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Cameron Stewart's cowboy batman Along with getting nominated for a Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Artist, Cameron also has been tapped as one of the six pens to do the art chores on DC's much anticipated return of Batman storyline!Cameron posted this early sketch as a taste of things to come. Also he's back at posting Sin Titulo. Labels: art, blogosphere, can-con, capes - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Richard Comely interview | origins and history of Captain CanuckJust got this in the mail, hot off of blogger! Jeffery Klaehn has an interview with Comely on his blog POP! One of many interviews posted on his site. Captain Canuck #1 (cover dated, July 1975) hit newsstands in May 1975. In the years since Captain Canuck has been featured in a range of media, including The Toronto Star, The Los Angeles Times, The National Post and The Record, Time and Maxim magazines, many online periodicals, as well as some very cool online fan/tribute sites. In 1995 Captain Canuck was immortalized on a Canadian postage stamp. More recently, Captain Canuck has inspired scholarly articles, been featured in textbooks, and fueled much online speculation about the possibility of a Captain Canuck major motion picture. IDW recently published two beautiful hardcover volumes reprinting Captain Canuck issues #4-14, along with the Captain Canuck Summer Special, all remastered from their original coloring. In this interview Richard Comely discusses the origins and history of Captain Canuck. Labels: blogosphere, can-con, canadian superheroes, capes, interviews - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, March 11, 2010 Superhero HockeyThis is the old-school magic that I'm talking about: "The gay and roaring crows cheered lustily for their favourite hockey team ... and then Death came riding in on the cold air of the ice arena!" ![]() Robert Pincombe does us all a great service by posting a 1940s comic book story featuring Ted Steele's Canadian superhero Speed Savage over at his ComicCanuck blog. As a post-Olympics bonus, its a rare hockey comic book story as well (and in true hockey style, hockey-loving cartoonist Jeff Lemire provides an "assist"). Go read "Murder Has The Puck"! Labels: blogosphere, comics history, floppies - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - Wednesday, March 03, 2010 Christopher Butcher Liveblogging The Feb 2010 PreviewsChristopher Butcher's blow by blow walk through of previews are a new pleasure for me, some interesting highlights: IDW get's one of Christopher's picks for book-of-the-month, SWORD OF MY MOUTH, the new graphic novel from Jim Munroe and Shanon Gerard. KILL SHAKESPEARE's writer puts in some over time to make sure he mentioned their new book with Andy is coming out, and much more fun. Read the whole blog here - Part 1 & Part 2. ![]() Labels: blogosphere, comics retailers, new books, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, January 30, 2010 Inking walk-through for LOLA: A Ghost StoryJonas Diego posted to us a link for a post he has up on Comics University showing the proses he Elbert Or and Robo Monkey Pixel Fighters used in creating the art on thier book with J. Torres, LOLA: A GHOST STORY Labels: blogosphere, how-to - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - In a Northern Ontario Berry Patch By Sam Hunter. This and more classics at PUNCH IN CANADA, Blogging by John Adcock, see also Yesterday's Papers. Labels: blogosphere, comics, old cartoons - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Jason Kieffer and the Return of Zanta ![]() BlogTO has a short feature on the rumoured return of Toronto street performer/mayoral candidate Zanta, the shirtless Santa Claus. Kieffer profiled Zanta in his new book The Rabble of Downtown Toronto and is working on a full-length Zanta epic. Streetperson synergy is sure to ensue. Labels: blogosphere, mini-comics, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 The C-List: Happy Birthday Inkstuds! ![]() Gotta bust out a C-List! "Inkstuds, Expozine, Jesse Jacobs, ohmy!" Item: The Inkstuds podcast celebrates 4 years (!) with a Seth interview. Congratulations to Robin McConnell and friends, and here's to 4 more years, and many more! Item: Blogger and cartoonist Jack Ruttan recorded interviews at Expozine with some of the bright lights of Canadian comics. He's posted them with notes on his blog here and here, and we've created a playlist/player of them in sequence here. Item: Sequential's own Salgood Sam was briefly at Expozine as well. He shot and edited a short doc of the event around 4pm to 5pm of the last day. Item: A good large flickr photo set cataloging zine prints buttons and art books predominantly in a minimalist & cute style. The rare blue Mermacorn is the invention of probably this years youngest exhibitor, Jasper! Posted by Montreal designer Janice Wong.Item: And rounding out the visual record of Expozine 2009 so far is an excellent set of 111 photos by Montreal Photographer Camille McOuat. The last one of Billy is perfect. Item: Vancouver cartoonist Doug Fraser has designed an Absolut Vodka bottle just in time for the Olympics. Item: Webcomics writer Ryan Sohmer in Montreal. As well, Sohmer and his "Least I Can Do" collaborator Lar DeSouza have announced a webcomics scholarship at the Vermont Center for Cartoon Studies. Item: Another profile of Jesse Jacobs! He's on a run! Item: Stuart Immonen has announced that the free webcomics serialization of his collaborations with his wife Kathryn have been pirated and that future online comics by the couple are in doubt. There is further comment here and many comments by others elsewhere. The latest collab, Moving Pictures, is due out in Mat 2010 from Top Shelf. Item: Canadian comics historian, blogger, humourist, erstwhile Sequential contributor, and scriptwriter on the perils of maintaining 4 blogs while writing animation scripts for a living. Item: The DC/Warner vs Disney/Marvel war is really heating up. Alarmed at the massive build-up of Canadian superheroes by Marvel, and with only one of their own DC plans to fire back by adding a Canadian to the Outsiders, previously a 1980s superhero team based in Batman's Gotham City. (Thanks to reader Maddy B for the tip!) Item: Jeet Heer on Marx/Barks and Tomine/Oliveros. Labels: blogosphere, British Columbia, C-List, capes, comics history, Expozine, Montreal, new books, pod casts, U.S. superhero franchises, Vancouver, video, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, October 09, 2009 Canadian Mermaid Disembowels Diminutive TeammateI just can't get the phrase out of my head. My own effort? 1. Jodhpur 2. Wearing 3. Northerner 4. K.O.s 5. Hitler The answer? Labels: blogosphere, comics history, links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, June 30, 2009 New Interviews with Canadian Comics People ![]() Check out the new series of interviews with comics creators and businesspeople over at The Fabler Blog, part of Calgary's Zensoft Studios interesting new project thefabler.com, a social networking comunity for Comics Creators. So far blogger Kevin de Vlaming Jay Bardyla (owner of Happy Harbor Comics) Gareth Gaudin (of Legends Comic and Books in Victoria BC, & The Magic Teeth Dailies) And more, here. Labels: blogosphere, British Columbia, Calgary, graphic novels, interviews, PEI, profiles, Victoria - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 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 - Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Cow-Con Roundup ![]() Links from reports from last weekend's Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo: -Mark Evanier blogs the 1am fire scare at the con's hotel, wherein the greatest-living cartoonist Sergio Aragones along with priceless rare comics were imperiled. (update) -the best collection of photos I saw -a general flickr search result -The Shusters Kevin Boyd has a report -Darwyn Cooke interviewed -video -a furry report -photos of media stars -watching the ed the sock show -more love for Battlestar G -comics writer Andrew Foley blogs the con -photos -a full report from a comics fan who bought comics and got things signed -this report uses our fave phrase: "c-list" -the photo of Sergio Aragones is from this blog Labels: blogosphere, C-List, Calgary, conventions - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, March 27, 2009 The C-List: A Weekend Quickie Catch-Up New Blog: Follow Guy Delisle's adventures in Jerusalem as he creates the follow-up to his Burma book.Over at the Comicanuck blog, Robert Pincombe offers an extended examination of the weird recent story covering the comic series from France about a Canadian fighter pilot ("Dan Cooper RCAF") that may have a connection to the 1970s DB Cooper heist. Or, you can read his essay on the first season of everyone's new favourite Canadian tv series, Being Erica. [max: ohhh, i like that one too.] Podcast: Inkstuds interviews the Pohadky creators, Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuck. At the Walrus blog, Sean Rogers runs down the nominees for the Wright Awards with a series of capsule reviews, and notes what's left out. Ephemera: check out the "Quotes on Comics" site, courtesy of a link from the National Post's Ron Nurwisah. Webcomics: a short Kate Beaton interview. Publishing: Chris Butcher has all the news about the latest issue of Comics Festival, the free comic book that is published for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and given away for Free Comic Book Day. Lots of great, kid-friendly comics: Check it out! History: a WWII Canadian political cartoon by the Star's Les Callan. Canadian manga star Svetlana Chmakova, whose collected Dramacon is a regular on the Sequential Canadian Bestsellers list, is interviewed by Publisher's Weekly about her latest series, Nightschool (published by Yen Press). Classics: Canadian comics historian John Adcock digs up an old article about U.S. comic strip creators from 1935. Labels: blogosphere, C-List, cartoon reportage, interviews, links - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, March 12, 2009 A Self-Publishing Comics Primer on the NMK blog Jim's posted an extensive how too article on the NMK blog, "A Self-Publishing Comics Primer" by Stef Lenk. A must read for any aspiring young publisher starting out doing local DIY stuff.BEFORE YOU START Labels: blogosphere, how-to, links, Ontario, tools of the trade, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Kafka in America ![]() Very wonderful. An adaptation of Kafka's Amerika by Real Godbout. Compares favourably with Robert Crumb's version. (Thanks to Eric Theriault at BDQ) Labels: bd, blogosphere, graphic novels - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, December 22, 2008 Have a Jay Stephens Holiday ![]() Labels: blogosphere, seasonal - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Watchmen in Toronto ![]() Sure to be one of the big international comics stories of this year and next, the attendant fanfare for the Watchmen movie, including the tie-in book Watching the Watchmen by Dave Gibbons has been hard to ignore. Gibbons was in Toronto last week for a signing. Quillblog has some photos here (that's one above, with Mark Asquith as Dr. Manhattan). The guy in the Rorschach costume has a blog here. As well, Gibbons and Beguiling owner Peter Birkemoe were interviwed on CBC's Q and you can hear the podcast here. Best quote: Birkemoe's closing opinion of the movie. You can also watch the whole interview on Q-Tube. Labels: blogosphere, graphic novels, international, interviews, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, October 31, 2008 Comics, Currency, and Market Collapse ![]() A tip of the Sequential hat to B. Stinson for the link to this post by Ty Buttars about the impact of recent events on comics pricing vis a vis Canadians. Buttars raises some interesting points about the Diamond exchange rates and Marvel pricing. I wonder if the future of the floppy-style comic book rests solely in the world of promotional literature, like the Halloween give-aways published by Fantagraphics and several other publishers recently (see above image). Here's Buttars: Both of my comic stores can no longer subsidize the chasm that is building between their costs and revenues. Fluctuating exchange rates of 5% to 10% were somewhat manageable but now approaching 30% with no signs of bottoming out or stability in the very near future? Well, that is starting to scare retailers. And here's Don MacPherson rounding up the thoughts of two more Canadian retailers. Labels: blogosphere, comics retailers, dollar, international - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, October 11, 2008 comicbookbin : Should Canada Have a Comic Book Industry Policy?Winding down a late night I noticed Herve has entered another post on the topic of the Comics Industry here in Canada. One I agree with in general sentiment! I'm a little surprised, as some things he's said about grant funding in his last post seemed to run kind of counter to this one politically. I'm also a bit put off by the idea he ends on, which suggests possilby a degree of editorial influence from the state via funding that I'd have to object to fundamentally... If we agree that Canada should have a distinctive policy for its comic book industry, then the next question is what strategy to must use to enact its policy. Should the Canadian Government and provinces be actively supporting the comic book industry through grants, loans, tax credits, or help for representation abroad? Should for example, a special push be made to create comic books for special groups like children and aboriginal Canadians? In the book world, most type of literature is supported, but material such as cookbooks and travel material are not supported to the same extent as fiction. In the film world, the government does not support pornography, reality television, and game shows. In animation, because most of the contents is geared towards children, there are stricter guidelines and requests for clear overt Canadian contents in the works. In video games, there doesn't seem to be any oversight over the contents of the products, probably because the job creation aspect is the ultimate objective of the government as opposed to the promotion of Canadian culture.Hmmm, now that last bit is a bit problematic. I know where he's coming from - it's an audience oriented argument - but i think he's failing maybe to see the implications of making that kind of thinking federal policy. But, It's hard to argue with the feeling it be nice to be taken a bit more seriously on some levels by the government. On this i can relate to what he's saying. I think to some degree things are moving in the direction wished for already, in a very short time really comics by any name have been getting a lot more attention and credit for what they have to offer. I'd point out that in all the National, Provincial and City level Grants [none of which were available to comics about just 5 years ago] all to at least some degree - I'm not clear just on how much - have various priority categories already. For example it won't win you a grant on it's own - the work has to be up to it competitive standards still - but for some time now in any class of Canadian Council Grant for anything; if you present work that is intended to address Native, Visible Minority, Children's and Women's issues or concerns, then that wins you points in the Judging. If you present a credible voice on the subject you fit the profile of one of the Councils' Mandates to make an efort to give special attention to those groups. So to some degree we already live in the world he describes, though as far as I know it's not a Comics Policy per say but merely the mandate. No argument, depending on the content of it, I'd love to see Ottawa acknowledge comics with an official independent policy. I have to say I doubt it'll happen until we make a lot more money than we do - The culture argument he makes is good, I'd say that's a great angel and I can think of at least one creator who already is doing that for his own work - we do need to do things like that more. But as an industry I suspect we'll need to show a bit more green to carry it to the heights of a policy. Personally my own expectations and hopes for more are tempered by reminding myself that there's a long list of other pressing issues I'd like my government to spend it's energy on before they get around to trying to pay some formal lip service to my favorite form of story telling and show they talked to the right geeks by making all the right references - So for now I'm ok to settle for counting ourselves lucky we survived the last round of cuts and shuffles at the Council, and gently remind them how much we rock by rocking. And making shure they get the memo of cource. It would be nice to be taken as seriously as those other mediums. But having my ass kissed is not how I was taught to be a man, if you'll pardon the macho sentiment. And to some degree it's in our advantage to be underestimated at times, one of the things that's made us a powerful subversive form. I can see the lights of a strong argument along that line too. Also frankly I'd be a bit afraid to see what kind of messages THIS government would ask us to promote abroad in exchange for it's favor. Think i'll wait till after the races, to see who it is i'd be writing my letters too. Labels: analysis, blogosphere, can-con, news, Ottawa - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, October 09, 2008 Jimmy Beaulieu & Pascal Girard to attend Quai des bulles festival in BrittanyGot a email with "Love and kisses" from my buddy Jimmy Beaulieu letting us know that he and Pascal Girard will be spending the month of october in St-Malo, France, as guests of the Quai des bulles festival. They have started a blog for the occasion : Les malouins temporaires, where you will be able to follow their adventures in Brittany "or not... we'll see..." he says. He also says several MG books [in french] are being printed or released for the occasion! For those not in the know Mecanique Generale is a nice little art comics publisher that has close ties with the European community and Jimmy is a bit of a publishing and teaching dynamo, not to mention very accomplished artist and story teller. Do your self a favor and at least check out the links even if you don''t read french. Original FR text includes some more extensive info. Allo, pascal girard (www.paresse.ca) et moi (velue.blogspot.com) sommes a St-Malo, en ce moment, pour tout le mois d'octobre, dans le cadre d'une residence organisee par le festival Quai des bulles (www.quaidesbulles.com). On a demarre un blog pour l'occasion : Les malouins temporaires (lesmalouinstemporaires.blogspot.com), qui vous donnera l'occasion de plus ou moins suivre nos aventures (!) bretonnes. Labels: bd, blogosphere, can-con, canadians abroad, events, events links, festivals, francophone, Montreal, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 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 - Friday, August 15, 2008 More hot air about the so called DWA controversy. In response to The Doug Wright Awards' so called 'Canadian' language controversy, re: your defense of the Doug Wright Awards from Robert Haines. With all due respect to Robert, and due warning to future commenters. I don't have time to manually post comments for you. That's why we use an automated blogger system for the site, so I don't have to do things like that. It's password protected so that we don't get spammed to death. If you want to participate sign up. And if you waste my time with poorly thought through crap in my Email, If i do anything, it's more likely to be this - post you on the front page of the site to tear it apart. Don't get your hopes up, not doing it again for this subject. This one time to make a point, USE THE COMMENTS. Hello Max, I do not have a blog account and so I am unable to comment directly at Sequential. Please post this comment as found below: Bryan is deeply involved? I said closely involved, he helps organize at the events. I didn't characterize it as deep. I'll leave that for him to comment on if he feels inclined but it's truly irrelevant to the charge of discrimination. What this was about primarily. As for the the Prix Bedelys/hypothetical solution i proposed - I just suggested a collaboration, a sharing of resources, not a bloody "merger"! And how the hell is 'work alongside' any different from my 'trade for mutual benefit' or your 'pairing'. Don't be a prat. NOTHING comes up for the solid phrase "Canada's premier comic award" "Canada's premier comics and graphic novels awards" gets two hits, one is a TCAF/DWA site, the other is Dave Sim talking about the same auction as the first. To get anything else you have to take it out of quotes, and what you end up proving is that they are in fact well known in Lit circles, and have courted an elite profile from the start. Not THE. Take a look at the Jury Lineups. The press they get. The critical awareness of the work the nominate and awarded. Look up "Doug Wright Awards" in the news search. EXCLUDE us. EXCLUDE Brads past day job work at the CBC. what do you have? Along with many other sites, Walrus Magazine, Quill & Quire, Editor & Publisher, Publishers Weekly, Globe and Mail, etc. Not all nice long articles at all but some good coverage in some very prominent, NON comics media. The first two being Literary in fact. Do the same of ANY of the other awards currently in Canada. In the News search I ran on "The Shusters", not even "The Joe Shuster Awards" which draws a blank - I got one hit today, in an article about the DWA. It's a short reference about how the ONE thing they do, "nominally" better is award french language books....! hah! I love irony. Hey, I love that they are out there too, doing what they do. It's great they put together a special comity to nominate FR language books. I haven't got one bone to pick with any of the awards. But no others are an elite award with anything like a national profile! O_o [ <-this is me giving the hairy eye] The Shusters are Populous. Not elite. Not critically Primer. [ed: seems they switched, from their site-"Although these awards were chosen, in their first three incarnations, by a public vote, the process changed in 2007 to decision by a jury of individuals [ For the DWA, the Past Jury list includes Bruce McDonald, Mark Kingwell, Judy MacDonald, Lorenz Peter, Jessica Johnson, Ho Che Anderson, Marc Glassman, Katrina Onstad, Helena Reckitt, Mariko Tamaki. Chester Brown. Rebecca Caldwell, Nora Young, Jerry Ciccoritti & Don McKellar. Every year a film maker, at least one prominent member of the media if not two, someone from the Arts or Academia, and a critically significant cartoonist. With it's Jury's CV's on it's sleeve, and a purely Critical standard, ED: nominating a SINGLE book per Creator, The DWA are currently the most prominent, critically elite, highest standard bearing Award that ANYONE and EVERYONE in the country can be eligible for assuming they can fit into what is still, JUST TWO AWARDS CATEGORIES in ONE language. Because for now, it's a small operation despite it's critical standing and they do not have the time and money to do more! Would love to, but nope. ED: The Shusters have never had a Literary profile, it's not how they present themselves, or how the books they choose come off exclusively as a rule, as it pretty much is for the DWA. Great that they got a kick ass Jury now, but it's just true. Even the prize is a lot more classic comic book humble. Compared to this? The JSA don't promote an elite image, it's just a fact. They are not intentionally Literary at all. The DWA does, and is. And I don't think they are going to apologize for that. It's how they started, it's what they are all about. All of this only proves they have one front on which they truly discriminate, QUALITY. You can call it a small operation. Call it elitist. You can point out how incredibly small the community is leading to some very close associations that are frankly unavoidable. This is true for all awards let alone the all the comics awards in Canada. You could suggest we should sit around and wait for someone outside of the community to notice the work - which would be stupid. Far better we got off our asses and brought the outside in to see the work. Hey, you can even talk about how funny it was when Seth was given the very trophy he built himself the first year, and turned bright red and said himself how someone should have stopped that from happening as the jury sat and chuckled at him. Darwin Cooke also i suspect was bright red, when he stormed out of the ceremony yelling 'this is bullshit' and went to drink some more at the bar. That was pretty funny. But excluding Seth's book from the list, given it was the most wildly reviewed and lauded comic of the season hands down even without the nomination! Would have made the DWA claim to be for the Best Book false. It would have been the best book, barring having to compete with Seth's. He was asked to make the trophies before his book came out and was eligible for the list, or the list had even been drawn up. What ya' going to do? It's a small fucking scene people, thousands of creators but the cream is a thin skim on the top of it. And as it turns out a few creators of that caliber are amongst the ones who thought recognition for this kind of achievement was lacking in Canada and took it upon themselves to begin to do something about it. I personally cant thank them enough, even know I also personally felt out of my place at times being nominated that first year. Yep, that's right, I was nominated and here I am, dyslexic and too damn busy but still the guy running the ONLY web site so far dedicated exclusively to Canadian comics coverage and who cant get any of you other geeks to contribute unless it's to try to tear down shit. When if ever are more people in the 'community' going to work towards something instead of against? It's a FUCKING small scene and a lot of it is bloody lazy or superficial. Pardon my french. And you can complain all you like about that stuff. I, and I'm sure the DWA organizers will shrug and say, what's your point? Do you suggest it would be better not to have the DWA at all? 'cus these are the options for now. No one else was stepping up to do the job, to put an award like this together at all! The Shusters started around the same time and have very different goals. Before that, ZIP for a dog's age. So a group of Journalists, Critics, Super Fans and a couple of creators got together and made it happen with the help of the Wright family and some amazing volunteers. What have you done Robert? Better be good trying to pull this one. And I mean outside of being Deeply Involved with the Shusters yourself? That's great you doing that, but it brings your critique into some light don't it? Course line of it's a small world after all goes here. Calling the DWA anything else is BS. Calling it pretentious is redundant, and calling it, or suggesting it's bigoted against French comics or French creators is not only steaming hot BS, it's also offensive, dirty politics gaming, confrontational, and unsubstantiated. AND TO BE CLEAR, that was what Herve charged the DWA with. 100% FAIL Good day sir. Max Douglas, aka Salgood Sam. PS: want to comment on this? USE THE COMMENTS. Labels: awards, blogosphere, can-con, events, festivals, Letter to the Editor, publishing, tcaf - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 7comments - Thursday, August 14, 2008 The Doug Wright Awards' so called 'Canadian' language controversyWith a charged OP ed piece by Herve St-Louis, the publisher and editor for comicbookbin.com has kicked off a pretty intense conversation over the question of whether or not The Doug Wright Awards has the "right" to call itself a Canadian award. Tom Spurgeon has started to act as something of a neutral presenter of the issue, posting several responses to the first posting from St-Louis on The Comics Reporter. And there's alot of back and forth in the comments of PW The Beat. So far i've found the debate very interesting. I have a problem with the tone taken at the start by St-Louis myself; I feel he was pretty wildly hyperbolic in his analogies, and presents a basically false premise. And he seems upon a little asking around, to be speculating a lot about the intentions of the DWA organizers without information. There was a small amount of communication with our own Bryan Munn informally as a DWA representative on the subject, but it seems St-Louis cut that short and ran with his story. But from a purely rhetorical point of view, many have made some very good points on the broader subject. Bryan, who is responsible for most of the posting here on Sequential now, is bowing out of commenting on the debate on our site as he's closely involved with the Doug Wright Awards, so I'm going to try to keep on top of this for Sequential, work schedule permitting. I will be thinking on it and perhaps posting my own perspective more in the future but at this time a few things seem clear to me. First I think that it's clear the DWA's present themselves as A Canadian award, not THE Canadian awards. A point made by Brad MacKay but also consistent with my impression of their promotion of the awards. St-Louis's argument seems to be build a lot on the idea that something other than this is true. The About page's first short opening paragraph from the DWA site.
And, the very relevant last one...
And if testimony is required, going back to the first year of the awards, I can confirm from my own discussions with the organizers, that what Brad MacKay says in his official statement as true; That there has all along been very active discussion of how eventually to address the question of, at some point, bringing in a french language category. But that for now they lack the resources to do so. There has been no active discrimination against french creators in anyway, or a flat refusal to address the issue. Only a recognition that they are unequipped to review french language submissions at this time in a manor suited to the standards they set out for the DWA. And far from being presented as THE Canadian comics award, they are more like A Literary Canadian Comics Award in affect. And yes we could be really precise and call them The Doug Wrights, A Literary English Language Canadian Comics Award, but frankly as precise as that would be, it would be a terrible, terrible name! OK yes I'm being a little dramatic, but The Doug Wright English Canadian Comics Awards is truly not too much better. So it's the The Doug Wright Awards, period. As Hervé points out; hyphenation, and over qualification is a pain in the arse. The idea is to make the awards appealing, and interesting. Not boring and didactic. Now It's all very fine and well to say they could make the contacts here in Quebec, associate with a local award or start a parallel operation. But it takes two to tango, and speaking as an Anglo, living in Montreal, I have to say the French community here at least, when not too busy with their own things to be bothered, is seldom very welcoming or enthusiastic of this kind of collaboration over all. Nor do they reach out often themselves in a collaborative manner to make such things happen. It's like herding cats here on both sides of the language divide. Maybe in Alberta where Hervé lives now, he's unaware of this. He started out here so he should know. It was true more so when he lived here! It's true that in their own language sphere many people have done amazing things to promote local French work to an international French audience. But making the effort to promote their work to an audience that overwhelmingly won't be able to read it is never appealing to any publisher. Frankly I for one can't fault them for that. And far from generally being ignored by English Canada, I and many Anglo's have come to Montreal thinking we would be able to connect and build bridges with the french community, only to find a wall of often disinterested backs turned on us because we speak French as poorly as many of the Quebecois speak English. For those who are more engaged and welcoming - and there are many now - it's shrugs and a lack of interest in general. Not to say it's always cold, but I have not experienced a culture in a hurry to be embraced by it's English neighbors. They want more than not to be admired in their own language in their own region or in the EU. For those few desiring more English attention, they look south, like a lot of us here, were there are many many millions more in the audience than here. A practical issues more than not. I would put it to Herve that this often kind of insular approach, and a love of confrontation and conflict expressed to me by many of my Francophone Montreal peers, and as exemplified by the rather inflammatory examples in his post - Is as much if not more a problem than any active bigotry in the English community... "If the Harvey Awards, were to refuse all comic books by blacks or women, until they bleached their skin white or undergo hormone therapy to change their gender, it would be clear to everybody that their policy and the support of those awards was morally wrong" Really? Comparing asking for translations to bleaching skin, AND forced gender reassignment. Was one over the top inaccurate analogy not enough? Hmmmmm. Numerous times have I inquired locally in Montreal, as to why more effort is not made by French creators and publishers to translate the huge amounts of work produced here into English for the larger North American market. Or why there are so few sites promoting the Quebec community outside of the Francophone sphere. Coverage and effort has improved, yes, far more of both things happen now than just 5 years ago. But it's been very, very slow. And my said inquiries are more often than not responded to with shrugs and the refrain that they rather someone else do the work. They are too busy, it's as simple as that. No bigotry, no conspiracy, no surprising undercurrent of hate. I've done my own best when I've had the time to do so to promote local work, regardless of language, as has Bryan who is I'll repeat an active member of the DWA organization. I have tried at some length to recruit contributors for this very site to help cover the Quebec scene, as well as trying to find people on the coasts and in the mid west. I have constantly failed to find interested parties on all counts. Even Herve's own site spends most of it's time reporting on American, English comics. On the site's menu there is not even a way to filter the posts to view QC or Montreal stories. Just Cunuck. And I invite you to look for yourself to see how many are for French Language books.... It seems to me Herve is asking, demanding, others to confer praise for work he seldom promotes himself. No he does not call himself THE Canadian comic news site anymore than the DWA call them selves THE Canadian comic awards, but then this only furthers my point. I can understand that there are a lot of bruised egos, as I'm always reminded when I talk to my peers here in Montreal about this sort of thing. It does not come up nearly as often as Herve's article would suggest but sure, some feel a little left out. But I have a hard time giving too much credit to said egos, when they do so little to change the situation themselves through constructive positive actions. But rather it seems - when bothered to do anything - prefer to rant at supposed arms length about it. In this case at Provincial length, and without foundation or information speculating in an overwhelmingly demonizing way about the intentions of the 'Others' they think someone may perceive themselves slighted or ignored by. So what do I think they should do instead? How about this; I've not talked to anyone about this so I don't know if the will or means can be mustered, but say they do and could be. Say someone in QC, or the french community outside of QC cares about this all that much, and wants to do something. Say maybe the Prix Bedelys have any interest in this, that they take the initiative to put together a jury and reading list for a French language award to spotlight Original French books to the rest of Canada and the English comics reading world and any French readers who may be paying attention, to be presented at The Doug Wright Awards. They can also help raise funds locally for the prize and to pay for the trophy, and The Doug Wright Awards in turn give them the additional press and attention. The DWA orginization have the current problem of a lack of resources and means on their side addressed in this way. Maybe as a way to make this a mutual trade - not to besmirch anyone's best intentions; but the Bédélys trophy is not, well, all that impressive. Perhaps they also might be able to persuade the Doug Wright Awards rather famous trophy builder to help them out as well? Call it a trade for mutual benefit, and fix the problem by doing something about it, rather than making over the top and inaccurate analogies to civil rights abuses and the intentions of others you don't actually talk with before speculating on publicly. But in the mean time, until the French Comics community is willing or wants to be bothered to take on the task of promoting their own work to the rest of the world regardless if it's Francophone or not, I think it's a little disingenuous for someone in the to cry discrimination in this manor. A lack of means does not equate a intentional bigoted refusal. LINKS comicbookbin.com : The Wright Awards Discriminate Against Canadians A Response From The DWAs Regarding The Charge That They Discriminate PW The BEAT comments section where many have made thier thoughts known A Response From The DWAs Regarding The Charge That They Discriminate And having had a quick look, notably nothing yet from any French BD sites about this, they don't seem to care as yet to comment. Labels: Alberta, analysis, awards, bd, blogosphere, can-con, cartoonists, comics history, francophone, furries, Montreal, news, people, Quebec, tcaf - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 4comments - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Catching UpWow, four days between Sequential updates! For all our loyal readers who have been cramming our inboxes with queries of "What is going on in the world of Canadian comics?!?", we bring you the following news-y tidbits:
Labels: blogosphere, events links, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, June 05, 2008 2 Shots of Canadian Comics History1. Brad MacKay reveals the secret history of Canada's own Iron Man, created by Vernon Miller: White's Iron Man (which preceded Marvel's by a couple of decades) was the sole survivor of a destroyed civilization who lived and brooded underwater, surfacing occasionally to help out a couple of trouble magnets named Ted and Jean. 2. John Adcock has a new blog devoted to Canadian comics history and delves into the work of Hector Brault, two-fisted Western cartoonist: I have had a small collection of clippings of the comic pages for about ten years now but always figured they were reprints of European bande dessinée and British comic art. Recently I bought the issue pictured, from 19 septembre 1942, and noticing Hector Brault's signature on the comic pages looked him up to discover that he was from Québec and a cartoonist. Needless to say I was visibly chuffed to rediscover such an interesting fellow in Canadian comic history. Labels: blogosphere, comics history, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Diana Tamblyn's Super-Gun ProjectGreat news from cartoonist Diana Tamblyn: she is hard at work on her first graphic novel, a biography of Canadian scientist Gerald Bull. As Tamblyn explains on her blog, she has recently moved to London and secured a Canada Council grant to work on the project. In the same vein as her critically acclaimed minicomic bio of Frederick Banting, the Bull bio will focus on the weird life of the Canadian-born inventor of the Super-Gun and international man of mystery. Tamblyn has recently secured an agent and will be shopping the book around after initial research is completed this summer. Labels: blogosphere, graphic novels, mini-comics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Toronto Hobbystar Comicon Reports and images from this past weekend's Toronto Comicon/Fan Appreciation Day. Cameron Stewart apologizes. Photos of the building. Harvey Chan was there. Mark Englert drew sketches. A massive report by the con's only volunteer, Ty Buttars. (The above photo of Michael Cho, a young comics fan, and a drawing of Wolverine one of the many photos from Buttars blog.) Chris of The Blurst of Times, with a short report about buying comics. The Last Ronin meets Alex Maleev. Jason Truong spends alot of time standing in lines at cons. As does Danny Truong! Labels: blogosphere, conventions, events, hobbystar, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, April 07, 2008 Monday Morning Blues? Read About Comics! ![]() Links from hither and yon about comics, not necessarily Canadian:
Labels: blogosphere, comics history, copyright, graphic novels, international, links, manga, Nova Scotia, Quebec - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, March 17, 2008 Colin Upton Needs Cheering Up ![]() A bad week for Mr. Big Thing, aka Vancouver cartoonist Colin Upton. He got turned down for a Canada Council grant and then he got some crappy medical news. In Other News:
Labels: blogosphere, British Columbia, comics on film, comics on tv, Edmonton, graphic novels, publishing, reviews, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, March 06, 2008 Webcomics Economics ![]() Von Allan is an Ottawa-based cartoonist who is serializing his graphic novel, the road to god knows..., on the Girlamatic webcomic site. In this massive blog post, Allan takes a long, hard look at all the numbers available to him, page views and hits as recorded by his own page counter, Girlamatic, and advertisers. Serious serial strips by relatively unknown talents, as opposed to humour strips or genre adventures written by Warren Ellis or a webcomics collective of perhaps lesser-known, well-established cartoonists like Transmission-X, seem like the hardest sell to a generally inattentive, nebulous webcomic audience, as Allan notes, but the actual data he presents is worth a look. I'm particularly interested in the mechanics of Project Wonderful, the hands-on indy business shared advertising model that many bloggers and webcomics participate in. In my opinion, Allan is doing a good job promoting his work and getting the word out about his book, which I am assuming will eventually be collected in print somewhere after the online run is finished and archived at the end of this Summer. He's not making any money, but neither does about 99% of all webcomics. Project Wonderful uses an auction process for it’s buyers and sellers. If you want to run an ad to attract visitors to your site, you need to compete with other sites doing the same thing. You can do this on a site by site basis (someone can advertise, for example, on one or both boxes on my GirlAMatic site) or you can do it as a campaign. In the latter case, you enter in criteria and have PW bid on your behalf on sites that meet your specs. Personally, I use a combination of both. For instance, I find that I get a really good Q Rating on Wahoo Morris, probably because the two stories are somewhat similar and both Craig Taillefer and I are Ottawa-based creators. 'Course, maybe it's something entirely different. Regardless, I keep on bidding on his site because I like the results that I get. Labels: blogosphere, graphic novels, Ottawa, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, February 26, 2008 The Collected Doug Wright Mock-UpOver at the D+Q blog, a sneak peak at Seth's designs for the first volume of the Collected Doug Wright cartoons: ![]() Labels: blogosphere, cartoonists, comics history, publishing - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, February 04, 2008 Joe Shuster Awards Date AnnouncedKevin Boyd has news about the 2008 Shuster Awards at his blog. Since Boyd, one of the big organizers of the Awards, split with previous host Paradise con last summer, the new location of the event has been up in the air for awhile. The new location is the Toronto Public Library's Lillian H. Smith branch, 239 College Street, and the show goes on Saturday, June 14th. The date coincides with the 70th anniversary of the publication of Action Comics #1, featuring the first published Superman story illustrated by Canadian ex-pat Joe Shuster. The Awards are taking on a different format this year as well, with a jury taking responsibility for most of the prizes and a fan-vote for favourite artists. As well, the day-long event will include a few panels/symposiums/workshops, including Superman's 70th Anniversary, Joe Shuster Award Nominees, Canadian Comic Book History, How to Create Comics, etc. Labels: awards, blogosphere, events, Ontario, Toronto, U.S. superhero franchises - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, January 24, 2008 The "Canadianness" of CerebusAn interesting essay about Dave Sim by David Fiore, quoting Sim's ex-wife Deni Loubert:
Labels: analysis, blogosphere, graphic novels - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, December 31, 2007 Happy New Year! ![]() Sequential predicts: 2008 will be great! Lots of great comics, lots of bad comics, and lots of dopey internet blather about both! One last go around: Some quick links about comics in Canada.
Murphy and Krieger were told by Province management that their cartoons would no longer be regularly published on the editorial pages of The Province, they were offered other positions at the newspaper as well as the option of leaving the employ of The Province with buy-out payments. Happy New Year, Sequential readers! Sequential will return sometime in 2008 with new features and our year-end wrap-up. (top: image by Pascal Blanchet from Saturday's National Post) Labels: blogosphere, British Columbia, comics retailers, graphic novels, political cartooning, U.S. superhero franchises, Vancouver - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Archive by Region Alberta - British Columbia - Calgary - Gatineau - Halifax - Moncton - Montreal - New Brunswick - Newfoundland - Nova Scotia - Ontario - PEI - Quebec - Saskatchewan - Saskatoon - Toronto - Vancouver - Victoria - Winnipeg - Archive by Month August 2002 - September 2002 - October 2002 - November 2002 - December 2002 - January 2003 - February 2003 - March 2003 - April 2003 - May 2003 - June 2003 - July 2003 - August 2003 - September 2003 - October 2003 - November 2003 - December 2003 - January 2004 - February 2004 - March 2004 - April 2004 - May 2004 - June 2004 - July 2004 - August 2004 - September 2004 - October 2004 - November 2004 - December 2004 - January 2005 - February 2005 - March 2005 - April 2005 - May 2005 - June 2005 - July 2005 - August 2005 - September 2005 - October 2005 - November 2005 - December 2005 - January 2006 - February 2006 - March 2006 - April 2006 - May 2006 - June 2006 - July 2006 - August 2006 - September 2006 - October 2006 - November 2006 - December 2006 - January 2007 - February 2007 - March 2007 - April 2007 - May 2007 - June 2007 - July 2007 - August 2007 - September 2007 - October 2007 - November 2007 - December 2007 - January 2008 - February 2008 - March 2008 - April 2008 - May 2008 - June 2008 - July 2008 - August 2008 - September 2008 - October 2008 - November 2008 - December 2008 - January 2009 - February 2009 - March 2009 - April 2009 - May 2009 - June 2009 - July 2009 - August 2009 - September 2009 - October 2009 - November 2009 - December 2009 - January 2010 - February 2010 - March 2010 - |