Friday, March 26, 2010  
This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt | Now with comics

:: Posted by max @ 3/26/2010 11:16:00 PM
Received this a few days ago, sounds interesting. Might take a stab at it myself if i can think of a story.

We're exceptionally excited to announce the launch of this year's annual This Magazine tradition, the Great Canadian Literary Hunt. Now in its 14th year, we're on the trail again of Canada's best undiscovered poetry, short fiction and -- drumroll! -- graphic narrative. That's right, we've added a third category to the contest, a visual category especially for short illustrated stories, like graphic novels but way shorter. So that's kind of a big deal.

Aside from the fact that it's 50 percent bigger and beautiful-er than it was before, it's the same Lit Hunt you know and love. We're asking for Canada's new and emerging literary talents to enter their work into the contest for the chance to be published in the November-December 2010 issue of the magazine, and a shot at a $750 cash prize for first place. This is one of the oldest and most established such literary contests in Canada, and we think the new graphic narrative category is, in fact, one-of-a-kind in Canada (is that true? We think it is, but if you know better, please let us know).

The deadline for entries this year is July 2, 2010. Full details for entering the contest -- including an all-new electronic entry option -- as well as updates, frequently asked questions, and the judges' bios (when we've finalized the judging committee), will all be kept in one place on the contest page. Keep checking there for updates, and happy hunting!

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Tonite: Punchbuggy Tour, Montreal

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/26/2010 04:39:00 AM

D+Q store, 7:30 pm

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The C-List:: Hurry Up and Click, already!

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/26/2010 12:01:00 AM

Weekend links about comics from across the nation!


Item: The Scott Pilgrim trailer is now online.

Item: A preview of the comics event in Halifax on Saturday, with Kyle Baker, Kate Beaton, Rebecca Kraatz, and Faith Erin Hicks.

Item: A "weird" sneak peak behind the scenes at this weekend's Wizard World Toronto Comic-con, which I mentioned Wednesday.

Item: French cover to a Marc Bell book.

Item: Big plans afoot for Oshawa's World's Collide comic book store on Free Comic Book Day (May 1).

Item: Animated Ojingogo.

Item: The Comics Journal interviews Ho Che Anderson.

Item: The excellent Rick Trembles presents a strip about The Runaways --the band, not the lame comic. I love Joan Jett and I love that song Cherry Bomb. I bought a copy of their first LP at a record show last week and listened to it over and over.

Item: The Toronto Jewish Film Festival will feature the doc "People of the Comic Book," about Jews in comics. They will also have an event with Paul Buhle, Harvey Pekar, and honorary Canadian Ben Katchor.

Item: A follow-up to last week's announcement about the National Newspaper Awards. Nominee Aislin says he hadn't entered a cartoon in 15 years and atlks about "collective images" that influence us all.


Item: A couple Toronto and Montreal retailers are interviewed by The Canadian Press about movies driving comics sales.

Item: Vancouver's Elfsar Comics shop is featured in this article about downloading comics and comics readers.

Item: Victoria comic book company releases punk photo book.

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   Thursday, March 25, 2010  
Today: Gary Panter in Toronto

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/25/2010 04:29:00 AM

Greatest Living Cartoonist contestant and Most Expensive Comic Book competitor Gary Panter is giving a multi-media talk at OCAD in Toronto tonight.

6:30 pm
OCAD Auditorium
100 McCaul St.
Toronto, Ontario
416-977-6000 x 462
www.garypanter.com
Free

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   Wednesday, March 24, 2010  
The Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala

:: Posted by max @ 3/24/2010 11:32:00 PM
Wednesday, March 31, 8 p.m.- 12 a.m., Le Divan Orange, 4234 Saint-Laurent (Mont-Royal metro). Free admission.

Recognizing the best publications sold at 2009's Expozine small press, comic and zine fair in Montreal! The gala is a rare chance for you to meet and mingle with the most talented up-and-comers of the local publishing scene, as well as purchase copies of the 36 short-listed titles (listed at www.expozine.ca).

Alexis O'Hara (www.alexisohara.com) will be the MC for the evening. Also on tap are readings by some of the nominated authors before the awarding of prizes at 9:30. Capping the night off is a performance by the one and only Tony Ezzy (www.tonyezzy.com).


The 2009 edition of Expozine was the largest yet, with approximately 15 000 people visiting 300 different exhibitors over two days. The Expozine organizing team asked each exhibitor to submit a copy of their best new publication for consideration for the Expozine Alternative Press Awards in one of three categories in English and French: best book, best zine and best comic, with the winners chosen by an esteemed panel of judges drawn from the city's small press community.

The 2009 Expozine Alternative Press Awards are sponsored by the Conseil des Arts de Montreal, Le Conseil des Arts du Canada, Drawn and Quarterly (www.drawnandquarterly.com) and Libraire Le Port de Tete, 262 Mont-Royal E., (514) 678-9566.

www.expozine.ca

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This Weekend: Wizardworld Toronto Comicon

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/24/2010 04:45:00 PM

The first edition of the Wizardworld Toronto Comicon takes place this weekend at the Direct Energy Centre, March 26-28.

The show is the replacement for the old Paradise Comicon, which was purchased by Wizard last year.

There are over 200 dealers, 50 comics creators, and several "celebrity" guests from the world of (mostly U.S.) television and film entertainment who will be signing autographs, posing for pictures, and answering questions.

LOCATION
Direct Energy Centre
Exhibition Place
100 Princes' Blvd

HOURS
Friday - 12pm - 8pm
Saturday - 10am - 7pm
Sunday - 10am - 5pm

There's no press kit online and it's too late for me to register as media, so I guess I won't be going. I look forward to your reports, though.

Lots to do at the show, including the Kick Ass-Panel, booze, and more. Silver Snail is sponsoring a costume prize, U.S. writer Gail Simone is there, etc.

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Dream Life update | Page 14

:: Posted by max @ 3/24/2010 02:43:00 PM
New comics Wednesday! Click through for larger image and my comments.

page 14

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Go Vote: Seth Covers the Walrus

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/24/2010 06:04:00 AM

The Walrus magazine has started an online poll to determine which cover image, drawn by Seth should feature on their Summer Reading issue. They've turned it into a contest, where one voter can "win fabulous prizes, including a framed print of the victorious cover (retail value $99), a Drawn & Quarterly gift pack, and a one-year subscription to The Walrus."

(see the initial sketches here)

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2010 Expozine Gala

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/24/2010 12:05:00 AM
The 2009 Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala

Wednesday, March 31, 8 p.m.-12 a.m., Le Divan Orange, 4234 Saint-Laurent (Mont-Royal metro). Free admission.

Recognizing the best publications sold at 2009's Expozine small press, comic and zine fair in Montreal! The gala is a rare chance for you to meet and mingle with the most talented up-and-comers of the local publishing scene, as well as purchase copies of the 36 short-listed titles (listed at www.expozine.ca).

Alexis O'Hara will be the MC for the evening. Also on tap are readings by some of the nominated authors before the awarding of prizes at 9:30. Capping the night off is a performance by the one and only Tony Ezzy.

The 2009 edition of Expozine was the largest yet, with approximately 15 000 people visiting 300 different exhibitors over two days. The Expozine organizing team asked each exhibitor to submit a copy of their best new publication for consideration for the Expozine Alternative Press Awards in one of three categories in English and French: best book, best zine and best comic, with the winners chosen by an esteemed panel of judges drawn from the city's small press community.

The 2009 Expozine Alternative Press Awards are sponsored by the Conseil des Arts de Montreal, Le Conseil des Arts du Canada, Drawn and Quarterly (www.drawnandquarterly.com) and Libraire Le Port de Tete, 262 Mont-Royal E., (514) 678-9566.

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   Tuesday, March 23, 2010  
Canadian Bestsellers: March Break Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/23/2010 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. (1) Naruto 47, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (2) Vampire Knight 9, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
3. (7) Book of Genesis, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
4. (3) Negima 25, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
5. (9) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Camille Rose Garcia (HC)
6. (11) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
7. (4) Seekers: Toklo's Story, Erin Hunter (Harper Collins)
8. (-) The Dark-Hunters 2, Sherrilyn Kenyon et al (St Martins)
9. (5) Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks (Crown)
10. (8) Bleach 30, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
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11. (10) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
12. (6) Footnotes in Gaza, Sacco (Henry Holt)
13. (22) Maximum Ride: The Manga 2, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Orbit/Yen)
14. (-) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
15. (13) Garfield Fat Pack, Davis et al (Random)
16. (14) Asterix/Obelix's Birthday, Uderzo (Orion)
17. (-) Inuyasha 46, Rumiko Takahashi (VIZ)
18. (18) Black Bird 3, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
19. (15) Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis et al (Bloomsbury)
20. (12) Asterix/Olympic, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
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21. (-) Skim SC, Tamaki (Groundwood)
22. (-) Zeus, George O'Connor (First Second)
23. (-) Walking Dead 1, Kirkman et al (Image)
24. (-) Black Butter 1, Yana Toboso (Orbit/Yen)
25. (20) One Piece 34, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
26. (-) Manga Mutiny (Tyndale)
27. (-) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
28. (25) All Star Superman 2, Morrison/Quitely (DC)
29. (-) Dark Tower Fall of Gilead, Robin Furth et al (Marvel)
30. (-) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)

Analysis: Only 2 Canadian Books in the top 30 overall.

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. (1) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
2. (5) Skim sc, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
3. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
4. (11) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
5. (3) Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
6. (4) Skim HC, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
7. (29) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws, Chad Solomon (Lone Pine)
8. (16) The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum)
9. (22) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
10. (8) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
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11. (10) Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks, Marc Bell (D+Q)
12. (6) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
13. (15) Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
14. (7) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
15. (28) Essex County, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
16. (23) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Orbit/Yen)
17. (9) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
18. (22) Nightschool 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Orbit/Yen)
19. (25) The Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
20. (30) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews)
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21. (12) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
22. (13) Important Artifacts, Leanne Shapton (FSG)
23. (14) Runaways: Homeschooling, K.Immonen/Pachilli (marvel)
24. (17) Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe (D+Q)
25. (18) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
26. (19) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (AM)
27. (21) In Me Own Words, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
28. (24) Parker The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
29. (26) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
30. (27) Collected Doug Wright 1, Doug Wright (D+Q)

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   Monday, March 22, 2010  
Joe Ollmann Brings His Midlife Crisis to D+Q

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/22/2010 02:00:00 PM

Award-Winning Cartoonist Talks About Turning 40 and being a Mid-wife to Mid-Life
by Bryan Munn

Joe Ollmann is one of my favourite cartoonists. His scratchy angular angry big steaming slice-of-life comics are beautiful and bittersweet mini-masterpieces. The Montreal-based cartoonist has several book collections of his graphic short stories out, the last one, This Will All End In Tears, won the Doug Wright Award for Best Book in 2008.

Ollmann's latest opus, a mostly-autobiographical graphic memoir entitled Mid-Life, has just been picked up by Drawn and Quarterly and will be published in 2011. Of the book, Ollmann has said with typical self-deprecation, "until now, I've been the un-marketable entity that made short story comics when the slavering masses are drooling for 'GRAPHIC NOVELS.' With this book, in which I appear in my underpants on what seems to be 90% of the pages, I am sure to be catapulted into some kind of hot-property-like-comicy-stardom."

Sequential caught up with Ollmann via email just as he was about to plunge into a pair of new projects and asked him about the process of bringing the book to print.

"I finished the book last summer, but then spent a long time, scanning, editing, redrawing, fixing lettering etc. Sam Haywood at Transatlantic is my agent, she wanted a good, clean version of the book before we shipped it around. I have an agent since the last book won the Doug Wright Award and thought the cred from that could help get the book placed with a bigger publisher. I sent the book to D&Q unofficially as we live in the same city and I see Chris and Tom and Peggy at barbecues and kid parties, so there was that, then Sam sent the manuscript officially as a submission and they sent us an offer and we accepted it. Well, I was a lot more excited than that. I've followed D&Q since the first issue of the comic back in the day and I have massive amounts of respect for Chris and the company, so it's a dream come true to be published by them. The book is scheduled to come out in winter 2011, which seems like a hundred years when the book was done last summer, but that's part of being published by a bigger company, they move slower and make sure everything is done correctly."

Was he at all tempted to self-publish under his own Wag Press imprint?

"I self-published in the 80's and I'd rather be shot in the face than do that again, I've got the business acumen of a turd."

Is he having a mid-life crisis?

"The book is called Mid-Life and it is partially based on real events, of having turned 40, having a kid with my younger second wife after turning 40 and also having two adult kids from my previous marriage. But there are a bunch of other story lines in there that are fictional or semi-fictional. Not sure how much I will get into discussing what's real and what's fake yet. But shit, yeah, I'm still having a mid-life crisis. Getting old is traumatic."

Joe Ollmann talks a bit about the the creative process:

"The creative process is the same old story for any cartoonist, at the end of the day, go down the stairs, sit at the drawing table and work for as long as you can, eventually you'll have something at the end of it. Just, dumb old slogging really. When the script was done, I sent it to all the people who have fictitious counterparts in the story and then got down to drawing it."

What's next for Joe Ollmann?

"I'm writing 2 new books right now, one is three long, short-stories of the depressing kind that appeared in my previous books, the other is a long biography of the 1930's adventure/travel writer William Seabrook. He was an alcoholic bondage enthusiast, and a one-time cannibal. he brought the word zombie into the English language, was one of the highest paid writers of his day, and he's virtually unknown today. So, that one is requiring a lot of research and buying expensive old books and trying not to make it read like bad old classic comics: 'World war Two happened, then he fell in love. He caught TB' all in one panel, you know?"

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Joe Ollman bibliography:

Chewing On Tinfoil, Insomniac Press (2002)
The Big Book Of Wag, Conundrum Press (2005)
This Will All End in Tears, Insomniac Press (2006)

Ollmann will be appearing at TCAF, May 8-9.

website



(images from Mid-Life, copyright Joe Ollman)

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The C-List: Darkness and Light in Halifax

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/22/2010 10:18:00 AM
Item: Halifax North Memorial Public Library presents "Darkness & Light: Graphic Novel Camp". This day-long camp will introduce local and international graphic novel artists to participants. 10:30 a.m.: Mike Holmes; 1 p.m.: panel with Kate Beaton, Rebecca Kraatz and Faith Erin Hicks; 2:45 p.m.: Kyle Baker. March 27.

Item: George Elliot Clarke reviews HC Anderson's King and a weird new GN translat4d from the Italian, Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip.

Item: Jeet Heer imagines Conrad Black as Tubby from Little Lulu.

Item: New Brunswick man was a nerd, now vindicated by writing a short article about the history of manga for his local paper.

Item: OCAD prof comments on U.S. manga obscenity case.

Item: Toronto Animecon links 1 2 3

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Cameron Stewart's cowboy batman

:: Posted by max @ 3/22/2010 09:13:00 AM
Along with getting nominated for a Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Artist, Cameron also has been tapped as one of the six pens to do the art chores on DC's much anticipated return of Batman storyline!

Cameron posted this early sketch as a taste of things to come. Also he's back at posting Sin Titulo.

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Bedeis Causa Nominees

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/22/2010 08:09:00 AM

FBDFQ ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR 2010 PRIX BEDEIS CAUSA

In advance of the 23rd FESTIVAL DE LA BANDE DESSINEE FRANCOPHONE DE QUEBEC, which will be held in Quebec City, April 7-11, 2010, the organizers have announced the finalists for the Priz Bedeis Causa 2010.

The ceremony for the awards will be held at the Observatoire de la Capitale, April 9 next at 17:00, will be an opportunity to meet several players in the community and reflect the current vitality of the 9th art in Quebec.

The Finalists:

Prix Real Fillion
Quebec author, writer or artist, debut album
-Jean-Sebastien Berube, Radisson t. 1 - Son of Iroquois (Glenat Quebec)
-Pascal Colpron, Mon petit nombril (La Pasteque)
-Sebastien Rivest, Malaise (Mecanique generale/Les 400 coups)

Grand Prix de la Ville de Quebec
Best album released in French in Quebec
-PAUL en QUEBEC, Michel Rabagliati (La Pasteque)
-TUER VELASQUEZ, Philippe Girard (Glenat Quebec)
-JIMMY et le BIGFOOT, Pascal Girard (La Pasteque)

Prix Alberic Bourgeois
Best French-language album published abroad by a Quebec author, illustrator or
scriptwriter
-SAINT-GERMAIN T. 1 - THE COUNT OF LIGHTS, Jean-Francois Bergeron and Thierry Gloris (Glenat)
-LES NOMBRILS T. 4 – DUEL DE BELLES, Delaf et Dubuc (Dupuis)
-MAGASIN GeNeRAL, T. 5 – MONTREAL, Regis Loisel & Jean-Louis Tripp (Casterman)


Prix Maurice Petitdidier
Pick of the jury for Francophone Album published abroad
-DIEU EN PERSONNE, Marc-Antoine Mathieu (Delcourt)
-BLAST, Manu Larcenet (Dargaud)
-PINOCCHIO, Winschluss (Les requins marteaux)

During the ceremony, the organization will also present FBDFQ Prix Albert-Chartier,
Award to honor an individual or organization that has made a mark on the world of francophone comics in Quebec.

The panel responsible for selecting the finalists was composed of journalists and
booksellers: Pierre Blais (journalist on Canal Vox and Radio-Canada), Nicolas Houle (Le Soleil newspaper), Marco Duchesne (Librairie Pantoute), David Kelly (Renaud-Bray), and Patrick Marleau (L'imaginaire). This edition of the awards focuses on albums released between February 2009 and February 2010.

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Richard Comely interview | origins and history of Captain Canuck

:: Posted by max @ 3/22/2010 07:01:00 AM
Just got this in the mail, hot off of blogger! Jeffery Klaehn has an interview with Comely on his blog POP! One of many interviews posted on his site.
Captain Canuck #1 (cover dated, July 1975) hit newsstands in May 1975. In the years since Captain Canuck has been featured in a range of media, including The Toronto Star, The Los Angeles Times, The National Post and The Record, Time and Maxim magazines, many online periodicals, as well as some very cool online fan/tribute sites. In 1995 Captain Canuck was immortalized on a Canadian postage stamp. More recently, Captain Canuck has inspired scholarly articles, been featured in textbooks, and fueled much online speculation about the possibility of a Captain Canuck major motion picture. IDW recently published two beautiful hardcover volumes reprinting Captain Canuck issues #4-14, along with the Captain Canuck Summer Special, all remastered from their original coloring. In this interview Richard Comely discusses the origins and history of Captain Canuck.

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the Montreal Comic Jam

:: Posted by max @ 3/22/2010 01:10:00 AM
First one of the spring, been a while since I've gone but they still have fun!
An evening of good-humoured drawing, conversation and, incidentally, a wee bit of drinking.

Bring your artistic weapons of choice, be it wits or brushes. Both, ideally.

Venez dessiner, discuter, prendre un verre et liberer vos energies creatrices en notre compagnie. Aiguisez-bien vos crayons et votre esprit, on vous attend!


L'Escalier, 552, Ste-Catherine E. Montreal.

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   Sunday, March 21, 2010  
Congratulations to Robert & Jenn

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/21/2010 02:36:00 PM
Congratulations to Robert Haines, Associate Director of the Joe Shuster Awards, and Jenn Stewart, owner of The Dragon comic shop and coordinator of the Shuster's Comics for Kids Award, who were married Saturday, March 20!



(the google image search I did for relevant images kicked up things like this and this initially --not exactly representations of marital bliss, so I had to get creative)

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   Saturday, March 20, 2010  
The C-List: The C-List's Finest Hour

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/20/2010 08:40:00 AM
...is usually around 3 in the morning.

Item: According to Bryan Lee O'Malley and Oni Press, the sixth and final volume of O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, will be released Tuesday, July 20th. Full press release here. "248 pages of evil-ex butt-kicking in the easily digestible digest format for the low, low price of $11.99." The Scott Pilgrim movie, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, will be released August 13, three weeks later.

Item: Kate Beaton ponies now on sale.

Item: I saw this linked on Comics Reporter. Ray Fenwick talks about his next book and cover design.

Item: Jeff Lemire talks at the Emerald City con.

Item: Inkstuds presents a roundtable discussion of John Stanley. Particpant Jeet Heer's notes on Stanley are here.

Item: Seth has been nominated in the graphic novel category for the Reuben awards. I don't think they give the Rube Goldberg statuette to the divisional winners, but I have heard there is an orgy involved.

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   Friday, March 19, 2010  
Sunday: Vancouver Comicon

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2010 06:24:00 PM

Vancouver Comicon

For comic-book lovers of all ages, featuring vendor tables and special guests. - Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St. - March 21, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. - $4/adult, under 14/free, 604-322-6412.

Special Guests:

Douglas Wheatley (Star Wars: Dark Times)
Steve Rolston (Ghost Projekt, Emiko Superstar, Queen and Country)
Ken Boesem (The Village)
Robin Bougie (Cinema Sewer)
Kelly Everaert (Jungle Tales, Trilogy of Terror)
Miriam Libicki (Jobnik!)
Mike Myhre (Space Jet)
Andrew Salmon (Sherlock Holmes, Secret Agent X)
Robin Thompson (Champions of Hell, Hemp Island)
Wai Khan Au
Chloe Chan
Beth Wagner
New Reliable Press
Sketchrospective
Monster Attack Team Canada

Dealer Tables: $50/centre; $60/wall

Hourly door prizes!

Admission: $4.00
Kids under 14: Free

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Saturday: Vancouver Comics Jam

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2010 05:15:00 AM
From Ed Brisson:

What: Vancouver Comic Jam!!!
When: Saturday, March 20th, 2010. 8pm until midnight(ish).
Where: The Wallflower 2420 Main St, Vancouver (Right next door to Rx Comics )
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!

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Saturday: Cameron Stewart in Halifax

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2010 03:44:00 AM
Cartoonist Cameron Stewart (Seaguy, Batman and Robin, Sin Titulo) will be signing books at Strange Adventures in Halifax, Saturday March 20, 2-5 pm, according to the Living Between Wednesdays blog.

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This weekend: Toronto Anime Convention

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2010 12:17:00 AM
Hobbystar Toronto Animecon
March 20-21, 2010
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (North Building)
255 Front Street. West

Animecon Hours
Saturday : 11:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday : 11:00am - 5:00pm

$15 Flat rate all access pass; good for Saturday, Sunday or both days.

Admission only available at the door during the show hours

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   Thursday, March 18, 2010  
The C-List: Blogspot Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/18/2010 12:30:00 AM
Item: Jeet Heer on nostalgia, The Beguiling, Joe Matt, and crappy comic book shops.

Item: In international earthshaking news, the family of Jack Kirby (the artist and co-creator of X-Men, Hulk, and Captain America, among thousands of others) has announced their intent to sue Marvel/Disney for copyright of the Kirby-created characters. According to the LA Times, "Under copyright law, creators can seek to regain copyrights they previously assigned to a company 56 years after first publication and can give notice of their intentions up to 10 years before that.[...] Kirby's children would be eligible to claim their father's portion of the copyright of the Fantastic Four in 2017; the Hulk would come up in 2018 and X-Men in 2019. The copyrights would then run for 39 more years."

Item: The first review I've seen of the new Ho Che Anderson book, Sand and Fury.

Item: A review of Red: A Haida Manga at Publishers Weekly.

Item: Guy Delisle draws on youtube.

Item: Regis Loisel and Jean-Louis Tripp, cartoonists from France, are the subject of a new film about the creation of their graphic novel series Le Magasin General, in this report from Chris Hanna of the Concordia student newspaper.

Item: The Transmission X team is touring Europe.

Item: A sneak peak at the process behind Two Generals, Scott Chantler's upcoming graphic memoir project, to be released through McClelland and Stewart.

Item: Via Robert Pincombe, Alpha Flight's Box presents "differently-abled superheroes".

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   Wednesday, March 17, 2010  
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2010 JOE SHUSTER AWARDS

:: Posted by max @ 3/17/2010 08:26:00 PM

6th Annual JOE SHUSTER AWARDS have released their nominations, there's a lot of them so i'm going to post the list here and let you follow this link for more details on their home blog.  

A few details though: In January and February of this year, nominees were selected from master lists of eligible works originally published in English and/or French during the 2009 calendar year. Canadian citizens living at home or abroad, as well as permanent residents were eligible for consideration. Now that the lists of nominees have been finalized, nominated creators will have their work reviewed by juries, who will decide the winners.
Winners will be announced at a public ceremony in Toronto on the evening of Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, with master of Ceremonies Jonathan Llyr. 
NOMINEES for Work Published in 2009
Artist/Dessinateur
Cartoonist/Createur
Colourist/Dessinateur Couleur
 [don't have time to add links for all of these right now, will fill in later, but there's this thing called google though....]
* Brad Anderson
* Chris Chuckry
* Maryse Dubuc
* Nathan Fairbairn
* Lovern Kindzierski
* Francois Lapierre
* Dave McCaig 
* Ronda Pattison 
Writer/Ecrivain
* Kelley Armstrong
* Ian Boothby
* Herve Bouchard
* Maryse Dubuc
* Kathryn Immonen
* Dean Motter
* Ty Templeton
* J. Torres 
Cover/Couverture
* Kaare Andrews
* Paul Bordeleau
* Darwyn Cooke
* Darwyn Cooke
* Marc Delafontaine
* Dale Eaglesham
* Dale Keown 
* Igor Kordey 
Webcomics/Bandes Dessinees Web
* Attila Adorjany - Metaphysical Neuroma
* Kate Beaton - Hark! A Vagrant
* Andy Belanger - Bottle of Awesome and Raising Hell
* Rene Engstrom - Anders Loves Maria
* Karl Kerschl -The Abominable Charles Christopher
* Gisele Lagace and David Lumsdon - Eerie Cuties and Ménage à 3
* Tara Tallan - Galaxion
* Steve Wolfhard - Cat Rackham

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National Newspaper Awards Nominations Announced

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/17/2010 12:34:00 AM
2009 National Newspaper Awards Nominations Announced:
Editorial Cartoonists Category
By Bryan Munn

The finalists for the 61st National Newspaper Awards were announced March 15 in Toronto. There are 66 finalists in 22 categories, culled from 1,301 entries of works that appeared in the year 2009. The categories include beat reporting, photography, and investigative articles, as well as include editorial cartooning. The award in this category is considered the most prestigious prize given to editorial cartoonists in Canada. This year, the three nominees in the category of editorial cartooning are Brian Gable (The Globe and Mail), Malcolm Mayes (Edmonton Journal), Terry Mosher aka Aislin (The Gazette, Montreal).

Gable has won the award 4 times, most recently in 2005. Aislin has won twice previously (1977 and 1978).

An Edmonton native, Mayes has been nominated twice for the NNA, most recently in 2002, but has yet to win.

Beginning in 2008, cartoonists were instructed to submit their works online and then judged online. According to the Awards' website, the policart prize is given "for excellence in editorial cartooning for a body of work of five editorial cartoons. Preference will be given to cartoons that demonstrate humour, originality and satire related to news events, with quality embracing line, style and likenesses of personalities where relevant." A panel of three judges will choose the winner.

Founded in 1949 by The Toronto Press Club, this is the 21st year for the NNAs in its current format, administered by a Board of Governors under the aegis of a non-profit.

Winners will be announced and will receive a $1000 cheque at the awards ceremony in Toronto on Friday, May 14 following the Canadian Newspaper Association conference.

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   Tuesday, March 16, 2010  
New Books: Yuna

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/16/2010 05:48:00 AM



Yuna, T. 2: L'Ile aux Tombeaux
by Jacques Lamontagne and Yi Ma
$21.95
Soleil
ISBN : 9782302009622

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Daniel Clowes Presents: WILSON, official TCAF 2010 Kick-Off Event

:: Posted by max @ 3/16/2010 02:44:00 AM
Daniel Clowes

presents

WILSON


Friday, May 7th, 2010 @ 7PM
The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Free Tickets via: http://danclowes.eventbrite.com/
Facebook Event page

Presented by Toronto Public Library, Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and Drawn & Quarterly

Daniel Clowes will kick off the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival in style with the presentation of his new graphic novel WILSON, published by premiere Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly. WILSON is hotly anticipated by graphic novel fans worldwide and Clowes’ appearance at TCAF will make this one of the most eagerly anticipated comics events of the year. Clowes will present on WILSON, and be interviewed on stage.

Copies of WILSON as well as much of Clowes' back-catalogue will be available for purchase on site. A signing by Clowes will follow the event. For more information please visit http://www.torontocomics.com.

Event begins at 7pm sharp. Doors open at 6pm. No admission after 7:30pm.

Strict limit of 2 tickets per registrant enforced. Photo ID will be required to pick up tickets at the door.

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   Monday, March 15, 2010  
The C-List: Daylight Savings Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/15/2010 04:29:00 AM
Darwyn Cooke Overstreet price guide 2010 cover captain america bucky

Some links and notes about Canada, comics, and graphic novels for a Monday morning.

Item: Kate Beaton toy ponies. I think these were on sale at the Emerald City con?

Item: Montreal bookseller Monet presents a cartoon interview by Pascal Girard (Jimmy et le Bigfoot).

Item: The cover for the upcoming 3rd volume of Le Front, the anthology published by BDQ collective Front Froid, is now online.

Item: A write-up of Darwyn Cooke's presentation at The Smithsonian.

Item: Cooke also is doing the chores on one of the Overstreet Price Guide covers.

Item: Ty Templeton announces that the "reprints" of everyone's fave Canadian superhero comic strip, Hoverboy, are now back online in weekly installments.

Item: Dustin Harbin wants to know if readers think he should switch from daily fiction comic to daily diary comic.

Item: The most recent list of top 300 bestselling/most ordered graphic novels in North America from Diamond distributors (ie, comic shop orders) shows very few Canuck-created works on the list. Sure, there are lots of books illustrated by the likes of Stuart Immonem and Pia Guerra, but not so many examples of non-corporate work-for-hire. I think the highest rank is Skim at #141, followed by Scott Pilgrim 1 and 2 (164, 272). Is that it?

Item: Svetlana Chmakova has a facebook fan page.

Item: Call for papers for a book of essays on Dave Sim and Cerebus.

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   Sunday, March 14, 2010  
Printer refuses to print Doug Wright Awards Nominee's Work

:: Posted by Dave Howard @ 3/14/2010 02:51:00 PM
Doug Wright Awards nominee for best emerging talent, Adam Bourret has had his autobiographical comic I'm Crazy, refused to be printed by Toronto printer Harmony Printing because they were afraid of offending their 'religious' clients. Here is an excerpt from their letter:
Unfortunately due to the content I am going to have to respectfully decline. The reason is we have a lot of long standing clients who are religious organizations. They are in our facilities all of the time and cannot risk having this content out in the open during production. Please understand that this is not a slight against your artwork or the message that you are trying to convey to your audience.
I wish you all the best and I hope you can understand our position.

Adam's reply, posted on his website is below:

The only thing I understand is that you're discriminating against me for my sexuality. You're also attempting to mask your discrimination by hiding behind your "religious" clientele. This is your company's decision, not theirs.

I hope you enjoyed my website and will check back for updates. The content of your letter will be appearing on it very soon, as a warning to any other potential clients.


According to this extended editorial at The Torontoist, who contacted the printer for clarification, their refusal to print Adam's autobiographic comic is not based on same-sex issues but rather images of 'people having sex'.

This story has also been picked up by these other outlets as well:
Say it With Pie.
Hardcore Nerdity.
Award winning gay blog Towleroad
Quill & Quire
Comic Book Resources.

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Comic Book Opera

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/14/2010 05:43:00 AM
The Montreal opera company ECM+ has commissioned a comic book opera with a libretto to be written by Cecil Castelucci. Directed by Veronique Lacroix, four different cartoonists are contributing illustrations: Michael Cho, Scott Hepburn, Cameron Stewart and Pascal Girard. The opera is called "Les Adventures de Madame Merveille" and premieres May 6.

Here's Cho's art.

"Singing, illustrations, video projections and staging come together to recount four highly imaginative stories: The fight of a super heroine against the evil Mr. Degout, a fifties love story, the detective enquiry of François and his dog Pax and an interstellar combat. Never seen before!"

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   Saturday, March 13, 2010  
The C-List: Going Into the Weekend

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/13/2010 05:29:00 AM


Item: Toronto retailer Chris Butcher reacts to the news of a new manga line from Fantagraphics.

Item: Speaking of manga, one of Canada's two manga publishers, D+Q, has a preview of their new/old Tatsumi graphic novel Black Blizzard.

Item: Silver Snail employee, comics writer, and Wordburglar Sean Jordan talks to Living Between Wednesdays about one of my favourite 1970s characters, Marvel's Tigra.

Item: A profile of the Boychuks --the brothers behind The Chuckle Bros syndicated comic strip.

Item: Students grapple with moral question of Watchmen [no, the question isn't "Is this the worst movie ever?"].

Item: Policart Aislin hasn't been controversial for awhile. Now he's in hot water over a Montreal Gazette cartoon depicting a woman wearing a Niqab.

Item: There are probably whole sites devoted to comic book film hype, but this report of a Warren Ellis-based Bruce Willis film is sort of in my backyard.

Item: In Shuster Awards news, the venue and host for the June 5 event are online.

Item: Paul Rivoche interview by Jeffery Klaehn, author and cultural commentator.

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April Schedule: Toronto Cartoonists Workshop

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/13/2010 02:51:00 AM
TORONTO CARTOONISTS WORKSHOP is pleased to announce our line up of new classes for April 2010. They will be:

- Ty Templeton’s Comic Book Bootcamp Level One

- Kidding Around: Writing Comics for Younger Readers with Sam Agro

- Professional Layout and Story Telling for Comics and Graphic Novels with Ty Templeton


Comic Book Bootcamp Level I is finally back. It covers indepth both the pictorial and writing aspects of comic book creation. The response to this course is amazing and it has been constantly full over the past four years in its various incarnations. The September 2009 edition was sold out very quickly following Fan Expo and had a waiting list. Apply now to avoid disappointment.


Writing Comics for Younger Readers teaches the fundamentals of what is becoming a hot market in the book field. With critical and economic successes like BONE, AMULET and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID driving industry and consumer interest it is sure to be a growth area for some time. Sign up for this in depth study of the fundamentals of writing comics and animation for kids from 5 to 15 taught by Sam Agro. Sam has written for TVO’s Polka Dot Shorts, the animated segments of Elliot Moose is on the Loose and many, many scripts for DC’s Looney Tunes and Block Party comics.


Professional Layout and Story Telling is a course I have been asked about for a long time. Many aspiring comic artists are interested in studying with Ty Templeton, but would rather not have to go through the writing lessons that are a part of the Bootcamp. If you are a student who specifically wants to focus on the art side of making comics, then this is the course for you. It compresses the art lessons taught in the Comic Book Bootcamp Level I and Level II into one course. This class will be quite intensive and students should expect to be bombarded with information in each session. Due to Ty's schedule I'm not sure when this will be offered again, so please take advantage of the opportunity now.

For FULL information on these workshops please go to our site at: http://www.cartoonistsworkshop.com

Thank you for your interest in and support for the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop. If you have any questions please address them to me at info@cartoonistsworkshop.com or by calling 647-502-7605.

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   Friday, March 12, 2010  
6th annual Doug Wright Awards awards @ TCAF!

:: Posted by max @ 3/12/2010 07:10:00 AM
George Sprott, 
and Aboriginal manga 
lead nominations 
for the 2010.


March 12, 2010 Toronto -- Running the gamut from the acclaimed to the unconventional, the 15 finalists for this year's Doug Wright Awards were announced today in Toronto.

Hand-picked by an esteemed panel of comics experts, the 2010 finalists represent the finest, most thought-provoking work produced by Canada's vibrant comics community.   

The shortlist contains works that explore diverse subjects, from the legendary life of Kasper Hauser and the fictional life (and death) of a fading TV host, and spans a range of formats, from wordless lino-cuts graphic novels to "manga" inspired by Western Canadian Haida mythology.

The Doug Wright Awards finalists for Best Book are:

Back + Forth by Marta Chudolinska (The Porcupine's Quill)
George Sprott: (1894-1975) by Seth (Drawn and Quarterly)
Hot Potatoe by Marc Bell (Drawn and Quarterly)
Kaspar by Diane Obomsawin (Drawn and Quarterly)
Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas and McIntyre)

The Doug Wright Awards finalists for Best Emerging Talent are:

Adam Bourret I'm Crazy
Michael DeForge Lose #1 (Koyama Press), Cold Heat Special #7 (Picturebox)
Pascal Girard Nicolas (Drawn and Quarterly)
John Martz It's Snowing Outside. We Should Go For a Walk.
Sully The Hipless Boy (Conundrum Press)

The finalists for the 2010 Pigskin Peters Award (for unconventional, "nominally-narrative" comics) are:

Bebete Simon Bosse (L'Oie de Cravan)
Dirty Dishes by Amy Lockhart (Drawn and Quarterly)
Hot Potatoe by Marc Bell (Drawn and Quarterly)
Never Learn Anything From History by Kate Beaton
The Collected Doug Wright Volume One by Doug Wright (Drawn and Quarterly)

Founded in 2004 (in a dimly lit Toronto bar) to celebrate the finest in English-language comics and graphic novels, The Doug Wright Awards have since evolved into one of North America's foremost comics awards and one of its most anticipated events.

Wright Awards finalists defy easy categorization, and include past and present masters of the form and off-the-beaten-path newcomers alike, all vying for one of the most unique and coveted trophies in comics.

This year's nominees were chosen by a five-member panel who chose from works released in the 2009 calendar year. The panel included: comics historian and author Jeet Heer; filmmaker Jerry Ciccoritti; cartoonist Chester Brown; Walrus comics blogger Sean Rogers, and; writer and Sequential.ca publisher Bryan Munn.

The winners are chosen by a jury that includes cartoonists, writers, actors, directors, musicians and, on occasion, politicians.

A featured event of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF), the 2010 Doug Wright Awards ceremony will take place on Sat. May 8, at 7 pm at the Toronto Reference Library's new Bram & Bluma Appel Salon.  


For more information, please contact:
brad@wrightawards.ca
mackbrad@gmail.com

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   Thursday, March 11, 2010  
Superhero Hockey

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/11/2010 06:03:00 AM
This is the old-school magic that I'm talking about:

"The gay and roaring crows cheered lustily for their favourite hockey team ... and then Death came riding in on the cold air of the ice arena!"


Robert Pincombe does us all a great service by posting a 1940s comic book story featuring Ted Steele's Canadian superhero Speed Savage over at his ComicCanuck blog. As a post-Olympics bonus, its a rare hockey comic book story as well (and in true hockey style, hockey-loving cartoonist Jeff Lemire provides an "assist"). Go read "Murder Has The Puck"!

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carte blanche is looking for comics

:: Posted by max @ 3/11/2010 02:16:00 AM

Bi-annual Carte Blanche - The Literary review of the Quebec Writers' Federation - recently added sequential art to their roster, as graphic fiction. I'm going to be doing a turn as guest editor for the next issue, so part of the job is getting the word out. :)

So we are currently urgently seeking submissions for the Spring edition, the due date this coming 15th, monday! And take note american cousin, overseas readers and all canucks, Carte Blanche is open to submissions from anywhere! That's right, an open opportunity to get you're work in a recognized Literary review.

Submission page is here with details.

Currently from the fall edition, they are featuring
a really well done short by Dustin Harbin [dharbin],
part of a series of strips i've seen from him
called Fun with Autobiography.

Obviously on such short notice the call is open to existing content.

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   Wednesday, March 10, 2010  
Rough art for Sequential Pulp 2!

:: Posted by max @ 3/10/2010 12:20:00 AM

The pot is a brewing, more news to come soon but here's the rough art for the cover of this years edition of Sequential Pulp.

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Canadian Bestsellers: March 10 Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/10/2010 12:01:00 AM
bookmanager logo

compiled/edited by B. Munn

The first list for March.

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) Naruto 47, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (2) Vampire Knight 9, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
3. (-) Negima 25, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
4. (7) Seekers: Toklo's Story, Erin Hunter (Harper Collins)
5. (4) Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks (Crown)
6. (25) Footnotes in Gaza, Sacco (Henry Holt)
7. (3) Book of Genesis, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
8. (-) Bleach 30, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
9. (15) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Camille Rose Garcia (HC)
10. (29) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
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11. (17) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
12. (-) Asterix/Olympic, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
13. (6) Garfield Fat Pack, Davis et al (Random)
14. (-) Asterix/Obelix's Birthday, Uderzo (Orion)
15. (13) Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis et al (Bloomsbury)
16. (-) Black Bird 1, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
17. (20) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
18. (5) Black Bird 3, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
19. (-) One Piece 30, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
20. (-) One Piece 34, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
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21. (-) Maus II, Spiegleman (Knopf)
22. (16) Maximum Ride: The Manga 2, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Orbit/Yen)
23. (-) Manga Messiah, (Tyndale)
24. (-) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
25. (-) All Star Superman 2, Morrison/Quitely (DC)
26. (-) D.n.angel Volume 13, Sugisaki Yukiru (Tokyopop)
27. (-) Asterix/Cleopatra, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
28. (-) Bleach 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
29. (-) One Piece 29, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
30. (-) B is for Beer, Tom Robbins (HC)

Analysis: Only 2 Canadian Books in the top 30 overall.

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. (1) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
2. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (-) Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
4. (3) Skim Hardcover, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
5. (-) Skim Paperback, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
6. (29) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
7. (17) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (9) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
10. (8) Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks, Marc Bell (D+Q)
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11. (26) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (16) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (23) Important Artifacts, Leanne Shapton (FSG)
14. (-) Runaways: Homeschooling, K.Immonen/Pachilli (marvel)
15. (7) Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
16. (4) The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum)
17. (11) Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe (D+Q)
18. (-) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (-) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (AM)
20. (10) Nightschool 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Orbit/Yen)
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21. (-) In Me Own Words, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
22. (5) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
23. (6) Nightschool 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Orbit/Yen)
24. (12) Parker The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
25. (13) The Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
26. (14) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
27. (15) Collected Doug Wright 1, Doug Wright (D+Q)
28. (19) Essex County, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
29. (22) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws, Chad Solomon (Lone Pine)
30. (24) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews)

Analysis: The top 30 Canadian books are all found in the top 960 comics.

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   Tuesday, March 09, 2010  
The C-List: Arrests and Artists

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/09/2010 01:42:00 PM
Item: The Canadian Bookseller's Association is appealing to the federal government to block Amazon's plans to open a distribution network in this country. CBA President Stephen Cribar argues that Amazon's entry into Canada would detrimentally affect the country's independent businesses and cultural industries: "Individual Canadian booksellers have traditionally played a key role in ensuring the promotion of Canadian authors and Canadian culture. These are values that no American dot.com retailer could ever purport to understand or promote."

Item: Irish police have arrested 7 people for planning to kill another cartoonist over depictions of Mohammad: "The alleged target of the murder conspiracy, Swedish artist Lars Vilks, told The Associated Press he believed that the Irish arrests are linked to two telephone death threats he received in January over one of his drawings published in a Swedish newspaper in August 2007."

Item: Comic Book Resources interviews Kathryn Immonen.

Item: Tim O'Shea talks to Ho Che Anderson.

Item: Big surprise. Conservative columnist David Frum hates Doonesbury.

Item: The B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Associatio's Ma Murray awards noms are out. Gerald Tisdale got the nod for policart.

Item: The Globe and Mail's Ivor Tossell profiles the creators of a new webcomic/graphic novel about the protests in Iran, being serialized by First Second in the U.S.

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   Monday, March 08, 2010  
Upcoming: Sand and Fury

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/08/2010 01:23:00 PM

Ho Che Anderson's latest. Not sure how much of this first appeared in the self-published Scream Queen. Either way, nice to see something new after he told Howard Chaykin he was giving up comics in the Comics Journal 300 interview.



Sand & Fury: A Scream Queen Adventure
By Ho Che Anderson

Sand & Fury is a story of blood, of sex, of death — of sound and retribution. It opens as a girl by the side of a desert road accepts a ride from a stranger. How could she know that behind that wheel sits the angel of death?

Of course, even the angel of death once had a life. During that life, death was a successful business woman, with a great career and an even greater future. It’s true she could be a little cavalier with her innate gifts; she had, after all, broken the heart of everyone who had ever loved her.

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The C-List:: Monday News

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/08/2010 11:31:00 AM


Some notes on Canadian comics culture.

Item: New date for the Joe Shuster Awards --June 5 in Toronto, coinciding with the Toronto Comicon.

Item: the 23rd Festival de la Bande Dessinee Francophone de Quebec (FBDFQ) is scheduled for April 7-11.

Item: Pan vs Satan

Item: Alpha Flight's Puck talks about the closing ceremonies in Vancouver.

Item: Mangaka Svetlana Chmakova recounts her immigrant experience in a new anthology.

Item: Two tech pieces over at the Quillblog include Apple looking to hire an ibooks manager for Canada and Amazon looking to put a physical warehouse inside Canada.

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Upcoming: Moving Pictures

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/08/2010 06:16:00 AM
Moving Pictures, by Kathryn & Stuart Immonen and published by Top Shelf, is now available for pre-order from the March Diamond Previews catalogue (order code MAR10 1136) or directly from the Top Shelf website:

Top Shelf is proud to welcome Kathryn & Stuart Immonen (Ultimate Spider-Man, Nextwave, Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Never as Bad as You Think) to the Top Shelf family with this thrilling, intimate tale of love, war, and art.

Moving Pictures is the story of the awkward and dangerous relationship between curator Ila Gardner and officer Rolf Hauptmann, as they are forced by circumstances to play out their private lives in a public power struggle. The narrative unfolds along two timelines which collide with the revelation of a terrible secret, an enigmatic decision that not many would make, and the realization that sometimes the only choice left is the refusal to choose.

In a recent interview at comicbookresources.com, Kathryn explained that "The history is just a backdrop to tell a messed-up love story that's about how we assign value to things and people, how we behave when not everyone is playing by the same rules" and "in the end, maybe it's all about the fundamentally perverse nature of desire, about not being to help wanting what you want even if you don't know why. And how, from the outside, we really don't know anything about someone else's intimacies." -- A 144-Page Graphic Novel with French Flaps, 5.75" X 8.25"

SHIPPING IN MAY!

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   Sunday, March 07, 2010  
Double-Barreled Comic Release | Sword of My Mouth

:: Posted by max @ 3/07/2010 02:07:00 PM
Jim writes that he's off to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to give a talk there about the community organizing he's been doing, as a bit of a vacation after getting his latest graphic novel, Sword of My Mouth to the printer. The sequel to Therefore Repent, [which i drew for full disclosure] drawn by Shannon Gerard, you can read all but the last chapter online ici if you're a subscriber. The final act will be on hand, in print as a single volume, at TCAF 2010! I look forward to giving it a final read myself!

I've never seen either of them holding a gun before, looks like they enjoy it! ;)

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Movie Review: No Heart Feelings

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/07/2010 01:30:00 PM

It's Oscar Night so I thought I'd run this short review of a new film I mentioned on the C-List last week. The new film, No Heart Feelings, co-directed by cartoonist Sarah Lazarovic and featuring a performance by cartoonist Steve Murray (aka Chip Zdarsky), is playing at the Kingston Film Festival. BM


No Heart Feelings Review
by Jamie Coville
Special to Sequential

I just got back from watching No Heart Feelings at the Kingston Film Festival, the movie with Steve Murray as one of the principle actors.

The movie is about a Toronto woman breaking up with one guy, recovering and meeting another. Steve plays the womans roommate who is an graphic designer/artist. Throughout the movie there is a subtle subplot about their friendship as well. The creators described it as a post coming of age movie, where one is in their late 20s but don't yet have the house, spouse, kids, etc.. that is traditionally expected. The movie also wanted to show a side of Toronto that films usually don't show, that being the downtown neighbourly side with a close group of friends. While I don't live in Toronto I've been up there enough and hung around the locals (and their friends) enough to say they did a really good job at that.

While there was many funny parts in the movie, the crowd laughed out loud at much of Steve's scenes. After the movie the audience asked the creators about the dialog writing and they said there were certain lines that they wanted them to say, some of the dialog was created by the actors going by a guideline. This rang true for me as some jokes/comments and stuff felt like something Steve would say at a convention. There was one scene that was at an small art gallery for Steve's work. Much of Steve's real work can be clearly seen hanging on the walls, specifically art from his Extremely Bad Advice column for the National Post.

The movie was much better than I thought it would be and I'd recommend it to others.

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   Friday, March 05, 2010  
Weekend Reading

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/05/2010 09:28:00 AM

I linked to one of these already, bt you should really check out Robert Pincombe's Olympic wind-down blog posts. Through Robert's comedic genius, various members of Alpha Flight talk about the Vancouver Olympics and then go on to discuss classic comic book Olympic moments. No Puck yet, but we can dream...

Slam-Poet Superhero

Sasquatch
Northstar
Snowbird

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Hark, a vagrant: 250 "Canadian stereotypes"

:: Posted by max @ 3/05/2010 04:02:00 AM
HaHa HaHaHa HaHaHaHa HaHaHa HaHaHa HaHa Ha..... hey, that's not nice....

"All fucked up on hokey"....HaHaHaHa!
I'm sorry....:)

I <3 Kate Beaton.

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Upcoming: Kill Shakespeare

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/05/2010 02:07:00 AM

You can order this new IDW series involving a bevy of Toronto creators in Previews now. They have a nice website, too.

New comic series re-imagines the Bard and his most famous characters launching at WonderCon, April 2-4, 2010

To celebrate the birth (and death) of the world's most famous playwright, IDW Publishing is proud to launch a brand new comic series at WonderCon, Kill Shakespeare. Conceived and written by Canadian-based creators Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col, this twelve-issue series is a dark take on the Bard and his work, pitting his greatest heroes against his most menacing villains. The series will launch with a 32-page, ad-free first issue, and McCreery and Del Col will host an exclusive signing and panel at WonderCon, one of the country's leading comics and pop culture conventions, including a discussion of literary mash-ups with leading authors and Shakespearean scholars. WonderCon will be held April 2nd through the 4th at San Francisco's Moscone Center.

Called "easily one of the more exciting new projects" at San Diego Comic Con by Publisher's Weekly, Kill Shakespeare is true to the Bard's canon, yet also accessible to a wide range of readers. The series offers an edgy interpretation of Shakespeare's most famous characters, bringing Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Puck and others together for an epic adventure. Beginning in April with issue #1, readers encounter a banished Hamlet, who embarks on a quest to resurrect his dead father. But to do so, he must kill a reclusive wizard named... William Shakespeare!

"It's poetic justice that Kill Shakespeare is released in the month of April. Shakespeare was born and died on the exact same date, April 23rd (how dramatic is that?...), and we think that our series will serve as a great tribute to the Bard while reinventing his stories and characters in a completely unique and exciting light."

Creators Del Col and McCreery bring their love of Shakespeare, independent film, and a combination of marketing and writing experience to their first comic book project. Artist Andy Belanger rises to the challenge of interpreting some of the most famous characters in the world, and he and Kagan McLeod provide attention-getting covers for issue #1.

"Kill Shakespeare has been a fascinating comic for me to edit," said series editor Tom Waltz. "On the one hand, this unique tale is undeniably grounded in its Shakespearean roots, but the creators have also produced a top-notch action thriller that rivals anything coming out of Hollywood these days."

Kill Shakespeare #1 (of 12, $3.99, 32 pages, full color) will be available in stores in April. 
Diamond order code: FEB10 0959.

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   Thursday, March 04, 2010  
The C-List:: Action Cosmics

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/04/2010 03:16:00 AM
Item: Colin Upton at the Olympic protest.

Item: Nardwuar's video vault features a rare Capt. Canada appearance.

Item: Kevin Boyd's Winter Comicon report reminds me of the old joke, "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out."

Item: Abominable shirt equals excellent print.

Item: In D+Q news, we have the cover for the D+Q/John Stanley Free Comics Book Day giveaway, and the Strand Bookstore Bookbag contest.

Item: Trailers for new comics are becoming ubiquitous, but I really liked this little film for U.S. cartoonist Matthew Thurber's latest, 1-800-Mice.

Item: It's .......the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack!

Item: Sault Ste Marie tot buys manga for library with wrestling prize money.

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   Wednesday, March 03, 2010  
Interview with Toronto cartoonist Dave Lapp, creator of Drop-In and Children of the Atom

:: Posted by Dave Howard @ 3/03/2010 10:18:00 AM



I had an opportunity to interview Dave Lapp last week, the highlights of which (and there are many) are now available at the torontoist books site.

We spoke of many things - his process, his connection to original art, his dream journals. I always find Dave Lapp very inspiring to talk to.

If you can, check out Drop-In and be sure to pick up his collection of Children of the Atom -- 5 years of weekly strips, 250 pages!

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Christopher Butcher Liveblogging The Feb 2010 Previews

:: Posted by max @ 3/03/2010 04:47:00 AM
Christopher Butcher's blow by blow walk through of previews are a new pleasure for me, some interesting highlights: IDW get's one of Christopher's picks for book-of-the-month, SWORD OF MY MOUTH, the new graphic novel from Jim Munroe and Shanon Gerard. KILL SHAKESPEARE's writer puts in some over time to make sure he mentioned their new book with Andy is coming out, and much more fun. Read the whole blog here - Part 1 & Part 2.

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   Tuesday, March 02, 2010  
TCAF News: Jim Woodring Comes to Toronto

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/02/2010 06:52:00 AM

U.S. cartoonist Jim Woodring is the latest guest to be announced for the upcoming Toronto Comics Arts Festival (May 2010). Making his first Toronto appearance, Woodring is best known for his comic book series Jim (Fantagraphics) and stories and graphic novels starring his character Frank. Raconteur, painter, and Jack Kirby workmate, Woodring also coined the phrase "Canuck piddlepants" to describe Canadian cartoonists.

Other guests include the Transmission X webcomics collective and Ho Che Anderson.


TCAF Welcomes: Jim Woodring, Ho Che Anderson, and Fantagraphics Books

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is excited to announce the addition of exhibitors Fantagraphics Books, and guests Jim Woodring and Ho Che Anderson to the 2010 Festival!

Hailing from Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books ( www.fantagraphics.com ) has been one of the world’s leading publishers of comics and graphic novels since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. This is Fantagraphics' first time exhibiting at TCAF, and the company will be represented by Editor Eric Reynolds.

As part of Fantagraphics' presence at TCAF, they will debut the new graphic novel WEATHERCRAFT: A FRANK BOOK by alt-comix legend Jim Woodring. This is Woodrin's first visit to Toronto in memory, and his appearance is sure to be highly anticipated amongst comics fans thanks to his illustrious career creating comics, paintings, and three-dimensional art objects. Woodring will be signing copies of his work and will give a presentation on his career at TCAF.

Also just confirmed is Toronto's own Ho Che Anderson, author of the acclaimed comics biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., KING, recently re-released in a Special Edition from Fantagraphics.


(photo: M.Woodring)

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Dream Life update

:: Posted by max @ 3/02/2010 05:30:00 AM
Dream Life is up to page 7


Lookout for the giant red haired woman! 

That latest post is accompanied
by a short story from 2002, 
a memoir called Red.

There are daily pages for another two days, 
before we settle down to a page a week Wednesdays.

Drop by and leave a comment!
hope to hear from you
cheers

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   Monday, March 01, 2010  
Toronto Winter Comicon Wrap-Up

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/01/2010 06:38:00 AM

Some quick links from this past weekends Hobbystar Comicon in T.O. Everyone seems to have cut it short to watch the Gold Medal hockey game:

Jason Truong's shortest con ever.

Milo from Digital Konent says it was "packed!"


Ty from Doing the Batusi blog liveblogs the whole shebang. (That's his photo up top)

He also blogged the Guy Davis event Friday.

Eric Orchard experienced things here and here.

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The C-List: Enraptured Grumpy Old Comics Fan

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/01/2010 01:06:00 AM

Alrite. I ate a very large bean tortilla, half a bottle of wine, one row from a bag of Double Chocolate Chewy Chips Ahoy cookies, and a chai tea, but this epic accomplishment did nothing to assuage my essential grumpy old man nature. Let's face it, Canadian comics news ranges from boring, to ludicrous, to depressing, to transcendentally beautiful and enlightening. With the emphasis on the first three.

Item: An Olympic message from Northstar. The former Olympian and Alpha Flight member slaloms around some classic comic book covers.

Item: In ridiculous international news, a copy of Detective Comics #27, featuring the first appearance of Batman, sold last week for $1,075,500.00 U.S., narrowly edging out the even $1 million paid for Action Comics #1 earlier in the week. The price (4x Overstreet!) includes a buyer's premium to auctioneer Heritage Auctions. Holey Ripoff, Batman! It's sad that the actual physical artifacts of comics fallen/been raised to this level. At the same time, the same ridiculous collector's market has elevated the actual work of the creators to the point where some of the older original art pages are now worth corresponding money. Too bad most of the artists from the Golden Age are dead. CBC report.

Item: Retailers from Toronto, Kitchener, and London participate in a roundtable discussion. Peter Birkemoe: "Most comic shops in North America are not shops that sell comics but shops that sell comics and merchandise relating to superheroes or other similar genres. More people than ever are reading comics in all age groups but they aren't necessarily going to comic book stores to get them."

Item: Alex Jansen, the publisher of new Canadian imprint Pop Sandbox, has won a $45,000 grant to produce an online "interactive graphic novel" about suicide survivors. The Next Day won the National Film Board & TVO's first ever Digital Calling Card and the money will go to production. (National Post)

Item: The new film, No Heart Feelings, co-directed by cartoonist Sarah Lazarovic and featuring a performance by Steve Murray, will be featured at the Kingston Film Festival.

Item: Ottawa cartoonist/designer/painter Andrew King has painting exhibit.

Item: Shane Koyczan, the slam poet who became an online sensation after his performance at the Olympics opening ceremonies, is working on a graphic novel.

Item: Chris Butcher takes on manga/anime fans who sell copyright-infringing work, including Nick Simmons. Um, shouldn't conventions organizers clamp down on that crap? I mean, some of it is nice, and their are fans who manage to mash things up to a new level of art, but it's pretty obviously illegal, isn't it? Sure, some of it is tribute, some parody, but taking money for it? Speaking of parody, I just read Lose #1 by Michael Deforge, which chronicles in part the adventures of Green Lantern in artschool, and it is highly recommended.


Item: A profile of and Wolverine sketch by Dale Eaglesham.

Item: A profile and Wolverine sketch by Rebecca Kraatz. This is my favourite so far, and not just because I loved her last comic.

Item: And more Wolverines by Jay Stephens, Rich Dannys, Shane Heron, Philippe Girard, and Sam Agro.

Item: Von Allan launches "the road to god knows..." in Ottawa March 14.

Item: The latest edition of the inkstuds podcast is a special "mangastuds" panel hosted by Deb Aoki.

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