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When: Saturday, April 19th, 2008. 8pm until midnight.
Where: Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant
255 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver
Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited.
How Much: Free. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided.

I've reserved the upstairs room at the Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant for the Jam. The maximum capacity of the upstairs room is roughly 25 people, however this has never been an issue. If we go over, we can move to a couple of tables downstairs.

Remember to tip your waitress well!

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The next Jam is coming up this Saturday:

When: Saturday, February 16th, 2008. 8pm until midnight.
Where: Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant
255 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver ( map )
Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited.
How Much: Free. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided.

I've reserved the upstairs room at the Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant for the Jam.

Crosspost as you see fit.

See you there!

Ed

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When: Saturday, December 15th, 2007. 8pm until midnight.
Where: Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant
255 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver ( map )
Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited.
How Much: Free. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided.

I've reserved the upstairs room at the Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant for the Jam.

Crosspost as you see fit.

See you there!

Ed

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And we're back on...

When: Saturday, November 17th, 2007. 8pm until midnight.
Where: Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant, 255 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver

MAP

Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited.
How Much: Free. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided.

I've reserved the upstairs room at the Clubhouse Japanese Restaurant for this upcoming Saturday. Let's hope this venue pans out better than OG Joes did.

Crosspost as you see fit.

Check out the new Vancouver Comic Jam website at www.vancouvercomicjam.com.

See you there!

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it's two days until the jam and I have still not been able to secure a venue. I've followed up on all of the leads that have been sent my way but none have panned out - either the place is already booked or they have some sort of event going on already.

I'm still looking, but things are not looking good for this month.

HOWEVER, someone brought to my attention that this Saturday is ALSO 24 Hour Comic Day. So, instead of meeting at one venue, why don't we have pockets of people meeting all over during the day (an idea suggested by someone else here) and then meeting later in the eve at a pub to celebrate. This way, we can have smaller groups pushing each other to create their 24 hour comic.

The easiest thing to do, might be to comment here or go over to the Crown Commission message board (www.crowncommission.com/phpbb2) and discuss in the VCJ October thread. Arrange where you guys want to meet. Suggest pubs and I guess we can all meet up at whatever seems to be the better idea.

As for venues -- I'm still looking. I'm open to all suggestions. I have a couple places that might work for November, but nothing for this month. What I would ideally like to do is find a cafe that is licenced and maybe closes earlier on a Saturday. I could pay for a staff member if they're willing to open up for us. OR, if there is a hall/meeting space/centre/theatre/whatever, that could be rented for a couple hundred bucks (or less) on a regular basis. It would have to be someplace that would allow us to serve booze.

Please, keep the ideas coming.

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Hey folks,

Sorry for the late notice on this, but the venue for the jam has been COMPLETELY booked for this saturday and is not available the following Saturday due to UFC (again!).

Maybe it's time to look at an alternative venue for situations like this. If anyone has suggestions, please fire them my way. Maybe we can sort out some sort of more informal place to meet up this month.

I have us booked in for October 20th at Original Joes, so at least that will happen.

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The crowd, estimated at 400, is different from the usual Comicon attendees. "We get a lot more art students, a lot more women, and a lot more people interested in comics more as art than a graphic narrative," says organizer Leonard Wong, reached by phone in Vancouver. Dealers stock their tables with Love & Rockets graphic novels, R. Crumb memorabilia, and the latest from Daniel Clowes and Julie Doucet.

In the '90s, Wong began bringing in Seattle artists like Jason Lutes and Ed Brubaker. But "it honestly confused a lot of the people who were coming to the shows for Batman comic books and whatnot," Wong says. It was spun into "a once-a-year thing, with the focus on independent creators".

This year's Comix & Stories, at Heritage Hall, features Farel Dalrymple. The Portland-based artist writes and draws his own title, Pop Gun War , and is illustrating the upcoming Omega: The Unknown , from an obscure 1970s Marvel comic. Novelist Jonathan Lethem ( The Fortress of Solitude ) is writing the series. Local guests include Robin Bougie, publisher of cult-film 'zine C inema Sewer ; Camilla d'Errico, creator of the manga series Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes and Nightmares and Fairytales ; and the Straight 's own Josue Menjivar ( Everyday Things ).

This will be Libicki's third year at Comix & Stories. "It's a pretty neat community," she says. "They're all great people. And we're all doing completely different things."

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What: Vancouver Comic Jam.
When: Saturday, August 18th, 2007. 8pm until midnight.
Where: Original Joe's (Broadway and Cambie)
Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited.
How Much: Free. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided.

RAV line construction is taking place on Cambie, so keep that in mind if you need to park. There should be plenty of parking available on the side streets.

Crosspost as you see fit.

Upcoming Comic Jam dates have been posted here: http://community.livejournal.com/vcj/profile

Visit us on Comic Space: http://www.comicspace.com/vancouver_comic_jam/

Comment or email me edbrisson[at]gmail[dot]com to be added to the mailing list.

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Haida artist hits it big in Asia
Large retailer Seiju buys design to grace shopping bags
Ashley Ford, The Province
Published: Friday, April 06, 2007

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a bird of many feathers.

Formally trained in classical Haida design, the Vancouver resident has taken his considerable artistic talents along new paths with his unique form of "graphic narrative" called Haida Manga, essentially part-Haida and part-Asian.

He takes Haida design and narratives and transforms them into socially relevant art. The object is to advance the Haida design traditions "to combat the simplistic narratives perpetrated about indigenous people of the Pacific Coast."

He is already a big hit in Japan and Korea where manga -- Japanese for comic -- is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year business.

And greater commercial success may just be around the corner.

Seiju, a large Japanese retailer with a major shareholding from U.S. retailing icon WalMart, wants to mount Yahgulanaas's Hachiridori, hummingbird design from one of his books with the English words "I do what I can" on its non-plastic, reusable bags.

Yahgulanaas says he doesn't know how enriching it will eventually be but is hopeful it will be enough for him to carry on his personal campaign of taking the Haida art tradition out to the rest of the world and not just in the traditional style.

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Perro Verlag Books by Artists is pleased to announce the launch of their spring titles at Storage Gallery on Saturday March 31st, 8PM at 28th and St George in Vancouver. Please come to celebrate new books by Julia Feyrer, Doug Jarvis, Collin Johanson, Fiona Smyth, James Whitman, and an exquisite collaboration by Jo Cook, Wesley Mulvin, and Terry and Owen Plummer.

The books by Feyrer, Johanson, Smyth, and Whitman are part of the Hell Passport Project, a 20 volume edition by 20 Canadian artists published periodically as each artist completes their book for the series. Printed in a limited edition, these publications showcase the work of the individual artists as they riff on connections between passports and Hell.

As part of his solo exhibition, It's All in my Head, for Access ARC's Project Room, January 12 - 27, 2007, Doug Jarvis has designed a catalogue with additional material from his ongoing collection of perceptual tools and gestures.

Exquisite Dino World Corp reproduces the collaborative drawings that Cook, Mulvin, Plummer and Plummer exhibited in Welcome to Dino World at the lowercase gallery in November 2006.

Please join us. Refreshments will be served!

For more information contact: books_by_artists@perroverlag.com

Perro Verlag Books by Artists
PO Box 60206
Fraser RPO
Vancouver, BC V5W 4B5
www.perroverlag.com

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