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Friday, October 03, 2008
TODAY: Typhon Book Launch and Art Exhibit @ Monastiraki in MTL
:: Posted by max @ 10/03/2008 01:00:00 AM 
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Legendary New York cartoonist, illustrator and man about town Danny Hellman will be launching & signing his new TYPHON comix anthology Monastiraki Gallery Friday the 3rd of October in conjunction with POP Montreal Festival's Art Pop series. Not to be missed !
Gracing the walls will be kick ass pervo comic art from 12 of the anthologies contributors including Danny Hellman, Fiona Smyth, R. Sikoryak, Victor Cayro, Rupert Bottenberg, Bruno Nadelin, Rick Trembles, Dalton Web, Nicolas Gazin, Tobias Tak, Lorenz Peter and others.
Friday, October 3, 2008
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Monastiraki 5478 Boul St-Laurent
Montreal, QCLabels: anthologies, art show, book launches, Montreal, Quebec
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Seen there : The ego and the squid : Ojingogo book launch @ the D&Q shop
:: Posted by max @ 9/24/2008 11:17:00 AM Labels: book launches, events, Montreal, Quebec
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
MiniKim Launch at Librairie Planete BD
:: Posted by max @ 9/21/2008 02:00:00 PM 
It's a really cool BD shop on one of the more popular and fashionable parts of town in Montreal. It's also a few blocks from both Millenium and Fichtre, but closer to downtown which will work for them.
Local Artist MiniKim is Lunching her newest book there in September, you can sign up for the events facebook page here. It's the second one in the all ages series, called Alta Donna!
La jeune dessinatrice MiniKim vient nous presenter sa nouveaute, le deuxieme tome de Alta Donna, une serie haute en couleurs pour toute la famille !
Sunday, September 21, 2008
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Planete BD
3883 St-Denis
Montreal, QCLabels: bd, book launches, Montreal, new books, Quebec
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Montreal: 1001 Visages
:: Posted by Bryan @ 9/12/2008 06:40:00 PM A few new faces: the third annual 1001 Visages.
Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montreal
Sept 4 to Oct 12
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tonite: Ojingogo Launch, Montreal
:: Posted by Bryan @ 8/27/2008 05:53:00 AM Matt Forsythe launches his Ojingogo graphic novel through D+Q.
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
Wednesday, August 27
7:30 p.m.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
:: Posted by max @ 8/24/2008 05:43:00 PM Co: theMMCJgroup
Bonjour a Tous!
The next Comix Jam will be held at Bar des Pins, 3714 Park, this coming Thursday, August 28 at 8 PM. As usual, bring your artist gear and good humor!
Le Comix Jam se tiendra au Bar des Pins, 3714 rue du Parc Jeudi prochain, le 28 aout a 20hres. Comme d'habitude amenez votre attirail du dessinateur et votre bonne humeur!
A la Prochaine!
See You there!
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
The ego and the squid : Ojingogo book launch @ the Drawn & Quarterly Store
:: Posted by max @ 8/21/2008 11:46:00 PM 
 Montrealer Matt Forsythe got the cover of this weeks Montreal Mirror and a nice big full page interview/profile inside by Rupert Bottenberg to announce the launch of his new D&Q book this coming weekend, Ojingogo.
"I feel like I'm just escorting this thing along, not driving it," says illustrator and comic artist Matt Forsythe of Ojingogo, his new graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly. "It's kinda weird seeing my name on the cover-that's how dissociated I feel from it."
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Doug Wright Awards' so called 'Canadian' language controversy
:: Posted by max @ 8/14/2008 06:00:00 PM With a charged OP ed piece by Herve St-Louis, the publisher and editor for comicbookbin.com has kicked off a pretty intense conversation over the question of whether or not The Doug Wright Awards has the "right" to call itself a Canadian award.
Tom Spurgeon has started to act as something of a neutral presenter of the issue, posting several responses to the first posting from St-Louis on The Comics Reporter. And there's alot of back and forth in the comments of PW The Beat. So far i've found the debate very interesting.
I have a problem with the tone taken at the start by St-Louis myself; I feel he was pretty wildly hyperbolic in his analogies, and presents a basically false premise. And he seems upon a little asking around, to be speculating a lot about the intentions of the DWA organizers without information. There was a small amount of communication with our own Bryan Munn informally as a DWA representative on the subject, but it seems St-Louis cut that short and ran with his story.
But from a purely rhetorical point of view, many have made some very good points on the broader subject.
Bryan, who is responsible for most of the posting here on Sequential now, is bowing out of commenting on the debate on our site as he's closely involved with the Doug Wright Awards, so I'm going to try to keep on top of this for Sequential, work schedule permitting.
I will be thinking on it and perhaps posting my own perspective more in the future but at this time a few things seem clear to me.
First I think that it's clear the DWA's present themselves as A Canadian award, not THE Canadian awards. A point made by Brad MacKay but also consistent with my impression of their promotion of the awards. St-Louis's argument seems to be build a lot on the idea that something other than this is true.
The About page's first short opening paragraph from the DWA site.
About The Doug Wright Awards
The Doug Wright Awards were established in 2005 to cast a spotlight on the range of cartoonists and comic artists working in Canada.
And, the very relevant last one...
Language of work
[SeqEd:accepted for submissions]
For the first year at least, The Wrights will only consider works that are available in English or are wordless. (French-language works that are translated into English will be eligible.)
And if testimony is required, going back to the first year of the awards, I can confirm from my own discussions with the organizers, that what Brad MacKay says in his official statement as true; That there has all along been very active discussion of how eventually to address the question of, at some point, bringing in a french language category. But that for now they lack the resources to do so. There has been no active discrimination against french creators in anyway, or a flat refusal to address the issue. Only a recognition that they are unequipped to review french language submissions at this time in a manor suited to the standards they set out for the DWA.
And far from being presented as THE Canadian comics award, they are more like A Literary Canadian Comics Award in affect. And yes we could be really precise and call them The Doug Wrights, A Literary English Language Canadian Comics Award, but frankly as precise as that would be, it would be a terrible, terrible name!
OK yes I'm being a little dramatic, but The Doug Wright English Canadian Comics Awards is truly not too much better. So it's the The Doug Wright Awards, period.
As Hervé points out; hyphenation, and over qualification is a pain in the arse.
The idea is to make the awards appealing, and interesting. Not boring and didactic.
Now It's all very fine and well to say they could make the contacts here in Quebec, associate with a local award or start a parallel operation.
But it takes two to tango, and speaking as an Anglo, living in Montreal, I have to say the French community here at least, when not too busy with their own things to be bothered, is seldom very welcoming or enthusiastic of this kind of collaboration over all. Nor do they reach out often themselves in a collaborative manner to make such things happen. It's like herding cats here on both sides of the language divide.
Maybe in Alberta where Hervé lives now, he's unaware of this. He started out here so he should know. It was true more so when he lived here!
It's true that in their own language sphere many people have done amazing things to promote local French work to an international French audience. But making the effort to promote their work to an audience that overwhelmingly won't be able to read it is never appealing to any publisher. Frankly I for one can't fault them for that.
And far from generally being ignored by English Canada, I and many Anglo's have come to Montreal thinking we would be able to connect and build bridges with the french community, only to find a wall of often disinterested backs turned on us because we speak French as poorly as many of the Quebecois speak English.
For those who are more engaged and welcoming - and there are many now - it's shrugs and a lack of interest in general. Not to say it's always cold, but I have not experienced a culture in a hurry to be embraced by it's English neighbors. They want more than not to be admired in their own language in their own region or in the EU. For those few desiring more English attention, they look south, like a lot of us here, were there are many many millions more in the audience than here. A practical issues more than not.
I would put it to Herve that this often kind of insular approach, and a love of confrontation and conflict expressed to me by many of my Francophone Montreal peers, and as exemplified by the rather inflammatory examples in his post - Is as much if not more a problem than any active bigotry in the English community...
"If the Harvey Awards, were to refuse all comic books by blacks or women, until they bleached their skin white or undergo hormone therapy to change their gender, it would be clear to everybody that their policy and the support of those awards was morally wrong"
Really? Comparing asking for translations to bleaching skin, AND forced gender reassignment. Was one over the top inaccurate analogy not enough? Hmmmmm.
Numerous times have I inquired locally in Montreal, as to why more effort is not made by French creators and publishers to translate the huge amounts of work produced here into English for the larger North American market. Or why there are so few sites promoting the Quebec community outside of the Francophone sphere.
Coverage and effort has improved, yes, far more of both things happen now than just 5 years ago. But it's been very, very slow.
And my said inquiries are more often than not responded to with shrugs and the refrain that they rather someone else do the work. They are too busy, it's as simple as that. No bigotry, no conspiracy, no surprising undercurrent of hate.
I've done my own best when I've had the time to do so to promote local work, regardless of language, as has Bryan who is I'll repeat an active member of the DWA organization.
I have tried at some length to recruit contributors for this very site to help cover the Quebec scene, as well as trying to find people on the coasts and in the mid west.
I have constantly failed to find interested parties on all counts.
Even Herve's own site spends most of it's time reporting on American, English comics. On the site's menu there is not even a way to filter the posts to view QC or Montreal stories. Just Cunuck. And I invite you to look for yourself to see how many are for French Language books....
It seems to me Herve is asking, demanding, others to confer praise for work he seldom promotes himself. No he does not call himself THE Canadian comic news site anymore than the DWA call them selves THE Canadian comic awards, but then this only furthers my point.
I can understand that there are a lot of bruised egos, as I'm always reminded when I talk to my peers here in Montreal about this sort of thing. It does not come up nearly as often as Herve's article would suggest but sure, some feel a little left out.
But I have a hard time giving too much credit to said egos, when they do so little to change the situation themselves through constructive positive actions. But rather it seems - when bothered to do anything - prefer to rant at supposed arms length about it. In this case at Provincial length, and without foundation or information speculating in an overwhelmingly demonizing way about the intentions of the 'Others' they think someone may perceive themselves slighted or ignored by.
So what do I think they should do instead?
How about this; I've not talked to anyone about this so I don't know if the will or means can be mustered, but say they do and could be. Say someone in QC, or the french community outside of QC cares about this all that much, and wants to do something.
Say maybe the Prix Bedelys have any interest in this, that they take the initiative to put together a jury and reading list for a French language award to spotlight Original French books to the rest of Canada and the English comics reading world and any French readers who may be paying attention, to be presented at The Doug Wright Awards.
They can also help raise funds locally for the prize and to pay for the trophy, and The Doug Wright Awards in turn give them the additional press and attention. The DWA orginization have the current problem of a lack of resources and means on their side addressed in this way.
Maybe as a way to make this a mutual trade - not to besmirch anyone's best intentions; but the Bédélys trophy is not, well, all that impressive. Perhaps they also might be able to persuade the Doug Wright Awards rather famous trophy builder to help them out as well?
Call it a trade for mutual benefit, and fix the problem by doing something about it, rather than making over the top and inaccurate analogies to civil rights abuses and the intentions of others you don't actually talk with before speculating on publicly.
But in the mean time, until the French Comics community is willing or wants to be bothered to take on the task of promoting their own work to the rest of the world regardless if it's Francophone or not, I think it's a little disingenuous for someone in the to cry discrimination in this manor.
A lack of means does not equate a intentional bigoted refusal.
Labels: Alberta, analysis, awards, bd, blogosphere, can-con, cartoonists, comics history, francophone, furries, Montreal, news, people, Quebec, tcaf
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Saturday, August 02, 2008
Monastiraki presents Man Drawing Salon : The Exhibition
:: Posted by max @ 8/02/2008 04:54:00 PM 
The show runs August 5 through August 31st. collaborative drawings by Joe Ollmann, Todd Stewart and Vasilios Mavreas!Labels: art show, drawings, events, Montreal
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Friday, July 25, 2008
This Weekend: Otakuthon, Montreal
:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/25/2008 06:00:00 AM 
July 25-27
Otakuthon 2008
Anime Convention or "Le Salon de l'Anime de Montreal"
featuring webcomics artists Sebastien Frechette (Sirkowski) & Gisele Lagace, an artists alley, manga and anime dealers, and lots of cosplay.
Palais des congres de Montreal
201, avenue Viger Ouest, Montreal
Friday, July 25, 2008
5 PM to 8 PM — Pre-Registration Pick-Up
Saturday, July 26, 2008
9 AM to 6 PM — Registration
10 AM to 3 AM — Convention
Sunday, July 27, 2008
9 AM to 4 PM — Registration
10 AM to 8 PM — ConventionLabels: conventions, events, manga, Montreal, Quebec
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
If your in Montreal, Come see Diana Schutz tonight!
:: Posted by max @ 6/25/2008 03:42:00 PM  CO: from the D&Q blog
"I know we [D&Q] keep using this image to illustrate Diana Schutz. You think we could find another image that would work better, but actually, the repetition of this one is making you more keen to come out tonight..."
WHERE YOU CAN SEE HER IN PERSON.
7PM tonight!
DIANA SCHUTZ presents her life in comics.
Get the inside scoop from the editor for FRANK MILLER, WILL EISNER, STAN SAKAI, MATT WAGNER, MICHAEL CHABON, and NEIL GAIMAN. Want to break into mainstream comics? Schutz will be offering portfolio reviews! Diana Schutz is an award-winning editor who has worked in the comics industry since 1978. For the last eighteen of those thirty years, she has been at Dark Horse Comics, where she is now an executive editor.
She is also an adjunct instructor of comics art history and criticism at Portland Community College. Schutz is Frank Miller's editor on SIN CITY and 300, Matt Wagner's editor on GRENDEL, Stan Sakai's editor on USAGI YOJIMBOU, and Paul Chadwick's editor on CONCRETE. She also regularly works with Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, and Dave McKean, and irregularly with Harlan Ellison. She was fortunate to be Will Eisner's Dark Horse editor until his death in 2005.
211 Bernard Ouest Montreal Quebec
514 279 2224
MAPLabels: book launches, events, Montreal, new books, Quebec, reading
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
theMMCJ::: June 26
:: Posted by max @ 6/22/2008 12:24:00 PM Bonjour à Tous!
The next Montreal Comix Jam will be held at Bar des Pins, 3714 Parc Avenue, this coming Thursday, June 26 at 8 PM. As usual, bring your artist gear and good humor!
Le Montreal Comix Jam se tiendra au Bar des Pins, 3714 Parc Avenue, Jeudi prochain, le 26 juin à 20hres. Comme d'habitude amenez votre attirail du dessinateur et votre bonne humeur!
À la Prochaine!
See You there!
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Montreal Comic Jam May 29th
:: Posted by max @ 5/24/2008 08:05:00 PM From Jane Tremblay - event host
 Bonjour a Tous!
Le Comix Jam se tiendra au Bar des Pins, 3714 rue du Parc Jeudi prochain, le 29 Mai a 20hres. Comme d'habitude amenez votre attirail du dessinateur et votre bonne humeur!
The next Comix Jam will be held at Bar des Pins, 3714 Park, this coming Thursday, May 29 at 8 PM. As usual, bring your artist gear and good humor!
A la Prochaine!
See You there!
Jane
Site link
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Beer and Comics Contest
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/14/2008 03:19:00 PM A new contest has been announced in conjunction with the Montreal beer festival, Mondial de la Biere.
The 15th anniversary of this huge festival, taking place May 28-June 1, will incorporate the "Bieres et bandes dessinee" contest, which is shaping up to be the most lucrative comics-related prize in Canada, according to this press release:
The new Bieres et bandes dessinees contest has been organized in
conjunction with Oleg Dergachov, MA, cartoonist and sculptor, and Deborah
Wood, home brewer and Master of Arts degree holder. Contest participants must
invent a cartoon featuring beer: beer and women, beer and politics, beer and
the environment, etc. A six-member international jury will select the winners.
Winners will receive cash prizes: GOLD Beer Stein: $1500; SILVER Beer Stein:
$1,000; and BRONZE Beer Stein: $500.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Tonite: Billy Mavreas Booklaunch, Montreal
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/13/2008 01:23:00 AM Just a reminder. See here for details.
INSIDE OUTSIDE OVERLAP
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Casa Del Popolo
4873 St-Laurent
MontrealLabels: book launches, events, graphic novels, Montreal, publishing, Quebec
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Billy Mavreas is Launching his Graphic Novel INSIDE OUTSIDE OVERLAP
:: Posted by max @ 5/10/2008 01:23:00 AM 
Found on Facebook
I'll be signing copies of my new comic book, INSIDE OUTSIDE OVERLAP published by Timeless Books, Toronto. Come by, say hi, have a drink, buy a book, stay and drink even more.
Time and Place| Date: | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | | Time: | 7:00pm - 11:00pm | | Location: | Casa Del Popolo | | Street: | 4873 St-Laurent | | City/Town: | Montreal, QC |
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Vancouver Launch - June 7, 7:00 pm
Lucky's 3972 Main Street. ph: 604-875-9858.
Toronto Launch - June 25th, 7:30 pm
Part of the The Beguiling monthly series
http://drawrings.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_MavreasLabels: book launches, can-con, events, events links, Montreal, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Anke Feuchtenberger a Montreal
:: Posted by max @ 4/29/2008 12:07:00 AM
ANKE FEUCHTENBERGER Exhibition of original drawings / Exposition de dessins originaux April 30 - July 4 , 2008 30 avril - 4 juillet 2008 | Exhibition launch Wednesday April 30, 8 pm Hand-drawn animated shorts
Discussion led by Rupert Bottenberg | Vernissage de l'exposition Mercredi 30 avril, 20h Films d'animation
Soiree animee par Rupert Bottenberg | Free admission / Entree libre GOETHE-INSTITUT MONTREAL 418, rue Sherbrooke Est
514 499 0159
www.goethe.de/montreal
 
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Prix Bedelys 2008
:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/12/2008 05:50:00 PM 
The winners of the 2008 Prix Pedelys were announced at a ceremony held April 8 in Montreal.
Prix Bedelys Quebec
best Quebec bd, with a $1000 prize
Danger public by Leif Tande and PhlppGrrd (La Pasteque)
Prix Bedelys d'Or
best French-language comic, chosen by Quebec librarians
Ryad-sur-Seine by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Dragon (Gallimard)
Prix Bedelys Jeunesse - Ville de Montreal
best book for readers 7-12 years old, selected by kids
Les P'tits diables, vol 6: Soeur a Vendre by Olivier Dutto (Soleil)
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Expozine Gala, 2008
:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/13/2008 01:47:00 AM 
The winners of the 2008 Prix Expozine were announced at a ceremony in Montreal on Monday night. The prize is given to publications featured at Expozine, the annual small-press fair.
ENGLISH WINNERS
COMIC: Oola Dug by Malcom Sutherland
BOOK: Extraction! edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington, Cumulus Press
ZINE: The Bedrooms of the Nation by Michelle Sterling
FRENCH WINNERS
COMIC: Comment le dictionnaire fut-il invente by Zviane & Charles Menard, Grafigne.com Editions
BOOK: Kaspar by OBOM
ZINE: Victor by Adrien Sanchez Valero
For full details, including information on the judges, links, and the judges' comments, see the Expozine website.Labels: awards, bd, events, Montreal, Quebec, zines
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Winners: Prix Expozine 2008
:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/12/2008 12:01:00 AM 
After a little google-aided detective work, it appears that Zvianne won the prize for best French-language comic for Des etoiles dans les oreilles - une bande dessinee sur le compositeur quebecois Claude Vivier.
No word yet on the other winners.Labels: awards, events, Montreal
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Tonite: Expozine Awards Gala
:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/10/2008 02:27:00 AM Announcing the third annual Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala! Monday March 10, 2008, 9 p.m., free admission, Mainline Theatre, 3997 St-Laurent, Montreal.
Featuring entertainment by the Dan D Lyons, Simon Paquet and the evening’s MC, Jean Giscagne. Come and celebrate the best of the nearly 300 small presses that took part in last fall’s Expozine small press, comic and zine fair! Six prizes will be awarded (three in English and three in French), recognizing the best book, comic and zine sold at Expozine. Musical comedy troupe the Dan D Lyons and monologuist Simon Paquet will entertain with a bilingual show, and genial host Jean Giscagne will once again present the awards with flair. The winners were chosen by an esteemed panel of judges out of the hundreds of publications submitted at Expozine in November. 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 short-listed titles. The short list of nominated publications will be revealed here shortly before the gala. This event is sponsored by the Mainline Theatre, Libraire Drawn and Quarterly (211 Bernard O.) and libraire Port de Tête (262 Mont-Royal O.). Labels: awards, events, Montreal, Quebec
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tonite: Montreal Comix Jam
:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/28/2008 04:23:00 PM Thursday, February 28, 8
details hereLabels: comic jams, events, Montreal, Quebec
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Monday, February 25, 2008
MONTREAL COMIC JAM FEB 28
:: Posted by max @ 2/25/2008 08:09:00 PM 
Bonjour a Tous!
The next Comix Jam will be held at Bar des Pins, 3714 Park, this coming Thursday, February 28 at 8 PM. As usual, bring your artist gear and good humor!
Le Comix Jam se tiendra au Bar des Pins, 3714 rue du Parc Jeudi prochain, le 28 fevrier a 20hres. Comme d'habitude amenez votre attirail du dessinateur et votre bonne humeur!
A la Prochaine!
See You there!
Jane
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Photos of the last Jam by Jack Ruttan.Labels: comic jams, events, Montreal, Quebec
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Time for another Geek OUT!
:: Posted by max @ 2/20/2008 02:58:00 AM 
from the geekmontreal.com site:
The Geek OUT! is a regular series of get-togethers where you can play board games, roleplaying games, have snacks, talk about comic books, do arts and crafts, watch sci-fi movies, have more snacks and then sugar crash!
On Saturday Feb 23rd, we're having a Geek OUT! Time 2pm - 9pm. Location: MUCS Dining Coop, 2000 Northcliffe, suite 218 (corner De Maisoneuve, near Vendome metro)
- Roleplaying gamez: one-off scenario of Blood on the Deck (aargh!) using the Call of Cthullu Dark Ages system
- Zombies - the best board game about the apocalypse evah
- Illuminati: (gnomes of zurich vs the bavarians vs Aliens!)
- Risk and Axis & Allies: very serious war games
- Demo of Thief by Organic Games
- Plus others: Diplomacy, Talisman, Settlers of Catan, etc..
- Arts and Crafts with Shirley and the Grapefruit (bring your projects)
- Comic book signing and projection by Salgood Sam (Therefore Repent!)
We're also going to have some projections (The Hulk, Logan's Run and others) and yummy foodies (juice!, pudding, probably some soup.)
How does it work? We provide some games, the place to play'em and foodies. You come along with any other games you want to play. There's no set price to attend - it's is a by-donation-type-thing.Labels: events, exhibits, Montreal
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Tonite: Paul Goes Fishing Launch, Montreal
:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/06/2008 01:01:00 AM 
The launch party for Michel Rabagliati's new book, Paul Goes Fishing, will be held at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore, 211 Bernard W, beginning at 7PM.
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Monday, February 04, 2008
Framed: a comic book making workshop with Rich Baldwin | Feb 8th
:: Posted by max @ 2/04/2008 06:14:00 PM 
Found on Facebook, presented by Communiversity-FASA-Emily Rose
Friday, February 8
6:00pm - 8:15pm
Location: 1515 RUE STE-CATHERINE O - Concordia's Engineering & Visual Arts Bilding) corner of Mackay & Ste-Catherine - 6.735 [room number?]
Contact Info: RSVP Mandatory!
514 848 2424 5057
trancemissions@gmail.com
Whether called graphic novels, comic books, bandes dessinees or sequential art, comics aren't just for kids any more. We will explore the artistic variety and potential inherent in comics - starting with an overview of comics, moving on to making them ourselves. Pencils, paper and some ink and dip pens will be available for use, but you are heartily encouraged to bring other artistic materials and / or laptops if you wish to explore comic-making in more varied forms. Come equipped with a comic book idea and you'll be ready to jump right in. Labels: comic jams, comics in school, events, Montreal, Quebec
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tonite: Montreal Comix Jam
:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/31/2008 03:26:00 PM details here
Bar des Pins, 3714 Park.
Thursday, January 31 at 8 PMLabels: comic jams, events, Montreal, Quebec
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
New Location for the montreal comic jam
:: Posted by max @ 1/29/2008 11:46:00 AM Bonjour a Tous!
Eh oui, suite a la fermeture de l'Utopik et de la fin de ses memorables soirees de pouesie, a la demande generale, le Comix Jam se tiendra au Bar des Pins, 3714 rue du Parc Jeudi prochain, le 31 Janvier a 20hres. Comme d'habitude amenez votre attirail du dessinateur et votre bonne humeur!
Yup! Following the closing of Cafe Utopik and the end of their memorable poetry nights, by general request, the next Comix Jam will be held at Bar des Pins, 3714 Park, this coming Thursday, January 31 at 8 PM. As usual, bring your artist gear and good humor!
A la Prochaine!
See Ya there!
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Ciné-Salon/Movie Night + Art Jam @ Centre St-Ambroise, Sunday, Jan. 27,
:: Posted by max @ 1/15/2008 05:53:00 PM 
Co: Rupert Bottenberg
On Sunday, Jan. 27, from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., the new Centre St-Ambroise space in St-Henri (directions below) hosts a dual-purpose soirée.
Downstairs, in the Griffon Room, we'll be screening DVDs of a wide assortment of odd and entertaining material-short films, TV shows, cartoons, possibly a feature film or two, video oddities and local content. If you're a local filmmaker or video artist with material you'd like to screen, please email Rupert at rupert.bottenberg@gmail.com to discuss.
Upstairs in the Maxwell Haus gallery/studio, there will be an art jam (paper and clipboards provided), an opportunity for comic artists, illustrators, animators and other visual artists to collaborate on improve drawings and get to know one another. Everyone, pros and amateurs alike, are welcome to participate!
Cheap, good beer available of course (quality McAusland product!).
The Centre St-Ambroise is at 5080 St-Ambroise, between St-Remi and Chemin de la Côte St-Paul. You can get there by taking a short ride on the 78 bus from Lionel-Groulx metro, the 37 bus from either Vendôme or De l'Église metro, or the 36 bus.
Should be a good one, hope to see you all there! - RUPLabels: art show, bd, comic jams, Montreal
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Saturday, December 08, 2007
Tonite: Therefore Repent Book Launch
:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/08/2007 11:06:00 AM 
Therefore Repent! launches this Saturday,
Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Drawn & Quarterly
Bookstore (211 Bernard W.) in Montreal
Meet the artist and the writer! Buy books! Hang out!
"The art is extraordinarily fluid and the storyline ingenious and sharply intelligent." — Jeff VanderMeer, Realms of Fantasy
Book detailsLabels: book launches, graphic novels, Montreal, publishing, Quebec, Sequential
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Tonite: Julie Doucet Book Launch!
:: Posted by Bryan @ 12/07/2007 12:56:00 PM 
From the Drawn and Quarterly press release:
Friday, December 7, 7:00 PM
D+Q Bookstore
211 Bernard West
D+Q launches 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet
with vernissage for an exhibition of Doucet's prints, which will be up at the Librairie D+Q through January
"Julie Doucet is a conceptual artist trapped in a cartoonist's body... finding fresh ways to channel her creative eruptions onto paper." --The Village Voice
"Like many of her alt-comics contemporaries, Doucet eradicates any uppity delineation between art and comics." --Bust Magazine
Despite Julie Doucet's renunciation of her comics-centric lifestyle over five years ago, 365 Days is imbued with the iconic talent and studied aesthetic of her seminal comic book series Dirty Plotte, which catapulted her into being one of the world's greatest cartoonists. This visual journal, starting in late 2002, is an idiosyncratic collision of her various creative interests, wherein personal narrative, collage and drawing begin to tell the story of her pursuits into printmaking and beyond, chronicling her maturation as a mid-career artist and her fluid extension into a broader arts community.
Now exhibiting internationally, Doucet blurs the boundaries between high art, illustration, craft and comics: where panel borders once divided pages, collage creeps in; events and doodles merge; recollection and narrative blend with the abstract. The surreal neurosis of her comics has subsided to reveal a more relaxed creativity that is unrestricted by form or definition and is as engaging as ever. 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet was excerpted in McSweeney's #13.
Julie Doucet lives in Montreal. Her critically acclaimed comic-book series Dirty Plotte has been collected into the graphic novels My New York Diary; Lift Your Leg, My Fish Is Dead; and My Most Secret Desire. She also has the art books Long Time Relationship, Lady Pep, and Elle Humour.
http://drawnandquarterly.com
Contact: publicity@drawnandquarterly.com / 514-279-0691, Bookstore: 514-279-2224
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Forgive us our sins - Therefore Repent! Montreal launch in the Montreal Mirror
:: Posted by max @ 12/06/2007 04:35:00 PM 
Co:montrealmirror.com
Local illustrator Salgood Sam and author Jim Munroe create a post-Rapture work in Therefore Repent!
by VINCENT TINGUELY
When prolific indie author, quick and dirty filmmaker and DIY organizer Jim Munroe got a grant to create Therefore Repent!, a full-length "post-Rapture" graphic novel, Montreal-based, long-time Munroe fan and sometime collaborator Salgood Sam jumped at the chance to render it. "I'd read an early Munroe novella at a zine fair when I was 19 or 20 and I really liked it," says Sam. "I've been following his stuff ever since. When you really identify with a writer's vision, they've tapped the voice you hear inside yourself, they're appealing to you on that level." Sam spent more than a year meticulously bringing Munroe's ideas to life, drawing on skills honed in both the indie comics realm and through years of grunt work for the likes of Marvel. "Jim's a good writer to collaborate with because he was into gearing it into what I was into doing," Sam says. "I didn't have to do any contortions to visualize the script as I was reading it." Munroe agrees. "He's perfect, because he can do the hipsters and the hellspawn," says Munroe. "He can do urban settings very well and true to life, but also fascinating fantastical things."
Therefore Repent! begins with the arrival of the fascinating and fantastical Raven and Mummy in a near-future Chicago. Munroe, who's based in Toronto, set the story in an American city because, as he quips, "They go together like peanut butter and jelly, America and the Rapture." 144,000 Christians have floated up to heaven, Jesus has joined George W. in the White House, and heavily armed angels from on high are descending to do the Lord's dirty work on Earth. Things would seem quite hopeless for the rest of us godless (i.e. not fundamentalist) sorts, except that magic is afoot...everything from Eastern cosmic insights to transubstantiation actually works. Soon enough, a grassroots magical insurgency starts to form.
"I was inspired by this idea that the most powerful people in America purport to literally believe in Christians floating into the air, into heaven, which is what George W. Bush says he believes in," says Munroe. "That's pretty mind blowing, that in their own mythology they'd have something that wild-especially when the conservatives have problems with Harry Potter."
After a more ambiguous approach to the idea of evil in An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, Munroe decided to go for a dark fantasy scenario in which, if miracles, angels and such were to be given free play, then other forms of magic would be just as valid. "Well, if people are going to float into the air, how about less top-down magical manifestations?" Munroe says. "Religion is very top-down, it's God or who God specifically anoints. But if there is magic from on high, then it is going to emerge from below as well, if people are willing to explore it and not kowtow to the powers that be. I like the idea of it being nascent in all of us, but only if we embrace it-individual power, rather than waiting for other people to anoint us. The whole DIY, coming from the grassroots thing."
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