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The C-List: NLWCC, or Leah McLaren Loves Stig's Inferno?  Canadian comics culture is exploding all over the place!Item: The NLWCC, or "Newfoundland's West Coast Con" wrapped up Sunday in Corner Brook, NFLD. Nothing on youtube from it yet but the organizer and Founder Carson Smith was interviewed on Corner Brook Cafe' October 15th. Item: Leah McLaren suggests you read one of those obscure graphic novels, instead of a book nominated for a literary prize, perhaps unaware that there are now prizes for obscure graphic novels, even in Canada? She's still awesome, regardless. I wonder what her choice would be? Ty Templeton's "Stig's Inferno"? Julie Doucet's "The Madame Paul Affair"? Or maybe something by Carel Moiseiwitsch? [like-link] Maybe Colin Upton's "Big Black Thing"? Or Ho Che Anderson's "Scream Queen"? Item: Dan Clowes' new D&Q book has some success at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Item: The Winnipeg Comic Con is this coming weekend! Item: Mariko Tamaki has a few words about freaks and geeks in Ottawa. Item: Seth in Vancouver. Item: Ramon Perez is touring Europe with some of the Transmission X gang. Item: The relative gayness of Superman. Item: The Speakeasy Comic Book art show, Toronto. Item: New honcho at Penguin Canada. Item: Manga porn arrests in Nova Scotia. Item: Guy Delisle gives more interview. Item: Sean T. Collins profiles Jay Stephens on Morbius the Living Vampire and other Awesome stuff. Labels: C-List, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments -   - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Angora Napkin' Book Signing and Preview  IDW artist / writer Troy Little will be visiting Strange Adventures to sign copies of his new graphic novel "Angora Napkin" and showing previews of the upcoming animated pilot that will be airing on Teletoon this spring!Strange Adventures is also holding a sale that day! Go Green for St. Patrick Day and save 20%!! Links Labels: book launches, events, events links, Halifax, new books, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, November 03, 2008 Halifax: New Comics Capital  News from across the land:
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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 - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday, September 20, 2008 Saturday: Matt Forsythe at Strange Adventures, Halifax  from the D+Q press release: OJINGOGO'S MATT FORSYTHE Labels: events, graphic novels, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, July 28, 2008 Coming Soon: Strip Stories / Wright Awards Gallery Show  Just in time for next week's Doug Wright Awards comes news of this great gallery show of work by a wonderful selection of some of the best comics creators in the country, including panels from Chester Brown's Louis Riel graphic novel (parts of which have been on display previously). Co-curated by Sean Craig, who has been working with the organizers of the Wright Awards over the past year, the show has its opening reception just two days before the actual awards are handed out (August 7 and 9, respectively) at the Katherine Mulherin gallery. See the Facebook page of the event here. The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning and BOARD OF DIRECTORS, a curatorial project at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Arts Projects, are pleased to present an exhibition of original work by some of Canada's most recognized and promising cartoonists. Labels: art show, awards, events, graphic novels, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 2comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, July 25, 2008 QuicklySome quick links to recent news and views from the world of Canadian comics, for your weekend reading:
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Friday, June 20, 2008 Weekend Link-o-Rama5 things about Canadians, comics and graphic novels for your weekend reading: The best thing I saw all week was Kate Beaton's Lynn Johnston parody. Stuart and Kathryn Immonen do an Uderzo/Asterix tribute. A profile of Shuster winning comic shop, Big B. Halifax blogger Rachelle Goguen is profiled about her Living Between Wednesdays blog, devoted to classic Archie and the latest sexist superhero comics. More on why webcomics are awesome, from the Comic Book Bin. Labels: Halifax, links, Lynn Johnston, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Midweek News and Reviews 
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Tonite: Hall of Best Knowledge  WHO: RAY FENWICK WHAT: HALL OF BEST KNOWLEDGE release party & author signing WHERE: EYELEVEL GALLERY, 2063 Gottingen Street, Halifax WHEN: Wednesday, MAY 14, 7PM Labels: book launches, events, Halifax, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, May 12, 2008 Cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon Investigated by Cops, Human Rights Commish  Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, is at the centre of a new controversy being investigated by police and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Tribunal. A MacKinnon cartoon that appeared April 18, depicting Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal, the wife of Qayyum Abdul Jamal, one of the so-called "Toronto 17" --men arrested in 2006 on the grounds that they were members of a terrorist cell-- has been accused by the Halifax-based Centre for Islamic Development, represented by Will King and Zia Khan, of inciting hatred. The cartoon depicts Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal with a a sign declaring "I want millions" --a reference to her reported intent to sue the federal government after charges against her husband were stayed. The cartoon also depicts Jamal as saying "I can put it towards my husband's next training camp" --a reference to the alleged terrorist activities of the Toronto 17. MacKinnon recently won the Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. ---- CanWest cbc Labels: censorship, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, political cartooning, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Free Comic Book Day ReportsThis past Saturday, May 3, was Free Comic Book Day across the U.S. and Canada, an event intended to promote comics through local comic book shops. I largely agree with Kevin Boyd that the event should be an opportunity to reach out to the larger community of people who might not venture into comic shops normally or even read comics. This is a great time for local shops to get some free press coverage and lots of potential new customers. With few exceptions, I don't really see this happening. For the most part, the people who show up for this event usually have found out about it in one of their weekly visits to the shop. No press releases are sent out and no outreach or cross-promotion with other organizations is ventured. When I wandered into my own local comic shop around 5 pm to ask how things went, the teenage clerk painting a role-playing model at the large table that takes up the front window of the empty store informed me that most of the free comics vanished in the first hour of the promotion, around 9am, gesturing to a pile of brochures and 3 copies of the VIZ/Shonen Jump giveaway to indicate all that remained. As far as I could tell, the sole message to the outside world that something unique was happening today was a lone poster in the window, competing with the other posters. The events that I heard of before hand include the signings at the Silver Snail and the Beguiling event at the Toronto Public Library (which began at noon). Here are some reports and pictures: Stuart Immonen Jason Truong reports Chris Butcher reports on the Beguiling event Strange Adventures in Halifax got some press A picture of Elfsar in Vancouver Labels: British Columbia, events, free, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver - 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 -
Monday, April 07, 2008 Monday Morning Blues? Read About Comics!  Links from hither and yon about comics, not necessarily Canadian:
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Quick linksAvril Lavigne is selling another comic, according to this Canadian Press "article". Her website is offering the item for sale and it turns out it is written by U.S. superheroine Gail Simone. Chris Butcher rounds up the links about the upcoming Toronto appearance of cartoonist Michel Rabagliati. Speaking of Chris Butcher, Kevin Boyd does the math and comments on a Butcher's recent rant about the general crappiness of 99% of the 3000+ graphic novels published last year. Nothing is safe from Boyd's curse of "derivative", not even fan faves Scott Pilgrim and Essex County. Speaking of Kevin Boyd, both he and Robin Bougie note the passing (at 53!) of U.S. cartoonist Dave Stevens, who created the Rocketeer in the 1980s. Graphic art and cartoon drawing workshop with Faith Hicks, author of best selling graphic novel, Zombies Calling, takes place 1-3 p.m. at the New Glasgow Library, Nova Scotia. All materials supplied. For children ages 9 to 15. It will be followed by a book reading with Hicks 3:05 - 3:30 p.m . Labels: links, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, February 14, 2008 Valentine's Day: Things to Love and Hate About Comics in Canada 
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Halifax Daily News Closes, Staff Laid OffThe Halifax Daily News has been closed down and replaced by a free daily, according to several sources. All of the paper's staff, including journalists and cartoonists, have been fired. The Daily News was owned by Quebec-based Transcontinental. It's replacement, Metro Halifax, is part of the cross-Canada Metro line and will be produced Metro International S.A. and Torstar Corp. Begun in 1974, The Daily News employed award-winning editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder. According to the Canadian Press article: As journalists left the Halifax Daily News, several said they're worried a free newspaper aimed at commuters will mean a decline in the city's journalism. Labels: Halifax, media monopolies, Nova Scotia, political cartooning, publishing, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 Zombie Comics Go to War
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 more mature comic books
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Comics News Roundup 
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 The Web of Comics: Costume-y Goodness  Tuesday morning quick links:
Please send Sequential your news about cartooning, comics and graphic novels in Canada so we do not have to post links to stories tangentially related to Alpha Flight and pictures of people dressed as superheroes! Labels: book launches, events, graphic novels, Halifax, links, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto, U.S. superhero franchises, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, November 19, 2007 Keeping Track, One Boring News Item at a TimeLooking over the links to news and reviews about people who create sequential cartoon images and/or static caricatures reveals a short list of interest to loyal Sequential readers. Seemingly no-one published the great Canadian graphic novel over the weekend. But then again, nobody ever does. 1. Halifax policart Michael deAdder has a new book of cartoons out, according to this Daily News profile. de Book is published by the Daily News and features 88 pages culled from the artists distinctive brand of daily craft and bile: his finest work, including a depiction of Bert and Ernie heading to Canada for a gay marriage, and Premier Rodney MacDonald living rent-free and playing video games in his parents' house - after getting a substantial raise. 2. Cartoonist Norm Muffit remembers daredevil pilot, Flying Bandit "Willy" Laserich, and a time when crawing a cartoon could jeopardize a plum government job: Northern News Services cartoonist Norm Muffitt, a former RCMP officer, pilot and Transport Canada official, remembers the controversy well. He drew many a cartoon in support of Laserich, which made for an uncomfortable moment when applying for an enforcement job with Transport Canada. 3. Writing for the Vancouver Courier, Shawn Conner reviews a trio of the latest contenders for great Canadian graphic novel status: White Rapids, Southern Cross, and Therefore Repent, by Sequential's own Salgood Sam. (link via BDQ) 4. Pierre-Luc Gagnon reviews two new French-language graphic novels by Leif Tande that had their debut at this past weekend's Salon du livre de Montreal. Great Canadian Graphic Novels (GCGN)? Time, and translation, will tell. Labels: British Columbia, events, graphic novels, Halifax, links, misc, Nova Scotia, political cartooning, Quebec, reviews, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Word on the Street RoundupSome reports from the various Word on the Street events from last week. I spent a fun 2 hours at the Toronto event myself. Brad Mackay and I talked onstage about cartoonists from Canada's past. Later, we watched Chester Brown talk about the series of strips he did for the Live with Culture program. Chester created a zombie romance comic that is currently being serialized in NOW magazine --his first new published work in a while! Chester is very funny and it's too bad that the Live with Culture hierarchy nixed putting his strip on giant banners around the city (the banners they are currently using have generic clip-art style images on them). I also took in the panel on artist/writer collaborations hosted by Chris Butcher. Writers Jim Munroe and Ray Fawkes talked about divvying up the cash and riding herd on artists, while artist Willow Dawson talked about how not to waste a cartoonist's time if you have a pitch to make. This panel was a real eye-opener for me in the sense that there were people (wannabe published writers, mostly) actually taking notes and asking questions about how to meet cartoonists, etc. Butcher is a good host for these sorts of events and kept the ball rolling smoothly. Most of the talks at the Comics and Graphic Novels tent had a fair crowd of between 25 and 50 people. The Beguiling had a book table set up as well as its own tent where artists were doing signings, as did several comics publishers. 1. The Transmission X gang in Halifax. 2. Some great photos. 3. Chip Zdarsky's credentials story. 4. Bad vibes. 5. The Boytoons gang in Vancouver. 5. Jason Turner at Word Under the Street. 6. Colin Upton's report. Labels: British Columbia, events, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, September 28, 2007 This Weekend: Word on the StreetThis Sunday, September 30th, at the Word on the Street literary festival, a sort of mini comics festival is taking place. Last weekend, the Halifax event hosted J. Torres, Mike Lobel, Scott Chantler, Darwyn Cooke & Steven McNiven. This week, both Vancouver and Toronto host comics-themed events. 1. In Vancouver, the Word Under the Street event is a zine and comics fair. The show has been relocated to the front of the Canada Post Main Post Office building, at the corner of Homer and Georgia Streets, across the street from Library Square. 2. In Toronto, The Comics and Graphic Novels Tent features appearances by Chris Butcher, Peter Birkemoe, Chip Zdarsky, Kagan McLeod, Mark Asquith, Eric Kim, Svetlana Chmakova, Noel Tuazon, Jim Munroe, Chester Brown, Ray Fawkes, Willow Dawson, Csott Chantler, Jeff Lemire, Zach Worton, Ty Templeton, Jim Zubkavich, Ryan North, John Martz, and Nadine Lessio. Also on the agenda, the Brad and Bryan Show, wherein "comics historians" Brad MacKay and Bryan Munn (ahem) offer up 30 minutes of Canadian Comics History in a chatty, informal session, hopefully abetted by some pretty pictures. The event takes place at Queens Park. Labels: British Columbia, events, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, September 24, 2007 Peter Whalley, 1926-2007  Peter Whalley, cartoonist, sculptor, Giant of the North. One of only two or three important postwar Canadian magazine cartoonists, Whalley died Tuesday, September 18. ---- From the Montreal Gazette:
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Halifax News: Jam and Thieves 1. There is now a Halifax Comic Jam --they've already had a few meetings and published a zine: HALIFAX COMICS JAM. Artists of all styles and skill levels creating collaborative comix (somebody draws the 2. Mark Oakley, the cartoonist behind the Thieves and Kings graphic novel series, has set up his I Box publishing shop in an old building in Halifax. Labels: comic jams, events, graphic novels, Halifax, Nova Scotia, publishing - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, May 31, 2007 Ben Wicks Art to be ReturnedWicks Trial Verdict In what the Toronto Star is calling a legal precedent for the protection of artists' works, Superior Court Judge Thomas Lederer ruled yesterday that Richard Harnett is not the legal owner of over 2800 cartoons left behind by the son of cartoonist Ben Wicks. As Sequential reported almost two weeks ago, the long-simmering case that the Wicks estate launched against Harnett several years ago when the existence of the cartoon hoard became known finally reached Superior Court in Toronto. After a week of testimony, the judge retired to write up his 11-page report, framing a verdict that seems in retrospect inevitable. In his judgement he has ordered that the artwork in Harnett's possession, found in several garbage bags when Wicks' son Vincent Wicks moved from Toronto to B.C. in 1992, be returned to the Wicks family and that $450 Harnett made selling two of the drawings also be remitted. ---- (The Halifax Chronicle-Herald has the CP version of the verdict) Labels: copyright, creator's rights, Halifax, legal news, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, May 14, 2007 Michael de Adder Wins Atlantic Journalism Award  The 26th annual Atlantic Journalism Awards were held Saturday night in Halifax and Michael de Adder won in the category Editorial Cartoonist. De Adder is the policart for the Halifax Daily News and is the president of the Canadian Association of Editorial Cartoonists. He has won two previous Atlantic Journalism Awards. The award was based on a portfolio of deAdder's work submitted to the jury. (that's de Adder on far right in photo) Atlantic Journalism Awards home Labels: awards, events, Halifax, Nova Scotia, political cartooning - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 Free Comic Book Day ReportsFree Comic Book Day took place last Saturday. I was at the Clothing Show so I missed out on the festivities (I was also away from my computing machine and missed the reminder about the Paradise Comics event from Kevin Boyd --sorry Kevin). FCBD is like a big world-wide comic book convention. The Clothing Show is sort of like a comic book convention, except with lots of fashion-obsessed women instead of cosplayers and comic book fans. I only spotted a few young women in Supergirl & Wonder Women t-shirts, one joker in a West Coast Avengers tee, the now ubiquitous "I Love You! I Know!" gay Batman and Robin image, and this leather masterpiece from the kids at MonsterMuffin:  As for the rest of Canada, Free Comic Book Day went something like this: -Michael Cho blogs his day at the Beguiling, including his super-awesome page from the Comics Festival comic -Jason Truong manages to hit almost every major signing in Toronto -John Gallant hits a few stores in Vancouver -this fan of My Chemical Romance talks about how a comic book written by a rock star can pack in the crowds in Montreal -Rachelle Goguen writes a funny report (with photos!) of the signing at Strange Adventures in Halifax with Andy Runton, Darwyn Cooke, et al -a report about the Happy Harbour event in Edmonton contains a collage of Buddhist comic book characters Please send us your own comments, links, and blog posts about FCBD 2007! Labels: British Columbia, comics retailers, comicshoptalk, Edmonton, events, Halifax, links, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 Atlantic Journalism Awards NomineesAwards mania, pt II: The Atlantic Journalism Awards has announced its 2006 finalists. The awards will be handed out at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel on Saturday, May 12. Finalists receive a framed Certificate of Excellence in Journalism. One of the 3 finalists in each category receives the "Gold Award". Editorial Cartooning Finalists - Michael de Adder - The Daily News, Halifax, NS - Bruce MacKinnon - The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, NS - Greg Perry - Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, NB Labels: awards, Halifax, Nova Scotia, political cartooning - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Comic Shoppe Talk: The Dragon  The Q & A with Halifax comic shop owner Calum Johnston went so well I'm going to try to make it a regular feature. This time around the profiled shop is a little closer to home: The Dragon in Guelph serves a city of 100 000, including 10 000 or so university students. Dragon manager Amy Restemayer was kind enough to answer the short list of questions emailed to her. Q. What is the general age/gender breakdown of your customers? The general age for graphic novel and manga customers ranges between about 15 and 30, with the odd older collector getting into newer series via trades. Graphic novels and trades are higher sellers for males and manga is mostly females. Q. What do you sell more of by volume, graphic novels (including trades and manga) or monthly comic books? A. By volume we sell more monthly comic books than graphic novels and manga combined. Q. What do do you sell more of by dollar value? A. Also comics, the sales of single issues outweigh all other print material in our store. Q. What are your top 10 bestselling books? A. Top ten books would be Inu Yasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fables, Ultimate Spiderman, Fruits Basket, Naruto, Bleach, Walking Dead, Angel Sanctuary and Berserk. Q. What are your bestselling non-manga graphic novels? A. Top ten non-manga titles are Fables, Ultimate Spiderman, Walking Dead, Y the Last Man, Sandman, Preacher, Runaways, Kingdom Come, Watchmen and Sin City. Q. What are your bestselling non-superhero graphic novels? A. You will notice the theme here, Fables, Walking Dead, Y the Last Man, Sandman, Preacher, 300, Sin City and V for Vendetta would be the top sellers (yes, I consider V a non-superhero book, though other may argue that). The other two top spots would be a mix of titles such as Goon, Conan, Bone, Blankets and Strangers in Paradise. Q. What percent of your manga sales are driven by "TheYTV effect" and other media (anime, movies, toys, etc)? A. It's hard to say just how much of the manga industry is fuelled by other media. Though they are still heavily editing the shows broadcast in North America they are not as strict with the manga translations and therefore we get a lot of crossover for titles such as Inu Yasha, Fullmetal Alchemist and Bleach, which are airing on YTV, because fans want to know the whole story. The manga story is also usually different from the anime, depending on the control of the original creator. I would estimate that something close to 80% of readers were introduced to manga through other media, whether going from an anime to the manga it was based on directly or from an anime to a similarly themed manga. Q. What do you see as the major trends in graphic novels and comics retailing over the next year? The next 5 years? A. Over the next year I think that the trends of the new comic book based movies will cause those properties to skyrocket. We've already seen it with 300 and the movie is only being released this month. My hope is that over the next five years Vertigo will continue to lead our sales due to the speed at which they release their trades and the low costs of each volume. Q. Any upcoming events/signings? A. We are hoping to make our November signing a yearly occurrence, but we don't have any firm plans as of yet. The Dragon 3 Wyndham Street North Guelph, Ontario (top photo: cartoonists Jay Stephens & Cameron Stewart @ The Dragon, 2005) Labels: comics retailers, comicshoptalk, Halifax, interviews, Nova Scotia, Ontario, shop profiles - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, March 01, 2007 Strange Adventures Celebrates 15 Years  Halifax Comic Shop an Institution by Bryan Munn The Halifax comic book store Strange Adventures is celebrating its 15th year of continuous operation on Friday, March 2nd. Founded in 1992 by Calum Johnston, the business has since expanded to a second location and become the center of a thriving East Coast comix culture that includes cartoonists like Darwyn Cooke and Hope Larson. In honour of this landmark anniversary, Sequential lobbed a few questions to owner Calum Johnston via email and began by asking about the store's beginnings. Johnston started Strange Adventures with his own "large comic collection on March 2nd 1992 in a small second floor location in Fredericton, NB. It's moved a couple of time to larger spots, now located on [the] ground floor in beautiful downtown Fredericton. Opened second location in Halifax, NS on April 1st, 1995. Why? I love comics and sharing the joy of comics is a wonderful feeling. That I can make an okay living and employ some nice folks is an additional blessing." Johnston describes his staff as follows: "In the Fredericton shop, we have long-suffering mangler Derek who started out with me in 1992 filling in one or two days a week and in 1994 was asked if he could do 2 weeks of full-time while Calum went to Halifax for a contract design job. Thirteen years later, Derek's still filling in for Calum at the Fredericton shop while Calum opened the Halifax location. Derek is ably assisted by artist, musician and raconteur, Jason." In Halifax, Dave (our resident Supersnipe cartoonist) is the manager and the staff is made up of Mike (voted Halifax's best salesperson two years in a row by a weekly newspaper reader's poll), Tiina [yes, (Mrs. Grant Morrison and the bassist in The Stolen Minks), Ben (gonzo cartoonist), Cassandra (the fairy pirate girl), Jaime (Vitamin J), Addison (our kids comics advisor and daughter of the boss) and Rachelle (Mrs. Batman and keyboards in The Stolen Minks)." For Johnston, some of the best memories of the past 15 years center on the experience of his customers and their growth as comics readers. He has seen some of his customers "go from Spawn to Grendel to Mage to Morrison and Moore and Eisner, as well as going from elementary school, to high school, university, jobs, marriage, kids and now getting their kids hooked on comics!" In addition, the store has been a rich source of family memories, including the time when Johnston's wife Sandy came into the Halifax shop to tell him she was pregnant. In fact, Jonston can't think of any negative experiences relating to his business: "I always make lemonade out of lemons, so I don't have any really bad memories." Over the years, Johnston's customers have been treated to the occasional sight of well-known visiting personalities, cartoonists, musicians, and actors. "We've been lucky enough to have several "celebrity" sightings in the shops over the years: Billy Bragg, Linda Hamilton, Corbin Bernsen, Snow, Tom Selleck, Rick Mercer, Cathy Jones, Dean Cain, Gilbert Gottfried, Sarah Dunsworth, Colin Mochrie. We've played host to numerous signings, including Seth, Chester Brown, Mark Oakley, Stuart Immonen, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Darwyn Cooke, Steve McNiven, David Finch, J. Bone, J. Torres, Steve Rolston, Scott McCloud and Mike Holmes." In terms of store demographics, Strange Adventures attracts an interesting mix of customers: "all ages, and all genders, customers from 4 to 94 and roughly 60% male, 35% female, 5% other." This crowd has equally wide-ranging shopping habits reflective of current trends in the comics marketplace. In reference to Milton Griepp's recent report about North American graphic novel sales, Johnston is leery of indulging in graphic novel triumphalism. "Remember that the ICv2 folks, like everyone, have their own agenda and read it with that in mind," he writes. Johnston further notes, "I hate the term graphic novel, they are comic books. Comics are published in various forms. Some are periodicals, such as the serialized adventures of Superman; and others are published in book form, such as Pride of Baghdad; and some are collected editions of the peiodicals, such as Batman: Year One. In sales terms, it's just about the same, periodicals are bigger one month, then the next it's books." It is this open-minded policy that may be the secret to Johnston's success. And he is pragmatically optimistic about the future: "More comics in more outlets, hopefully good comics in good outlets so we don't get another artificial "boom" like the early 90s." (Strange Adventures in Fredericton is celebrating the anniversary with a 2-day 25%-off sale this Friday and Saturday and the Halifax store is planning a big event for this summer.) Strange Adventures 5262 Sackville St., Halifax NS & 68 York St., Fredericton NB www.strangeadventures.com  (Calum Johnston enjoying the perks of comics-store ownership: the comic book featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man, found at a local auction) Labels: comics retailers, comicshoptalk, events, Halifax, Nova Scotia, shop profiles - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 2comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Cartoon Controversy Prof to Debate White SupremacistThe Saint Mary's University professor who posted the controversial Mohammed cartoons on his office door last year has entered the intellectual freedom arena once again with a promise to debate a U.S. white supremacist. Philosophy prof Peter March stirred up controversy on his Halifax campus when he posted copies of the 12 Danish cartoons last February in order to engage public discussion, part of his job as a philosopher. This time around, March is facing off against white supremacist Jared Taylor who was banned from speaking at Dalhousie University and had an encounter with protesters on January 16 of this year. According to the Halifax Chronicle Herald, the debate, a sort of Suzuki vs Rushton II, will take place March 6. Labels: events, Halifax, Nova Scotia, political cartooning, real world - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Scott Pilgrim @ the LibraryPopular Halifax-based cartoonist and Wright Award-winner makes a special trip back to Toronto for an appearance sponsored by the Toronto Public Library. There is also a live online chat with O'Malley today: Sit down with critically-acclaimed graphic novel creator Bryan Lee O'Malley, the man behind the witty and hilarious Scott Pilgrim series. This bestselling series will soon be transformed into a big-screen movie by the team behind the fan-favourite zombie flick Shaun of the Dead. So come out and discover why Entertainment Weekly selected Scott Pilgrim as the Independent Comic of the Year (2006). Labels: events, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, February 01, 2007 Richard Comely ProfileThe Guelph Mercury profiles Richard Comely, one of the creators of Captain Canuck. Comely is teaching a comics course in Brantford and hyping the latest incarnation of his patriotic superhero, a new comic book series begun last Fall, and has some funny things to say:
On a related note, Halifax fan-historian Phil Latter has just posted an exhaustive critical history of the character --Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Captain Canuck But Were Afraid to Ask. Labels: comics history, Halifax, Nova Scotia, people, profiles - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Claude St. AubinHalifax fan and comics historian Phil Latter interviews Canadian cartoonist Claude St. Aubin at Silver Bullet Comics. St. Aubin has been contributing to U.S. mainstream superhero and adventure books for years (and is winding up a run on Penny Farthing Press' The Victorian), but long-time fans may remember his contributions, as Jean-Claude St. Aubin, to the 1970s incarnation of Captain Canuck. Back then, St. Aubin inked George Freeman's pencils and pencilled and inked "Beyond", the lushly-illustrated, well-remembered, early sword-and-sorcery back-up strip in Captain Canuck. A career-spanning interview, of sorts. Labels: comics history, Halifax, interviews, Nova Scotia, people - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, January 29, 2007 Links1. New blog for Butcher: so what if he seems to talk more about Japanese comics than Canadian --the revamped comics212.net promises to continue with sharp retailer insights and detailed reviews from the longtime Beguiling staffer Chris Butcher 2. Joe Matt: he's not Canadian but alot of his comics output has been set in Toronto. That's why this review of Matt's Spentat BlogTO is interesting. 3. Deal with IT! The Halifax Chronicle-Herald profiles a series of books for kids that contain work by Canadian cartoonists. Labels: blogosphere, Halifax, links, misc, Nova Scotia, Ontario, reviews, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, January 26, 2007 Weekend Reading  Links from hither and yon: -Newlywed Game: cute kid interviews Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O'Malley in Halifax attic -Stuart Immonen finds a letter from Mort Weisinger in a Jules Feiffer book -Dave Sim announces the nominees for the 2006 Day Prize, an award given to U.S. minicomics creators by Dave Sim in honour of his friend Gene Day (1951-82), a Canadian cartoonist who worked mostly for U.S. superhero comics companies but was also an underground and fanzine pioneer. No word yet on the role Sim's former partner Gerhard, who used to help pick and present the award, has in this year's nomination process. The winner will be announced at the annual SPACE Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo happening April 21-22 in Columbus, Ohio. -Darwyn Cooke interviewed about his take on Wil Eisner's The Spirit -Chris Butcher posts his schedule for the coming year, including hints about TCAF, a Bryan Lee O'Malley reading in T.O. and the second issue of the anthology/free comic book day giveaway, Comics Festival. -Chip Zdarsky's digitized penis invitation to a New York party Labels: Halifax, links, misc, news, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 House of Sugar: comic strips by Rebecca KraatzThe inaugural publication from Hope Larson's new imprint, Tulip Tree Press, is now available for purchase online. The book is House of Sugar by Halifax cartoonist Rebecca Kraatz. We here at Sequential haven't seen a copy yet, but the book is being solicited in the December Previews and should be in comic book stores by February. Meanwhile, a few reviews are out. Labels: Halifax, new books, news, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 Hither and Thither  Some reports and photos from the blogosphere: -Colin Upton has some photos and comments about the Word Under the Street event from 2 weekends ago. He talks about his display here, his new career path here, and blogs his week and the Word event here. -Eric Reynolds blogs his tour of Vancouver and Word On the Street with Joe Sacco at the Fantagraphics blog. Peggy Burns posts some photos of the Halifax Word event on the D&Q blog. -Jog the Blog reviews the Dave Sim fanzine Following Cerebus #9 --basically a 97-page essay by Sim about his conversation with U.S. cartoonist Neal Adams. -Jamie Coville (remember to spell his name right!) finally gets around to posting his report from last month's Toronto Fan Expo. It sounds like there was a lot of time spent standing in line, especially if you wanted something signed by a U.S. superhero artist or to listen to William Shatner. Lots of photos and video, especially of cosplayers dancing.(via Tom Spurgeon) -Not a blog, but Francis Hervieux posts a report of the latest Montreal Comix Jam featuring a surprise visit from Argentine cartoonist Carlos Loiseau. As well, there is a photo report of the Djef signing to promote the Tokyo Ghost album and a photo report of the cartoonist roundtable sponsored by the bookstore Le Fureteur. All at the BDQ forums. Labels: British Columbia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, October 02, 2006 Graphic Novel? Wuzzat?Halifax journalist Deborah Wiles manages to write an entire article about graphic novels without mentioning a specific title or cartoonist, despite the fact that several quite well-known graphic novel creators live in her town and many more were in town a week ago for Word on the Street. File under "Biff Bam Pow! Comics Aren't Just for etc." The ChronicleHerald.ca Labels: Halifax, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Word On The Street WrapWord On The Street 2006 was this past weekend and there were several appearances and events involving cartoonists in Vancouver, Toronto, and Halifax. A few reports: -Maktaaq at Metroblog blogs Joe Sacco and Word Under the Street. -The dad of a comics fan blogs about his daughter's encounter with Runaways artist Adrian Alphona. -Shawn shares some superhero sketches from WOTS Halifax. -The Halifax Chronicle Herald mentions our cartooning friends briefly. -The festival drew 200,000 people in Toronto, according to one sceptical blogger. -More general, non-comics photos here. Any more? Labels: British Columbia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, September 22, 2006 House of Sugar UpdateThanks to The Beat, an update on fledgling publisher Hope Larson's struggle to get Diamond Distributors to carry her first book, Rebecca Kraatz's House of Sugar. Diamond had initially refused to carry the book because of it's "unprofessionalism" --a position the distributor explained in a crappy form letter filled with hilarious typos and non sequitors. Apparently, after the publicity and maybe some intervention from helpful net types (?), Diamond has reversed it's decision and the book will be carried after all. And don't forget, you can meet both Larson and Kraatz at the Word on the Street event in Halifax this Sunday. Labels: Halifax, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, September 21, 2006 Word Under the StreetAnother comics event in Vancouver --part of the national Word on the Street literary festival (kind of funny that this event in Vancouver is all "alternative" and underground but has a prominent place on the main program's website). (Sequential mentioned the Halifax version of this yesterday and Chris Butcher has more details.) Lots of punk rockers (like Nardwuar), scenesters, and zinesters but also lots of cartoonists. Look for a full cohort of the West Coast's inky-fingered fraternity, including Colin Upton. Joe Sacco (at least his publisher is Canadian) also makes an appearance. Sunday, Sept 24. THE WORD UNDER THE STREET Presented by Min[t] Records Labels: British Columbia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Rabagliati and other news  Apparently, Michel Rabagliati's newest French-language graphic novel Paul a la Peche (Paul Goes Fishing) has its proper release today. According to his publisher La Pasteque's website, the book was extensively reviewed by major Montreal media this past weekend. An interview and review from La Presse, an interview with CBC radio, and others are available online. (thanks to Google translation) In Other News  The awesome new Marc Bell-edited Nog A Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedooolia from Conundrum Press has its official launch in Toronto this Sunday, September 24th at the Gladstone Hotel. Bell and contributors Amy Lockhart and S.P. Ehman will be on hand for the festivities. As well -Two comics-related perspectives on the Dawson College shooting in Montreal last week. First, editorial cartoonist and Dawson College teacher Stan Roach describes his experience of the event for his paper. Second, Comic Book Bin's Herve St.Louis discusses the political issues that are emerging in the wake of the shooting. -The Beat reports that the Toronto Fan-Expo had a crowd of 42000 a few weeks ago, a 21% increase in attendance over last year, according to the show promoters. -Guelph cartoonist Seth launched his new strip in the New York Times this past Sunday. The first installment can be seen here. An excellent Marc Ngui-Seth interview from Carousel magazine has also just been made available online (the same issue has an excellent Ngui strip) and Seth (recently nominated for an Ignatz for Wimbledon Green) will be appearing in Halifax at the Word on the Street Festival this weekend. -Speaking of the Halifax Word on the Street Festival, this year there is a huge Graphic Novel component to the fest, including a "How to Draw Comics" workshop. Guests include: J. Bone, Scott Chantler, Michael Cho, Darwyn Cooke, Eric Kim, Rebecca Kraatz, Hope Larson, Steve Manale, Steve McNiven, Ryan North, Mark Oakley, Bryan Lee O'Malley and Seth. -Lastly, Chris Butcher has more on the art of Canadian cartooning Giant George Feyer. Labels: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
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