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TCAF Goes Annual!In an email wrap-up, Toronto Comic Art Festival director and co-founder Chris Butcher has confirmed the rumors and announced that the festival will now be an annual event! The next TCAF is less than a year away now, scheduled for early May 2010 in the same location as the 2009 show! Quote:beguiling.com "That's right, the next Toronto Comic Arts Festival will be held Saturday May 8th and Sunday May 9th, 2010, at the Toronto Reference Library. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST. And yes, we know that's Mother's Day. All of the cool moms read comics. Labels: events, festivals, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments -   - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, May 28, 2009 Seth at TCAF from flickr by "the doodlers"An apropriately pondering moment with the man from Inkwell's End. Thought i'd share this, nice catch by Scriptwriter/Director (John) and Storyboard Artist/Director (Arna), of DancingMonkeys.com They have a lot of photos from the festival they've been posting on in their stream for the last few days. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, May 18, 2009 More TCAF audio | the "Post-Kirby" panel on Inkstuds  Dustin Harbin mentioned this in one of his event reports, now we can listen for ourselves..."The idea that Frank and I had going into this, is to look at comics in the context of a literary tradition and to create an understanding of how comics of a continuum of influences." - Robin McConnell Labels: events, festivals, Ontario, panels, pod casts, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Sunday, May 17, 2009 The C-List: TCAF Link Round-Up, Part 4Wow, that's a lot of links! I think this should be it for the link round-ups, unless something amazing emerges. Click the "TCAF" tag at the bottom of this post or see the "Previous Posts" sidebar to get the rest of the links. NOW magazine covers the Tatsumi/Tomine/Seth event Sean Rogers reviews 2 TCAF books: Kate Beaton's Never Learn Anything from History and Anya Davidson's Consciousness 3. J.Bone vs Kensington Market: which is more interesting? Fixed: Jason Truong TCAF gets a mention in the National Post podcast U.S. cartoonist Jeffrey Rowland documents TCAF using his webcomic Overcompensating Pigskin Peters award winner Matthew Forsythe on the festival and the Wright Awards D+Q publicist Peggy Burns has a flickr set of 128 photos Brian Evinou blogs his experience Deb Aoki interviews Tatsumi Seth puts Ryan Sand to sleep but he wakes up for Tatsumi Festival organizer and tower of strength Chris Butcher has a short recap Corrected: Jan Op De Beeck does not make the trek from New York with ex-pat Rina Piccolo Cartoonist Dustin Harbin has two great full reports. One Two --including the inside scoop on the controversial "Post-Kirby" panel Jeff Lemire has a sneak peak at his next project: Sweet Tooth Jillian Tamaki blogs twice One Two Matt Kindt (Superspy) Milo says: "every nerd that went to TCAF has a blog" Tom Kaczynski has a succinct summary The amazing Michael Cho's Spider-Man! Mariko Tamaki has candid photos and a link to the UK edition of Skim Picturebox publisher Dan Nadel has photos proving that Jeet Heer and Bill Kartalopoulos were separated at birth, and dubs Francois Ayroles' Key Moments from the History of Comics (published by The Beguiling) his "favorite work of general comics history in years" The Tara McPherson show at Magic Pony TCAF panorama Tom K's photos Wright Awards official photos The TCAF Vepo Studio video doc that everyone has already seen thanks to boing boing the wonderful and very funny Best Book nominee video from the Wright Awards ceremony (I can be objective about this link since I had nothing to do with the video besides helping to nominate the books) Labels: awards, C-List, events, graphic novels, international, links, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 3comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, May 14, 2009 TCAF panels | Jamie Coville's MP3'sThanks to Jamie Coville the following recordings from this years Toronto Comic Arts Festival are now available Here. Scanned them and the sound very compressed, mess with your levels a bit and it's fine, very clear. The Secret History of Manga in North America! (46mb, 50:20) [mp3] Jason Thompson a long time editor, writer, historian of various Manga related books takes us through Manga's journey in the North American market. He goes through the magazines, comic books, publishers, people and events that have shaped the industry. The panel is both educational and funny as Jason tells some behind the scenes anecdotes that have happened over the years. International Perspectives on Manga (46.7mb, 51:01) [mp3] Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim), Becky Cloonan (East Coast Rising, Demo) Eric Ko (UDON), Antoine Dode (Armelle et Mon Oncle) and Jason Thompson (Manga: the Complete Guide) talk about their experiences with Manga. The panel is hosted by About.com Manga guide (and cartoonist) Deb Aoki. [who also took a lot of great photos!] Scott McCloud Panel. (69.4mb, 75:51) [mp3] Scott McCloud talks about comics, comics, comics and does so very enthusiastically. The panel is hosted by Mark Askwith. The audience also asks questions as well. Note: Scott occasionally uses foul language, but very politely. Craig Yoe and Secret Identity: the Fetish Drawings of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster. (35.7mb, 39:03) [mp3] Craig Yoe talks about his new controversial book about a previously unknown period in Joe Shusters life where he began drawing dirty comics. The characters bare a very close resemblance to Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and others. Yoe also talks about Frederic Wertham's involvement in the situation and reveals some information regarding correspondence between himself and Shuster's sister. The panel is hosted by Douglas Wolk. 5th Annual Doug Wright Awards. (116mb, 127:38) [mp3] The awards this year were hosted by Actor, Writer and Director Don McKellar. Also seen cruising the awards and geeking out a little bit it looked like. Among the presenters are Stuart McLean, Andrew Coyne, Jeet Heer, Adrian Tomine and a video from Bob Rae [member of this years awards jury]. The ceremony was as follows:  Burlington City Councilor announces the new Doug Wright Drive.Pigskin Peters Hat/Award: Matt Forsythe for Ojingogo. Best Emerging Talent: Kate Beaton for History Comics. A talk between Brad Mackay, Seth and Chris Oliveros about the new Doug Wright Collection. A surprise award to Chris Oliveros for 20 year anniversary of Drawn and Quarterly. A surprise gift from the Doug Wright Family to Seth, Brad Mackay and Chris Oliveros for their work on the Doug Wright Collection. Giants of the North, Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Frise. Best Book: Jillian & Mariko Tamaki for Skim. Will Libraries Save Graphic Novels? (50.6mb, 55:21) [mp3] Lisa Heggum (Librarian, Toronto Public Library), Diana Malizewski (Teacher, Toronto District School Board), Scott Robins (Blogger Book Comics for Kids/SLJ), Kent Allin (Teacher, Hastings and Price Edward District School Board), Jim Ottavini (Comic Writer, Editor and Publisher of G.T.Labs) & Douglas Davey (Librarian, Halton Hills Public Library) talk about Graphic Novels in libraries and schools. The panel is hosted by Jason Azzopardi, the Beguiling's Library Services Coordinator. Comics, Newspapers and the Internet. (68.6, 75:00) [mp3] Rich Stevens (Diesel Sweeties), Brendan Buford (Comics Editor for King Features Syndicate), John Martz (Chair of the Canadian Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society and co-creator of Drawn.ca), Stuart Immonen (Artist Ultimate Spider-Man, and webcomic artist) & Scott McCloud (cartoonist, Understanding Comics series, Zot) talk about the webcomics, newspaper print comics, and the Internet. Hosted by the very funny Chip Zdarsky/Steve Murray (cartoonist for National Post and Prison Funnies). Note: Scott McCloud occasionally swears! :) Co: Jamie Coville http://www.TheGraphicNovels.com http://www.CollectorTimes.com Labels: awards, events, festivals, Ontario, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 The C-List: TCAF Link Round-Up, Part 3  More incredible links about the incredible Toronto Comic Art Festival: More photos from Dr. Squid, Day 2 JM Douville reports Ryan's Disneyland Autograph sketchbook Transmission X's Eric Vedder Ty Buttars says TCAF 2009 should be called "the Tatsumi show" TCAF guest and manga blogger Deb Aoki has a full report and photo gallery TCAF pics Patrick Kyle of the Wowee Zonk collective on their booklaunch and TCAF show Webcomicer and TCAF volunteer misidentifies Bryan Lee O'Malley Kate Beaton was driven towards motherhood at TCAF, apparently Kevin Boyd of the Shuster Awards blogs his impressions (that's the Dave Sim print the Shuster folks were selling at the show up top) Photos from the Tugboat Press gang The Doodlers photostream, including the james Turner Rex Libris action figure Labels: blogosphere, C-List, comics in libraries, events, graphic novels, links, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, May 11, 2009 The C-List: TCAF Link Round-Up, Part 2  More links from this past weekend's big event, The Toronto Comic Art Festival: Doug Wright juror and Globe and Mail books editor Martin Levin blogs about the awards Ron Nurwisah blogs TCAF for the National Post Torontoist has photos BlogTO Re-Love report Chris Pitzer from AdHouse books has a long post (that's his photo up top) Scott McCloud's post-TCAF notes: what the master learned and who he met A very strange report that reads like it has been translated twice by a computer Vince Chui sums up his experiences Owl Magazine's Wendy Ding drew pictures for kids TCAF volunteer Dave Merrill blogs the fest Brian Evinou photos Tyler2009's flickr stream Cartoonist Jonathan Mahood looks back over the weekend Tatsumi video1 Tatsumi video2 Tatsumi video3 Labels: awards, C-List, comics in libraries, events, graphic novels, links, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Sunday, May 10, 2009 The C-List: TCAF Blogosphere Wrap-Up 1  A summary of links about the recently-completed Toronto Comic Art Festival: Sequential magazine contributor Jamie Coville has 106 great photos of TCAF! Matthew Rooney on TCAF Day 1 Peggy Burns blogs TCAF Jeet Heer reviews Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles for the Literary Review of Canada CBC Arts reporter Jessica Wong on the Wright Awards Behind the scenes with a TCAF volunteer Cartoonist Evan Munday on the books he got Screenwriter Oliver Brackenbury blogs about Paul Pope (that's his photo up top) Jimmy Aquino's day via Twitter feed Kate Beaton blogs about Day 1 and her Wright Award win Got Poetry covers the Tatsumi/Tomine/Seth event Friday "Dr. Squid" has some nice photos --it looks like almost everyone who was at the festival ended up photographed here (albeit with no identification or description) --check out the flickr stream Here's an excellent flickr stream with excellent notes by Gil Roth! The 2009 Wright Awards jury, minus Bob Rae (he was a no show at the ceremony too, but the video he sent instead was awkwardly hilarious) Day 1 report and photos TCAF from a webcomics fan's perspective: "the internet live" Paul Pope was there Shannon Gerard in Now Weekly A great collection of sketches! Peter Kenter writes about Doug Wright's love of cars for the National Post youtube video 1 --crowd walking youtube video 2 --birdseye view of TCAF Labels: awards, C-List, comics in libraries, conventions, events, graphic novels, links, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Saturday, May 09, 2009 The C-List: TCAF EditionSequential's regular list of links relating to comics in Canada. This time out, a very TCAF-heavy post in honour of the Festival currently running in Toronto. I know this seems kind of Toronto-centric, but keep in mind the festival is full of people and publishers (New Reliable, Conundrum) from other provinces and from around the world. Plus, there are a ton of non-artists attending the festival, including Deb Aoki, Bart Beaty, Jeet Heer, Dan Nadel, Douglas Wolk, and Bill Kartalopoulos. For a full list of events, go to TCAF Programming. Item: At the same time as the regular festival signings and artist/publisher tables, there is an academic conference going on at TCAF, taking place in a series of rooms in the Reference Library ("Another New Narrative"). Organized by U of T's Andrew Lesk, the schedule was unavailable at press time. Item: One of the few emails Sequential received from individual artists appearing at the festival was from Miriam Libicki. Sunday afternoon from 4:30-5:00, in learning centre 2 at the Reference Library: "Miriam Libicki brings her innovative comics reading/slideshow to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival! Join the acclaimed autobiographical cartoonist as she dramatically reads from her Israeli Army memoirs, as well as her provocative drawn essays Towards a Hot Jew, Ceasefire, and Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy! In between, Miriam will discuss her influences, what led her to choose comics as a format, why she started the jobnik! series, her self-publishing experience and how her work has been received thus far (in Israel and elsewhere)." Item: May is Ontario Graphic Novel Month, according to Whazamo, a website run by Open Book Toronto and the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario. The site features video and features about Ontario comics and Owl Magazine's C-Ton is the cartoonist in residence. Item: Chris Butcher, TCAF director and Beguiling spokesperson, is interviewed at Comic News Insider about the festival. Item: It's worth noting that, at the same time the Wright Awards are happening at the AGO (7 PM Saturday), there is an event called "Comics Are Totally Gay" at Fire On The East Side Bar & Restaurant, 6 Gloucester Street, 4 blocks south of Toronto Reference Library. Item: Speaking of which, don't forget the Wright Awards, Saturday at 7pm at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Item: And speaking of speaking of, don't forget to pick up a copy of the print edition of Sequential while at TCAF. Item: Bart Beaty previews the major European talents who will be at TCAF. Beaty will be talking about Eurocomics and interviewing several artists all weekend. Item: Those National Post profiles of TCAF guests just keep on coming. Item: More than anything, this edition of TCAF is really a celebration of Drawn and Quarterly's 20th Anniversary. They have a big slate of beautifully impressive major books out for Spring, and the festival programming is chock-a-block of D+Q artists. The Globe and Mail's Kenton Smith does a good job of summing up the history and impact of D+Q over the last 20 years, with a few choice interviews. Item: Speaking of D+Q, comics historian John Adcock reviews the Collected Doug Wright. Item: Comic critic superstar Paul Gravett reviews Seth's George Sprott graphic novel, as does Rob Clough. Item: And the Globe's James Adams profiles the man himself. There is also some Seth video. Item: I've seen Jordyn Bochon's "The Day After V-Day" in print form but now you can read it online. It's quite pretty and even funny. Item: Miriam Libicki tries to get at the heart of what makes a Mary Sue character. Item: The Shuster Awards are having some signings at their booth at TCAF and Dave Sim has done a print for them. Kevin Boyd profiles Kelly Tindall here. And that's that. Have a good weekend! Labels: C-List, links, Ontario, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday, May 08, 2009 Sequential Pulp in the pixels
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This Weekend: TCAF  The 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival Saturday and Sunday at the Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge St., Toronto Free Admission Come visit with hundreds of cartoonists, writers, and comic book artists as they show their comics, sell comics, and talk about comics! The show also features the debut of our new magazine, Sequential print edition. Come get a free copy! As well, the 2009 Doug Wright Awards will be handed out Saturday night across town at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) at 7pm. Admission is free. Come see who will win the trophies for best graphic novel and best young artist. As well, come see who wins the weirdest trophy in comics, a derby hat named for Canadian comic strip character Pigskin Peters and awarded to the best experimental or avant-garde comic. The event also features the launch of the new book, The Collected Doug Wright. Labels: awards, comics in libraries, conventions, events, graphic novels, Ontario, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tonite: Graphic Novels Exhibit Opening, Toronto  Graphic Novels: The Creation of Art and Narrative. Gallery Showing at Harbourfront Centre Friday May 8th - Sunday June 21st. Opening Reception Friday May 8th, 6pm-10pm York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West FREE Featuring: Canada: Jeff Lemire, Kagan McLeod, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki, Doug Wright (by Seth). Anke Feuchtenberger (Germany), Emmanuel Guibert (France), Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Japan), Adrian Tomine (USA). Graphic Novels: The Creation of Art and Narrative. Harbourfront Centre will play host to a unique series of installations by top cartoonists from Canada and around the world as they attend the fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9-10 --includes original artworks and process materials, as well as tools, sculpture, and photography. Labels: art show, events, graphic novels, international, Ontario, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Friday Night: Seth, Tomine, Tatsumi  Authors at Harbourfront Centre: Seth, Adrian Tomine, and Yoshihiro Tatsumi In association with The Toronto Comic Arts Festival Friday, May 8 at 7:30 pm Brigantine Room, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West Tickets $8.00, available at harbourfrontcentre.com Authors at Harbourfront Centre helps jump start the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival with an evening of world-renowned graphic artists/novelists: Seth, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and Adrian Tomine. Seth (George Sprott: (1894-1975)) and Tomine (Shortcomings) debut their latest graphic novels, followed by a discussion between Tomine and Tatsumi about Tatsumi's latest work, A Drifting Life. All three authors appear courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal). This event, presented in partnership with The Beguiling, will also feature a corresponding visual art exhibition Graphic Novels: The Creation of Art and Narrative, located in Harbourfront Centre's York Quay Centre. Labels: events, graphic novels, international, manga, Ontario, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Thursday, May 07, 2009 Publishing: Papercut Hearts by Ian Sullivan Cant  Papercut Heart by Ian Sullivan Cant Conundrum Press ISBN 978-1-894994-38-5 $15 Ian Sullivan Cant's zines / illustrated poems are collected here into his first book, Papercut Heart. In deceptively simple pages, he tackles love, death and dreams with a wistful existentialism. Chia pets frolic with narwhals under banners that flutter with secret hope, Frankenstein's creation speculates on the nature of self, and a story written entirely in Morse Code weaves through silent statuary. Cant's writing confronts the tragic disparity between fantasy and ideal, and the disappointment of reality, but always seeks to touch the reader with melancholy. His obsession with B-horror movies allows him to find the beauty in trash culture, either in the form of a hidden and subversive genius, or the tenderness and vulnerability of unskilled creative passion. Cant's instruction in zen poetry is evident in his clean, delicate linework which belies the depth of his sentiments. Ruminations on the temporal nature of all things are thrown into stark relief by the accompanying drawing, be it a cupcake, a matchbook, or the image of a lost love, and many, many, talking ravens. Cant will be at TCAF at the Conundrum booth: Conundrum Press TCAF Signing schedule: SAT MAY 9 noon-1 Howard Chackowicz 1-2 Jillian Tamaki 2-3 Shary Boyle 3-4 Emily Holton, Kerry Byrne 4-5 Michael Hind, Ian Sullivan Cant SUN May 10 noon-1 Dave Lapp (DWA Nominee for Drop-In) 1-2 Michael Hind, Kerry Byrne 2-3 Ian Sullivan Cant 3-4 Howard Chackowicz Labels: events, graphic novels, publishing, tcaf, TCAF09 - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Publishing: The Paris Guns by Diana Tamblyn  The Paris Guns Diana Tamblyn self-published mini "The Paris Guns" is the first chapter of Tamblyn's Gerald Bull graphic novel (but works as a story in and of itself). Tamblyn and her book will be appearing this weekend at TCAF. Labels: graphic novels, mini-comics, publishing, TCAF09 - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Tonite: Wowee Zonk Booklaunch, Toronto  WOWEE ZONK 2 BOOK LAUNCH PARTY Wednesday May 6th, 6pm-10pm Keep 6 Contemporary, 938 Bathurst St, Toronto Free An anthology featuring work from 8 Toronto cartoonists. The launch is a gallery show with new work from Patrick Kyle, Chris Kuzma, and Ginette Lapalme. Labels: anthologies, book launches, events, Ontario, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Canadian Bestsellers: May 6 (TCAF Edition)  compiled/edited by B. Munn Just in time for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and the debut of the first print issue of Sequential, it's the weekly edition of the Sequential Bestseller List! The Top 30 Graphic Novels in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. This list has two parts, the top 30 overall and (at the bottom) the top 30 by Canadian creators. See here for last week's list. Last week's rankings are in parentheses. Top 30 Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada 1. (1) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC) 2. (3) Naruto 42, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 3. (3) B is for Beer, Tom Robbins (Harper Collins) 4. (5) Naruto 43, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 5. (4) Naruto 44, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 6. (7) Vampire Knight 6, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 7. (6) Fruits Basket 22, Takaya Natsuki (Tokyopop) 8. (10) Naruto 39, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 9. (9) Naruto 41, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 10. (8) Garfield Just Desserts, Jim Davis (Random) ----- 11. (14) Naruto 40, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 12. (11) Naruto 38, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 13. (19) Naruto 37, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ 14. (12) Chibi Vampire 13, Yuna Kagesaki (Tokyopop) 15. (13) Manga Metamorphosis, Kozumi Shinozawa (Tyndale) 16. (16) Naruto 36, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 17. (22) Naruto 1, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 18. (15) Negima! 21, Ken Akamatsu (Random House) 19. (-) Maximum Ride, Vol. 1, James Patterson (Yen) 20. (17) Naruto 35, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) ----- 21. (-) Hobbit, Tolkien et al (Harper Collins) 22. (-) What It Is, Lynda Barry (D+Q) 23. (24) V for Vendetta, Moore/Lloyd (DC) 24. (21) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) 25. (-) Wolverine 1: Prodigal Son, Tortosa/Johnston (Random House) 26. (-) Vampire Knight 5, Matsuri Hino (VIZ) 27. (-) The Wallflower 19, Tomoko Hayakawa (Random House) 28. (25) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q) 29. (20) Naruto 2, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ) 30. (-) Otomen, Volume 2, Aya Kanno (VIZ) Standard explanation: The pattern that emerges from looking at these lists over a period of weeks is that certain books, especially manga series, continuously jostle with each other, sliding up and down the longer list on the strength of a new volume or a spate of purchases for the kiddies. This week: That new Wolverine manga has a strong-ish debut. Is it the only movie tie-in? Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanes manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians. Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager 1. (1) Skim, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) 2. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q) 3. (5) Nightschool 1, Svetlana Chmakova (Yen) 4. (3) Big Foot, Graham Roumieu (Plume) 5. (4) The Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 6. (6) Scott Pilgrim 5, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 7. (-) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 8. (8) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 9. (7) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 10. (16) Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC) ----- 11. (11) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 12. (9) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 13. (13) Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist, Doug Wright (D+Q) 14. (19) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni) 15. (15) Ojingogo, Matt Forsythe (D+Q)19503 16. (10) Baloney, Pascal Blanchet (D+Q) 17. (12) Middle Aged Spread, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 18. (29) Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum) 19. (14) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel) 20. (17) It's a Good Life..., Seth (D+Q) ----- 21. (18) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear) 22. (20) Essex County 1, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 23. (21) I Never Liked You, Chester Brown (D+Q) 24. (22) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: The Voyageurs, Chad Solomon (Little Spirit Bear) 25. (23) Shenzhen, Guy Delisle (D+Q) 26. (24) Essex County 2, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 27. (26) Paul Goes Fishing, Rabagliati (D+Q) 28. (27) Spirit 1, Darwyn Cooke (DC) 29. (28) Essex County 3, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) 30. (30) the great hopeful someday, Elizabeth Belliveau (Conundrum) ----- Please feel free to comment or email about these lists. Labels: bestsellers, comic strips, comics retailers, graphic novels, manga, tcaf, TCAF09, U.S. superhero franchises - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 Publishing: George Sprott by Seth  George Sprott By Seth Drawn and Quarterly 96 pages, full color. $24.95 ISBN: 978-1897299-51-7 The first major new graphic novel by Seth in 3 years. Labels: graphic novels, publishing, TCAF09 - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Monday, May 04, 2009 Pope Hats / Laff Depot launch  Labels: awards, book launches, new books, Ontario, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - - we honor OpenID -
Sunday, May 03, 2009 Sequential Pulp @ TCAF  The 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival is fast approaching, and we've got some cool news.In the past we've mostly reported at a distance before and after TCAF, but this year we're going to be right there in the midst. I'm pleased to announce the first Special Print Edition of Sequential. It's free, it's full of amazing comics and articles, and it will be all over TCAF. I'll also be publishing a PDF of the 22 page magazine here on the blog the weekend of the festival so if you're not there you'll still be able to enjoy it. Here's the index for the magazine, and I'd like to send out a special shout out to guerrilla printing for their support of the project.
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