Friday, October 09, 2009  
Canadian Mermaid Disembowels Diminutive Teammate

:: Posted by Bryan @ 10/09/2009 01:46:00 AM
I 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?

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   Tuesday, September 01, 2009  
The C-List: End of the Month Critically-Lauded Clearance

:: Posted by Bryan @ 9/01/2009 01:25:00 AM
I'm going to try to shift the format of the C-List from straight, slightly ironic linkage to Canadian comics news stories to a more critical, slightly ironic, perhaps meatier linkage to Canadian comics news stories, but in the meantime, and because I basically took the summer off, here's one last kick at the can, Beta-style:

Item: Jeff Lemire, creator of 3 critically-lauded comics in the past year, is interviewed.

Item: Veteran critical laud-er Brad Mackay takes a big flying smooch at one of the most critically lauded American graphic novels of the year, Asterios Polyp.

Item: Speaking of critically-lauded, Dave Lapp's Drop-In graphic novel gets some lauding action at the Montreal Review of Books.

Item: The critically-lauded Watchmen graphic novel tops Booknet's bestseller list of comics and GNs for the last 2 weeks of August, according to Quill and Quire. The list pretty-well matches that of the Bookmanager list that I use for Canadian bestsellers, with the exception of Maus and a couple of Garfield collections.

Item: Oh yeah, Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion. Critically-lauded satirist Steve Murray got the memo at the National Post.

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   Wednesday, July 15, 2009  
New Sites - MONTREAL COMIC-CON & Sword of My Mouth

:: Posted by max @ 7/15/2009 08:16:00 PM
Two new web sites to check out.

The Montreal Comic Con has some new crew members and a new look, the site has been re-launched with information about the upcoming September show, it's in Beta mode so they are inviting feedback - check it out and let them know...

We just launched the brand new Montreal Comic-Con website - www.montrealcomiccon.com. Please feel free to send us your comments and/or suggestions about it. Any comments and/or suggestions regarding the event itself are also welcomed.

See you in September!

Oscar, Elizabeth and Alex :)
Mini-site for Sword of My Mouth & How To Enjoy Research

Publisher Author and DIY king Jim Munroe has set up a mini site for Sword of My Mouth, the sequel to Therefore Repent! and also has a little advice for one of my favorite things but not his, how to enjoy Research!
We've just launched the mini-site for Sword of My Mouth, making the first two issues (and commentary from me and Shannon) available for subscribers and people who've pre-ordered the graphic novel. It's the first third (48 pages) of the book so far, and we'll be adding a chapter every other month until we launch the complete graphic novel edition at next year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

One of the things we did differently with this book was research, and so I'll take this opportunity to write a bit about that...

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The C-List: Canadian Comics in the Summertime

:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/15/2009 04:00:00 AM
Some quick links.

Item: Dinosaur Comics' Ryan North talks internet woes with the Globe and Mail.

Item: Ed Brisson notes that there will be no Vancouver Comics Jam in July.

Item: Walrus comics blogger Sean Rogers talks about David Mazzucchelli.

Item: Robert Fulford writes about Harvey Kurtzman and Mad for the Post.

Item: Seth tells us why George Sprott will be one of Amazon's best books of 2009.

Item: The Wizard Toronto comic convention has a new logo.

Item: Iranian-Canadian policart Nik Kowsar talks to the Washington Post about his experiences on the wrong side of the law in Iran.

Item: In case you missed yesterday's Summer Reading entry, the big (old) news is that Les 400 Coups has started a new imprint for genre comics/bd, entitled Rotor.

Item: Montreal weekly The Hour reviewed Adrian Tomine's 32 Stories and Shortcomings published by D&Q

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   Wednesday, July 08, 2009  
The C-List: Slow News Month

:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/08/2009 01:13:00 AM
Item: The Metro chain has picked up the Six Chix group strip, which includes a weekly dose of Rina Piccolo. (Shorter headline: Metro picks Piccolo)

Item: A North Bay comic shop gets its start with heart-warming tale of organ donation. The new store came about after the owner gave his liver tissue to his father. (Shorter headline: Grateful Pop Gives Nerd Shop

Item: The Globe and Mail spotlights a Toronto aritist on the forefront of "gamics" --comic strips, webcomics, and graphic novels using screenshots of videogames like Half-Life 2 and Star Wars Galaxies. (Shorter headline: Gamer Fanfic= "lame-ics")

Item: Kate Beaton's awesome Canada Day comic (Shorter headline: Awesome!)

Item: The Shusters blog picked up on the news that Pascal Blanchet has won a French literary prize. (Shorter headline: Prix Baloney)

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   Friday, July 03, 2009  
The C-List: International Long Weekend Blues

:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/03/2009 03:06:00 AM
Item: Skim, Country Nurse nominated for Harvey Awards in the Best Graphic Album category. As well, Lar deSouza and Ryan Sohmer, creators of the webcomic Least I Could Do, were nominated in several categories. (In an interesting post, Tom Spurgeon makes a plea for getting rid of the Harveys).

Item: Jeet Heer on nostalgia in comics.

Item: Tom Spurgeon has a thorough obituary for U.S. cartoonist B.M. Duncan. Duncan's art was a highlight of Weirdo magazine in the 1980s and was a radical, humane talent.

Item: Captain Canuck co-creator Richard Comely is interviewed by the K-W Record's Kevin Swayze.


Item: Brad Mackay reviews Tatsumi's Drfiting Life bio.
"Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a Japanese manga pioneer, attempts to transform the solitary life of the cartoonist into an outsized adventure story."

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   Monday, June 29, 2009  
The C-List: Summer News Blues

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/29/2009 02:15:00 AM
Lots of links to catch up on:

Item: Policart and Order of Canada member Roy Peterson was feted by his West Coast brethren recently, having been fired by the Vancouver Sun after 47 years. In attendance were several other cartoonists (3rd item).

Item: Palookaville-mania continues. Seth hints at the contents of the upcoming newly-formatted Palookaville hardcover periodical.

Item: A Marmaduke movie? Those of you who may not be aware that the famous Great Dane is still appearing in the funnies may be very surprised to learn there is a movie in the works. It's being shot in B.C. and the cast is proving problematic.

Item: I totally missed this, but popular Halifax comics blogger Rachelle Goguen has changed the format of her Living Between Wednesdays blog and since April has been leading a team of bloggers at a new website.

Item: The National Post cover the Captain Canuck rerelease.

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   Tuesday, June 23, 2009  
The C-List: International Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/23/2009 01:04:00 AM

Since the C in C-List is supposed to reference Canadian content as well as the perceived generally third-rate nature of Canadian cartooning news vis the rest of the world, I feel kind of weird making this partially international round-up of weblinks a regular C-list post. However, since the C-List is where this stuff usually gets dumped, I'm sticking with the format.

Item: The Musee de la bande dessinee opens in Angouleme, France.

Item: Inkstuds features a podcast documentary about comics as a medium and includes interviews with Jeet Heer and others. (go listen while you read the rest of this.)

Item: Speaking of Mr. Heer, you can read him on Chris Oliveros' achievement in creating and sustaining D+Q for 20 years, with words by Coach House Press' Stan Bevington.

Item: The first review I've seen of Darwyn Cooke's Parker crime novel adaptation.

Item: Iranian-Canadian political cartoonist Nik Kowsar is emerging as one of the most in-touch commentators on recent events in Iran, both in the mainstream media, and through his blog and cartoons.

Item: George Sprott in NOW.

Item: The great Mexican cartoonist Rius is 75 Years Old!

Item: The 7th issue of the international sketch magazine Le Sketch is now out, featuring illustrator Craig Atkinson's "sketches of people that might exist, but probably don't, mysterious diagrams and imaginary buildings".

Item: Chester Brown's Louis Riel graphic novel makes the top ten of the Toronto Star international list of best/most important books of the decade so far.

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   Friday, June 12, 2009  
The C-List: Mania Rebound

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/12/2009 11:31:00 AM


And we are back with more cross-country and international comics mania!

Item: Jeet Heer writes about Hall of Fame cartoonist Jimmy Frise. This piece was originally written for the Sequential print edition but due to a muffed deadline on my part was left out. It's really an excellent article and you should go read it.

Item: Speaking of Hall of Famers, the Doug Wright backlash begins: Andrew Wheeler trashes Nipper, and Kevin Boyd of the Shusters blog makes a case for renaming the new Doug Wright book.

Item: On the international front, Kent Worcester looks at the growth in comics acceptance in universities.

Item: Cartoonist Nick Craine is the latest graphic novelist to be hired to class up an otherwise pictureless Canadian prose novel.

Item: Inkstuds' Robin McConnell reviews Dater's Dozen by Melaina.

Item: Quillblog reports on the BookCamp that "replaced" Book Expo Canada.

Item: The Beguiling, European comics publisher?

Item: Seth talks George Sprott to Time Out Chicago ("Boring Can Be Interesting"). Seth also created a book bag for the Strand bookstore in New York (above).

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   Thursday, June 11, 2009  
MoCCA 2009 - Hot in many ways

:: Posted by max @ 6/11/2009 02:42:00 PM
So MoCCA 2009 was last weekend, i just got back from NY and i'm still getting back into my routine.

I planed on doing a lot more reporting myself but in the end not so much. I did snag a video of one panel that was pretty good - Making Good Comics in a New Era - and made a short overview clip from the little bit of footage i took at the show - it was insanely big, hot, and packed with books and i kind of short circuited and forgot to keep shooting after the first hour of day two.







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The Beat links are many, those here.
MoCCA '09: How can something so cool be so hot?
MoCCA memories
MoCCA: Photo parade

Also found this via Heidi, the audio for the Gary Panter and Raymond Sohn panel.

Hung out a lot with the Indy Spiner Rack guys at the show, i don't mince words when i say you could not meet a nicer couple of guys! I owe them for the suport and for putting me up for a few hours when i missed my Train! Man, what a day that was. Some epic exhaustion.

They Reported on the event this year, had a talk with MoCCA board member Fred Van Lente who does a great job answering some tough questions!

So my final word is I had a great time. The heat messed me up and made it hard to think strait sometimes. But it was great to see friendly faces and there were soooo MANNY comics to look at. Saw increadable abstract stuff by Andrei Molotiu and had a great encounter with Bob Fingerman, one of my favorite Comix creators from when I was a punk kid. Made a few new freinds and amused myself when I spaced out and unwittingly stole a book from Brian Wood - made up for it by swapping for it, hope he liked what he got.

I didn't want to have to carry too much back with me but managed to snag a nice selection for the collection. If i find the time i'll try to do a bit of a quick list with stars or something - have a few books now backed up to read soon.

Rover out.

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   Monday, June 08, 2009  
The C-List: Post-Mania Letdown

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/08/2009 06:01:00 AM

First thing Monday morning, our mania for all things comix and maniacal is slightly lessened. Nevertheless, comics mania continues:

Item: Cartoonist Aaron Costain is interviewed by Matt Forsythe about his comic Entropy Part 3 to inaugurate the new "graphic fiction" section of Carte Blanche magazine.


Item:
The fourth volume of the extremely popular and award-winning (in France and Quebec) Les Nombrils series has a video-promo.

Item: Cartoonist and Wright Award nominee Fave Lapp is interviewed at the always-excellent Inkstuds podcast.

Item: Artist Marta Chudolinska talks about her linocut graphic novel Back + Forth, upcoming from Porcupine's Quill (is this the first GN from the venerable publisher?), with NOW magazine.

Item: British comics writer Neil Gaiman is visiting Toronto for Luminato and talks about the Silver Snail comic shop.

Item: Tom Spurgeon conducts an epic interview with the cartoonist Seth on a variety of subjects, from obscure greats like Thor Hansen to John Cage, Charles Schulz and Robert Crumb. Seth also makes a few sensible, measured comments about the new Doug Wright book he designed, contra the critics.

Item: Richard Bruton reviews Kaspar by Diane Obomsawin (#20 this week on the Sequential Bestseller List)

Item(s): Leif Peng has just become my favourite blogger for writing a series of profusely illustrated posts about Canada's forgotten cartoonists, including the great Peter Whalley, Len Norris, Des English & Ken Zeeley, and Duncan MacPherson & Bert Grassik.

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   Friday, June 05, 2009  
The C-List: Mania Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/05/2009 11:39:00 AM
Item: Doug Wright Mania continues. Reviews from Leif Peng, Mike Lynch.

Item: Newspaper death throes mania continues. Policart Roy Peterson has been fired by the Vancouver Sun. Peterson has been at the Sun forever and is perhaps best known for his collaborations with journalist Alan Fotheringham in the pages of Maclean's and in several books. Peterson's laser-like caricatures being dumped is another indication that Canadian newspapers are getting senile.

Item: Brian Gable mania continues. The Globe and Mail policart is profiled by ... The Globe and Mail!

Item: Anthony Jenkins mania continues. The Hirschfield of the North gets the Brian Gable treatment.

Item; Kate Beaton mania continues. Wright Award-winner is interviewed about how fabulous she is.

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   Monday, June 01, 2009  
The C-List: Does Anybody Here Remember Arcturus Rann?

:: Posted by Bryan @ 6/01/2009 12:01:00 AM
micronauts masturbation penis acroyear sex micropenis

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.


Item: Flipping through an old Consumers Distributing catalog from the 70s, I recovered a lost memory of sexual arousal brought about by early Michael Golden art. I think I'm really making progress!

Item: Prize-winning policart and comics historian Aislin pens a fine review of the Collected Doug Wright for the Montreal Gazette. Aislin (aka Terry Mosher --where do these cartoonists get this one-name monicker gimmick?) is an actual peer to Wright, to the extent they both were working in the 70s and 80s, and brings both his artist's and historian's eye to a discussion of Wright's work.

Item: Chatham, Ontario hobby store owner Chris Bullard, owner of Game Masters Emporium, talks about his struggle to stay afloat during the recession and the slump in comic book sales.

Item: Scott Pilgrim mania continues with a NOW magazine article about the history of the lead characters name (Scott Pilgrim is a song by defunct Canadian band Plumtree).

Item: The Shusters blog profiles LA Mood comic shop in London, Ontario.

Item: George Sprott mania continues. Not only are Seth and the great Adrian Tomine embarking on a massive U.S. tour to promote their respective book projects (besides his own graphic novels, Tomine is also the editor/designer of Tatsumi's A Drifting Life), but the reviews for Sprott keep pouring in. Read how George Sprott captures the history and feel of small-town Canadian tv here.

Item: Owl Magazine cartoonist and man of taste C-Ton interviews the young geniuses behind the anthology Wowee Zonk. Essential reading!

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   Wednesday, May 27, 2009  
The C-List: Dispatches from Little Boxes

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/27/2009 11:24:00 AM
We all live in boxes of our own making.

Item: Yesterday, I read part of the second issue of an old Alpha Flight miniseries while sitting on the toilet.

Item: Darcey McLaughlin gives us a little Dave Sim history lesson for the Miramichi Leader.

Item: George Sprott mania continues with Seth being interviewed on CBC's Q radio program (after Larry King).

Item: A videoblog from last weekend's Anime North in Toronto.

(top: Bryan Lee O'Malley drawing that popped up when I googled "comic book" and "toilet")

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   Monday, May 25, 2009  
The C-List: Punk Comics and Comics Punks

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/25/2009 12:16:00 AM


Item: Printer Harmony Printing refuses to print cartoonist Adam Bourrets autobiographical graphic novel I'm Crazy because it depicts (gay) sex. Torontoist has the scoop.

Item: Punk cartoonist Mitch Clem does his duty for Nardwuar and country.

Item: Is Lynn Johnston "bagged" out?

Item: Troy Little gets a short profile in PEI on the occasion of the publication of his graphic novel, Angora Napkin.

Item: cartoonist Evan Munday is also a publicist for Coach House Press and is profiled in the National Post.

Item: Great content at the Shuster Awards blog. Retailer Stadium Comics is interviewed. Kevin Boyd writes about the move away from floppies towards webcomics. Robert Haines writes about Jim Munroe's Sword of My Mouth gn and self-publishing.

Item: Jeet Heer talks about about Orphan Annie in a scholarly interview.

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   Sunday, May 17, 2009  
The C-List: TCAF Link Round-Up, Part 4

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/17/2009 06:00:00 AM
Wow, 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)

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   Tuesday, May 12, 2009  
The C-List: TCAF Link Round-Up, Part 3

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/12/2009 05:59:00 AM


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

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   Monday, May 11, 2009  
The C-List: TCAF Link Round-Up, Part 2

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/11/2009 06:28:00 PM
tcaf poster photo

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

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   Sunday, May 10, 2009  
The C-List: TCAF Blogosphere Wrap-Up 1

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/10/2009 10:14:00 PM

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

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   Saturday, May 09, 2009  
The C-List: TCAF Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/09/2009 12:01:00 PM
Sequential'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!

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   Monday, May 04, 2009  
The C-List: Wolverine Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/04/2009 03:00:00 PM


Because the whole world is now an Alpha Flight fanpage.

Since every third websearch I did in preparation for this post came up with a reference to the new Hugh Jackman movie, I decided to just give in and go with it. It used to be that if there wasn't any actual news about Canadian comics to report, I would punish the Sequential readership with links to news about Alpha Flight. It's a sign of quantity of the Canadian content and the current efforts by Canadian creators that I haven't had to do one of those posts in awhile. Now that everyone on Earth is thinking about a Canadian superhero (albeit a corporate-owned superhero created by Americans), good art still triumphs here at Sequential.

Item: Toronto cartoonist Steve Manale has his apartment and robot collection featured in Eye Weekly.

Item: The National Post goes TCAF crazy, with interviews with Scott Campbell, Tom Humberstone, Paul Rivoche, Ryan North, Tim Fish, and J. Torres, and a backgrounder on the Scott Pilgrim phenom.

Item: Speaking of TCAF, did we mention Sequential is publishing a free print edition for the festival?

Item: And speaking of Scott Pilgrim, Colin Upton finally gets around to reading the fiirst volume in the series, and writes a review.

Item: Again with the Post, Nathalie Atkinson gets some quotes from Ontario retailers on the occasion of Free Comic Book Day.

Item: In other FCBD news, various media cover the events in Edmonton, Toronto, Halifax,

Item: Policart Bruce MacKinnon has won this year's Atlantic Journalism award for editorial cartooning. Congrats Bruce!

Item: D+Q publisher Chris Oliveros writes a long blog post about Doug Wright, making a case for him as a major cartoonist on an international scale and as a great illustrator. Lots of behind-the-scenes about the creation of the brand new Collected Doug Wright book, as well.

Item: Writing for the Central-Plains Herald-Leadre, Sean Borland reviews the new Metic graphic novel anthology, Stories of Our People.

Item: In publishing news, the strip collection L'Age d'Innocence by Eric Peladeau is now available from Editions Zailees.

Item: Zinester and novelist Mike Aragona's Mysterious Mystery Men is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Congrats Mike!

Item: In general book news, the Google copyright settlement deadline has been extended by 4 months and a growing group of authors and estates has formed an opposition.

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Item: Oh yeah, Wolverine. Well, it seems a movie about everyone's favourite superhero with a fictional attachment to Canada (no, not Superman) came out this weekend and made over $80 million in ticket sales. The Canadian-ness of this fact was noted by the New York Times and others. There are several Canadian actors in the film, but Alpha Flight, the Canadian superhero group created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, is referred to only elliptically. And that's all I can bear to link. There is really no comics news here. Well, besides this, which ties in neatly to the Google copyright think, ironically. (Plus, the Shusters are using the character to help with fundraising this year.)

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   Monday, April 27, 2009  
The C-List: Covering the Coverless (Coverloose Club Edition)

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/27/2009 02:59:00 PM
young wimbledon green

Item: In a nice appreciation for the Walrus blog, Sean Rogers writes about how Seth's obsession with old comics helps to rescue great art from oblivion.

Item: The Coast previews your Free Comic Book Day options in Halifax.

Item: Montrealer Sylvain Lamy receives similar treatment.

Item: Frequent Sequential critic Herve covers last weekend's the Calgary comic book convention.

Item: For the same occasion, several Calgary creators are profiled by the Calgary Herald.

Item: Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester are interviewed on Inkstuds about their new Comic Studies Reader.

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   Thursday, April 23, 2009  
The C-List: Quick Links for a Comics Saturated Culture

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/23/2009 02:08:00 PM
Item: York University students under investigation for trowing out piles of student newspaper featuring cartoons critical of Israel.

Item: Maclean's Magazine covers the big name U.S. comic strips covering the economy.

Item: A preview of this weekend's Calgary comic convention.

Item: The Shusters blog interviews Lloyd Chesley & Gareth Gaudin of Legends Comics store in Victoria BC.

Item: Graphic novella genius Seth is interviewed at newsarama about his new book, George Sprott 1894-1975.

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   Thursday, April 16, 2009  
The C-List: Cartoonists Speak

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/16/2009 01:13:00 AM


Item: The cartoonist J.J. McCullough has announced he is retiring his long-running weekly political comic strip Filibuster. The strip has been in existence in various forms online for 8 years. McCullough was also published by the Western Standard. In a letter to his readers, he writes that "I don't feel I have very much to show for it all. If Google Analytics is to be believed, I average an extraordinarily pathetic 2,000 visitors a day, a rate that has remained depressingly constant over the last few years, in spite of producing a number of very popular comics that have been cross-linked from some big-name blogs. In such situations I may get an enormous deluge of new visitors for a day or two, but it always trickles back into a wimpy stream soon enough. I likewise get very few emails from readers, and this site's forum, though home to much intelligent and engaging dialogue, remains sparsely inhabited. It's all very unsatisfying."

Item: Ottawa cartoonist Von Allan is featured in an interview with Rogers tv on the subject of his graphic novel.

Item: The CBC has a preview of the new Collected Doug Wright from D+Q, in slideshow format.

Item: The Festival de la Bande Dessinee Francophone de Quebec is now on (April 15-19) in Quebec City. One of the largest comics events in Canada, the 22nd FBDFQ features a huge number of French-speaking cartoonists, including the great Jacques Tardi. Also upcoming, the Bedeis Causa awards and several booklaunches.

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   Tuesday, April 14, 2009  
The C-List: Post-Easter Canadian Comix Tidbits

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/14/2009 04:13:00 PM
Post-Easter, many empty shells:

Item: Ed Brisson writes to let us know that there will be no Vancouver Comix Jam in April due to conventions, Easer, and booking issues.

Item: Cartoonist Ken Boesem has been honoured by Xtra West magazine as one its Visual Artists of the Year "for capturing and reflecting our everyday lives in his comic strip The Village, a slice-of-life narrative that follows a group of gay Davie Villagers as they struggle with love, life, dating, work, money and friends." Congratulations Ken!

Item: Comic book artist Kaare Andrews is shooting his first movie as a director. The Vancouver production of his thriller Altitude has been getting tons of press, including this profile of leading-lady Jessica Lowndes, and this profile of Andrews himself, who apprenticed at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

Item: Eric San aka dj Kid Koala is prepping a second graphic novel entitle Space Cadet. The artist is profiled by McGill Daily's Liam O'Keefe.

Item: Speaking of cartoonist/musicians, the Wright Award-nominated Chris von Szombathy has a new website. His new cd, as one-half of the duo Tour de Fours, The New Standard, is available on itunes.

Item: at the Shuster Awards blog, Robert Haines interviews Haida manga artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas about his work and new book Flight of the Hummingbird (Greystone Books).

Item: In this Ontario school, the boys and girls are separated and the boys get to read Frank Miller's Dark Knight.

Item: Jeet Heer writes about early graphic book reviews by the American cartoonist Milt Gross.

Item: The Eisner Awards were announced awhile ago, and several Canadian names are on the list, including Seth, Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, Darwyn Cooke, and many others. The Shusters blog and D+Q have coverage.

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   Wednesday, April 08, 2009  
The C-List: Once and Future Comics

:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/08/2009 01:33:00 PM
Item: Quill and Quire has the lowdown on a promotional comic book from Harper Collins:
"the company sent retailers across the country about 4,000 copies of a promotional comic book it created, called The Literates. The comic features the exploits of bookselling superheroes Spine and Paige, who endeavour – in the first issue, at any rate – to convince a reader to purchase American author Christopher Moore's Fool. [...] The eight-page pamphlet has the look and feel of a real comic, and it comes in a protective plastic sleeve with cardboard backing, just like at a real comic book store."


Item: David Collier, look out: You have a challenger in the Hamilton sketching department! McMaster art student Tings Chak is planning a monumental graphic novel about the people and architecture of Lunchbucket City.

Item: The most cosmically significant comic book from DC this week features a story by Guelph homeboy Jay Stephens. Cartoon Network Action Pack #36 has a cover and interior art from Jay and is devoted to his tv show, The Secret Saturdays.

Item: The Globe's James Adams reports that a new alternative to the canceled Book Expo will be held this summer. The new shindig, which publisher's are boycotting, is
"prosaically called Canadian Booksellers Association Summer Conference 2009, will be held June 20-21 in a hotel on Toronto's downtown waterfront. Billed as "stronger, smarter, shorter and sweeter" than BookExpo, it promises a potpourri of events and opportunities - professional development sessions, an awards ceremony, panel discussions with publishing executives, author presentations, previews of marketing, promotion and advertising plans."
Item: The first review I've seen of Seth's new graphic novel, George Sprott.

Item: You can see more of the awesome Pascal Blanchet photo above in this article. Blanchet is also interviewed on CBC radio's Q (along with Billy Bob Thronton). Listen to the podcast.

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   Monday, March 30, 2009  
The C-List: Comics and Taxes

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/30/2009 12:01:00 AM
The Ontario budget was announced last week and the big news is the new harmonized sales tax (HST) which merges the GST with the PST. Under the new tax, which would be implemented in 2010, books will be tax free to buy (in Ontario, they are currently subject to GST but not PST). Also in the budget, a new publishing credit amounting to 30% of the cost of publishing an author's books or publishing electronic books. See the Quill and Quire summary for details.

Very flattering coverage of Edmonton Comic Fest. It attracts nerds and inarticulate fanboys, apparently

It's a Right-Wing lovefest: Ezra Levant has written a book about his fight against the Alberta Human Rights Commission over his re-publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Although the complaint against Levant was eventually withdrawn, the case served to highlight the dangerous power of these commissions to hamper free speech and silence critics. Despite Levant's grandstanding and usually odious politics, this time he was on the side of the angels. Levant's book ("Shakedown") is now out, and conservatives are falling all over each other to help with the hype. He appears on the Michael Coren show here and is reviewed by Rex Murphy here and is given a handjob by Maclean's blogger Andrew Potter here.

J. Torres is interviewed at The Pulse because he's writing a Batman comic for kids. He will melt your heart with his love of old Superfriends cartoons and get you excited about his upcoming graphic novel, Lola: A Ghost Story.

Exhibits: Marc Bell is part of a group show at Magic Pony in Toronto. "Life Drawing" runs to May 10.

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   Friday, March 27, 2009  
The C-List: A Weekend Quickie Catch-Up

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/27/2009 04:00:00 PM
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.

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   Wednesday, March 18, 2009  
The C-List: Thor vs Craptain Canuck

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/18/2009 12:01:00 AM

Quick links to news about Canadian comics and graphic novels. In honour of St, Patrick's day, this edition of the C-List was powered by a shot of Jameson's, 4 cans of Guinness, and half a bottle of wine :

  • A blast from the past: Canadian animator, superhero creator, and comic book artist blogs about the golden age of Nelvana and "classical" animation in Canada. As you can see from the Sequential playlist up top, we feel that the Nelvana Rock N' Rule movie was a seminal moment in Canadian culture and punk rock. (this is an old link, but worth checking out)
  • Internet sensation, Wright Award nominee, and damn fine cartoonist Kate Beaton is profiled in Maclean's Magazine. Sample excerpt: Beaton herself is defensive of this territory, bristling in fact at the suggestion that CanCon could possibly be dull. "Our history is the march of thousands of people across a continent trying to make a life for themselves," she replies. "How can it be boring?"
  • Speaking of the Wright Awards (full disclosure: your humble blogger is one of the organizers of said event), Canada's literary news magazine Quill and Quire has some choice quotes from trophy designer Seth and director Brad Mackay. Quote: Mackay will be handing the job over to actor Don McKellar. "I wanted to step it up a bit this year," (...) Mackay will also be trying to increase the ceremony's entertainment quotient, acknowledging that the awards show could be "really boring"... (Chris Butcher also comments on the nominees here.)
  • Not comics but sorta comics? dept: Some people from the Degrassi tv show (which was turned into a series of bestselling graphic novels by J. Torres and Ramon Perez) are involved in a stage production about the adult lives of characters from the U.S. comic strip Peanuts: "Dog Sees God" explores what might have happened to the Peanuts kids once they grow up and enter high school (the play has not been authorized by the Charles M. Schulz estate).
  • R.I.P. Carol Phillips. The Winnipeg editor was responsible for the lesbian magazine Swerve, gave space to queer comic strips.
  • Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon manga is being offered through Uclick at the Apple Store. Is this the first paper Canadian graphic novel to be available electronically for hand-held devices? Quote: "We're making Dramacon 1.1 free because it gives us a chance to show off our panel-by-panel reading format with a very popular book from our lineup," said Uclick CEO Douglas Edwards. "The Uclick comic apps offer the slickest and most intuitive comics reading experience on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and we offer the widest variety of titles and genres on the Apple devices.
  • Click here to read more on Canadian wrestler/actor James Preston Rogers latest bid to play Thor in Kenneth Branagh's movie production of the Marvel superhero created by Jack Kirby. Rogers' bid for the arian ubermensch role has resulted in a viral campaign (which I guess you're reading part of). According to the National Post, Rogers likens his experience as a bouncer to the thunder god's exile to Midgard as a lame physician.

  • Silver Snail is having its annual MARCH BREAK SALE from Monday March
    16th to Sunday March 22nd ... each day is a different sale, one day might be
    20% off action figures, the next might be 20% off books/comics. To
    find out the daily sales, call the store number, 416-593-0889

  • International: The Globe and Mail covers the upcoming publication of a collection of S & M illustrations purported to be by Superman co-creator Joe Shuster. Although Shuster was a U.S. citizen living in Cleveland when he first illustrated Jerry Siegel's vision of the Man of Steel, he is often referred to as Canadian because he lived in Toronto until he was 10. This book of pornographic images from the 1950s is edited by U.S. designer Craig Yoe and features images from a series of paperback pulp novels called "Nights of Horror". Although several sources have disputed the authorship of the drawings, attributing them rather to members of Shuster's studio, the book is still very intriguing, especially if it proves that Joe Shuster was a pornographer, making explicit the link between sex and superheroes that has existed as a theme of the genre from the very beginning. (Caveat: the article labels as a "myth" that Shuster was screwed by National Periodicals aka DC aka Warner Brothers out of millions of dollars for Superman. This is no myth. It really happened.)
  • Speaking of Joe Shuster: at the Shuster Awards blog, an interview with Oshawa Ontario comics retailer Tim Simms of World's Collide. Simms really likes Thor comics. The blog also offers the first link I've seen to the Obama tribute by Dave Sim (see top image).
  • The Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists has an excerpt from a new book by BC policart Adrian Raeside, who recently made a trip to Antarctica.
  • Cartoons about Bill Bennett: The B.C. politico W.A.C. Bennett is featured in a new exhibit at the Kelowna Museum. Images by great Canadian cartoonists like Sid Barron, Len Borris and (the still with us) Roy Peterson are featured in the exhibit, which runs to April 28th.
  • Bryan Lee O'Malley ran a contest on his blog inviting people to stage their own photos of scenes from the Scott Pilgrim books. Here are the winners.
  • Going the recent DC "After Watchmen" campaign to promote their backlist one better, GQ recommends some comics not published by Warner Brothers, including books by Seth and Guy Delisle. I almost wrote "thumbs down for including Mike Allred's Madman" but when you think about it, Madman is almost better than Watchmen because of its honesty.

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   Thursday, March 12, 2009  
A Self-Publishing Comics Primer on the NMK blog

:: Posted by max @ 3/12/2009 12:55:00 AM
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
"Someone wrote in another Xeric testimonial that you should not attempt self-publishing and all of this business unless you have no choice. This is really true. It's a tonne of work, there's no money in it, and trying to put comic books out there for public consumption is another full-time job on top of doing the actual (creative) work. I have tried to get rid of my bookish compunctions from every possible angle. I went to art school to learn how to make stuff to put into books. I talked emptily about potential book projects for years. I took a course in book publishing so I could make other peoples' books. I've read a million books looking for one that hasn't been written or illustrated yet. And yet all of this has still brought me here."

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   Monday, March 09, 2009  
The C-List: Captain Canuck vs Watchmen

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/09/2009 12:11:00 AM
Here are some links to exciting news stories and blog posts about Canadian comics. Personally, I find the news about a collected Captain Canuck, issues of which are still littering the dollar bins of comic stores across Canada, less exciting than the news about the complete Family Circus, but definitely several rungs above any hype about the Watchmen movie.

  • Sheridan students need donations to help print their annual art book, which usually has some comics.
  • British Beano artist turned Canadian resident David Parsons teaches cartooning class for the kids on during March Break
  • Darwin Lee, a painter, cartoonist and graphic designer/illustrator, has died in Chilliwack, BC, age 65.
  • At the Walrus blog, Sean Rogers provides a corrective to Watchmania, a well-argued list of comics that are critical of superheroes.
  • In a trio of posts, the critic Jeet Heer makes a few points about the Watchmen comic: Heer trashes New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane's misapprehension of comics as art form, then gives the nod to Carter Scholz's 20-year-old critique of Watchmen's crappiness, but then links to Frank Santoro's defense of the book, which basically says that you have to be a true believer (ie, superhero lover) to "get" how radical Alan Moore's comic is.
  • For good measure, I'll add this link of a history of the Watchmen, illustrated by Steve Murray for the National Post.
  • The Shuster Awards blog features an interview with Terrace, B.C. comics retailer Gerry Matson of Comic Encounters.
  • Laurier prof writes book about comics, is "totally looking forward" to Watchmen movie.
  • The same writer conducts a retailer roundtable with several Canadian comic book shops.
  • IDW to reprint Captain Canuck in hardcover format.
  • Seth is interviewed at Toro magazine --the same magazine that partly serialized his still-unfinished graphic novel a few years ago (a message to the wise: track down those rare back issues!).
  • Young cartoonist Sara Mayhew speaks at tech conference.
  • Quill and Quire examines the jury for the upcoming Wright Awards (full disclosure: I am a Wright Awards organizer)

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   Wednesday, February 25, 2009  
C-List: Midweek Meanderings (Gene Day, etc)

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/25/2009 06:00:00 AM

  • The Shuster Awards have announced a new prize, The Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing. The award is named for Day (1951-1982) is perhaps best known as an inker on Marvel's Master of Kung Fu in the 70s and as an early mentor to Dave Sim. He was also a pioneer self-publisher and zine publisher, specializing in horror, sci-fi and other genre material.
  • Matt Forsythe blogs about the cover design to his Ojingogo graphic novel.
  • Not too many cartoonists from the Great White North ever reach a level of success where large toy companies start making action figures of their creations. This small club now includes Jay Stephens.
  • It's a Canada Goose! It's an Avro Arrow! It's ..... Superloonie. ATB Financial, a stock broker, has released a superhero comic designed to help people contribute to an RRSP at tax time.
  • Jiving Jeet Heer, the wisest of Canadian comics critics, is interviewed about classic comic strips and Canadian comics culture at CBR's Robot 6 column.

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   Monday, February 23, 2009  
The C-List: Dispatches from the Land of Mu

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/23/2009 01:27:00 AM
  • At the Shusters blog: Calgary retailer Another Dimension interviewed;
  • Toronto Comics Arts Festival adds 13 more guests (for a total of 120), including Kate Beaton and Ho Che Anderson.
  • Stuart and Kathryn Immonen are interviewed at Newsarama.
  • Toronto comic shop The Beguiling on approved list of suppliers for Ontario schools.
  • At the Globe and Mail, copyright lawyer Grace Westcott discusses the Google bookscanning legal decision ("Google is a behemoth, and the Google Settlement, if approved, will make it the behemoth of the book. It sits astride the textual murmurings of the world. Will the restraints of the Book Registry be enough to keep it from abusing such a position, or will they be like the ropes of the Lilliputians around the sleeping Gulliver?")
  • The Inkstuds podcast interviews Vancouver underground legend George Metzger. (that's his comic up top)

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   Tuesday, February 17, 2009  
The C-List: Distributed Cartooning

:: Posted by Bryan @ 2/17/2009 01:01:00 PM
Some quick links about the art and commerce of comics across Canada:

  • Seaguy sneak-peak: Cameron Stewart pencils for the upcoming Grant Morrison series. The latest installment of Stewart's Sin Titulo webcomic is now online.

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