The new Bieres et bandes dessinees contest has been organized in
conjunction with Oleg Dergachov, MA, cartoonist and sculptor, and Deborah
Wood, home brewer and Master of Arts degree holder. Contest participants must
invent a cartoon featuring beer: beer and women, beer and politics, beer and
the environment, etc. A six-member international jury will select the winners.
Winners will receive cash prizes: GOLD Beer Stein: $1500; SILVER Beer Stein:
$1,000; and BRONZE Beer Stein: $500.

Labels: awards, contest, events, Montreal

• Zombies Calling creator Faith Erin Hicks is interviewed here.

• The deliciously cartoony art of J.Bone is featured in the latest New Frontier spin-off/promotional item, out this week. Bone draws Wonder Woman.

• The Bank of Canada tells history of counterfeiting in comic form.

• Niagara students produce film on comics nerds: "Sketch of Life."

• Upcoming: Jillian and Mariko Tamaki on stage in Toronto, March 24.

Labels: comics history, contest, floppies, graphic novels, links, political cartooning, U.S. superhero franchises

Ok, got the planers out?

Vancouver Sept. 28th @ 7-10pm

Therefore Repent! will have it's formal BC Launch!

@ Lucky's Comics (3972 Main St., Vancouver).



He's presenting our post-Rapture graphic novel THEREFORE REPENT! along side new issues of Fred Grisholm's HATESONG, Brian Fukushima's JOBGOBLIN. And Jason Turner & Manien Bothma's True Loves 2!

Then it's back to old Hog town for Word on the street Sunday Sept 30th to present Therefore Repent! He'll be signing books at his table in Fringe Beat as well as giving a presentation called Be Your Own Boss In The World Of Publishing.

And you can also catch him participating in a panel with Willow Dawson and Ray Fawkes called "I Have A Great Idea For A Story, But I Need An Artist!"

Get your handbook to the Apocalypse here

The first third of Therefore Repent! - 60 pages - is now available for your browsing pleasure.

And not only is it free to read, it's also free to use: we're licencing the jpg versions of these as remixable under this Creative Commons licence.

So, if you've ever wondered what'd it'd be like to be the writer of a comic book and work with as talented an artist as Salgood Sam, now you can.

Download them from this site, and open the pages up in Photoshop or Gimp to replace my words with more interesting ones.

Colour the pictures.

Use the images as graphics for your non-commercial projects. Send the results to us and we'll put 'em up on the site: even better, we'll send the three most inspiring remixes a free book.

Labels: book launches, can-con, contest, digital comics, events, graphic novels, new books, preview, webcomics