When: Saturday, July 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. I've been told to let everyone know that there is a maximum capacity of roughly 25 people. If there is overflow, we can always take a table or so downstairs. It's never been an issue, just one of those things that I am asked to tell you all.


Crosspost as you see fit.

See you there!

Ed

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Billy Mavreas and Michael Comeau will be expounding, expostulating and marking their metaphysical turf for the launch of Inside Outside Overlap: A Boy Priest and Lifeform the "Cat" Adventure. The new book will be celebrated in a comic-arts smack down at Keep Six Contemporary (938 Bathurst Street) as part of their two-week art show. Montreal underground legend, Billy Mavreas, pits his neo-pagan, sinister cartoons of cute bunny gods against the silk-screened, oil-mongering fundamentalist Hellbertan humans from Toronto's Punchclock hero, Michael Comeau.

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CRYSTAL FRACTAL COMICS DEBUTS WITH PARADISE TORONTO COMICON PREVIEW EDITION OF "CRYSTAL FRACTAL UNIVERSE 0.0"


- Special CGC "Signature Series" will be available -

Crystal Fractal Comics [ED: not a great web site, their Myspace page has more art] launches at the July 12 & 13, 2008 Paradise Toronto Comicon with a special Paradise Toronto Comicon preview edition of "Crystal Fractal Universe 0.0."



"Crystal Fractal Universe 0.0" provides a glimpse of the upcoming line of comics including "Doctor Twilight", "Magus Rex" and "Project Epsilon London Town" and includes two short stories including "CFU The Crossing" written by Derrek Lennox with Jeffrey Haas and art by Jian Yi. This printing will be limited to less than 2000 copies, with less than 133 set aside for the CGC Signature Series program. The exact print run will be released at the Convention.

"We are extremely excited to release this preview edition at the Paradise Toronto ComiCON," says Derrek Lennox, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Crystal Fractal Comics, "and of course to see the response and reaction to featured writers from the US and Canada, as well as renown artists from China, Argentia and Canada – artists from around the world that will be showcased as the comic series are released."

Crystal Fractal Comics is a Toronto, Ontario; Canada based comic book and character property company.

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Lynn Johnston to headline the 2008 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning

Event to be held at Toronto Reference Library

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning is pleased to announce that Lynn Johnston, the award-winning cartoonist behind the long-running strip For Better or For Worse, will be the guest of honour at their 2008 awards ceremony.

Organized in partnership with the Toronto Public Library, the free event will take place Friday Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Toronto Reference Library during which time Johnston will be inducted into the "Giants of the North"; the Canadian Cartoonists' Hall of Fame.

Carried in more than 2,000 newspapers around the world, For Better or For Worse has been collected in more than 30 best-selling books since it first appeared in September 1979; making Johnston arguably the best-known and most successful Canadian cartoonist ever.

Over her three-decade career Johnston has received a number of honours including a Gemini Award (for her animated FBorFW TV series), a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist (the first woman winner in the history of the National Cartoonists Society) and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her controversial gay storyline in the early 1990s. In addition, in 1992 she became a Member of the Order of Canada.


On August 8, Johnston will join other giants of Canadian cartooning like Peter Whalley, George Feyer and Doug Wright, when she is inducted into the Giants of the North Hall of Fame. The event will feature a retrospective of her more than 30-year career, a moderated Q&A with the audience and a book signing with Johnston.

The ceremony will comprise just part of the 4th Annual Doug Wright Awards, the country's premier comics awards, which recognizes the best in new and established cartoonists and graphic novelists. The 2008 Wrights will see announcement of the winners of the Best Book trophy, Best Emerging Talent trophy and the "Pigskin Peters" award; a new category dedicated to non-traditional or non-narrative cartooning. (To learn more about the 2008 nominees, visit www.wrightawards.ca.)

As usual, The Wright Awards will also play host to the best and brightest in Canada's cartooning community from Chester Brown (Louis Riel) and Seth (Palookaville) to Ho Che Anderson (King) and Mariko Tamaki (Skim).

The awards will be decided by a jury made up of members of the country's arts and cultural community, including: author and film critic Katrina Onstad, cartoonist Ho Che Anderson, Toronto book seller Marc Glassman, writer, performer Mariko Tamaki and Power Plant curator Helena Rickett.

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Y'est back!

C'est le Monthly Monkeytown Comix Jam this Monday, June 30 at the Laundromat (corner St.-George and Cameron.)

This will be our big-ass whopping one-year anniversary jam, with literally several moderately talented comix artists likely to show up!!! It's a once-in-a-lifetime-of-unspecified-length event, the likes of which you've never noticed!!!!

Les jams commencent vers 19h/jams start around 7pm. Catch toi there!

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SEQUENTIAL ART SYMPOSIUM / VISIONS OF AN ICON / JOE SHUSTER AWARDS

JUNE 14, 2008

Lillian H. Smith Library Auditorium, 239 College Street, Toronto

Schedule:

Lobby Reception Area - Opens at 10 am and runs until 5 pm

Joe Shuster Awards table

Constellation Awards table

A selection of graphic novels and comic books by Joe Shuster Awards nominees - past and present - will be on sale courtesy of Allnewcomics.com

Flyers and promotional items for upcoming shows and events.

Room A Opens at 10 am and runs until 5pm

Signing Room --- there will be approx. 20-25 guests in the signing area.

2008 Poster signing with Tom Grummett and Paul Rivoche will take place from 11-12

Room B Exhibit opens at 10 am and runs until 4-4:30 pm

Visions of an Icon: Canadian Visions of the Man of Steel- Art Exhibit

A large array of original art piece by Canadian comic book creators will be on display.

Room C - Discussions start at 11 am and run until 5 pm

Panel Discussions - Topics will run 45-50 minutes and start on each hour (11, 12, 1, etc)

Tentative Schedule:

11 am --- Comics & Kids: Teaching with Sequential Art

12 noon --- Sequential Art on the Internet: Webcomics

1 pm --- Writing for Sequential Art

2 pm --- Darwyn Cooke's Next Frontier

3 pm --- Superman @ 70: 7 decades of superheroes & comics

4 pm --- John Bell's Invaders From The North: Canadians and Comics
with 2008 Hall of Fame Inductees Pierre Fournier and Stanley Berneche


Then it's break for dinner time at 5 as the library closes and everyone goes for a dinner break while we reconfigure the space for the Awards ceremony, which will take place in Rooms A, B & C (wall dividers will be removed to open the full area up).

7:30 pm --- seating for the Awards ceremony begin.

8 pm --- Joe Shuster Awards Ceremony with Master of Ceremonies Rick Green

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Hello!

I'll be in New York City this weekend for the MOCCA Art Fest.

http://www.moccany.org/artfest-main.html
Saturday June 7 - Sunday June 8th
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Admission is $10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members)
Located in the historic Puck Building (293 Lafayette St - S of Houston)

I'll have my prints for sale, including brand new ones of the giveaways and the Indian Princess.

Stop by and say hi!
- Alana McCarthy

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• Halifax-based Bryan Lee O'Malley provides a public service by dissecting the new Tokyopop contract. O'Malley, who has a successful series of books in print and a major Hollywood film based on his books planned, knows a few things about creative control and, I would expect, contracts. All contracts, Hollywood, webcomic, or book, should be looked at by a lawyer (better still, a lawyer who is familiar with publishing or copyright).

• Reanna Alder of The Tyee interviews Vancouver curator Bruce Grenville and has a nice review of both the show and catalog for the KRAZY! exhibit. I saw the book myself at the Beguiling last week and it is quite a handsome volume, with great visuals and nice notes by all the co-curators on their selections.

• Sequential didn't get the press release, but the Beat reproduces the pertinent text of the inductees to the Shuster Awards hall of fame. The inductees this year are U.S. citizen John Byrne (co-creator of Alpha Flight), 1930s-40s cartoonist/writer Ted McCall (creator of the Men of the Mounted and Robin Hood comic strips), satiric cartoonist Pierre Fournier (Capitaine Kebec), and 70s satirist Stanley Berneche (Fuddle Duddle, Captain Canada). The induction ceremony will be part of the awards Saturday, June 14th in Toronto.

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Bonjour a Tous!

Le Comix Jam se tiendra au Bar des Pins, 3714 rue du Parc Jeudi prochain, le 29 Mai a 20hres. Comme d'habitude amenez votre attirail du dessinateur et votre bonne humeur!

The next Comix Jam will be held at Bar des Pins, 3714 Park, this coming Thursday, May 29 at 8 PM. As usual, bring your artist gear and good humor!

A la Prochaine!
See You there!

Jane

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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.

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