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Random Bits of Not Totally Useless Information Part 1: Community in Comics ![]() New post by the fabler blog's Kevin de Vlaming about the art of making it big in comics, sort of.... I am now going to presume to tell you how to be successful in comic books.
Labels: Alberta, analysis, Calgary, can-con, cartoonists, comicshoptalk, interweb, tools of the trade - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, June 30, 2009 New Interviews with Canadian Comics People ![]() Check out the new series of interviews with comics creators and businesspeople over at The Fabler Blog, part of Calgary's Zensoft Studios interesting new project thefabler.com, a social networking comunity for Comics Creators. So far blogger Kevin de Vlaming Jay Bardyla (owner of Happy Harbor Comics) Gareth Gaudin (of Legends Comic and Books in Victoria BC, & The Magic Teeth Dailies) And more, here. Labels: blogosphere, British Columbia, Calgary, graphic novels, interviews, PEI, profiles, Victoria - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Cow-Con Roundup ![]() Links from reports from last weekend's Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo: -Mark Evanier blogs the 1am fire scare at the con's hotel, wherein the greatest-living cartoonist Sergio Aragones along with priceless rare comics were imperiled. (update) -the best collection of photos I saw -a general flickr search result -The Shusters Kevin Boyd has a report -Darwyn Cooke interviewed -video -a furry report -photos of media stars -watching the ed the sock show -more love for Battlestar G -comics writer Andrew Foley blogs the con -photos -a full report from a comics fan who bought comics and got things signed -this report uses our fave phrase: "c-list" -the photo of Sergio Aragones is from this blog Labels: blogosphere, C-List, Calgary, conventions - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, February 20, 2009 A peek at MNY's Red A studio visit. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas sent this to me earlier today, thought we'de share it here with you all. The book is slated for sept 09. Michael: "I have 2 exhibits almost lined up- one in Vancouver and one in Calgary. i'm aiming institution/museum scale and during my April trip to Ottawa (Pedal to the Meddle will be installed at the National Art Center), i'm gong to see what i might find for a exhibit space as well." Labels: art show, British Columbia, Calgary, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - Friday, January 09, 2009 Weekend LinksOn January 1, Popeye became public domain in the EU, according to this article. Popeye's creator, the great Elzie Segar, died in 1938, so the statute of limitations, or whatever you want to call it (the author's lifespan + 70 years) is up. New, copyright-free adventures (and t-shirts, toys, etc) of the super-powered sailor are sure to be forthcoming. And in local news: Jeet Heer pre-Xmas interview with Tom Spurgeon. Sean Rogers reviews Dave Lapp's Drop-In and Albert Chartier Un Petite Brunette for the Walrus comics blog. This article talks about how to get kids to read using comics and recommends a slew of current releases. Rocker and comics blogger Rachelle Goguen, whose band the Stolen Minks made several Canadian "best of" lists themselves, presents her comics-related Top 20 of 2008 list. Should we feel guilty for buying extremely cheap used books online? SUN Media fires Calgary Sun political cartoonist Thomas "TAB" Boldt. New kids publishing strategy: make books look like video games. Leigh Walton and Laura Hudson have started a blog to discuss all 300 issues of Cerebus, in order. Matt Forsythe interviewed on Inkstuds. Labels: Alberta, Calgary, links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, October 17, 2008 Saturday: 24 Hour Comics Day ![]() This Saturday is 24 Hour Comics Day, the annual international comics creation marathon. Several sites across Canada are hosting groups of amateur and professional artists who will be attempting to create a complete comic in just one day. Feel free to drop by any of the locations listed below and don't forget to contact Sequential with any additional locations, reports or photos. 4-Colour, 8-Bit Comics & Games Kingston, Ontario Alberta College of Art and Design Calgary, AB The Comic Book Shoppe Ottawa, Ontario Commotion in the Ocean 207 Erb Street West Waterloo, Ontario DragonHead Studio Kanata, ON ELFSAR Comics & Toys Vancouver, BC V6B 5T4 Happy Harbor Comics Edmonton AB Image Collections Mississauga, ON Loose Canon Gallery Hamilton, ON Strange Adventures, via the Delta Hotel Fredericton Fredericton, NB Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, events, international, Ottawa, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, October 09, 2008 Supposedly The State of the Canadian Comic Book IndustryHerve 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-LouisThis 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.
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. Labels: Alberta, analysis, awards, blogosphere, British Columbia, Calgary, can-con, cartoonists, Gatineau, grants, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Least I Could Do is Link ![]() Some comics links for Tuesday:
Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, links, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, May 09, 2008 This Weekend: Graphic Novel Conference, Toronto ![]() The New Narrative? An academic conference devoted comics and the graphic novel, presented at the University of Toronto, May 10-11. Hilights include a talk by Seth on being a cartoonist in Canada, relative to the other visual arts, and a paper by the controversial Jeet Heer on Orphan Annie and Dickens. Saturday 10 May 9:00 - 9:30 Registration (ongoing through to noon) Contact: Andrew Lesk andrew.lesk@utoronto.ca 416-841-8985 Panel 1A Auto/biography UC 140 9:30 - 10:45 Chair: Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier) Ian MacRae (Toronto): The Progress of Love: Queering the Canon and the Odyssey of Identity in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Edward Hornick (Journalist - New Orleans): Evan Dorkin's Nervous Breakdown and the Hidden Comic Indies Panel 1B Superheroes & Super ... Annie? UC 179 9:30 - 10:45 Chair: Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Universite de Bordeaux) Felan Parker (Carleton): Batman Begins, Superman Returns: Reintroducing the Franchise Superhero Jeet Heer (Toronto): Little Orphan Oliver Twist: The Dickensian Inheritance in Mid-20th Century Comics Megan Kelley (Calgary): Earnest Heroes and Outrageous Villains: The Dynamics of Camp in Superman films Panel 2A Ideologies and Ethics UC 140 11 - 12:15 Chair: Doug Stetar (Malaspina) Doug Stetar (Malaspina): Of Rags and Riches: The Complex Ideologies of Wealth, Class and Consumption in Classic Richie Rich Comics Doug Mann (Western): To Compromise or Not to Compromise, that is the Question: Watchmen as Ethical and Political Dialogue J. Andrew Deman (Waterloo): Jimmy Corrigan vs. Superman: Deconstruction, Disillusion, and Social Collapse Panel 2B Cities UC 179 11 - 12:15 Chair: Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount, L.A.) kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Calgary): Dat Ain't as Funny as it Looks, See? Reconsidering the Realism of Richard F. Outcault's Hogan's Alley Michel Hardy-Vallee (McGill): Escape from the City of Words: Finding a Better Literary Haven for Comix Paul Atkinson (Monash - Aus.): The Graphic Novel as Metafiction Lunch break Panel 3A Un/real UC 140 1:30 - 2:45 Chair: David Huxley (Manchester Metropolitan) Steven Shaviro (Wayne State): You Will Never Own a Jetpack: Warren Ellis' Science Fiction Comics Michael Freethy (Carleton):Rotoshop, Scramble Suits and Substance D: A Scanner Darkly and the Crisis of Hyperreality Lamia Kosovic (European G.S.): Cyberpunk K-inema: Re-imag(in)ing of the Posthuman Panel 3B O Canada UC 179 1:30 - 2:45 Chair: Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan) Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Universite de Bordeaux): Comics in the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature: Is Sequential Art the Future of the Canadian Literary Canon? Kevin Ziegler (Waterloo): The Making of Riel Comic Literature: The Re-circulation of Brown's Louis Riel Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier): The way I've drawn the scene: History and Historiography in Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography Panel 4A Social Panic UC 140 3 - 4:15 Chair: Paul Atkinson (Monash - Aus.) Nicholas Holm (McMaster): Beneath Consideration: Reassessing Wertham and the Role of Taste in the Decline of the Comic Book Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser): Ho Che Anderson's King trilogy: Comics, Social History, and the Zizekian Ethical Act David Huxley (Manchester Metropolitan): Moral panics, censorship and the cultural status of comics in Britain Panel 4B Modernism UC 179 3 - 4:15 Chair: Jeet Heer (Toronto) Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan): A Heap of Broken Images: Countersong and Readership in T S Eliot and Martin Rowson's The Waste Land David N. Wright (Douglas): "'kontinue kuriousity to its illogical klimax': Krazy Kat, E. E. Cummings and the Grammar of Modernism" Glenn Willmott (Queen's): Catwoman's Pedigree Seth speaks! (keynote address) UC 140 5 - 6 Reception Croft House @ UC 6 - 8:30 Sunday 11 May Panel 1A Across the Ocean(s) UC 140 10 - 11:15 Chair: Nicholas Holm (McMaster) Gokul Gopalakrishnan (Hyderabad): G Aravindan's Small Men and the Big World: Re-Defining the "Comic" in the Strip Josh Chong (Waterloo): Impregnation of the Cyborg: Problematic Reproduction in Japanese Manga Pierre Chermartin (Montreal): From the multiple-room set to the split scene: quarrels, disputes and altercations in turn-of-the century European comics. Panel 1B Victorians UC179 10 - 11:15 Chair: Andrea Schwenke Wyile (Acadia) Andrea Day (New Brunswick): Playing With the Pen and Pencil Sketches of Thackeray's singular performance: Illustrations of Dolls, Performativity, and Narrative Technique in Vanity Fair Christine Yao (Dalhousie): Queen Victoria, Captive Despot: The Dissemination of Image and Power in Alan Moore's From Hell Jason Frank (Youngstown): Even More Blood in the Gutters: Taking Apart Rick Geary's Narration of Jack the Ripper Lunch break Panel 2A Methods and Stylings UC 140 12:30 - 1: 45 Chair: Gokul Gopalakrishnan (Hyderabad) Edward Bader (Lethbridge/Grand Prairie): Comics Carnet: Graphic Novelist as Global Nomad Peter Coppin (Toronto) and Stephen Hockema (Toronto): Research Methods to Understand Comics and the Human Mind Andrea Schwenke Wyile (Acadia): Which Umbrella: Comix or Picturebooks? Panel 2B Bodies, Pathologies, Illness UC 179 12:30 - 1:45 Chair: Tim Bavlnka (Independent journalist) Allison Crawford (Toronto): Framing the Body-Embodying the Frame: Graphic Novels and the Representation of Illness Marni Stanley (Malaspina): The Art of Embodiment in Graphic Autopathography Panel 3A Endings 1 UC 140 2 - 3:15 Chair: Stephen Hockema (Toronto) Kalervo Sinervo (Simon Fraser): Grains of Sand: Renaissance Intertextuality in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Aaron Kashtan (Florida): Jeepers Jacobs in the Network of Lines That Intersect: The Deconstruction of the Clear Line in Kevin Huizenga Tim Bavlnka (Independent journalist): The Superhero Significance: The Role of the Contemporary Superhero in Literature Panel 3B Endings 2 UC 179 2 - 3:15 Chair: Andrew Lesk (Toronto) Anthony Enns (Dalhousie): Media, Memory, and the Metropolis in Jason Lutes’ Berlin: City of Stones Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount, L.A.): Representing Muslim lives: pedagogy and the comics journalism of Joe Sacco Roundtable So, what's new? UC 140 3:30 - 4:30 Jeff Parker, Luca Somigli, Tim Bavlnka Closing words: Andrew Lesk 4:30 Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comics scholarship, events, graphic novels, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - Monday, April 28, 2008 Weekend News and Comment Catch-Up
Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, censorship, comics history, copyright, events links, interviews, Ontario, pod casts, Toronto, U.S. superhero franchises, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, April 25, 2008 This Weekend: Calgary Comic Expo ![]() Featuring that woman from Battlestar Galactica and maybe some comic book people. Details Here. Saturday April 26: 10am - 7pm Sunday April 27: 10am - 6pm See here for a schedule of upcoming conventions. Please contact us about your event. Labels: Alberta, Calgary, events - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, March 31, 2008 Bart Beaty vs Jeet Heer: 1950s Culture Wars Redux ![]() Professor Bart Beaty of the University of Calgary responds to Jeet Heer's review of David Hadju's Ten Cent Plague, from last week's Globe and Mail. The debate centers on the controversial figure of Fredric Wertham, whose Seduction of the Innocent argued that comics turned children into juvenile delinquents. Beaty's 2005 biography of Wertham, Fredric Wertham And the Critique of Mass Culture partially rehabilitated its subject as a misunderstood crusader against racism and the rights of children. Here is a bit of the back and forth between Heer and Beaty (the argument is followed up at Heer's blog): Beaty: Hajdu asserts that the voice of children was lost in the anti-comics movement of the 1950s, but, in reality, he is talking about teenagers. Indeed, the most popular comics among children in the 1950s were not, as he contends, the crime and horror titles that raised public alarm. They were Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny. There is an inherent slippage between teenager and child in the contemporary category of youth, and it is one that troubles both Hajdu's book and Heer's reading of it. Importantly, teens are not children, and children are not teens. Heer writes that "children need monsters and ghouls." That may be indeed be the case, but the debate in the 1950s centred around whether a child of 7 needed realistically depicted images of rape. Heer: True, Wertham didn't favour censorship and the rating system he advocated was eminently sensible. Still, Wertham used language so inflammatory as to give aid and comfort to censors and book-burners. "I think Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry," Wertham argued. If Superman and Tales from the Crypt were more dangerous than Mein Kampf or Triumph of the Will, then it might make sense to have comic-book burnings, as happened in the Wertham era. As for the conflation of children and teenagers, that's Wertham's fault. He constantly talked about protecting children, obscuring the fact the most violent and salacious comics were too wordy for pre-teens and were largely read by high-schoolers. If I had a child, would I want him or her to see "realistically depicted images of rape"? No, probably not (although the film The Kite Runner contains a rape scene and is fine for kids as long as they have parental guidance). It's well worth checking out this discussion and reading all the books in question (including Wertham). For my part, the most compelling parts of Seduction of the Innocent are Wertham's case histories of the kids he has talked to, like 14-year-old comic book fanatic and accused murderer Willie --the subject of Wertham's first chapter. Among his many other objections to comic books was the manner in which they were consumed. Worth tracking down are Wertham's descriptions of the "hookey clubs" where children traded comics for (gasp!) less than cover price! Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comics history, comics scholarship - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, January 11, 2008 Weekend LinksComics-related news and opinions from across Canada:
Labels: Alberta, Calgary, censorship, comics retailers, events, graphic novels, manga, political cartooning, U.S. superhero franchises - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - Monday, November 05, 2007 News Roundup ![]() What's new in comics, graphic novels, and cartooning in Canada? Sequential has the links! -Heath McCoy profiles Calgary cartoonist Riley Rossmo about Proof, a new X-Files style series from Image Comics. -Michel Rabagliati is one of the guests of honour at the Salon du livre de Montreal, according to the Montreal Gazette -Tyson Durst reviews Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks for the University of Alberta's Gateway student newspaper. -"Luz: Girl of the Knowing" by Claudia Davila is the latest addition to Transmission X's daily schedule of free webcomics. -Heidi MacDonald links to a preview of Dramacon 3 by Svetlana Chmakova. -Comics con maven Kevin Boyd reflects on the U.S. exchange rate. -Chris Butcher has photos of last month's Word on the Street. -Publishers Weekly previews Julie Doucet's 365 Days: A Diary, coming from D + Q in December. Labels: Alberta, Calgary, graphic novels, links, misc, publishing, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, September 28, 2007 This Weekend: Calgary Comic ConThe Calgary Comic and Toy Expo Fetauring J. Torres, Pop Mhan, and others. McMahon Stadium Red & White Club 1817 Crowchild Trail Calgary, Alberta SEPTEMBER 30, 2007 10:00AM - 5:00PM FREE PARKING!!! EASY C-TRAIN ACCESS COSTUME CONTEST SILENT AUCTION ARTIST ALLEY Labels: Alberta, Calgary, conventions, events - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, July 27, 2007 Chuckle Bros expands to U.S.The Chuckle Bros, a comic strip by writers Brian & Ron Boychuk and cartoonist Ronnie Martin, has been picked up for U.S. and worldwide syndication by Creators Syndicate. The strip is syndicated in Canada by Torstar Syndication Services, a division of Toronto Star: The cartoon currently appears in 36 newspapers in Canada, including the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Victoria Times Colonist, Regina Leader Post, Calgary Herald, and Edmonton Journal. Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comic strips, Edmonton, international, Ontario, Ottawa, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Everett Soop ExhibitThe life and work of Everett Soop, an aboriginal cartoonist who co-founded the Kainai News newspaper, is featured in a new exhibit at University of Calgary's Nickel Arts Museum. According to the U of C's Gauntlet, Soop used humor to point out social ills and to suggest things needed to be changed. From the time of his youth Soop lived with muscular dystrophy. As his disease progressed Soop focused less on journalism and became more of an activist in the aboriginal disabilities community and was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal posthumously in 2001. Nickel Arts Museum 2500 University Dr. N.W. Calgary, Alberta 403-220-7234 July 6 to Sept 29 Labels: Alberta, Calgary, events, exhibits, political cartooning - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, July 16, 2007 Weekend Round-up: The Weekend PapersNews from hither and yon: 1. The Winnipeg Free Press reports on Lynn Johnston's induction into the Order of Manitoba: Adams will answer questions online today at 1pm about Harry Potter, Canadian publishing, and book pricing, about which he writes:
6. Also for the Globe, James Rusk ponders the likely fate of Mirvish Village, home to beloved comic book store The Beguiling, now that Ed Mirvish is gone. Will Mirvish's son David seek a total redevelopment of Markham Street and the landmark Honest Ed's retail outlet? That is not the case with the Honest Ed's store site, which would mean both the demolition of an iconic building and a jump across Bathurst for the development that has been creeping west along Bloor out of the city core. Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comics retailers, ephemera, events, links, Manitoba, Ontario, publishing, Toronto, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Brussels Blog on Anti-Semitic Cartoons in Quebec(via The Comics Reporter) A round-up and reprint, wondering at the non-response in traditional Canadian media to the publication of a trio of anti-semitic editorial cartoons from 3 Quebec papers, by Toronto journalist Rondi Adamson: In fact, this is quite a touchy subject in Canada. Quebec-s nationalist movement has long been tainted with anti-Semitism. And Quebec is, without question, the most anti-Israeli and most anti-American of the Canadian provinces, earning it the nickname "Quebecistan." The anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne, for example, is hugely popular in Quebec (far more so than in France), invited to mainstream comedy festivals and onto publicly-funded radio, where he receives a sympathetic welcome. ----- previous entries about anti-Semitic cartoons at Sequential: More on Chapleau Holocaust-Denial Cartoon Entrant Interview The Lonely Canadian Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Ontario, political cartooning, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, April 30, 2007 Reports from the Calgary ConThe Calgary Comic Expo took place this past weekend. Lots of U.S. guests like Bruce Timm & Gail Simone plus some home-grown heroes. By all accounts it was a professional and satisfying experience for those who attended. Here are a few con reports: Blogs Canadian Knight Skullflare Australoknitticus Roboticus Redhead Stronghold Thinking Outside the Box Jill's Stuff Traditional Press Calgary Herald (there was also a big signing at Happy Harbour in Edmonton) Labels: Alberta, blogosphere, Calgary, Edmonton, events - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, April 27, 2007 This Weekend: Calgary Comic Con ![]() a busy weekend in Alberta The Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo The Roundup Centre April 29 $15 as well, on April 28 in Edmonton, Gail Simone and the Udon comics creators are signing at Happy Harbor Comics on 124 Street, from 12:30-3:30PM. link and don't forget the Edmonton Pop Culture Fair Labels: Alberta, Calgary, Edmonton, events, links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, April 13, 2007 This Weekend: MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY, etcThe World this Weekend Y'know, blogs and stuff. If you're not in Quebec City and/or not as bilingual as you'd like to be (c'est moi) .... ----- Catching up with Rick Trembles. His latest movie review strip focuses on the recent Grindhouse wand he shows a little movie of his own: DECENSORTIZED NEWZ! ---- On a related note, Vancouver's Robin Bougie makes a plea for sanity, and he wants his stuff back! He also has some porn comics for sale... ----- And speaking of one-handed reading, Chris Butcher photographs himself holding his "special little project" at his blog, comics212.net .... ----- and speaking of the philosophy of desire: As well as being a very stylist cartoonist, Stuart Immonen has a very interesting blog. I enjoyed his Deleuze mash-up much more than Martin Tom Dieck and Jens Balzer's first Salut! Deleuze, for instance (no, really, I'm pretty foggy about all that oubapo stuff). Labels: Alberta, blogosphere, Calgary, events, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Bang! Pow! Canadian Comics Scholars Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!The latest issue of University Affairs, which bills itself as "Canada's Magazine on Higher Education" and targets itself to academics (it's basicaly an adzine for PhDs), surveys the current state of comics scholarship taking place on university campuses in Canada using the tired "shazam! comics grow up!" template. The article also includes a sidebar on the comics program at the Universite du Quebec en Outaouais. The scholars profiled include Jeff McLaughlin (Thompson Rivers, BC), Jonathan Warren (York), manwha expert Wendy Siuyi Wong (York), librarian Oliver Charbonneau (Concordia), and the ubiquitous Bart Beaty (Calgary):
Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, comics scholarship, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Canadian Comics Treasure Trove ![]() Calgary cartoonist and illustrator Scott Dutton has just made part of his personal collection of 1940s Canadian comics available online. Now curious readers who don't have the time, inclination or cash to track down these rare volumes can discover the secret appeal of Dizzy Don, Nelvana of the Northern Lights, and Men of the Mounted --all in giant-size scan-o-vision. Canadian Golden Age Comics Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comics history - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, January 21, 2007 Comics Scholar Bart Beaty's new book Unpopular Culture now available Comics scholar Bart Beaty- associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, as well as a columnist for both The Comics Journal and The Comics Reporter - has published a new book from University of Toronto Press, Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s.Gene Kannenberg of ComicsScholar.org is very happy to be offering this book on their blog at 20% off the cover price, directly from the publisher. Here's a link to the publisher, where you'll find great press such as: Here's a bio of the well respected Mr. Beaty; here's a query of his name on Sequential, and here is the book on Amazon. Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comics history, comics scholarship, links, new books, news, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, October 16, 2006 24-Hours in CalgaryMaple Ink Blog's G. Gerald Garcia has links and a short report about the 24-Hour Comics Day in Calgary last weekend (it looks like participants have been reporting in on a message board). There are also some photos here. ![]() Labels: Alberta, Calgary, links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - D&Q Roundup-Guy Delisle is interviewed for U.S. public radio: NPR Journalist Steve Inskeep interviews Guy Delisle for the show Morning Edition. -Chester Brown is in Edmonton for a signing at Greenwoods Bookshoppe, 7:30pm today, Monday Oct. 16th. It also looks like the Calgary Herald profiled him on Saturday but I can't seem to find the article online anywhere. - Episode 4 of Seth's New York Times Magazine serial George Sprott is now online. ![]() Labels: Alberta, Calgary, Edmonton - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, October 13, 2006 Tracking ChesterIn preparation for Chester Brown's visit to Edmonton next Monday, Josef Braun interviews the Louis Riel author for Vue Weekly on the subject of the liberties he takes with history: "Obviously, it's highly creative," Brown says. "I've had to make up dialogue, and in my drawings imagine would have happened in a particular moment. This pulls us into the realm of fiction. But on the other hand, I don't think my concerns are those of conventional fiction, which often has more to do with getting into the emotional life of the characters. I wasn't interested in that. I wanted to present the events in a way that would offer some rough approximation of what really happened." As well, Dave Sim has announced a contest on his blog relating to the Chester Brown Tour: "WHAT A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME BLOG & MAIL MARKET RESEARCH. IS THERE ANY CHET/DAVE CROSSOVER AUDIENCE AT PORTAGE & MAIN? ACROSS THE VAST WHEATFIELDS OF THE PROVINCE THAT GAVE US JOHN DIEFENBAKER (GOD REST HIS SOUL)? IN THE TARSANDS OIL PATCH? IN OVEPRICED DEFINITELY NOT STARBUCKS COFFEE HOUSES IN VANCOUVER & VICTORIA? IF THE BLOG & MAIL OFFERS TO MAIL THEM A SIGNED COPY OF CEREBUS (SIGNED BY CHESTER, DAVE & GERHARD) WITH PART OF THE "GETTING RIEL" DIALOGUE JUST FOR SHOWING UP WITH A PIECE OF PAPER WITH THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS ON IT AND GIVING IT TO CHET WILL THEY DO IT?* HOW MANY OF THEM WILL DO IT*? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT! [*PLUS OR MINUS 3 TO 5% 19 TIMES OUT OF TWENTY IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN TIME ZONE. I ALSO SUGGESTED THAT CHET AND I COULD DO A JAM DRAWING OF LOUIS RIEL AND CEREBUS FOR ANYONE SHOWING UP DRESSED AS LOUIS RIEL AND CHET LAUGHED REALLY LOUDLY BUT THE IMPRESSION THAT I GOT WAS THAT THIS WAS NOT EXACTLY THE WAY HE WANTED TO BE SEEN AT THE VARIOUS HIGH-END BOOKSTORES AND WRITERS' CONFERENCES HE'S BEEN INVITED TO SO I CAN'T GUARANTEE ANYTHING BUT IF ANY YAHOOS WANT TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE IT A TRY AND POST A PICTURE HERE OF THEM DRESSED AS LOUIS RIEL WITH CHESTER AT ANY OF THE TOUR STOPS…] COME ON, WESTERN CANADA! DON'T LET THAT EASTERN BASTARD FREEZE IN THE DARK! COME OUT & SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR CHESTER BROWN!" Brown is in Calgary on Saturday, October 14th where he will meet up with Svetlana Chmakova and Andrew Foley for WordFest, at the Calgary Public Library from 2-3PM ($12 Admission). Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, October 06, 2006 Sept 7 is 24 Hour Comics DayA few weeks ago Kara and I went into Grey Legion in Toronto at around 10-to-midnight, surprised to find a comic shop open that late. It was quite fun, with all the drunks, cops and strip bar customers parading past outside, to sift through a grungy old comic shop (there were even a couple classic comic book shop types hanging out, sitting in front of computers at what we guessed was the shop's "internet cafe"). The hip clerk was actually vacuuming the place and stayed open a few minutes into the witching hour so I could buy an old Lois Lane comic and the latest Kramer's Ergot. I can only imagine how much fun it would be to hang out at a comic book shop at 1, 2, 3, or 4 in the morning but that is what happens on 24 Hour Comics Day, "an international celebration of comics creation. Cartoonists all over take the challenge of trying to create a 24 page comic story in 24 straight hours. Many gather at special events in comic book shops, schools, and other locations." Here's what's happening in Canada (not all these events take place in comic shops --and remember, if you can't make it to one of these events, you can always play along at home or organize something in your town), according to the 24 Hour Comics website: Alberta Comic-Kazi, 4307 Macleod Trail S.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2G 0A3, (403) 286-0544. Start time: 10:00 AM. Store open 24 hours during event. Happy Harbor Comics & Toys, 10112 - 124 Street (upper level), Edmonton, AB, T5N 1P6, (780) 452-8211. Start time: 10:00 AM. Store open 24 hours during event. British Columbia Elfstar Comics & Toys, 1007 Hamilton St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 5T4, (604) 688-5922. Start time: 10:00 AM. Store open 24 hours during event. New Brunswick Strange Adventures, 68 York Street, Fredericton, NB, E3B 3N5, (506) 450-3759. Contact Derek Nichols, manager, breeze@nbnet.nb.ca Start time: 9 AM Ontario The Artel, 205 Sydenham St., Kingston, Ontario. Contact Nick Csernak at thekitschen@hotmail.com Start time: 6:00 PM October 6th (local time) Gemini Jetpack,255 King St. North, Unit 6, Waterloo, Ontario, N2J 4V2, (519) 746-1527 Start time: 9 AM. Store open 24 hours during event. Hairy Tarantula West, 2949 Dundas St. West (of Keele), Toronto, Ontario, M5B-1S5. Phone: (416)762-1303. Email: hr24@HairyT.com Start time: noon. Store open 24 hours during event. email: info@romics.it Start time: 2 PM Don't forget to contact Sequential to let us know how things turned out! Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, comics retailers, comicshoptalk, Edmonton, New Brunswick, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, September 08, 2006 Chester Brown on TourAccording to THE BEAT, Chester Brown will be touring the Western part of the country to promote the paperback release of Louis Riel. The tour really gets started with Chester being interviewed by Seth next Thursday at the Wright Awards, but the rest of the tour, beginning with a stop at McNally-Robinson in Winnipeg, doesn't get properly underway until October: Wednesday, October 11th Winnipeg, MB McNally-Robinson Thursday, October 12th Brandon, MB Pennywise Books Friday, October 13th Saskatoon, SK McNally-Robinson Saturday, October 14th Calgary, AB Calgary Wordfest Monday, October 16th Edmonton, AB Greenwoods Bookshoppe Tuesday, October 17th- Saturday, October 21 Vancouver, BC Vancouver International Writers Festival (exact date TBA) Sunday, October 22nd Victoria, BC Bolen Books Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Edmonton, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Calgary Comic and Toy FestSummer time means comic book conventions and lazy bloggers. Consequently, I'm reaching into Sequential's mailbag and pulling out today's lucky winner: X-FEST 2006 Saturday, August 12, 2006 Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association 1320 - 5th Ave NW Calgary AB Admission (11:00am to 4:30pm) General: $2 Kids under 10: Free $1 Discount with Food Item Donation to the Calgary Food Bank It looks like a relatively small gathering of comics vendors with a small selection of "local artists." Calgary Comic and Toy Fest (Are you putting on a comics-related event this summer? Let us know about it!) - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Update on Indigo Censorship ShenanigansLast week the Globe and Mail reported on Indigo Books pulling the issue of U.S. magazine Free Inquiry that featured four of the controversial Danish cartoons. Almost as soon as the story broke, Indigo did a reverse backflip and apologized, claiming the whole thing was an accident. Indigo has also recently pulled issues of Harper's and The Western Standard. Canada's largest retail bookseller says it accidentally blocked the distribution of a small U.S. current affairs magazine from its 260 stores and plans to start selling the magazine's June-July issue as soon as possible. Full Story Labels: Alberta, Calgary, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, May 24, 2006 Calgary Con II ![]() Hype via email: A small, comic collectors con, with a smattering of guest artists including Canuck Ken Steacy, and a COSTUME CONTEST.Calgary Comic and Toy Expo SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2006 10:00AM - 5:00PM McMahon Stadium Website - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 2comments - Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Sid Barron, 1917-2006 ![]() "Poet of the mundane" Cartoonist Sid Barron, dubbed "the poet of the mundane" by Robert Fulford, has died in Victoria at age 88. Barron was one of the funniest and most stylistically distinctive cartoonists to emerge in the post-war editorial cartoon world. Born in Toronto in 1917 to a British mother and an un-identified Belgian soldier father, Barron was adopted by his maternal aunt and raised in Victoria, B.C. With very little art training, Barron found work as a commercial illustrator and sign painter. According to Peter Desbarats and Terry Mosher in "The Hecklers", during the Depression he did some illustration work for Toronto's Star Weekly "until the paper discovered that for pennies it could buy cratefulls of illustrations that appeared originally in various American publications." During the Second World War, Barron found work in the short-lived Canadian comic book industry, producing strips for Educational Comics' Canadian Heroes title. After the war, he received art training for a short period in Detroit and later found work across Canada. In 1959 he began working for The Victoria Times as an editorial cartoonist. In 1961 he began a life-long association with the Toronto Star. He also found work with The Albertan in Calgary as well as with Maclean's magazine. Barron's relatively mild yet satirically insightful topical cartoons of social mores and suburbia have been likened to the UK's Giles but his closest Canadian counterpart, aesthetically and geographically was probably Len Norris of Vancouver. The editorial cartoons of Doug Wright used a similar approach. Barron's cartoons utilized a clear line and elegant, unexagerated figures placed in extremely cluttered backgrounds full of sight gags and signs, a mix of styles akin to the chaos of Wil Elder's Mad cartoons crossed with the sophistication of a New Yorker gag. His two most distinctive trademarks were the sardonic banner-trailing biplane and a bored-looking, sign-toting Cheshire cat. Barron lived a somewhat bohemian lifestyle with his artist wife Jesi, raising several children in Victoria and on the road. In later years, the couple exhibited paintings with a West Coast theme. A life-long smoker, Barron suffered from declining health for some years. He died in hospital Saturday, April 29. (with thanks to Jeremy Spencer) More: Wry illustrated commentaries delighted West Coast readers Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, obituaries, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, May 09, 2006 Calgary Con Wraps UpSequential only got word of this event after it ended, but the Comic and Entertainment Expo held in Calgary this past weekend seems to have been a great success. Lots of local artists and fans were represented, including members of the Calgary Comics Jam, Animethon 13, the Udon group, etc, etc. Some criticisms: Maple Ink Comics Blog: FANTASTIC! - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 2comments - Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Johnston gets Dog AwardFollowing up on a story we linked to last week, Lynn Johnston presented at an awards ceremony for dogs sponsored by a pet food company and was given an award herself for fictional dog Farley, who died heroically saving a comic strip character. Among the dogs awarded for saving real humans were a blind dog and a crime-fighting dog named after the father of the mighty God of Thunder (and for whom Wednesday is named, making this story even more pertinent):
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, April 02, 2006 Danish Cartoon NewsMore on the publication of the controversial Danish cartoons in a Calgary magazine, from the Globe and Mail: WEEKEND DIARY globeandmail.com : FREEDOM, OR FINANCIAL FOLLY? - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, March 25, 2006 Comic Craze Symposium in BanffVia Akimbo e-Broadcasts. Banff International Curatorial Institute Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Quebec, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, March 23, 2006 Calgary Comics File Under: Comics Ain't for Kids Anymore, pt 9 millionA general article on the growth in graphic novels sales, originally from the Calgary Sun: Graphic novels were a $75-million U.S. industry in 2001; they more than tripled to $245 million last year. "They've risen dramatically to the point where they've doubled our comic book sales," says Martin Rouse, owner of Phoenix Comics in Calgary. "And I don't see that changing; if anything, it'll get higher." Unlike a comic book, which, like a soap opera, carries its storyline through several issues, a graphic novel is a standalone story in comic book style -- hence the term "novel." Ottawa Citizen: Comic books grow up Labels: Alberta, Calgary, Ottawa - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - Monday, February 13, 2006 Conservative Western Standard to Print Mohammed CartoonsNews Link Source: Globe and Mail The Western Standard, a political magazine based in Calgary, will today reprint eight of the 12 Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that have caused riots and controversy around the world, and one Canadian Muslim leader warns that hate-crime charges may follow. Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant, a former Reform and Canadian Alliance activist, calls the cartoons "innocuous" and accused Canada's "mainstream media," including The Globe and Mail, of failing to stand up for free speech for refusing to print the images. "I was prepared to see the most outrageous, depraved, blasphemous cartoons," Mr. Levant said in an interview yesterday. "I was surprised by how tame they were." But the leader of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Mohamed Elmasry, warned yesterday that his organization will seek to have charges laid against the magazine under Canada's laws against distributing hate literature. globeandmail.com : Calgary magazine reprinting cartoons Western Standard Other News: Open House at New Brunswick Mosque to Discuss Cartoons Comic Book Bin Weighs In Labels: Alberta, Calgary, links, New Brunswick - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, February 01, 2006 Canadians Abroad ![]() Bart Beaty, Jimmy Beaulieu at Angouleme University of Calgary scholar Bart Beaty gives his annual report of the Angouleme comics festival over at Comics Reporter, while Jimmy Beaulieu details his Angouleme itinerary (link courtesy of Bedeka.org). The festival was very snowy, apparently, with many changes and a revolt lead by sober cartoonists. No Canadians took home any awards --a disgraceful multi-year shut-out. BEDE-KA! Jimmy Beaulieu en France (above: Beaulieu's newest graphic novel, launched at the Festival) Labels: Alberta, Calgary, links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, January 20, 2006 Cartoonists not drawn to Tory leaderNews Link Source: Comics Reporter/Calgary Sun Report on how some Canadian editorial cartoonists have a hard time getting used to new faces, especially the banal face of evil. Tom Spurgeon deconstructs the article here. The Calgary Sun - Cartoonists not drawn to Tory leader Labels: Alberta, Calgary, links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, January 01, 2006 Canadian Comics LinksCanCon Comic NEWS & OP-ED Links CCArF BEDE-KA! 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