: Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager 1. Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q) 2. Big Foot 2, Graham Roumieu (Plume) 3. Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 4. Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) 5. The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 6. Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 7. Emiko Superstar, Mariko Tamako Steve Rolston (DC/Minx) 8. Milk Teeth, Julie Morstad (D+Q) 9. Dramacon Ultimate Edition, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) 10. FBOFW 2009 Calendar, Johnston (Andrews McMeel) ----- 11. the great hopeful someday, Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum Press) 12. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 13. Essex County 1: Tales from the Farm, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 14. The Plain Janes, Cecil Castellucci et al, (DC/Minx) 15. Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 16. The New Frontier 2, Darwyn Cooke (DC) 17. The New Frontier 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC) 18. Essex County 2: Ghost Stories, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 19. Middle Age Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 20. Never Wink at a Worried Woman, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) ----- 21. Graduation: A Time For Change, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 22. Paul Goes Fishing, Michel Rabagliati (D+Q) 23. The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 24. She's Turning into One of Them, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 25. Dramacon 3, Svetlana Chmakova (Tokyopop) 26. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q) 27. In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Manic) 28. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 29. I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q) 30. White Rapids, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q) Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Publishing: Jillian Tamaki Mini  Jillian Tamaki has a new minicomic out, a mix of new and slightly older material. Diver! sions 2008 is 24 B&w pages and is available for $4 through her website. Labels: mini-comics, publishing - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Publishing: Paul a Quebec  The sixth album by Michel Rabagliati, Paul a Quebec, is set to be released by Pasteque in 2009. Labels: bd, graphic novels, publishing, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, November 03, 2008 Halifax: New Comics Capital  News from across the land:
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