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24.Sep.2010 Tonite: Dave Sim in Halifax

Cartoonist and pioneering graphic novelist Dave Sim (Cerebus, Glamourpuss) will be signing sketches of potato salad and trees at Strange Adventures in Halifax today at 10 PM. The event is the result of an auction Sim held to host his purported “last signing.”

Facebook event page

Dave Sim's Last Signing?

19.Mar.2010 Saturday: Cameron Stewart in Halifax

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.

04.Mar.2009 Angora Napkin’ Book Signing and Preview

IDW artist / writer Troy Little will be visiting Strange Adventures to sign copies of his new graphic novel “Angora Napkin” and showing previews of the upcoming animated pilot that will be airing on Teletoon this spring!

Strange Adventures is also holding a sale that day! Go Green for St. Patrick Day and save 20%!!

04.Nov.2008 Halifax: New Comics Capital

News from across the land:

• Is Halifax the new comics capital of Canada? With a number of big name talents residing there, the city is certainly gaining a rep as a cartoonist colony. This latest profile of up-and-comer Faith Erin Hicks adds fuel to the fire.

• Jay Stephens has a new animated tv show starting this Friday on Teletoon and is profiled in The KW Record.

• Canzine write-ups: Victoria University student paper.

• The Prix Bedelys people have added another category to their awards lineup for French-language Quebec comics: Le Prix Bedelys Fanzine. Fanzines published in 2008 should send copies to the addresses in the link.

• Eye Weekly blogs about the reinvention of the Weekend Post lifestyles section, featuring some comics, and the end of the long-running satirical Frank magazine.

• Tom Spurgeon rounds up thoughts on the recession and its effect on the U.S. comic book industry, with some thoughts on Japanese imports and the dollar. Herve St Louis also musters some thoughts.

• Is Chester Brown the model for a character in Mark Millar’s violent action comic Kick-Ass?

09.Oct.2008 Supposedly The State of the Canadian Comic Book Industry

Herve at the Bin is at it again. He’s posted an OP ED style piece on ‘The State of the Canadian Comic Book Industry’ which merits linking to, but I feel I should post a buyer beware notice.

“I’ve been covering the comic book industry for years and have always found the level of professionalism and maturity of players involved lacking. Many times, I have written and said that what passes for public discourse in this industry would get all participants fired from their respective jobs, were they in any other mature industry.” – Herve St-Louis

This to me this is ironic as it’s not how i’ve found MOST of the people in the business in my 18 or so years in it, just an annoying minority.

The piece seems to be a little light on facts for the strong opinions it presents, and is rather dubious as a National Overview given it spends 939 of the 2727 word article raging on one small part of the huge loose collection of comics communities based in Toronto and attacks the city in a very predictable conservative mid west way for essentially being big and both commercially and culturally vibrant. Meanwhile he talks about not even half the other cities in the country.

Why is it that people spend so much time bitching about Toronto, while in the same stroke so often talking about no one else very much anyway? Thus themselves only talking about Toronto for so much of their time. Herve does not even tell us anything about what is happening in his own City of Calgary other than to say “…the majority of comic book readers supported American products rather than Canadian ones”.

Me thinks he has something a little narrower to grind than the National state of anything, but I’m not going to waist my time speculating. I will however add a few facts and my own opinions to you perspective

One small definite mistake I’m sure of is that Montreal does not actually have a regular ‘Anglo’ comic jam. Rupert still hosts events from time to time, but he’s bilingual, if not trilingual. I’m not sure which was his first tongue, but today he’s more Alophone than Anglo if you want to get all uptight about it and put everyone in boxes or schools. Bottenberg is the son of a nice pair of German/American immigrants from out east. And while i’m sure he speaks with an accent to my near uni lingual clod hopper ears he’s pretty damn comfortable chatting fast and furious in French and is thoroughly integrated into his corrner of Montreals’ bilingual culture.

But then this also gets to why i find that aspect of the conversation annoying – the constant need to categorize and separate people by language – and specifically which one they spoke first, not what they speak now – seems even more subjective and discriminatory than to do so by race! [to be clear i'm not advocating for the latter but stating something about the former] And yet it’s done often by politicized francophonie wanting to claim oppression or discrimination in this country – again pretty ironic if you think about it.

Some years ago when I hosted the Monthly Montreal Comix Jams what Herve wrote would have been partly true, about it being organized by an Anglo, though the events themselves were very bilingual in attendance.

But after I stopped hosting, over time the Monthly Jams shrank and are now run and attended largely by a small group of mostly francophone cartoonists who used to always sit at a table together in my day and call themselves ‘the French Table’. They run the only regular comic jam in town today that I’m aware of. They seem to have fun still and the shrinking mostly has to do with the current core groups lack of interest in promoting the event beyond sending out usually a very short reminder of the event. Posting no posters or fliers that I’m aware of around any of the campuses or other locations in town that would bring in the new blood. Seems like since they stated a facebook group that’s been changing a little maybe but this is very recent and remains to be seen what will come of it.

The Anglo community, along with the rest of the folks in town these days do however have many ‘Drink n’ Draw’ get togethers, vernissages and signings. They seldom reflect linguistic community boundaries so much as genre and style, and are plentiful! I frankly cant keep up with it all.

There is the grand canard that the Doug Wrights Awards are discriminatory against Francophones. Not to mention he’s writing about them and in the same breath saying the site does not recognize them, quite a trick. You have to ignore them if your going to do that i think but who am i to say. I’ve said all i care to about all that here already.

Another point I’d challenge him on is the degree to which comics are supported by grants in this country, which I suspect is pretty minimal. Much of it is funding for smaller publishers that are NOT economically viable without support which includes most of the French indy press here in Montreal last time I heard.

The Canadian publishing industry as a whole gets help from grants in this country out of market driven necessity! Without it we’d not have a Canadian publishing industry in the shadow of the US and would only be able to put out the most commercial and mainstream content exclusively.

For a few years now the council has funded graphic novels under the writing program but were talking about 4 or 5 grants at the most a year and it’s reasonable to assume not all are totally successful projects in the end. Many of those works would not have been possible without the support either. As a former recipient and later juror, i think i can vouch for the fact that most of what gets funded is work generally felt to need it – in other words to merits creators who want to do something they can’t just get a publisher to fund with advances or find an easy market for.

That being said it would be totally misleading to suggest our comics publishing industry is substantially supported by such funding – most of it makes it or breaks it based on the efforts and sacrifices of a few small publishing outfits and the proximity of the huge US market, for whatever that’s worth these days.

On the other hand, not sure he meant to sound reductionist or just lacks the info readily found here on this site, but local Montreal Comic community – which is huge and decentralized – gets support and acknowledgment from many of the summer festivals and book fairs, not just Just for Laughs.

Pop Montreal, Fantasia, the Fringe Festival, the Jazz fest, the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival and Montreal’s Salon du Livre all have hosted Comics and BD related events and activities.

I’d love to see better, more imaginative stuff going on, but that’s more pie in the sky than dire need. Personally i’ve always thought we are perfectly located to set up an international event here, our own Angouleme one day maybe.

We are also quite aware of the Gatineau scene here, with a lot of new kids coming out of UQO each graduating year. Not the day to day blow by blow but there was quite a bit of excitement in Montreal when the programs at the university there started up. And the Rendez-vous international de la BD de Gatineau, which I’m attending this year as a guest, has been doing nicely as well.

I’m sure there’s some friction between Quebec city and Montreal, but i’ve not heard much about it in some time – mostly that’s between individuals, not the communities. And i kind of doubt it has much to do with any lack of involvement here in the Gatineau scene.

And the Toronto community – which is also huge, very diverse and decentralized – seems to me to be, from the conversation i have there, very aware of what goes on in the country that’s good and worth paying attention to as well. Just as in other large cities with thriving scenes, not so many feel the need to track mediocre work when there is so much great stuff going in your own neck of the woods. But on the whole they get as excited as anyone over the things people else where are up to and have long standing romantic fascination with the Montreal scene.

Not to mention how very much movement there is here in Montreal between Halifax, Quebec City, Gatineau, Toronto and Vancouver and other points. Each city has at least some comic’s community bleed over with the others. Which reminds me I owe Marc Bell a visit; he’s living in Montreal again now, after spending a long stint in BC. He also used to reside in Toronto, and hails from London Ontario originally. The man is an archetypical indy Canadian cartoonist!

Also found it kind of funny Herve would choose of all people to present Canadian advertising guru, Terry O’Reilly as likely to argue “awards are nothing but attempts to make the public care about a product instead of using traditional advertising means” – take the nothing out and you’d be right, but O’Reilly would himself I bet point out it’s a bit more multi faceted than that. They do that job, but they also help support the creators, raise the prestige of a community and the medium they celebrate, and raise awareness of specific books that the public may not even know about, let alone care about. The more elite and prestigious the Judges and selection process for the books, the more effective they are at that job. {see: I believe he implied something like this argument in it’s broadest terms in Season 3, episode 16 of ‘O’Reilly and the Age of Persuasion: In Defence of Advertising’ 2008-04-26 }

And since when was any of that bad for the state of the comics industry?

Once more Harvey is casting things in a much more exclusively balkanized light than they really are. I feel in truth it’s a much more fluid and vibrant national collection of communities and scenes, that has it’s spats and chatty cathys, but on the whole tends to mind it’s own business most of the time really.

That given, here’s the link again, feel free to continue the conversation in the comments.

I will say the closing sentiment is positive, in a way at least. I certainly hope he finds more time to cover local stuff, though i hope he’ll learn to differentiate his own balkanized opinions from those of the community at large.

20.Sep.2008 Saturday: Matt Forsythe at Strange Adventures, Halifax

from the D+Q press release:

OJINGOGO’S MATT FORSYTHE
AT STRANGE ADVENTURES THIS SATURDAY 9/20/9!
SLIDE SHOW & SIGNING

Saturday, September 20th 2009, 7:00 PM

Strange Adventures
5262 Sackville Street
Halifax, NS (902)425-2140

As featured on the cover of the Montreal Mirror!

ABOUT OJINGOGO:
Nominated for 2 Eisner Awards for best web comic, winner of an Expozine award, and hailed by the Montreal Mirror, Matthew Forsythe’s Ojingogo is already highly anticipated. Exuding simplicity in design and narrative, Ojingogo is an illustrated, dreamscape of abstracts and events. The otherworldly pantomime about a girl, her squid, and the creatures and calamities they experience together, is an intrinsically expressive and deeply rewarding journey. Drawing from Forsythe’s Korean influences, Ojingogo is accessible for all ages, tossing aside traditional narrative conventions in favour of creating its own world, language and rules that anyone can find a home of their own in.

ABOUT MATT FORSYTHE:
Matt Forsythe was born in Toronto in 1976. He studied politics and religion at McMaster University and has worked variously as a database programmer in Dublin, a motorcycle courier in London, and a kindergarten teacher in Seoul, South Korea.

Ojingogo was originally serialized as a Web comic in 2004. It was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2005 (Best Digital Comic) and featured in the “Year’s
Best Graphic Novels, Comics, and Manga.” Ojingogo was nominated again for an Eisner Award (Best Digital Comic) and won an Expozine Award (Best English Comic) in 2006.

He works at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal and teaches journalism at Concordia University. His illustrations have also appeared in a variety of magazines and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, Chickadee Magazine, and Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids.

28.Jul.2008 Coming Soon: Strip Stories / Wright Awards Gallery Show

Just in time for next week’s Doug Wright Awards comes news of this great gallery show of work by a wonderful selection of some of the best comics creators in the country, including panels from Chester Brown’s Louis Riel graphic novel (parts of which have been on display previously). Co-curated by Sean Craig, who has been working with the organizers of the Wright Awards over the past year, the show has its opening reception just two days before the actual awards are handed out (August 7 and 9, respectively) at the Katherine Mulherin gallery. See the Facebook page of the event here.

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning and BOARD OF DIRECTORS, a curatorial project at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Arts Projects, are pleased to present an exhibition of original work by some of Canada’s most recognized and promising cartoonists.

Strip Stories features works by artists who focus on sequential arts and graphic novels, many of whom have either won a Doug Wright Award in the past or have received nominations.

The show also marks the first time Toronto audiences will get a chance to view originals from Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown’s critically-acclaimed graphic novel. Originally published in comic book form, Louis Riel was released as a book in 2003 . Publisher’s Weekly hailed it as “a strong contender for the best graphic novel ever.”

Alongside Brown will be King cartoonist (and 2008 Doug Wright Award juror) Ho Che Anderson, Lorenz Peter, the 2006 Wright Award Best Emerging Talent winner for Dark Adaptation, and Montreal’s Joe Ollmann who won the 2007 Best Book Award for his collection of short stories This Will All End in Tears.

Also included in the show will be Halifax-based artist/cartoonist Ray Fenwick, the mind behind the world’s only typographic graphic novel, Hall of Best Knowledge, and 2008 Best Emerging Talent nominees:

Jason Keiffer, for Keiffer#1

Jeff Lemire, for Essex County

Nick Maandag, for The Experiment

Ethan Rilly, for Pope Hats

As well, 2008 nominees for the inaugural Pigskin Peters Award for Non-Narrative Cartooning, Emily Holton (Little Lessons in Safety) and John Martz (Excelsior 1968), will exhibit their experimental and progressive redefinitions of cartoon art.

Strip Stories will consist entirely of works with sequential, narrative or relative qualities. The exhibit presents viewers with a rare opportunity to witness the comics medium outside of conventional mass distribution.

Runs August 7-23.

Opening reception: August 7, 7pm.

Featuring works by

Ho Che Anderson

Chester Brown

Ray Fenwick

Emily Holton

Jason Kieffer

Jeff Lemire

Nick Maandag

John Martz

Joe Ollman

Lorenz Peter

Ethan Rilly

and Doug Wright!

The show is curated by Katharine Mulherin, Erin Stump, and Sean D.B. Craig.

25.Jul.2008 Quickly

Some quick links to recent news and views from the world of Canadian comics, for your weekend reading:

• Sequential congratulates Halifax comics blogger Rachelle Goguen and her beau on their wedding. Best wishes!

• Kevin Boyd on what makes a successful convention.

• D+Q has a new hire, Kit Malo, Director of Operations.

• The Inkstuds podcast is on a roll lately with a great lineup of Canadian comics creators, including Miriam Libicki, Camilla D’Errico, David Collier, and Marc Bell representing.

20.Jun.2008 Weekend Link-o-Rama

5 things about Canadians, comics and graphic novels for your weekend reading:

The best thing I saw all week was Kate Beaton’s Lynn Johnston parody.

Stuart and Kathryn Immonen do an Uderzo/Asterix tribute.

A profile of Shuster winning comic shop, Big B.

Halifax blogger Rachelle Goguen is profiled about her Living Between Wednesdays blog, devoted to classic Archie and the latest sexist superhero comics.

More on why webcomics are awesome, from the Comic Book Bin.

28.May.2008 Midweek News and Reviews

• Halifax-based Bryan Lee O’Malley provides a public service by dissecting the new Tokyopop contract. O’Malley, who has a successful series of books in print and a major Hollywood film based on his books planned, knows a few things about creative control and, I would expect, contracts. All contracts, Hollywood, webcomic, or book, should be looked at by a lawyer (better still, a lawyer who is familiar with publishing or copyright).

• Reanna Alder of The Tyee interviews Vancouver curator Bruce Grenville and has a nice review of both the show and catalog for the KRAZY! exhibit. I saw the book myself at the Beguiling last week and it is quite a handsome volume, with great visuals and nice notes by all the co-curators on their selections.

• Sequential didn’t get the press release, but the Beat reproduces the pertinent text of the inductees to the Shuster Awards hall of fame. The inductees this year are U.S. citizen John Byrne (co-creator of Alpha Flight), 1930s-40s cartoonist/writer Ted McCall (creator of the Men of the Mounted and Robin Hood comic strips), satiric cartoonist Pierre Fournier (Capitaine Kebec), and 70s satirist Stanley Berneche (Fuddle Duddle, Captain Canada). The induction ceremony will be part of the awards Saturday, June 14th in Toronto.

14.May.2008 Tonite: Hall of Best Knowledge

WHO: RAY FENWICK
WHAT: HALL OF BEST KNOWLEDGE release party & author signing
WHERE: EYELEVEL GALLERY, 2063 Gottingen Street, Halifax
WHEN: Wednesday, MAY 14, 7PM

12.May.2008 Cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon Investigated by Cops, Human Rights Commish

Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, is at the centre of a new controversy being investigated by police and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Tribunal.

A MacKinnon cartoon that appeared April 18, depicting Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal, the wife of Qayyum Abdul Jamal, one of the so-called “Toronto 17″ –men arrested in 2006 on the grounds that they were members of a terrorist cell– has been accused by the Halifax-based Centre for Islamic Development, represented by Will King and Zia Khan, of inciting hatred.

The cartoon depicts Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal with a a sign declaring “I want millions” –a reference to her reported intent to sue the federal government after charges against her husband were stayed. The cartoon also depicts Jamal as saying “I can put it towards my husband’s next training camp” –a reference to the alleged terrorist activities of the Toronto 17.

MacKinnon recently won the Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning.

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06.May.2008 Free Comic Book Day Reports

This past Saturday, May 3, was Free Comic Book Day across the U.S. and Canada, an event intended to promote comics through local comic book shops. I largely agree with Kevin Boyd that the event should be an opportunity to reach out to the larger community of people who might not venture into comic shops normally or even read comics. This is a great time for local shops to get some free press coverage and lots of potential new customers. With few exceptions, I don’t really see this happening. For the most part, the people who show up for this event usually have found out about it in one of their weekly visits to the shop. No press releases are sent out and no outreach or cross-promotion with other organizations is ventured. When I wandered into my own local comic shop around 5 pm to ask how things went, the teenage clerk painting a role-playing model at the large table that takes up the front window of the empty store informed me that most of the free comics vanished in the first hour of the promotion, around 9am, gesturing to a pile of brochures and 3 copies of the VIZ/Shonen Jump giveaway to indicate all that remained. As far as I could tell, the sole message to the outside world that something unique was happening today was a lone poster in the window, competing with the other posters.

The events that I heard of before hand include the signings at the Silver Snail and the Beguiling event at the Toronto Public Library (which began at noon).

Here are some reports and pictures:

Stuart Immonen
Jason Truong reports
Chris Butcher reports on the Beguiling event
Strange Adventures in Halifax got some press
A picture of Elfsar in Vancouver

14.Apr.2008 …and in other news

Faith Erin Hicks (Zombies Calling!) is serializing a new story as a full-colour comic strip in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, according to this profile. (above image)

Is Michel Rabagliati the new Charles Schulz? I don’t think so, but Henry Chamberlain at Comic Book Bin does.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that this Dave Sim response to a Heidi MacDonald post from awhile back is part of a long series of seemingly willful misunderstandings on Sim’s part.

Also via Heidi MacDonald, Walt Disney is adapting Philip K Dick. Animation, not exactly comics, but worthy of note.

Guelph’s own graphic novelist and illustrator Nick Craine is profiled by his old employer, the University of Guelph’s student paper, The Ontarion.

Gilbert A. Bouchard reviews the petits livres phenomenon for the Edmonton Journal.

New Brunswick kids review the initial children’s graphic novel offerings from Toon Books.

14.Feb.2008 Valentine’s Day: Things to Love and Hate About Comics in Canada

• The CBC radio programme As It Happens features an interview with the Danish filmaker behind Killer Cartoons who discusses the recent arrests in the alleged cartoonist assassination plot. (podcast, second 1/2 hour)

• Another interview with cartoonist Michael De Adder about the shut-down of the Halifax Daily News.

• The CBC on the graphic novel portion of this June’s Luminato festival in Toronto.

• The Hudson’s Bay Company is relaunching a series of educational historical comic books, Tales from the Bay.

• BlogTO interviews Patricia Storms about her romance-themed cartoon collection, You’re My Guy Because…

• Dave Sim writes about his friend Steve Gerber and the debt Cerebus owes to Howard the Duck, among other things.

• Chris Butcher has the photos from last week’s Kazu Kibuishi and Kean Soo appearances in Toronto.

• Image: Jay Stephen’s new tv show, coming soon.

• And one for the road: Polite Dissent’s Legion of Superheroes Valentines

12.Feb.2008 Halifax Daily News Closes, Staff Laid Off

The Halifax Daily News has been closed down and replaced by a free daily, according to several sources. All of the paper’s staff, including journalists and cartoonists, have been fired.

The Daily News was owned by Quebec-based Transcontinental. It’s replacement, Metro Halifax, is part of the cross-Canada Metro line and will be produced Metro International S.A. and Torstar Corp.

Begun in 1974, The Daily News employed award-winning editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder.

According to the Canadian Press article:

As journalists left the Halifax Daily News, several said they’re worried a free newspaper aimed at commuters will mean a decline in the city’s journalism.

Michael de Adder, an award-winning cartoonist for the newspaper, said “it doesn’t sound like it (Metro) can serve the population as well as a daily newspaper can or two daily newspapers can.”

De Adder said cartoonists across the country are starting to wonder about their craft.

“What is the future? It looks pretty bleak today,” he said.

08.Jan.2008 Zombie Comics Go to War

• What does Canadian non-fiction cartoonist David Collier have to do with ancient Mexican civilizations? According to the Edmonton Journal’s Gilbert A. Bouchard, quite alot. Bouchard also interviews Joe Sacco.

• Faith Erin Hicks’ Zombies Calling graphic novel is the best-selling book at Strange Adventures in Halifax, according to Michelle Macleod of the Chronicle-Herald. The zombie-battling tale is a big draw for everyone over the age of 13.

06.Dec.2007 more mature comic books

• Brad Mackay visits a new Ottawa installation featuring a massive series of paintings by cartoonist-turned-painter Dave Cooper.

• Big changes may be afoot for the Joe Shuster Awards, Kevin Boyd hints at his blog. These may include venue, sponsor and rule changes. Boyd is one of the organizers behind the awards and his recent move away from the award’s previous host Paradise may have prompted some movement. Also, check out what Kevin has to say about the so-called Bronze Age of comics (basically, U.S. comic books from the 1970s).

• Faith Erin Hicks is profiled by hometown paper The Halifax Daily News about her graphic novel, Zombies Calling: “”When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a journalist like Tintin,” she said, referring to the popular European comic-book character, created before the Second World War. When she grew a little older, Hicks began to read more mature comic books, such as Bone.”

• The Parkdale Gallery in Ottawa presents: Comic Book Chaos, an exhibit by local comic book creators including Ronn Sutton and Von Allan. December 8 to January 6.

• Publishing: D+Q has more Tatsumi; Dramacon 3, Following Cerebus #11 now out.

• The Post’s book guy Robert Wiersema refers to something called “graphica” before reviewing some of the more popular U.S.-published genre comics of recent times.

• Next year’s Luminato festival is already scheduling the comics guests.

27.Nov.2007 Comics News Roundup

• Apparently, the new graphic novel by Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, is not for sale in Canada, a fact asserted in the recent Beguiling mailing. The mailing also asserts that the Beguiling does have copies of the book in stock.

• The Globe reports that Quebecor World, the giant printer (comics and everything else), continues to have money problems, including a refinancing scheme and a tumbling stock. Discussion here. Stock talk. CBC. Quebecor World is owned by Quebecor, a multimedia empire that owns Videotron cable, Sun newspapers, the Montreal Mirror, and everything else. The printing arm has been losing money due to price wars (the dollar and China), less business, and general, good old-fashioned Canadian “operating inefficiencies”. (via Journalista!)

• The first of Jeet Heer’s 2 articles on David Michaelis’s Schulz bio prompts a response from Schulz’s widow Jeannie.

• Strange Adventures in Halifax hosted a signing for Faith Erin Hicks and her new graphic novel, Zombies Calling, over the weekend. The publisher’s blog has a wrap-up of links about the event.

20.Nov.2007 The Web of Comics: Costume-y Goodness

Tuesday morning quick links:

• Von Allan joins girlamatic in order to serialize his graphic novel
• Wright Award winner Lorenz Peter is launching his new book this Wednesday: Side-Effects is a collection of short works and will be launched at the Katharine Mulherine Contemporary Art Projects, 1080 Queen Street W at 6:30 PM
• a little late, but here are some photos from the Halloween costume party hosted by Strange Adventures, the Halifax comic shop
• for good measure, here are the pics from the Silver Snail’s Toronto costume party
• this Canadian wrestler does not pay proper homage to Alpha Flight

Please send Sequential your news about cartooning, comics and graphic novels in Canada so we do not have to post links to stories tangentially related to Alpha Flight and pictures of people dressed as superheroes!