Canadian Comix News & Culture

   Thursday, August 14, 2008  
New Links and News-y Links

:: Posted by Bryan @ 8/14/2008 11:00:00 AM

  • Seth writes about how comics is different from writing for the Walrus and illustrates his piece with a short strip.
  • New Brunswick journalist Darcey McLaughlin wonders if monthly comic books/floppies are on their way out.
  • The trailer for the new Apocalipstix graphic novel is now online.
  • Francis Hervieux has photos from the recent Montreal Otakuthon.
  • Blake Bell is profiled at Publisher's Weekly re: his book about U.S. cartooning legend Steve Ditko.
  • The Fathers for Justice types are at it again, dressing as superheroes.
  • Nicolas Robel's Crocos, a Topffer prizewinning book when published in Switzerland in 2007, is now translated into German.

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   Friday, May 09, 2008  
This Weekend: Graphic Novel Conference, Toronto

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/09/2008 06:00:00 AM


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

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This Weekend: Free Comic Book Day, Fredericton, NB

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/09/2008 01:54:00 AM
The flooding in New Brunswick has delayed this comic book event by one week.

Details here.

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   Tuesday, April 22, 2008  
Today, Troy Little, Moncton

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/22/2008 01:46:00 AM
Troy Little, author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed graphic novel Chiaroscuro will be speaking about the evolutionary process in creating his book. From it's simple beginnings in his sketch book, through numerous creative mutations and finally into the world of both small and big press publishing, Troy will talk about what it takes to be an independent graphic novel creator. Troy will give his talk at 7pm at Timothy's on Main Street.

details here

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   Monday, April 14, 2008  
...and in other news

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/14/2008 05:59:00 AM

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.

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   Thursday, April 10, 2008  
Acadieman Goes Number Two

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/10/2008 12:48:00 AM

Sequential welcomes your press releases and news about Canadian comics.

This candidate for best title for a press release was emailed to me by 3 separate people:

Acadieman goes number two with the help of his friends

MONCTON - Acadieman Comics number two will be launched April 25th at the Cafe Aberdeen in Moncton. A year after releasing the first issue of the Acadieman series, artist Dano LeBlanc and Short Circuit Publishing have finally managed to get their act together and publish a second comic starring the popular Acadian superhero.

"It's about friggin' time", says Dano LeBlanc. Publisher, Andre Wilson claims it's mostly Dano's fault the second comic wasn't released, as planned, last October. But he forgives him. "Hey, we had a best seller with the first one. So what if he's a little slow getting the second comic finished. Besides, Dano was supposedly pretty busy this past year."

In his defense Dano says : "I'm not a machine!"

This second comic continues the story of Acadieman's origins and also presents a number of other local artists. These strips include Sniper Ninja Bears (Samuel Chiasson et Jean Sébastien Levesque), Voodoo Gun (Mark Young), l'Histoire de l'Acadie selon Roger (Daniel Fournier), The Strange Men (Adam Beaumont), Gothic Beach Party et Don't Just Stand There, Kill Something (Tim Moerman), as well as 11 comics created by sixth grade French-immersion students from Besborough school.

Asked what this second comic book represents for the arts scene in New Brunswick, LeBlanc says : "I don't have a clue." He's nonetheless happy that he's able to promote other comic book artists from the region.

This second comic contains other surprises which won't be revealed until the book launch. A comic book signing will take place during the launch. Another will be held the following day at The Comic Hunter as part of the Frye Festival.

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   Thursday, March 27, 2008  
In Other Links:

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/27/2008 02:38:00 AM


Six links about comics in Canada, sort of:

1. Vancouver cartoonist Steve Rolston profiled.

2. does Booklamp scan comics?

3. Skim creators profiled in the National Post


4. art exhibit makes reference to event that started Canadian comic book scare of the 1950s

5. Scott Tingley's Comics in the Classroom has expanded to a website devoted to comics created by New Brunswick kids: Riverside Reads

6. (top image) Chris Butcher previews the Negative Burn complilation, Growing Up with Comics. The book launched last night. You can see a preview, including images of Waterloo's Carry-On Comics, here.

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   Friday, March 07, 2008  
This Weekend: Animaritime, Moncton

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/07/2008 01:00:00 AM


Animaritime
March 7-8, 2008
Delta Beausejour hotel, Moncton, New Brunswick
http://www.animaritime.org/index.html

The big East Coast anime and manga show, with dealers, corporate sponsors like VIZ and Del Rey manga, and guests like JOnes, the cartoonist behind Vampirates

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   Monday, January 28, 2008  
Tonite: Monkeytown Comix Jam

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/28/2008 12:05:00 AM

For the gang in Moncton and environs:

Okay, we're de retour after skipping December...

The next monthly Monkeytown Comix Jam is this coming Monday, January 28 at the Laundromat (corner of Cameron and St.-George.) Starts about 7pm; ends when Marky kicks us out. (Usually 2am.)

Show up! Drink beer! Draw comix and stuff!


Ke, pis on est back apres avoir sauté le mois de decembre...

Le prochain Monkeytown Comix Jam aura lieu lundi le 28 janvier au cafe Laundromat (angle Cameron et Saint-George.) On commence, comme toujours, vers 19h.

Venez! Boire de la biere! Faites des bedes... et stuff.

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   Thursday, January 17, 2008  
2008 Convention Schedule

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/17/2008 12:16:00 AM
Below is a rough draft of the 2008 Convention Schedule for all comics and comics-related conventions in Canada. Sequential will hopefully be issuing several of these updated schedules throughout the year, as well as promoting the individual events as they occur. If you have any additions or corrections, please email us. Sequential is interested in all comics-related events that take place across the country and we will do our best to link to your event, even if it is only a relatively tiny, single-day collectibles show in a small town. Please let us know.

2008 Conventions

Wintercon (anime event)
Jan 19-20, 2008
University Education building, University of Alberta, Edmonton
http://www.bakaclub.com/news.php
http://www.bakaclub.com/con1.php
more

Vancouver Comicon
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
11am to 5pm
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (corner of Main and 15th Ave)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/Comicon.html

Toronto Comicon
Feb 3, 2008
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
http://www.hobbystar.com/hobbystar/ConventionsPoster_20080203.html

Animaritime
March 7-8, 2008
Delta Beausejour hotel, Moncton, New Brunswick
http://www.animaritime.org/index.html


Toronto Anime Con
March 15-16, 2008
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
http://www.hobbystar.com/hobbystar/Conventions.html

March 16 -- Vancouver Comicon
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (corner of Main and 15th Ave)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/Comicon.html

Winnipeg Comic and Toy Expo
March 30th, 2008
Canad Inns Fort Garry
10am - 5pm
Admission $2.00
http://manitobacomiccon.com/index.php

Edmonton Pop Culture Fair
Sunday, March 30, 2008
10 am to 4:30 pm
Edmonton Aviation Heritage Centre
11410 Kingsway Avenue
http://www.popculturefair.com/

Toronto ComiCON Annual Fan Appreciation Event
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
http://www.hobbystar.com/hobbystar/Conventions.html
April 12-13, 2008

Montreal Toy Con
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
10am to 5pm
COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT MONTREAL AIRPORT
7000 Place Robert-Joncas
St-Laurent, QC
http://site.toysonfire.com/montreal_toy_con/montrealtoycon.html

Anime North
May 23-25, 2008
Doubletree International Plaza Hotel
Toronto Congress Center
Renaissance Toronto Airport Hotel
http://www.animenorth.com/index.php


May 25 -- Vancouver Comicon
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (corner of Main and 15th Ave)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/Comicon.html

July 6 -- Vancouver Comicon
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (corner of Main and 15th Ave)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/Comicon.html

Paradise Toronto Comicon
July 12-13, 2008
Holiday Inn on King Street
http://torontocomicon.com/

Montreal Comicon
June 15, 2008
http://www.majorcomics.safeshopper.com/ - site may be down? [google cash and myspace]
mtlcomiconATyahoo.ca

Fan Expo Canada
August 22-24, 2008
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
http://www.hobbystar.com/hobbystar/Conventions.html

August 24 -- Comix & Stories, Vancouver
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (corner of Main and 15th Ave)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/Comicon.html

September 7 -- Vancouver Comicon
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (corner of Main and 15th Ave)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/Comicon.html

Montreal Comicon
Sept 13-14, 2008
http://www.majorcomics.safeshopper.com/

VCON
Vancouver’s Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Gaming Convention
October 19-21
Radison President Hotel, 8181 Cambie Road, Richmond, BC
http://www.vcon.ca/

November 16 -- Vancouver Comicon
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street (corner of Main and 15th Ave)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/Comicon.html

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   Tuesday, April 17, 2007  
Acadieman

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/17/2007 12:01:00 AM
The producers of the animated tv series Acadieman, which chronicles the adventures of the eponymous New Brunswick superhero, have published a comic book.

Acadieman Comics #1, a full-color comic book, is available from the publisher's website for $5.49 plus shipping.

Press release:

Acadieman a connu un succes enorme lorsque la chaine de television Rogers a decide de produire une série au sujet de cette icone de la culture acadienne. Avec cette nouvelle BD, le createur d'Acadieman, Dano LeBlanc, fait un retour au medium qui l'interesse depuis toujours.

"Acadieman a commence comme une BD. Je n'avais jamais l'intention de faire une serie animée avec le personnage. Mon reve, depuis un tres jeune age, etait de creer ma propre BD", atteste l'auteur et illustrateur du livre.


Le lancement de cette BD signale l'arrivee d'une nouvelle forme d'art en Acadie. "Je pense que c'est une des premieres BD acadiennes. J'espere que ca va changer la perception de la bande dessinee. Ce neest pas seulement pour les jeunes. Il faut que les gens commencent a comprendre que c'est le 9e art et que la BD est aussi legitime que la peinture ou la sculpture. Maintenant, au Quebec et en Europe, tu peux faire un bac en BD. Il faut aussi noter qu'Art Speigelman a gagne le prix Pulitzter en 1992 pour son roman graphique MAUS", souligne Dano LeBlanc.

Ce premier numero d'une serie de quatre livres explore les origines d'Acadieman. Lehistoire debute a l'East End de Moncton ou le premier superhero acadien est ne. Ensuite, on le retrouve dans la foret alors qu'il grandit. A la fin, Acadieman revient en ville apres avoir subi un entraînement physique et spirituel guide par son maitre, Farty.

Cette BD se veut parallele a la teleserie. Au cours des divers volumes, nous apprendrons comment Acadieman se lie aux personnages tels Coquille, sa mere et Johnny Dieppe. Le premier numero a ete colore par le graphiste Sean Dowd, lequel affirme posséder une passion pour les BD.


(thanks to Michel Viau)

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   Friday, October 06, 2006  
Sept 7 is 24 Hour Comics Day

:: Posted by Bryan @ 10/06/2006 12:51:00 AM
A 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!

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   Monday, February 13, 2006  
Conservative Western Standard to Print Mohammed Cartoons

:: Posted by max @ 2/13/2006 09:07:00 AM
News 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

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   Monday, January 09, 2006  
COMICS IN THE CLASSROOM Pt 2006

:: Posted by max @ 1/09/2006 03:49:00 AM
News Link Source: Press Release/ComicBook Universe

New Brunswick, Canada - Canadian elementary school teacher,
Scott Tingley, has started a website designed to help fellow
teachers and parents choose comics for both eager and reluctant
readers K through 8.

Tingley, a parent, teacher and a longtime fan of the comics medium,
is an early years teacher in the New Brunswick (Canada) public
school system and the creator of Comics in the Classroom
(
www.comicsintheclassroom.net).
His goal with Comics in the Classroom is to share the positive
experience that he's found using comics to help in the learning
process.

"I am hoping that my knowledge of differentiated learning and my
love of comics will help Comics in the Classroom visitors in the
motivating and teaching of the children in your lives," said Tingley.

Tingley's selections run the gamut from Bob McLeod's Superhero ABC
to the older skewing Zoom Suit, aimed squarely at the PSP and X-Box
360 crowd. Along with these two, selections include Marvel
Entertainment's Franklin Richards, Lions, Tigers and Bears by Mike
Bullock and the perennial seller, Jeff Smith's Bone. These and other
selections are currently featured on the CITC homepage.

Some choices such as Superhero ABCs are simple. Others such as
Lions, Tigers and Bears (an Image comic) or Zoom Suit may not be as
obvious. Tingley explains, "The goal of the site is to get kids to
read. Comics that have a film, television or video game look such as
Lions, Tigers and Bears and Zoom Suit are great gateway books for
reluctant readers."

Tingley expects the site to grow at a rapid pace. "I may be new and
small, but I am one of the few sites of this type," he said. "The
response has been very strong, but we are always looking to
recommend publications that we believe are a good fit. But space is
filling up. Creators or publishers that would like their books
reviewed should send review copies as early as possible."

Tingley's next goal is to find a sponsor to help him spread the
word. He plans to offer advertising space sometime during 2006.
Parties interested in submitting review copies or sponsorship
opportunities should contact Scott Tingley at

comicsintheclassroom@gmail.com.

COMICS IN THE CLASSROOM - An All Ages Comic Site for Teachers, Parents, and Librarians

Original Story

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