Thursday, December 31, 2009  
Happy New Year from Sequential

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/31/2009 02:50:00 AM

Happy New Year!

Regular blogging will resume in 2010.

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   Monday, December 28, 2009  
The C-List: Post X-Mas Let-down

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/28/2009 12:35:00 AM

Counting down to New Year's:

Item: Cartoonist Robin Konstabaris (Scrambled Brains) was among the victims of a fire in downtown Vancouver that claimed a huge swath of real estate, including an artists studio. Nobody was hurt but it sounds like lots of artwork is gone.

Item: Shahid Mahmood, the Canadian editorial cartoonist who is banned by Air Canada, is going to have his case investigated by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

Item: Happy Cho-lidays! (Or is it Happy Anti-Life?) Michael Cho Xmas card.

Item: Inkstuds' Robin NcConnell conducts his semi-annual "Best Of Year" roundtable with guests Tim Hodler, Sean T. Collins, and Chris Mautner.

Item: Kevin Boyd answers all your questions about 1940s-50s Canadian comics publisher and repackager, Superior Comics.

Item: Jobnik's Miriam Libicki is now teaching comics at Emily Carr: "this course offers practical and wide-ranging techniques for translating your life experiences into sequential art. Classroom writing and drawing exercises, as well as take-home assignments help you develop a creative process from brainstorm to script to layouts and inking. These projects, as well as group and individual critiques, will guide you towards effective storytelling in creating an original graphic memoir.
Based on Libicki's own techniques, as well as strategies from Lynda Barry, Eddie Campbell, Scott McCloud, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, this intensive yet laid-back course is open to students of all skill and knowledge levels.

Item: Kate Beaton celebrates Xmas: One, Two.

Item: Marian Churchland's Beast graphic novel is profiled on Newsarama.

Item: Jeer Heer discusses homophobia in Floyd Gottfredson's classic Micket Mouse comics strips, as well as in the work of several other canonical cartoonists. Bonus: Heer on blackface in the comics, and early Irish stereotypes.

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   Friday, December 25, 2009  
Happy Xmas from Sequential!

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/25/2009 05:05:00 PM

Happy Holidays from Sequential, and may all your Polka-Dot Pirates be bright!

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   Wednesday, December 23, 2009  
Canadian Bestsellers: December 23

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/23/2009 01:50:00 AM
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Intro: The bestselling graphic novels and comics collections in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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. See here for our previous list.

Sequential's Over-All Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks (Crown)
2. (10) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
3. (8) Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection, Roff et al (Chronicle)
4. (-) Garfield 47, Davis et al (Random House)
5. (11) Asterix and Obelix Birthday, Uderzo (Orion)
6. (6) Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis et al (Bloomsbury)
7. (5) Naruto 46, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
8. (3) Bleach 29, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
9. (4) Manga Mutiny, Hidenori Kumai/Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
10. (29) Maus 1, Spiegelman (Knopf)
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11. (17) Garfield 3 Pack, Davis et al (Random)
12. (18) Hobbit GN, Tolkien et al (Harper Collins)
13. (-) Asterix Olympics, Goscinny & Uderzo (Orion)
14. (-) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
15. (-) Fahrenheit 451, Tim Hamilton et al (FSG)
16. (9) Book of Genesis, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
17. (26) Stitches, David Small (M&S)
18. (12) Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years, Charles Schulz (Andrews McMeel)
19. (30) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (1) Vampire Knight 8, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
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21. (-) Naruto 4, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
22. (21) B is for Beer, Tom Robbins (Garper Collins)
23. (7) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
24. (-) Evil Cats, Elia Anie (Headline)
25. (-) Tales from the Crypt 8, Kinney et al (Papercutz)
26. (-) Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Knopf)
27. (-) Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader, Gaiman et al (DC)
28. (-) Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Knopf)
29. (-) Sandman: Preludes Nocturns, Gaiman et al (DC)
30. (14) Black Cross, Greg Iles (New American Library)

Analysis: Well, you take a week off, and big changes happen. Plus, some Christmas perennials peep up and a mini-Gaiman tour.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanese manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians. On this list, a single sale in a single tiny bookstore can make all the difference. This list does not include books that are only illustrated but not written/created-by Canadians.



Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (3) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
2. (1) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (15) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
4. (5) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
5. (10) Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks, Marc Bell (D+Q)
6. (2) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
7. (7) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (13) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (4) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
10. (6) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
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11. (12) The Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
12. (9) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
13. (21) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
14. (8) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (14) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
16. (-) I Never Liked You, C. Brown (D+Q)
17. (29) Essex County, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
18. (16) Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe (D+Q)
19. (-) Nurma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
20. (17) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
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21. (27) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
22. (-) Important Artifacts, Leanne Shapton (FSG)
23. (24) Wimbledon Green, Seth (D+Q)
24. (11) The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum)
25. (30) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
26. (19) Collected Doug Wright 1, Doug Wright (D+Q)
27. (23) Rabbit and Bear Paws 1, Solomon (Lone Pine)
28. (20) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews)
29. (22) Back and Forth, Marta Chudolinska (Porcupine's Quill)
30. (26) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)


(note: previous rank in parentheses)
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   Thursday, December 17, 2009  
The C-List: New and Old Canadian Comics

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/17/2009 06:45:00 AM

Some pre-Xmas Cheer.

Item: I actually risked the mall the other day and was delighted to find this giant dvd box set of the seminal Canadian cartoon show Rocket Robin Hood. It just came out and is priced between $20 and $30. Chapters, too.

Item: Jason Kieffer writes to let us know about his new book, The Rabble of Downtown Toronto, a guide to the characters of the big city, with helpful notes and a map. The squarebound book is only available at the Beguiling and through Kieffer himself [email]. Price: $10.

Item: Writer Rob Pincombe celebrates the life of Adrian Dingle, creator of 1940s Canadian superheroes Nelvana and The Penguin.

Item: Dinner with the policart and comics historian Aislin.

Item: Neal Gaiman in Winnipeg.

Item: Former math professor and owner of London, Ont.'s first comic book store, Eddie Smet, has donated his 10,000 item comic book collection to Western.

Item: Cartoonist Guy Delisle is home for the holidays and will be appearing at the D&Q store in Montreal today (December 17). Animated Conversation, Thursday, 7 p.m. Guy will discusses his graphic novels, which are based on experiences in China, North Korea and Myanmar, and his latest trip to Israel. 211 Bernard St. W., free!

Item: The comics phenom of 2010 might just be Scott Pilgrim and the movie based on the book series.


Item: The Shuster Awards would like you to help out with their 2010 nominating process.

Item: The Toronto Observer covers the Gladstone Small Press festival, including graphic novel creator Mike Leone and his "Freelance Blues."

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   Tuesday, December 15, 2009  
Harold Bell, 1919-2009

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/15/2009 02:09:00 AM

Co-Creator of Woodsy Owl

Several news sources reported over the weekend that Harold Bell, the amateur cartoonist and comic strip character marketer who helped create and drew the first image of the environmental mascot Woodsy Owl, has died in Los Angeles.

Born in New Jersey, Bell worked in marketing for Disney and later set up shop on his own, licensing media characters like Dick Tracy and Mr. Magoo. While working on the Lassie tv show in 1970 (Bell has been identified online as both a producer on the show and as somehow associated with Western Publishing, the company that packaged comic books for Dell Publishing in the 1950s and 60s), Bell teamed up with two forest rangers and another co-worker to create a mascot for the first Earth-Day event. The result was Woodsy Owl and the famous slogan, "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute!"

The character appeared in public service ads, publications and posters for the U.S. Forest Service, as well as on tv. Woodsy also was featured in a comic book series published by Gold Key from 1973 to 1976.

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   Monday, December 14, 2009  
The C-List: London-mania

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/14/2009 02:06:00 AM


Monday again:

Item: The Shuster blog's Robert Haines chats with two London, Ont retailers, Heroes Comics and The Comic Book Collector.

Item: The Winnipeg Free Press chooses The Collected Doug Wright and Aislin's Shenanigans as two of the best coffee table books of the year.

Item: Is this comic book-related? I can't tell. The Nerd Girls burlesque show reads more like a sci-fi thing.

Item: Since its the holidays, more words about Alpha Flight and Northstar, from the #1 AF blog.

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   Friday, December 11, 2009  
This Weekend: Toronto AnimeCon

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/11/2009 11:51:00 AM

Hobbystar's Toronto AnimeCon takes place this Sunday, December 13.

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   Thursday, December 10, 2009  
Happy 5th Anniversay Vancouver Comix Jam!

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/10/2009 07:32:00 AM
New Reliable Press publisher and cartoonist Ed Brisson writes:

This December, the Vancouver Comic Jam turns 5 years old!

When: Saturday, December 12th, 2009. 8pm until midnight(ish).
Where: The Wallflower – 2420 Main St, Vancouver (Right next door to Rx Comics – map )
Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited.
How Much: No admission fee. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided.

The restaurant provides their regular menu to order from and alcohol galore: beer, wine, highballs and shots.

Don’t forget to tip your waiter or waitress well!

If you’re drawing with markers that bleed through paper, be sure to either bring a drawing surface or place extra sheets of paper under the paper you’re drawing on.

Crosspost as you see fit.

See you there!
Ed

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   Wednesday, December 09, 2009  
The C-List: Megaman Mania

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/09/2009 11:43:00 AM

It's finally snowing here in Southern Ontario so I thought I'd dump a big one on you this time. Lots of news about Canadian comics.

Item: Writer Brad Mackay blogs about George Feyer's Stamp Book, a lost classic of Canadian cartooning. Recommended.

Item: Sequential is still collecting your Holiday Wish Lists. Please let us know your suggested comics buys for the holidays.

Item: The latest issue of Marvel Mollusk is now out, illustrated by Nicolas Plamondon. (Not really, but check it out!)

Item: Udon has announced a new series of books based on the popular superhero videogame MegaMan. Chris Butcher follows-up.

Item: Video of cartoonist, scripter and comics teacher Ty Templeton explaining "talent".

Item: Related: A list of winter courses available from the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop is now online.

Item: Two books by Canadians, Michel Rabagliati's Paul a Quebec, and Seth's George Sprott, are among this year's "Essentials" as selected by France's Angouleme Festival.

Item: Speaking of George Sprott, the book was among a select list of comics reviewed by Douglas Wolk for the New York Times on Sunday.

Item: According to the Google homepage, today (yesterday) is E.C. Segar's birthday. Segar's Popeye strip was one of the top 10 strips ever.

Item: Halifax superhero cartooning demigod Darwyn Cooke has illo'd an issue of DC western character Jonah Hex (yes, they still publish it). He talks about his influences and the process of creating the art at his blog. Besides the great John Severin, do I also see a bit of Carlos Ezquerra?

Item: Toronto comics collective and zine Ganglion is coming up to the deadline for its 3rd issue. Potential contributors should submit now!

Item: The Comics Journal's daily newsblog, Journalista, is back online as a (temporary) part of the main TCJ group blog. Journalista editor Dirk Deppey says that the regular Journalista blog, with its own url and "rss feed" (don't ask me), will resume shortly after the Journal reorganization concludes. It's a good thing too, for how else would I have learned about the important Alpha Flight-related news that Northstar, the professional ski-jumper-turned-super-powered-Canadian-secret-agent-turned-token-homosexual will soon have sex after 15 years of abstinence.

Item: Policart Yardley Jones has a gallery show.

Item: Jay Stephen's cartoon show, The Secret Saturday's, has a new comics collection tie-in.

Item: A profile of Haida manga artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

Item: Montreal art gallery Monastiraki is having an art sale this Friday, December 11. Show items include art by Marc Bell, Rick Trembles, Matt Forsythe, and many others.

Item: Allison Covey presents some photos of the 2009 Shuster Awards and related events. We know it was back in September, but since some of the photos have Sequential contributors in them, they are well worth checking out (see if you can spot Sequential publisher Salgood Sam in the crowd scene of the Shusters afterparty).

Item: D+Q is having a holiday sale.

(top image: drawing comics with eyes wide shut by Nicolas Plamondon)

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   Tuesday, December 08, 2009  
Indy Comic Book Week: December 30th

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/08/2009 11:19:00 AM


A few cartoonist acitivists have invented a new even to fill the gap in comic book stores during the last week of December:

Indy Comic Book Week is not only an event, but also a call to action.

Diamond Comic Distributors announced they will not ship any new comics for the last week of December. This company is the primary distributor of comic books in North America. What some would call a sad week without our favorite mainstream titles, we are calling an opportunity. This vacancy allows independent and small press comic book creators to claim this week as their own.

We challenge writers and artists to self publish new material for this week, and offer it to their local stores. We ask for retailers to take this as an opportunity to showcase local independent talent on the new release shelves. We encourage fans to break from their buying habits and try something new.

Raise your fist and proudly declare that comic books are more than an industry, more than a handful of corporations – it is a creative outlet for independent-minded artists and storytellers. This last week of 2009 belongs to you. Power to the people. Right on.

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Canadian Bestsellers: December 8

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/08/2009 12:01:00 AM
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compiled/edited by B. Munn

Intro: The bestselling graphic novels and comics collections in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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. See here for our previous list.

Sequential's Over-All Top 30 from BookManager

1. (2) Vampire Knight 8, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
2. (1) Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks (Crown)
3. (6) Bleach 29, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
4. (5) Manga Mutiny, Hidenori Kumai/Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
5. (3) Naruto 46, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
6. (4) Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis et al (Bloomsbury)
7. (18) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
8. (9) Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection, Roff et al (Chronicle)
9. (11) Book of Genesis, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
10. (8) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
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11. (12) Asterix and Obelix Birthday, Uderzo (Orion)
12. (16) Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years, Charles Schulz (Andrews McMeel)
13. (7) Rosario + Vampire 10, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
14. (-) Black Cross, Greg Iles (New American Library)
15. (13) Fullmetal Alchemist 20, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
16. (21) Maximum Ride 2, James Patterson et al (Orbit)
17. (25) Garfield 3 Pack, Davis et al (Random)
18. (-) Hobbit GN, Tolkien et al (Harper Collins)
19. (14) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
20. (17) Black Bird 2, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
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21. (-) B is for Beer, Robbins (Harper Collins)
22. (-) Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness, Reinhard Kleist (Abrams ComicArts)
23. (23) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
24. (-) Garfield 46, Davis et al (Random House)
25. (-) Masterpiece Comics, Sikoryak (D+Q)
26. (-) Stitches, David Small (McClelland and Stewart)
27. (-) Che, Spain Rodriguez (Verso)
28. (10) Negima! 24, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
29. (-) Maus 1, Spiegelman (Knopf)
30. (15) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)

That Peanuts 60-year book is expensive, like between 60 and 100 bucks, depending on where you get it.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanese manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians. On this list, a single sale in a single tiny bookstore can make all the difference. This list does not include books that are only illustrated but not written/created-by Canadians.

This week, it's a war bewteen Lynn Johnston, Seth, and Bryan Lee O'Malley.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (?) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)*
3. (3) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
4. (20) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
5. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
6. (10) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
7. (26) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (27) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (9) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
10. (12) Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks, Marc Bell (D+Q)
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11. (4) The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum)
12. (7) The Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
13. (21) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
14. (6) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
15. (5) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
16. (8) Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe (D+Q)
17. (11) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
18. (13) In Me Own Words, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
19. (16) Collected Doug Wright 1, Doug Wright (D+Q)
20. (29) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews)
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21. (19) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
22. (-) Back and Forth, Marta Chudolinska (Porcupine's Quill)
23. (-) Rabbit and Bear Paws 1, Solomon (Lone Pine)
24. (15) Wimbledon Green, Seth (D+Q)
25. (14) The Nobody, Jeff Lemire (DC/Vertigo)
26. (25) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
27. (17) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
28. (22) Clyde Fans Bk 1, Seth (D+Q)
29. (23) Essex County, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
30. (24) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)

(note: previous rank in parentheses)
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*Lynn Johnston's "Home Sweat Home" collection of For Better or For Worse strips was left off last week's list. I'm pretty sure it would have ranked in the top 10. I missed it, I think.


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   Monday, December 07, 2009  
Jack Ruttan at the Montreal Comic Con

:: Posted by max @ 12/07/2009 07:30:00 PM
The Montreal Comic Con had it's December one day event this past Sunday. 

Despite plans to attend i missed it, but local writer and cartoonist Jack Ruttan [utopiamoment.ca] was there and has uploaded another impressive set of interviews and photos. We've collected the video into a playlist you wan watch bellow, along with the slide show of photos bellow that. Read Jack's musings about it on his site here.

"Didn't I just do one of these in September? And then there was Expozine last month. So, many of these artist seemed like old friends. It was fun brandishing around my little Lumix DMC-FS3 and talking to artists. Sound was a little off (and some interviews are in French), but I think things are audible if you turn up the volume."

In the playlist appears Convention organizers Oscar and Elizabeth. Eric Theriault, Isabelle Stephen, Michel Lacombe, Sid Vane and Gloria, Patrick Langlois, Troma, Jimmy Suzan, Fred Mahieu, Steph Dumais, Noumier Tawilah, Jipi McCloud, And Janardan.





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   Friday, December 04, 2009  
The C-List: Today Now

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/04/2009 08:07:00 AM

Who? What? Where?

Item: Steve Murray inks graphic novel deal with McLelland and Stewart: History of Canada.

Item: Interview Ryan North/dinocomics.

Item: You can buy comics in Halifax for Xmas.

Item: The Inkstuds podcast interviews Kevin Cannon about his Far Arden comic.

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   Wednesday, December 02, 2009  
The C-List: Glamourpuss is 10 (40 in model years)

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/02/2009 06:02:00 AM

Hump Day listblogging!

Item: The 10th issue of Dave Sim's Glamourpuss comic book series, part autobio meditation of the history of cartooning, part parody/pastiche of fashion magazines/consumer culture, drops today. Is this the only bimonthly comic book series published in Canada?

Item: One of the best pin-up and gag cartoonists ever to come out of the Great White North, Playboy's Doug Sneyd, is the subject of this book preview. Doug was originally an illustrator in Montreal and Toronto before he bagan selling cartoons to Hugh Hefner in the 1960s.

Item: The new online version of the Comics Journal debuted in beta form today. The new incarnation features a giant roster of bloggers, reviewers and essayists. My favourite so far is R. Fiore's Superman post, but there is more promised, including work from the Journal's resident Canucks, Tom Crippen and Jeet Heer.

Item: Ethan Rilley, Wright Award nominee and Xeric Grant winner, talks about his new Adhouse comics series Pope Hats in a Comixology podcast interview.

Item: Chris Butcher presents a Bryan Lee O'Malley strip about Decemeber 1st.

Item: Have we mentioned Brian McLachlan's new webcomic series at Transmission X? It's called The Princess Planet and the latest episode was published on Sunday.

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   Tuesday, December 01, 2009  
Canadian Bestsellers: December 1

:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/01/2009 02:00:00 AM
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Back after a one-week break!

Intro: The bestselling graphic novels and comics collections in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most 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. See here for our previous list.

Sequential's Over-All Top 30 from BookManager


1. (1) Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks (Crown)
2. (3) Vampire Knight 8, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
3. (2) Naruto 46, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
4. (-) Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis et al (Bloomsbury)
5. (19) Manga Mutiny, Hidenori Kumai/Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale)
6. (-) Bleach 29, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
7. (5) Rosario + Vampire 10, Akihisa Ikeda (VIZ)
8. (7) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
9. (6) Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection, Roff et al (Chronicle)
10. (4) Negima! 24, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
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11. (9) Book of Genesis, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
12. (-) Asterix and Obelix Birthday, Uderzo (Orion)
13. (16) Fullmetal Alchemist 20, Hiromu Arakawa (VIZ)
14. (-) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
16. (-) Celebrating Peanuts 60 Years, Schulz (Andrews)
17. (8) Black Bird 2, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
18. (-) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
19. (24) Garfield 47, Davis et al (Random House)
20. (-) Tales from the Crypt 8, Maia Kinney-Petrucha et al (Papercutz)
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21. (-) Maximum Ride 2, James Patterson et al (Orbit)
22. (-) Naruto 45, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
23. (-) Vampire Knight 1, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
24. (28) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
25. (-) Garfield 3 Pack, Davis et al (Random)
26. (-) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC)
27. (29) Death Note 2, Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
28. (26) Death Note 1, Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata (VIZ)
29. (-) Asterix the Gaul, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
30. (-) Asterix Olympics, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)

Well, you take a week off, alot can happen, y'know?

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanese manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians. On this list, a single sale in a single tiny bookstore can make all the difference. This list does not include books that are only illustrated but not written/created-by Canadians.

This week: The "Seth Signing Tour Effect" lingers and Lynn Johnston begins her annual "Holiday gift-book buying" charge up the charts.

Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (3) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
2. (2) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (1) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
4. (4) The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum)
5. (17) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
6. (7) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
7. (24) The Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
8. (-) Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe (D+Q)
9. (11) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
10. (6) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
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11. (9) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
12. (8) Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks, Marc Bell (D+Q)
13. (23) In Me Own Words, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
14. (29) The Nobody, Jeff Lemire (DC/Vertigo)
15. (12) Wimbledon Green, Seth (D+Q)
16. (14) Collected Doug Wright 1, Doug Wright (D+Q)
17. (25) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum)
18. (30) Important Artifacts, Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Strauss + Giroux)
19. (21) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
20. (10) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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21. (26) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
22. (-) Clyde Fans Bk 1, Seth (D+Q)
23. (28) Essex County, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
24. (13) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen)
25. (16) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
26. (18) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
27. (27) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
28. (-) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q)
29. (-) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews)
30. (15) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)

(note: previous rank in parentheses)
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