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MONCTON'S MONKEYTOWN COMIX JAM: FEB 22  What is the Monkeytown Comix Jam? A collaborative gathering of cartoonists & doodlers passing around comix pages. Everyone contributes a panel of words, drawings or both until the page is full! Pages are posted to our blog, and headed for possible publication in a Jam book! Jams are kid-friendly (accompanied by legal guardians) from 7pm to about 9pm. After that, we kind of become a bad influence what with the potty mouth and the questionable taste and stuff... The Laundromat Espresso Bar 382B rue St-George Moncton, NB View Larger Map Labels: comic jams, events, events links, Moncton, New Brunswick, social ink - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments -   - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Moncton's Monkeytown Comix Jam | 7pm/19h --- May 25 Mai Last Monday of every month at the LaudromatDernier Lundi de chaque mois au cafe Laundromat Jams are kid-friendly (accompanied by legal guardians) from 7pm to about 9pm. After that, we kind of become a bad influence what with the potty mouth and the questionable taste and stuff... Les mineurs sont bienvenus (lorsque leurs gardiens legaux les accompagnent) jusqu'à 21h. What is the Monkeytown Comix Jam? A collaborative gathering of cartoonists & doodlers passing around comix pages. Everyone contributes a panel of words, drawings or both until the page is full! Pages are posted to our blog, and headed for possible publication in a Jam book! The Laundromat Espresso Bar 382B rue St-George Moncton, NB Labels: comic jams, events, events links, Moncton, New Brunswick, social ink - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Social Ink | Montreal & Moncton Comic Jams upcoming An evening of good-humoured drawing, conversation and, incidentally, a wee bit of drinking. Bring your artistic weapons of choice, be it wits or brushes. Both, ideally. Venez dessiner, discuter, prendre un verre et liberer vos energies creatrices en notre compagnie. Aiguisez-bien vos crayons et votre esprit, on vous attend! Thursday, March 26, 2 8:00pm - 12:00am @ the Cock 'n' Bull 1944 Ste-Catherine West Montreal, QC A collaborative gathering of cartoonists & doodlers passing around comix pages. Everyone contributes a panel of words, drawings or both until the page is full! Pages are then posted on the blog and eventually destined to be published in a Jam book! C'est le Monkeytown Comix Jam: Monday/lundi, March 30 mars at the Laundromat (corner St.-George and Cameron.) Les jams commencent vers 19h/ Jams start around 7pm. Jams are kid-friendly (accompanied by legal guardians) from 7pm to about 9pm. After that, we kind of become a bad influence what with the potty mouth and the questionable taste and stuff... Les mineurs sont bienvenus (lorsque leurs gardiens legaux les accompagnent) jusqu'a 21h. Catch toi there! March 30, 7:00pm - 10:00pm The Laundromat Espresso Bar 382B rue St-George Moncton, NB Labels: comic jams, events, events links, Moncton, Montreal, New Brunswick, Quebec, social ink - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, February 20, 2009 Moncton's Monkeytown Comix Jam Monday, February 23  What is the Monkeytown Comix Jam? A collaborative gathering of cartoonists & doodlers passing around comix pages. Everyone contributes a panel of words, drawings or both until the page is full! Pages are then posted on the blog and eventually destined to be published in a Jam book!C'est le Monkeytown Comix Jam: Monday, January 26 at the Laundromat (corner St.-George and Cameron.) Les jams commencent vers 19h/ Jams start around 7pm. Jams are kid-friendly (accompanied by legal guardians) from 7pm to about 9pm. After that, we kind of become a bad influence what with the potty mouth and the questionable taste and stuff... Les mineurs sont bienvenus (lorsque leurs gardiens legaux les accompagnent) jusqu'à 21h. Catch toi there! Monday, February 23, 2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm The Laundromat Espresso Bar 382B rue St-George, (coin de rue Cameron, a cote de La Guitare) Moncton, NB monkeytowncomixjam@yahoo.com Labels: comic jams, events, Moncton, New Brunswick, social ink - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday, December 13, 2008 December 22: Monkeytown Comix Jam Co: facebookMonkeytown Comix December Jam Show Up! Bring a Pen! Draw Comix n' Stuff! C'est le Monkeytown Comix Jam: Monday, December 22 at the Laundromat (corner St.-George and Cameron.) Les jams commencent vers 19h/ Jams start around 7pm. Jams are kid-friendly (accompanied by legal guardians) from 7pm to about 9pm. After that, we kind of become a bad influence what with the potty mouth and the questionable taste and stuff... Les mineurs sont bienvenus (lorsque leurs gardiens legaux les accompagnent) jusqu'a 21h. Monday, December 22, 2008 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Laundromat Espresso Bar Street: 382B rue St-George, (coin de rue Cameron, à côté de La Guitare) City/Town: Moncton, NB Email:monkeytowncomixjam@yahoo.com Labels: comic jams, events, Moncton, New Brunswick, social ink - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
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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 - - we honor OpenID -
This Weekend: Free Comic Book Day, Fredericton, NBThe flooding in New Brunswick has delayed this comic book event by one week. Details here. Labels: comics retailers, events, floppies, New Brunswick, real world - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Today, Troy Little, MonctonTroy 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 Labels: events, Moncton, New Brunswick - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, April 14, 2008 ...and in other news  Faith Erin Hicks (Zombies Calling!) is serializing a new story as a full-colour comic strip in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, according to this profile. (above image) Is Michel Rabagliati the new Charles Schulz? I don't think so, but Henry Chamberlain at Comic Book Bin does. If I didn't know better, I'd say that this Dave Sim response to a Heidi MacDonald post from awhile back is part of a long series of seemingly willful misunderstandings on Sim's part. Also via Heidi MacDonald, Walt Disney is adapting Philip K Dick. Animation, not exactly comics, but worthy of note. Guelph's own graphic novelist and illustrator Nick Craine is profiled by his old employer, the University of Guelph's student paper, The Ontarion. Gilbert A. Bouchard reviews the petits livres phenomenon for the Edmonton Journal. New Brunswick kids review the initial children's graphic novel offerings from Toon Books. Labels: comic strips, Edmonton, events links, graphic novels, Halifax, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, April 10, 2008 Acadieman Goes Number Two  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 Labels: floppies, Moncton, New Brunswick, publishing - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, March 27, 2008 In Other Links:  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. Labels: British Columbia, links, New Brunswick, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, March 07, 2008 This Weekend: Animaritime, Moncton  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  Labels: conventions, events, manga, Moncton, New Brunswick - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, January 28, 2008 Tonite: Monkeytown Comix Jam  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. Labels: comic jams, events, Moncton, New Brunswick - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, January 17, 2008 2008 Convention ScheduleBelow 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 Labels: Alberta, British Columbia, conventions, Edmonton, events, manga, Manitoba, Moncton, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 AcadiemanThe 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. (thanks to Michel Viau) Labels: comics on tv, floppies, Moncton, New Brunswick, publishing, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
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 - - we honor OpenID -
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 - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, January 09, 2006 COMICS IN THE CLASSROOM Pt 2006News 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 Labels: links, New Brunswick - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
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