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New Books: Dirty Dishes by Amy Lockhart  DIRTY DISHES by Amy Lockhart Drawn and Quarterly $11.21 US / $12.71 CDN ISBN 9781770460041 Diamond Code DEC090839 preview pdf about blog Lockhart is an artist and animator who has collaborated with Marc Bell. This is part of the Petits Livres series that D+Q has been putting out the last few years. Some of these are comics, some are art books. I think this is both. As Peggy Burns said in a 2009 interview, the "series is a good example of trying to come up with an alternative format to the pamphlet. There are so many new artists we adore and want to publish, and the pamphlet clearly was not working. The cover price itself makes each book viable for Diamond, but you would be surprised by the unit numbers and the very fact the Petits Livres are books (or perhaps booklets) makes them able to be sold in the book market." Labels: graphic novels, new books, publishing - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, January 25, 2010 New Books: Refus Total by Renaud Germain  Refus total by Renaud Germain $15.50 self-published available here - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, January 21, 2010 New Books: Histoire Absolument Impubliable by David Turgeon  Histoire Absolument Impubliable by David Turgeon Colosse 56 colour pages ISBN # 2923664156 $14.00 Critic and cartoonist Turgeon also has a book out called Salon Du Livre, also from Colosse. Turgeon and the gang will be at the Angouleme festival in France this month. buy it Labels: bd, graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 2 comments Tuesday, January 19, 2010 New Books: Lola by J. Torres  LOLA: A GHOST STORY Written by J. Torres; Art by Elbert Or "Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother — a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town. The same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating ogres in trees. Farmhouses haunted by wraiths. Even pigs possessed by the devil. Upon his grandmother's passing, Jesse has no choice but to face his demons and whatever else might be awaiting him at grandma's house." Oni Press 112 pages Hardcover $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-932664-24-9 Diamond Code: JUL09 1012 Video: See the creators' latest public appearance at Comic Odyssey. Labels: graphic novels, kids comics, new books - Stumble It! - 1 comments Wednesday, January 06, 2010 New Books: Collected Captain Canuck 2  Captain Canuck 2 Richard Comely and George Freeman 152 pages $26 IDW Publishing ISBN-10: 1600105734 ISBN-13: 978-1600105739 The second volume collecting the seminal 1970s Canadian superhero comic book series, illo'd by the great George Freeman, is out today from IDW. Labels: canadian superheroes, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, December 17, 2009 The C-List: New and Old Canadian Comics  Some pre-Xmas Cheer. Item: I actually risked the mall the other day and was delighted to find this giant dvd box set of the seminal Canadian cartoon show Rocket Robin Hood. It just came out and is priced between $20 and $30. Chapters, too.  Item: Jason Kieffer writes to let us know about his new book, The Rabble of Downtown Toronto, a guide to the characters of the big city, with helpful notes and a map. The squarebound book is only available at the Beguiling and through Kieffer himself [email]. Price: $10.Item: Writer Rob Pincombe celebrates the life of Adrian Dingle, creator of 1940s Canadian superheroes Nelvana and The Penguin. Item: Dinner with the policart and comics historian Aislin. Item: Neal Gaiman in Winnipeg. Item: Former math professor and owner of London, Ont.'s first comic book store, Eddie Smet, has donated his 10,000 item comic book collection to Western. Item: Cartoonist Guy Delisle is home for the holidays and will be appearing at the D&Q store in Montreal today (December 17). Animated Conversation, Thursday, 7 p.m. Guy will discusses his graphic novels, which are based on experiences in China, North Korea and Myanmar, and his latest trip to Israel. 211 Bernard St. W., free! Item: The comics phenom of 2010 might just be Scott Pilgrim and the movie based on the book series. Item: The Shuster Awards would like you to help out with their 2010 nominating process. Item: The Toronto Observer covers the Gladstone Small Press festival, including graphic novel creator Mike Leone and his "Freelance Blues." Labels: aperances, awards, C-List, comics history, events, Montreal, movies, new books, reading, Toronto - Stumble It! - 1 comments Friday, November 27, 2009 New Books: Poof! by Line Gamache  Poof! by Line Gamache Conundrum Press $15 A new book from Conundrum's BDAng imprint, this is Gamache's follow-up to "Hello Me Pretty!" from a few years back. It's a beautiful graphic novel epic about creativity and walking the dog. (picture stolen from the Beguiling blog, since I couldn't find a cover shot elsewhere) Labels: graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments 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! - 0 comments Friday, November 13, 2009 New Books: The Road to God Knows... by Von Allan  available here from the press release: Mental illness remains one of Western society's greatest taboos. Those who suffer from various mental health disorders often suffer in silence, with very little support from society. Family members and other loved ones of those afflicted also suffer and are often forced to understand and cope alone. The loneliness, fear and frustration that this can cause is difficult for most people to understand. And this isolation can be far worse when you're a child of a bipolar, schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill parent. Von Allan, an Ottawa-based graphic novelist, has attempted to shed some light on this subject with the publication of his first full-length graphic novel, titled "the road to god knows..." "My mom was diagnosed schizophrenic when I was quite young, maybe 11 or so," said Allan. "She suffered a number of nervous breakdowns as I was growing up, as she battled, often very much alone, a disease that was slowly taking bits of her away. What I remember most vividly about this time was how confused and powerless I was. No one talked with me about what was happening to her and my mom was incapable of explaining it to me herself. I didn't understand and that, combined with what I was experiencing, was really, really scary. There's also odd feelings of guilt that go with this. "Did I do something wrong? Did I somehow cause this?" I wrote and drew this book to shed some light on a very hush-hush topic and hopefully help others, especially kids but really people of all ages, realize that they aren't alone and that they haven't done anything wrong. And neither has the person who is suffering from mental illness." A unique aspect of the graphic novel is its availability in multiple channels. First, the book can be downloaded as a free PDF eBook on the artist's website. In addition, a torrent version has been made available via LegalTorrents.com and the PDF is also available on Scribd.com. The graphic novel is distributed under a Creative Commons Canada licence that grants readers the ability to distribute the online versions of the book for free. "The toughest thing for new artists is just getting noticed. Obscurity, as Tim O'Reilly said, is the enemy and not piracy. By using a variety of online distribution tools as well as more traditional print publishing, I'm hoping people will give the book a try. And maybe it'll get into the hands of someone who could really use it. The book is also available through online retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and can also be purchased in comic shops like Jim Hanley's Universe in New York, Atlantis Fantasyworld in Santa Cruz, Cosmic Monkey Comics in Portland, and bookstores like Perfect Books in Ottawa." "The road to god knows..." is the story of Marie, a teenage girl coming to grips with her Mom's schizophrenia. As a result, she's struggling to grow up fast; wrestling with poverty, loneliness, and her Mom's illness every step of the way. At the start of the story, we see a scared young girl, uncertain and overwhelmed, but as her mom collapses into a full nervous breakdown, Marie is forced to examine herself and her life and come to a decision: does she continue to be a child, reacting to what's happening around her? Or does she take control of her life, come what may? "the road to god knos..." has an ISBN of 978-0-9781237-0-3, a suggested retail price of $12.95 US/$13.99 CDN and is 148 pages in length. Labels: graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, November 11, 2009 New Books: Pope Hats #1 by Ethan Rilly  Pope Hats #1Ethan Rilly AdHouse Books $4.00 US ISBN 978-0-9812013-0-6 Pope Hats follows the trials of a young woman named Frances Scarland, whose social circle mainly consists of an alcoholic actress and an inept ghost named Saarsgard. The comic is an engaging slice-of-life story about young people navigating their own daily shortcomings. Pope Hats was the winner of a 2008 Xeric Foundation Grant. An earlier mini-comic version of the story was shortlisted for the 2008 Doug Wright Awards in the category of Best Emerging Talent. "Pope Hats by Ethan Rilly is the most impressive debut comic I've seen in years. The work has that deceptive quality of ease about it—the characters breeze across the page with sparkling dialogue and wonderfully observed gestures." --Seth - Stumble It! - 0 comments New Books: Beast by Marian Churchland  Beast by Marian Churchland Image Comics 152 pgs $15.99 # ISBN-10: 1607061473 # ISBN-13: 978-1607061472 Colette, a young sculptor looking for work, finds a job with a mysterious client who wants her to carve his portrait out of marble. The client turns out to be a shadowy creature, and the block of marble, she discovers, has a long history that threatens to engulf her entirely." Labels: graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, November 04, 2009 New Books: Sweet Tooth #3  Sweet Tooth #3 comic book by Jeff Lemire DC/Vertigo preview - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Red Jumps to the top of Bookmanager sales lists   Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas most recent book Red is the #1 best seller this month...With the return of Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 the Haida Manga is in fact the 4th over all best selling Graphic Novel this month, by a Canadian author or otherwise sold in Canada. At the time of this post it ranks 2nd on the Book manager list in fact, sales rank #946 and in 'high demand'. Nice way to kick things off for Michael and i thought i'd pass on some fresh links from him to mark the occasion. "Red becomes a real test of whether there is an interest, I think, in Canada, to explore the mythology of what is the Indian, in a populist form," he says. RED the Special Edition each copy includes the following One original watercolored haida manga painting 8.5" X 7" on 100 cotton 140lb Arches paper. Signed and catalogued. Painted paper bookmark. Color poster of the original mural. A unique number out of a total run of 100 copies only. Slipcased in Haida manga design with stitched in cloth marker. Autographed and can be personalized. Purchase by contacting: Angela Powell Labels: bestsellers, British Columbia, comics history, hidamanga, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, October 29, 2009 Seth reading at the D&Q shop November 3rd  Under a cover sporting a Salgood Sam illustration, the Montreal Mirror has a short piece announcing an up coming reading at the D&Q shop with Seth...A LIFE IN PICTURES:
View Larger Map Labels: aperances, Montreal, new books, Quebec, reading, singing - Stumble It! - 0 comments Kill Shakespeare in 2010  KILL SHAKESPEARE is a dark tale casting Shakespeare's greatest hero's against his worst Villans. Led by Hamlet - Juliet, Othello, Falstaff, Romeo and Puck begin a heroic journey to discover a long-lost soul - a reclusive magician whom may have the ability to assist them in their battle against evil forces, led by Richard III, Lady MacBeth and Iago. That reclusive magician? William Shakespeare.
Sounds like a rawkus book - and well promoted so far - though rifting on the bard, they best keep an eye on the gamer and such. ;) They describe it as "A combination of "Lord of the Rings", "Shakespeare in Love", "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "Justice League of America", it is a tale that has action and adventure, love and romance, comedy, drama and bloody violence. It's an adventure of Shakespearean proportions." 'Ba-dum-bump! tish!' killshakespeare.com youtube bleedingcool.com - Stumble It! - 0 comments Friday, October 23, 2009 New Books: Red, a Haida Manga   RedA Haida Manga By Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas October 2009 ISBN 978-1-55365-353-0 Hardcover 8" x 8 3/4" 120 pages 108 colour illustrations Fiction Comics & Graphic Novels $28.95 CAD Douglas & McIntyre Labels: graphic novels, manga, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, October 22, 2009 New Books: Looking for Group, volume 2  Looking For Group Vol. 2 Trade Paperback Blind Ferret Entertainment full colour/128 pages US$14.95 Written by Ryan Sohmer, art by Lar DeSouza The continuing adventures of the roleplaying parody webcomic. Labels: comic strips, new books, webcomics - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, October 21, 2009 New Books: Nightschool 2 by Svetlana Chmakova  Nightschool: The Weirn Books Vol. 2 Trade Paperback Yen Press US$10.99 by Svetlana Chmakova ISBN: 978-0-7595-2860-4 - Stumble It! - 0 comments A certain bent appeal likes a Quarter Life CrisisCo: Google alerts: book review of Evan Munday's Quarter Life Crisis  "Toronto has what I would call a fairly respectable comics scene - from the ongoing popularity of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to the existence of several fine comics stores (including my fave, The Beguiling) and the noticeable increase in comics-related booths and programming at Word on the Street this year." Labels: new books, Ontario, reviews, Toronto, wordonthestreet - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Lancement de Veena et les spectres du temps avec Eric Theriault  Co: Eric Theriault "Hello friends! It is my pleasure to invite you to the launch of my new book Friday, October 23 at librairie Planete BD. I am glad to see this new Veena comic finished, a compilation of 3 older stories and a new novel, all in full-color and for the first time in French! The book is published by les editions 400 Coups in the Rotor collection, edited by Michel Viau. Ca me fait plaisir de vous inviter au lancement de mon nouveau livre, ce vendredi 23 octobre a la librairie Planete BD. Je suis bien content de voir termine ce nouveau livre de Veena et les Spectres du Temps qui est une compilation de 3 histoires classiques et une nouvelle inedite, tout en couleur et pour la premiere fois, en francais. Le livre est edite par les editions 400 Coups dans la collection Rotor, dirigee par Michel Viau, cartonne a toute epreuve avec une belle couverture à vernis selectif!" Eric's home page Facebook event page Friday, 23 October 2009 17:30 - 21:00 Planète BD 3883 St-Denis Montreal, QC View Larger Map Labels: book launches, Montreal, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments New Books: Hot Potatoe by Marc Bell  Hot PotatoeMarc Bell October 2009 Fine Ahtwerks: 2001-2008 D+Q - ISBN: 9781897299890 $34.95 US / $39.95 CDN  Bell is touring cross country to promote Hot Potatoe, here's a list of his booked appearances: 10/15, 5-7pm Adam Baumgold Gallery New York, NY Labels: art books, events, graphic novels, new books, tours - Stumble It! - 0 comments Saturday, October 10, 2009 EXPOZINE 2009 MONTREAL'S EIGHTH ANNUAL SMALL PRESS, COMIC AND ZINE FAIR! Free admission. Thousands of new books, cool comix, poster, buttons, freaking you name it. Expozine, Montreal's annual small press, comic and zine fair, will take place on Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15, 2009, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Eglise Saint-Enfant Jesus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Metro). [street view links] For the last few years EXPOZINE has been huge bringing together nearly 300 creators of all kinds of printed matter - from books to zines to poster art and comics - in both English and French. It has become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. This year for the first time there will also be a program of discussions and readings running throughout the event, as well as an opening party on Friday, November 13 (details to be announced). Not to be missed! To reserve a table at Expozine, fill out the registration form at www.expozine.ca before November 2, 2009, or mail the printed form to Arcmtl, box 1232, Place d'Armes, Montreal Que. H2Y 3K2. We're also looking for sponsors!!! For information on becoming a sponsor, contact us by email at expozine@archivemontreal.org. www.expozine.ca I will be there, will you? Expozine is made possible through the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts de Montreal. Merci very much! Labels: can-con, conventions, events, Expozine, festivals, new books, zine fair, zines - Stumble It! - 0 comments Friday, October 09, 2009 New Books: Nombrils 4  Les Nombrils 4: Duel de belles by DELAF & DUBUC Dupuis 48 pgs The international bestselling series continues. - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, October 07, 2009 New Books: Tuer Velasquez by Philippe Girard  Tuer Velasquez by Philippe Girard Glenat Quebec ISBN # 72923621173 $19.95 A childhood memoir by the author of "The Ravine". Labels: bd, graphic novels, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, October 01, 2009 The C-List: October SurprisesWell, the C-List is back from its adventure in Toronto. Max and I had fun hosting two events at the Word on the Street festival. Our thanks to participants Kevin Boyd, Willow Dawson, Jeff Lemire, Brad Mackay, and Evan Munday, and to the organizers and volunteers, especially Peter and Chris from the Beguiling/TCAF. Max recorded our two panels but the audio is not ready yet -- Jamie Colville also did some recording and you can find those files here [Sequential Presents: Oh, Canada. Surveying the Landscape of Canadian Comics. 50:50, 46.5mb]and here [Webcomics! 50:02, 45.8mb], with some info posted on the source page here! It was very nice to meet cartoonists Dave Lapp and Tory Woollcott, as well as chat with Chester Brown and Chris Oliveros, who were hard at work making sure everyone in Toronto owns a signed copy of Louis Riel. I bought alot of comics, both at WOTS and around town (including a small pile of the overlooked early 80s masterpiece, The New Adventures of Superboy), and overall had a battery-recharging mini-holiday. So now, back to the linkage: Item: The Shuster Awards wrap-ups continue and the Shuster Awards blog has all the links, including Robert Pincombe's overview & Kevin Boyd's response, wth mention of our WOTS panel; a whole bunch of other reports; and Jason Truong's report. The audio of the event is posted by Jamie Coville here. Again details on his site. Item: Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks --who signed at the Shuster table at WOTS-- has signed with First Second Books to publish her next graphic novel, Friends With Boys. Item: Historian Jeet Heer contributed an essay to the beautiful-looking Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek: Comics and Art 1900-1915, which was released this past Wednesday. Item: I'm not sure what Cerebus TV is, but I'm hoping Dave Sim's Shuster speech will be available there soon. Item: Walrus blogger Sean Rogers reviews 3 new comics reprint collections. Item: The National Post reviews Jeff Lemire's The Nobody for its Fall Books section. Item: The Peterborough, Ontario Regional Health Centre has released a comic for kids about infectious disease. Item: Seth provides a little background about the giant Wine King float we mentioned last week for the National Post. Item: Last chance to get it on at the Rated R Show, it closes today in Toronto. Max stopped in hours before getting on a bus back to Montreal, and made this Video report, playing now on Sequential TV. There are also three clips after it documenting the event published by the organizers themselves. Labels: awards, C-List, new books, shusters, Toronto, wordonthestreet - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, September 28, 2009 The Hipless Boy by Sully launches in Montreal September 29  "My book! I'm launching my book! I spent years making this thing! The cover is orange like a popsicle! The back cover looks like a tequila sunrise! Hope to see you there." Say for a second you're just a normal person. You live in a hipster neighbourhood but you’re not a hipster. You’re hipless. This the premise behind this collection of interlinked stories done in a graphic novel format that originally found life as a weekly column in the McGill Daily. The protagonist here tries to live his life like an open heart, and a curious cat, meeting and mingling with a collection of Montreal oddballs. He finds love, loses love, learns to like cross-dressing, and finds something else. Along for the ride are his best friends Minerva and Owen. She is a semi-bisexual private-school dropout, he is an art-school fabulist who constantly conjures up new ways to court controversy. Samples Publishers Site Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore 211 Bernard O. Montreal, QC Labels: events, events links, Montreal, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Sunday, September 27, 2009 New Books: Aplomb by Vincent Giard  APLOMB by Vincent Giard 136 pages b+w collection colosse first 400 covers are unique $14.00 Labels: bd, graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, September 16, 2009 New Books: Little Lush  by Jacinthe Leclerc (words) and Eva Rollin (pictures)
- Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, September 14, 2009 New Books: Mirror Mind by Tory Woollcott  Mirror Mind by Tory Woollcott (self-published/Maybe Mumkin) $12.00 Canadian plus shipping + handling CTV interview Blog Site A graphic novel about growing up dyslexic. Labels: graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Friday, September 11, 2009 New Books: Back + Forth  Back + Forthby Marta Chudolinska Porcupine's Quill Press {LINK?} Wordless linocut graphic novel about time travel and Canadian landscape. Open Book Interview Profile Now and a short film! Printmaking with Marta Chudolinska from NOW Magazine on Vimeo. A video of printmaking with Toronto artist Marta Chudolinska. Labels: graphic novels, new books, woodcuts - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, September 08, 2009 Transmission X newstrips on 9.9.9.9.9.  TX Comics is Presenting three new creator-owned series Wednesday, September 9th 2009 at 09:09am.The critically-acclaimed webcomics collective adds Aardehn by Eric Vedder, Streta by Eric Kim and Butternutsquash by Rob Coughler and Ramon Perez! These new series join the current lineup on TX, the Eisner Award-nominated The Abominable Charles Christopher by Karl Kerschl (artist/writer of The Flash in DC Comics' Wednesday Comics and Teen Titans Year One), Sin Titulo by Eisner- and Shuster-Award nominee Cameron Stewart (artist of Catwoman, Seaguy and The Other Side), and Kukuburi by Ramon Perez. Aardehn, written and drawn by Eric Vedder, is a sprawling epic set in a magical world where fantasy and science collide, and prophecies of old threaten to bring about its end. Vedder is an accomplished artist whose credits include Deadpool and Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics, Street Fighter, and various video game concept illustration. Streta, written and drawn by Eric Kim, is a science-fiction action-comedy about an ordinary guy who has to confront intergalactic bounty hunters, space pirates, and the cosmic ninjas, all while trying to win over the girl of his dreams. Kim has previously illustrated the original graphic novel series Love As A Foreign Language for Oni Press, and his forthcoming book Billy Smoke is in development as a major motion picture starring Matthew Fox. Butternutsquash, co-written by Ramon Perez and Rob Coughler with art by Perez, is the long-running and popular semi-autobiographical comedy about a group of friends entrenched in their own self-deluded world in pursuit of the next great scheme, next great girl or just the next great cup of coffee. Perez is known to regular TX readers as the writer/artist of Kukuburi, whose credits also include Star Wars, Resistance: Fall of Man, Justice Society of America, and the forthcoming true-crime graphic novel Green River Killer. TX Comics is a collective of professional illustrators and cartoonists who united in their desire to produce top-flight comics on their own terms somehow. Recognizing the potential of the internet as the new primary source of art and entertainment for many potential readers - motivated by their interest in producing personal work free from commercial and editorial constraint, while still keeping the day job for the most part, the artists of TX have joined forces to create a site where there's regular high-quality comics, some of them arguably the best yet seen on the web. Labels: comic strips, new books, news, webcomics - Stumble It! - 0 comments Looking Forward: New Books  Upcoming books that we are looking forward to at Sequential:The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective by Patrick Rosenkranz Fantagraphics Underground historian turns his sites on Canadian underground legend Rand Holmes, with a full biography and a reprinting of several graphic novels, all in one attractive package.  Hot Potatoe Fine Ahtwerks: 2001-2008 Marc Bell D+Q "Part art monograph, part comics collection, HOT POTATOE is filled with mixed media cardboard constructions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell’s most intense, dizzying comics from the contemporary avant-garde comics anthologies – Kramers Ergot and The Ganzfeld." (so you have a book or comic coming out? Would you like Sequential to help publicize it? Please let us know.) Labels: looking forward, new books, publishing - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, September 02, 2009 New Books: Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire  Giles Goat Boy meets Apocalypse Nerd Now that he's paid homage in a way to Jules Verne in his Nobody graphic novel, Jeff Lemire seems to be turning his sights on HG Wells. Lemire's new Vertigo series is out today, at an introductory price of $1.00 for the first issue. The series premise sounds like a mash-up of everything from John Barth to The Road to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake to The Island of Dr. Moreau to Marvel's Woodgod character of the 1970s: Sweet Tooth #1 Written by Jeff Lemire; Art and cover by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo/DC) From out of the deep woods and the mind of acclaimed indie cartoonist Jeff Lemire (THE NOBODY, The Essex County Trilogy) comes a new Vertigo monthly ongoing series like no other! After being raised in total isolation, Gus – a boy born with deer-like antlers – is left to survive in an American landscape devastated a decade earlier by an inexplicable pandemic. Even more remarkable is that Gus is part of a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children who have emerged in its wake, all apparently immune to the infection. Enter Jepperd, a violent, hulking drifter who soon takes in Gus and promises to lead him to "The Preserve," a fabled safe-haven for hybrid children. Along the way they'll have to contend with science militias, deadly scavengers, rival bounty hunters, and hybrid worshipping cultists as they fight to make it to safety and solve the mysteries of this deadly new frontier. This bizarre and haunting new series is boldly written and illustrated by Eisner-nominated creator Jeff Lemire and elegantly colored by fellow Eisner nominee Jose Villarubia. A little boy with antlers, a big man with guns, a world without hope – SWEET TOOTH #1 ships in September for only $1.00! Plus, don't miss a free preview of this title in August's JACK OF FABLES #37! * Vertigo * 32pg. * Color * $1.00 US * Mature Readers On Sale September 2, 2009 Bonus: read Lemire on 4 ugly comics with post-apocalyptic themes that influenced his new book. - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, July 15, 2009 New Sites - MONTREAL COMIC-CON & Sword of My Mouth 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. 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!
Labels: conventions, links, Montreal, new books, Ontario, publishing, Quebec, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - 0 comments The C-List: Canadian Comics in the SummertimeSome 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 Labels: British Columbia, C-List, comic jams, conventions, international, interviews, links, new books, Ontario, publishing, Quebec, social ink, Toronto, Vancouver, webcomics - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, July 07, 2009 CBR - LEMIRE ON "ESSEX COUNTY" & NEW VERTIGO WORKJust came across this, new post on CBR, looks like a nice interview with Jeff Lemire about his newest books! "Jeff Lemire has a feel for small towns. His "Essex County" trilogy of graphic novels, a multigenerational saga exploring the relationships between and within families in a small farming community, has won awards from the American Library Association, taken the Joe Shuster Award honoring Canadian cartoonists, and has been nominated for an Ignatz, a Harvey, and two Eisner Awards. Labels: can-con, international, interviews, new books, Ontario - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, July 02, 2009 New Books: The Nobody by Jeff Lemire  The Nobody by Jeff Lemire. DC/Vertigo b+w, hardcover, 144 pages US$19.99 ISBN 9781401220808 As Jeff Lemire notes on his blog, "Due to a mix up The Nobody will ship a week late and will now be in bookstores July 7 and Comic Book Stores July 8. I will however be signing at Comics And More at Danforth and Greenwood (steps from the Greenwood subway stop) in Toronto THURDSAY JULY 2, between 4-6 and I will have advance copies of THE NOBODY for sale a week early! I will also have a limited edition Nobody print, free for anyone who wants one and some other freebies, original artwork etc." From the publisher: The tiny, isolated fishing village of Large Mouth never saw much excitement — until the arrival of the stranger, that is. Wrapped from head to toe in bandages and wearing weird goggles, he quietly took up residence in the sleepy town's motel. Driven by curiosity, the townfolk quickly learn the tragic story of his past, and of the terrible accident that left him horribly disfigured. Eventually, the town embraces the stranger as one of their own — but do his bandages hide more than just scars? Labels: graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Sunday, June 28, 2009 An argument for BloodOk, so the headline is a bit hyperbolic, but it amused me. This is pretty cool, Matt sent this to me while I was in NY an moronically i failed to post it then, dope. Sorry 'bout that. This features some interesting pencil art, no inking and a lot of texture by Mike Shoyket. [link?] Working on promoting Captain Blood, a novel adaptation I wrote for SLG, we were faced with the now-familiar quandry of how to encourage individual retailers to order the book rather than hoping to see it on shelves. Rather than get into the whole issue here, I refer you to the comic below -- rewritten and relettered pages from the original Captain Blood #1 -- that illustrate the whole situation in brilliant 1700s action! For my tardiness I claim exhaustion and a mild travelers high. Looked good right off but i only just read it all the way through now. Spoiler/Warning, "Big Publisher Beach" not cast in such a kind light here, I take it as satire myself but if you disagree perhapses you will mention this at your local comic shop and ask them what they think after showing them? Enjoy!  And, there's a trailer too of course... :) Captain Blood Trailer from SLG Publishing on Vimeo. Labels: can-con, interweb, manifestos, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 2 comments Wednesday, June 24, 2009 New Books: Rex Libris 2  Rex Libris Vol. 2: Book Of Monsters by James Turner SLG Publishing US$17.95 Labels: graphic novels, new books - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, June 22, 2009 New Books: The Collected Captain Canuck, Vol 1  Captain Canuck Vol. 1 Written by Richard Comely, art by George Freeman, Jean-Claude St.Aubin 152 Pages $24.99 Full-colour hardcover IDW Publishing June 2009 An archival edition of the seminal 1970s superhero comic book series featuring art by the underrated yet fondly-remembered George Freeman. Erroneously credited as "Canada’s first superhero" by re-publisher IDW, the first volume features issues #4-10 of the original series published by Comely Comics (widely available in bargain bins for decades). Labels: canadian superheroes, comics history, floppies, new books, publishing - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, June 15, 2009 New Books: Taddle Creek, Summer 2009  Taddle Creek Summer Number 2009 (Issue 22) Taddle Creek, the Toronto-centric, bi-annual literary magazine, has gone from comics-freindly to comics-crazy and published a full-colour, "floppy"-style comic book as its latest issue. The best comics anthology I've seen this year, the mag is anchored by a stunning stand-out history of the Atomic Bomb by Michael Cho. Cho has been a regular contributor and cover artist for the mag and won a Silver National Magazine Award in 2007 for one of his comic stories. You can see a preview of the J.Bone piece from the current issue here. From the publisher: "... thirty-six pages of all-new, full-colour comics by J. Bone, Michael Cho, Dave Lapp, Steven Charles Manale, Fiona Smyth, and Zach Worton, with a wraparound cover by Steve Wilson. Best of all, the issue is the size of a regular comic, allowing it to fit in a comic bag so you can rush right home and file the issue in your longbox, unread, to ensure its future value." Labels: anthologies, magazines, new books, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, June 09, 2009 New Books: The Undertaking by Michael J. Hind  The Undertaking Michael J. Hind Conundrum Press ISBN 978-1-894994-39-2 88 pages $15 CDN / US From the publisher: "The Undertaking, is the saga of the Ward family and its oldest son Donald (D), who finds himself holding together the family undertaking business during the Second World War in Britain. They must deal with death on a professional level, yet are as human and flawed as anybody else when dealing with the loss of one of their own. The book opens on a funeral and is told dramatically through flashbacks, where we learn of the losses and regrets that have brought them to this place, and of those family secrets they bear together that may save them. A sort of D.H. Lawrence meets Six Feet Under." Labels: graphic novels, Montreal, new books, publishing - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, May 28, 2009 New Books from New Reliable: True Loves 2  True Loves Vol. 2: Trouble In ParadiseCheck it out, a sweet 26 page PDF Preview! This is a nice looking book, wish i had sold more, i broke and chose to grab Jan's [preview] at TCAF [max] but I would have liked to get this then too, sorry Jason! Written by the talented Jason Turner and Manien Bothma. They appeared on Inkstuds April the 22nd to talk about the book, you can catch the podcast here. See the booklaunch post on the NR blog for details about True Loves 2/Jan's Atomic Heart joint launch at Lucky's. Take note of the custom beer bottle labels people! I don't even drink beer but that's a great idea. (Trade Paperback) New Reliable Press US$8.95 Labels: graphic novels, new books, publishing - Stumble It! - 0 comments Friday, May 08, 2009 Sequential Pulp in the pixels
Labels: comic strips, comics criticism, comics history, comics in libraries, interviews, Montreal, new books, Ontario, profiles, Quebec, Sequential Pulp, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto, Vancouver - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, May 04, 2009 Pope Hats / Laff Depot launch  Labels: awards, book launches, new books, Ontario, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, April 08, 2009 The C-List: Once and Future Comics  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. Labels: C-List, conventions, events, festivals, links, new books, publishing, reviews - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Angora Napkin' Book Signing and Preview  IDW artist / writer Troy Little will be visiting Strange Adventures to sign copies of his new graphic novel "Angora Napkin" and showing previews of the upcoming animated pilot that will be airing on Teletoon this spring!Strange Adventures is also holding a sale that day! Go Green for St. Patrick Day and save 20%!! Links Labels: book launches, events, events links, Halifax, new books, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - 0 comments Launch for Pascal Blanchet's new book: Baloney! Following White Rapids -- named "Best Comic of 2007" by The Onion -- Pascal Blanchet brings us Baloney. Winds swirl and darkness reigns over a hamlet perched atop a craggy peak. Russian fatalism sets the tone as Blanchet orchestrates the tale of a village butcher, his disabled daughter, and her tutor, in their doomed uprising against the swaggering Duke Shostakov, local governor and owner of the only heating company in town. Curvy, retro lines and atmospheric, full-page panels evoke plaintive melodies, staccato passages and soaring solos. In a graphic novel about love and despair that is also a homage to the music of the 1930s and 40s, double bassists and trombonists lean into the frame, striking up a score that blends vaudeville with Kurt Weill and Russia's great modern composers. Rendered in two-color, red and black chiaroscuro, light struggles to emerge from darkness and endurance makes way for heroism, all to no avail. Read Baloney as a reverie composed to the melodies of Prokofiev and Shostakovich: a beautiful conjuring of moods, or a call to arms against the exorbitant rates charged by utilities. Praise for White Rapids:Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm 211 Bernard O. Montreal, QC 5142792224 rory@drawnandquarterly.com Labels: book launches, events, events links, Montreal, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, March 02, 2009 EXPOZINE Awards Gala Tuesday, March 3  The Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala *free admission* Come and celebrate the best of the nearly 300 small presses that took part in last fall's Expozine small press, comic and zine fair! Six prizes will be awarded, recognizing the best book, comic and zine sold at Expozine. Each exhibitor was asked to submit one publication, and the winners were chosen by an esteemed panel of judges out of the hundreds of publications submitted at Expozine 2008. The gala is a rare chance for you to meet and mingle with the most talented up-and-comers of the local publishing scene, as well as purchase copies of the 36 short-listed titles. Admission is free, beer and liquor specials will be in effect, and your MC, Ed Fuller, will regale the crowd! Les nomines: Nomines francophones fanzines : Trio a emporter, par Kathey Tibo Gargouillis indigeste #003, www.gargouillis.com Ffsshmrwlbaouarf par Simon Bosse/ Mille Putois, www.myspace.com/milleputois Ectropion, collectif de cremation litteraire, www.myspace.com/zineectropion Fanzine sans titre, Genevieve Dumas Toxico (Fanzine # 3), par Delf Berg, delfberg.blogspot.com Nomines francophones BD : Hasemeister : C'etait 2007, Frederic Mahieu, www.hasemeister.com La terreur noir pâle, C. Reney Fatima, A. Desmarteaux, Egotrip Productions, www.arthuro.ca Une aventure de M. Pixel, etienne Beck, L'Employe du Moi, www.employe-du-moi.org Chimeris 1: Sirus, Adeline Lamarre, Vaar editeur, www.vaar.ca Humoro Sapiens, Yayo, Les 400 Coups, www.editions400coups.ca Nomines francophones livres : Stephane Ranger, Plusieurs excuses, Ta mere, tamere.org Isabelle Ayotte, Les solitudes de la premiere saison, www.isabelleayotte.blogspot.com Karmen Mantha, Tout est interrelie, editions du Pigeon, www.editionsdupigeon.com Mario Rendace, 28 petites fables typographiques, editions du Colporteur Marie-Andree Gilbert, Le velo couleur peau, editions Les Raboussiers, lesraboussiers.blogspot.com Maxime DeBleu, Une autre seconde, editions Ü, www.utrema.ca The nominees : English Zine: Four Minutes To Midnight no. 10, www.lokidesign.net/2356 Nailbiter: An Anxiety Zine, www.steemilie.free23.net Soulgazers II, Camilla Wynne, Michelle Sterling, Simon Reader, Jeff Miller, Spencer Krug, Anna Leventhal Lickety Split no. 7, www.licketysplitzine.com Mostly True vol.19 issue 7, Bill Daniel, Microcosm Publishing, www.billdaniel.net, www.microcosmpublishing.com Place Magazine, Winter 08 issue, www.placemag.org English Book: Words the Dog Knows, J.R. Carpenter, Conundrum Press, www.conundrumpress.com The Debaucher, Jason Camlot, Insomniac Press www.insomniacpress.com The Sunlight Chronicles, Chris Dyer, Divine Life LLC, www.sunlight-chronicles.com Fear Of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles & Marlena Zuber, Invisible Publishing, www.invisiblepublishing.com Blert, Jordan Scott, Coach House Books, www.chbooks.com Jack, Mike Spry, Snare Books, snarebooks.wordpress.com English Comic: Mourning a lover, Sofeel, myspace.com/sofeel Welcome to the Dollhouse by Ken Dahl, Microcosm Publishing, www.microcosmpublishing.com BFF by Nate Beaty, Microcosm Publishing, natebeaty.com, www.microcosmpublishing.com Hypocrite, Dakota McFadzean, dakota.mcfadzean.googlepages.com Finding Joy, Luke Ramsey, Anteism Publishing, islandsfold.com Kieffer #2, Jason Kieffer, jasonkieffer.com Le Chic Gala des Prix Expozine de l'edition alternative *c'est gratuit!* Dans ses sept annees d'existence, Expozine, la foire annuelle des fanzines, bandes dessinees et petits editeurs de Montreal, est devenu le plus grand rassemblement de publications alternative au pays. L'edition 2008 d'Expozine a battue les records, avec pres de 300 exposants presents et environs 15 000 visiteurs. Le comite organisateur a demande a chacun des exposants de soumettre leur meilleure creation. Six juges distingues ont procede au choix de six finalistes par categorie, les gagnants seront annonces au gala anime par le maître de ceremonie Ed Fuller. De plus, DES COPIES DES 36 PUBLICATIONS NOMINeES SERONT DISPONIBLES POUR ACHAT AU GALA (yay!) -- une rare occasion de se procurer des exemplaires de ces publications souvent obscures, inusitees et la plupart du temps produites a tirages tres limites! Tuesday, March 3, 7:00pm 4873. St-Laurent Montreal, QC facebookpage Labels: awards, bd, events, events links, Expozine, Montreal, new books, Quebec, zine fair, zines - Stumble It! - 0 comments Scrape - a new venture for William Brian Maclean  Scrape - a Cervical Adventure is a 16-page story about a young couple and a broken condom. As RoosterTree ComicLit's 1st release, this microcomic is available exclusively through the RTCL website. $1.25 CAD - B+W with hand-coloured cover elements - http://www.roostertree.com/ Links > William Brian Maclean > RoosterTree ComicLit Labels: new books, Ontario, small press, zines - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Jim Munro & Shannon Gerard present Sword of My Mouth #1  In a follow-up sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel Therefore Repent! writer Jim Munroe once again takes us into his world of post-Rapture America, where the immoral majority remains, and nothing quite makes sense.Join Ella, and her not-quite-right baby as they try to make a life in a very different Detroit, one where magic works and no one seems safe from unexplainable mutations, not even it seems the truly innocent. Sword of My Mouth #1 Pick up the first of this six-issue series and delve into this very strange-yet-fascinating take on the "End Times." And if you haven't seen it, be sure to ask you retailer for a copy of the original graphic novel Therefore Repent! available now! FREE DIGITAL COPY: If you want to preview the grafic novel Therefore Repent! it's now also available for download via the NMK site here. Labels: digital comics, downloads, free, new books, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Friday, February 20, 2009 Denis Rodier launches L'Ordre des Dragons chez Planete BD  Co: FacebookDenis Rodier will be appearing at to launch the second volume of his series L'Ordre des Dragons, "Mount Moses" (with Jean-Luc Istin on Sunday). Denis Rodier revient nous visiter nous visiter pour dedicacer le deuxieme volume de son excellente serie L'Ordre des Dragons, "Le Mont Moïse" (avec Jean-Luc Istin, chez Soleil). Labels: bd, book launches, Montreal, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Dave Lapp in the Toronto StarDave Lapp, creator 'Drop-In', featured in the Toronto Star: Links: Toronto Star article Conundrum Press Dave Lapp's site Children of the Atom Labels: new books, news, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, November 27, 2008 EXPOZINE 2008 | Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30 EXPOZINE 2008 will take place on Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30, 2008, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique [map] (Eglise Saint-Enfant Jesus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Metro). Free admission! "This incredible event brings together over 250 creators of all kinds of printed matter – from books to zines to posters and comics – in both English and French. In the past seven years, Expozine has become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from as far afield as Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, and Quebec City!  Labels: conventions, ephemera, events, events links, Expozine, Montreal, new books, Ottawa, photos, poetry, small press, Toronto, undergrounds, zine fair, zines - Stumble It! - 0 comments Sunday, September 21, 2008 MiniKim Launch at Librairie Planete BD  I just checked out Librairie Planete BD for the first time the other week. It's a really cool BD shop on one of the more popular and fashionable parts of town in Montreal. It's also a few blocks from both Millenium and Fichtre, but closer to downtown which will work for them. Local Artist MiniKim is Lunching her newest book there in September, you can sign up for the events facebook page here. It's the second one in the all ages series, called Alta Donna! La jeune dessinatrice MiniKim vient nous presenter sa nouveaute, le deuxieme tome de Alta Donna, une serie haute en couleurs pour toute la famille ! Sunday, September 21, 2008 2:00pm - 4:00pm Planete BD 3883 St-Denis Montreal, QC Labels: bd, book launches, Montreal, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, August 21, 2008 The ego and the squid : Ojingogo book launch @ the Drawn & Quarterly Store   Montrealer Matt Forsythe got the cover of this weeks Montreal Mirror and a nice big full page interview/profile inside by Rupert Bottenberg to announce the launch of his new D&Q book this coming weekend, Ojingogo."I feel like I'm just escorting this thing along, not driving it," says illustrator and comic artist Matt Forsythe of Ojingogo, his new graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly. "It's kinda weird seeing my name on the cover-that's how dissociated I feel from it." Ojingogo book launch at the Drawn & Quarterly Store on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 7:30 p.m. Labels: book launches, Montreal, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, June 25, 2008 If your in Montreal, Come see Diana Schutz tonight!  CO: from the D&Q blog"I know we [D&Q] keep using this image to illustrate Diana Schutz. You think we could find another image that would work better, but actually, the repetition of this one is making you more keen to come out tonight..." WHERE YOU CAN SEE HER IN PERSON. 7PM tonight! DIANA SCHUTZ presents her life in comics. Get the inside scoop from the editor for FRANK MILLER, WILL EISNER, STAN SAKAI, MATT WAGNER, MICHAEL CHABON, and NEIL GAIMAN. Want to break into mainstream comics? Schutz will be offering portfolio reviews! Diana Schutz is an award-winning editor who has worked in the comics industry since 1978. For the last eighteen of those thirty years, she has been at Dark Horse Comics, where she is now an executive editor. She is also an adjunct instructor of comics art history and criticism at Portland Community College. Schutz is Frank Miller's editor on SIN CITY and 300, Matt Wagner's editor on GRENDEL, Stan Sakai's editor on USAGI YOJIMBOU, and Paul Chadwick's editor on CONCRETE. She also regularly works with Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, and Dave McKean, and irregularly with Harlan Ellison. She was fortunate to be Will Eisner's Dark Horse editor until his death in 2005. 211 Bernard Ouest Montreal Quebec 514 279 2224 MAP Labels: book launches, events, Montreal, new books, Quebec, reading - Stumble It! - 0 comments Sunday, June 22, 2008 Sean Ward invites you to a friday night party July 4th!  Benny Bunny On Wheels Unveiling and SigningBecause two and a half years is a long time to wait..... it's been a long time and many questions have been asked about a new Sean Ward comic. And now it's time to rejoice, as it's finally arriving! Be one of the first to get hold of it when we throw a special unveiling and signing party at the Silver Snail. Benny is a happy-go-lucky bunny who loves his Carrot Cake but when he unwittingly becomes the champion of the skateboard scene, the head of the city’s biggest skating tournament will stop at nothing - from corporate sabotage to an evil robot attack - to shut him down. BENNY BUNNY ON WHEELS is a 21st century David & Goliath story, based on true events. BENNY BUNNY ON WHEELS Unveiling & Signing Friday July 4 at The Silver Snail - 367 Queen Street West Unveiling at reading at 5 Signing and sketches from 5 to 8 Facebook Event Page Sean Ward Labels: book launches, can-con, cartoonists, events, new books, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, April 07, 2008 Hoverboy: Hero of a Thousand BucketsMr. Comics goes viral with Hoverboy, there's the classic HOVERBOY DESTROYS CHRISTMAS! and then there is this... Promotional film for full-length documentary on Hoverboy- one time hero of radio, comic books, and TV. Now a forgotten footnote of 20th Century popular culture. Featuring interviews with Rick Green (PRISONERS OF GRAVITY, RED GREEN SHOW) and writer/artist Ty Templeton (BATMAN, AVENGERS) who is preparing to release the first Hoverboy comic in more than 30 years. For more Hoverboy history go to www.hoverboy.com If you like, you can dig it on Digg... Labels: barely comics, can-con, comics history, comics on film, comics on tv, events, misunderstanding comics, new books, news - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, January 29, 2008 The literary picture show on mcgilldaily.com  Local illustrator Pascal Blanchet recounts the rise and fall of an idyllic Quebec small town in his newest book, White RapidsBy Alex Weisler Culture Writer Like Persepolis and Maus, White Rapids is a testament to the rising mass appeal of the graphic novel. "Graphic novels have been garnering increasingly mainstream attention and critical respect in recent years, with "slice of life" stories overshadowing the capes and tights familiar to the medium. The genre's literary merits have come to light with a slew of popular new works: Persepolis, recently adapted into a feature film; the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus; as well as more subversive books like Alan Moore's Lost Girls, an erotic take on Victorian children's fiction." -->> Pascal Blanchet's White Rapids is published by Drawn & Quarterly. It's available for purchase at the publisher's store (211 Bernard O.) for $27.95 or on their web site at drawnandquarterly.com. Labels: bd, new books, preview, publishing, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, December 06, 2007 Forgive us our sins - Therefore Repent! Montreal launch in the Montreal Mirror  Co:montrealmirror.com Local illustrator Salgood Sam and author Jim Munroe create a post-Rapture work in Therefore Repent! by VINCENT TINGUELY When prolific indie author, quick and dirty filmmaker and DIY organizer Jim Munroe got a grant to create Therefore Repent!, a full-length "post-Rapture" graphic novel, Montreal-based, long-time Munroe fan and sometime collaborator Salgood Sam jumped at the chance to render it. "I'd read an early Munroe novella at a zine fair when I was 19 or 20 and I really liked it," says Sam. "I've been following his stuff ever since. When you really identify with a writer's vision, they've tapped the voice you hear inside yourself, they're appealing to you on that level." Sam spent more than a year meticulously bringing Munroe's ideas to life, drawing on skills honed in both the indie comics realm and through years of grunt work for the likes of Marvel. "Jim's a good writer to collaborate with because he was into gearing it into what I was into doing," Sam says. "I didn't have to do any contortions to visualize the script as I was reading it." Munroe agrees. "He's perfect, because he can do the hipsters and the hellspawn," says Munroe. "He can do urban settings very well and true to life, but also fascinating fantastical things." Therefore Repent! begins with the arrival of the fascinating and fantastical Raven and Mummy in a near-future Chicago. Munroe, who's based in Toronto, set the story in an American city because, as he quips, "They go together like peanut butter and jelly, America and the Rapture." 144,000 Christians have floated up to heaven, Jesus has joined George W. in the White House, and heavily armed angels from on high are descending to do the Lord's dirty work on Earth. Things would seem quite hopeless for the rest of us godless (i.e. not fundamentalist) sorts, except that magic is afoot...everything from Eastern cosmic insights to transubstantiation actually works. Soon enough, a grassroots magical insurgency starts to form. "I was inspired by this idea that the most powerful people in America purport to literally believe in Christians floating into the air, into heaven, which is what George W. Bush says he believes in," says Munroe. "That's pretty mind blowing, that in their own mythology they'd have something that wild-especially when the conservatives have problems with Harry Potter." After a more ambiguous approach to the idea of evil in An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, Munroe decided to go for a dark fantasy scenario in which, if miracles, angels and such were to be given free play, then other forms of magic would be just as valid. "Well, if people are going to float into the air, how about less top-down magical manifestations?" Munroe says. "Religion is very top-down, it's God or who God specifically anoints. But if there is magic from on high, then it is going to emerge from below as well, if people are willing to explore it and not kowtow to the powers that be. I like the idea of it being nascent in all of us, but only if we embrace it-individual power, rather than waiting for other people to anoint us. The whole DIY, coming from the grassroots thing." Therefore Repent! launches this Saturday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore (211 Bernard W.) Links http://www.salgoodsam.com http://nomediakings.org Buy the book on NMK D&Q store/publisher site Labels: book launches, Montreal, new books, news, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Sunday, November 18, 2007 Therefore Repent! in Previews  It's in this November Previews! published by IDW in the US. Diamond # NOV073660 Very important info; There was an error in the listing, the cover price will be $14.99 us, Cheep! not $24.99! Here's the info off of the IDW site Therefore, Repent! Jim Munroe (w) What if the religious right... are right? Therefore Repent! is a graphic novel set in a Chicago neighborhood after the Rapture. Once the Christians have floated bodily into the sky, life goes on pretty much as usual for the immoral majority... except that magic works, if you're willing to risk demonic mutations. CNN reports that Mr. Christ and Mr. Bush are on a speaking tour of the red states. And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners. But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship. In the tradition of The Book of Revelations, Therefore Repent!, courtesy of novelist Jim Munroe (Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask) and acclaimed artist Salgood SamSea of Red) is a lurid, dark fantasy tale. By taking the apocryphal scripture as literal truth - as the American powers-that-be claim to do - the story also explores the political and spiritual ramifications of God abandoning humanity. TPB-FC Labels: can-con, corrections, new books, news, preview - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Comics Industry Night @ The Vic | Jeff Lemire's GHOST STORIES Launch  It's Comics Industry Night at The Vic! The last Friday of every month, comics industry pros and their friends are invited to come out and enjoy a drink at The Victory Cafe, just south of The Beguiling.This month's event just happened to fall on Halloween, so what better way to celebrate than to officially launch Jeff Lemire's new graphic novel GHOST STORIES? Jeff will be doing a short reading, and we'll all enjoy a quick pint or two before heading out for our various spooky shenanigans.
PH 416.533.9168 Labels: book launches, cartoonists, new books, news, tools of the trade, Toronto, trade - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, October 25, 2007 Canzine 2007: Things are about to get Scary!  Almost Missed this one...But I'll be there, not square!Toronto Hotel Canzine Sunday, October 28, 2007 The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin) 1pm - 7pm $5 at the door gets you the new Horror Issue of Broken Pencil Magazine and access to hundreds of zines, all-day horror screenings, DIY Gore workshops, readings, and all sorts of other madness. Canzine is an annual event organized by Broken Pencil, the Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts. Contact Broken Pencil, PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S7, email: editor@brokenpencil.com, phone 416-204-1700 Hotel Canzine Giant Zine Fair! Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale! The heart of the event, indie publishers both in print and online come from across the country and the continent to show their wares! Be amazed at the creativity, ingenuity, and sheer weirdness! (Those interested in booking tables can register online at www.brokenpencil.com.) Launch of the New Issue of Broken Pencil "Indie Horror" Featuring Ghost Stories at the Canzine Camp Fire, all day Indie Horror Videos, and our Cheap Thrills Special Effects exhibit In celebration of the brand new Horror Issue that will launch at Canzine, we feature six great indie writers telling ghost stories in front of the Canzine Campfire. The fake log will be glowing weakly, the marshmallows will be room temperature straight from the bag, but that shiver up your spine will be real! Also: Canzine Gorefest! Take the Canzine workshop on do-it-yourself gore, then ham up your fake black eye, bloody lip and severed hand at our "Cheap Thrills Special Effects Exhibit". Plus: All day indie horror movies in the Canzine screening room. The Canzine Whodunit Help! Someone's killing local zinesters, picking them off one by one like ripe grapes plucked from the vine! Can you solve the crime and stop the serial destruction of our indie culture? This year, for the first time ever, Canzine will present an all day murder mystery game going on all over the Gladstone! Join the game and solve the crime or just watch the antics. Hotel Room Installations Canada's brightest and weirdest will be creating one day unique environments to explore. Including: Tara Bursey's Haunted Room of worry bead diet pills and baby rat bedsheets. Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People's room of scary music and tortured puppets. Shannon Gerard's room of crocheted cancer prevention. The Special's room of mystery featuring the amazing Mysterion. Campfire Ghost Story Readings Sit around the Canzine campfire and enjoy 10 minute ghost stories throughout the day by great indie writers like Tony Burgess, Kate Story (an up-and-comer featured in our new horror issue), Maggie MacDonald and more! Free marshmallows! All Day Underground Video Screening Open Screening and Curated program by James King. Special horror program. All are welcome to bring videos (VHS or DVD only, 10 minutes and under) to show to the world. Register in advance by emailing canzinevideo@brokenpencil.com. Or just show up with your video. Workshops Do It Yourself GoreFest: Hotel Canzine is made possible by grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Hotel Canzine also is supported by the following most excellent sponsors: Magazines Canada, The Toronto Reference Library, Open Book, Eye Weekly, CIUT 89.5, Torontoist.com, BookShorts, Mint Records, and The Gladstone Hotel. Labels: book launches, can-con, Canzine, conventions, events, new books, news, Ontario, small press, Toronto, undergrounds, zine fair, zines - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, October 16, 2007 D+Q store Grand Opening on Friday  Co:the D&Q blogIn conjunction with the launch of Pascal Blanchet's White Rapids, Drawn and Quarterly hosts the grand  opening of their new store front operation in Montreal this Friday, 7 PM. Pascal will be presenting and signing White Rapids. See the entry from Oct. 1st for his awesome poster... To mark the occasion the D&Q crew have wrangled posters out of two D+Q artists - the one of the left here is Julie Doucet's.  That's about it for info on the shop for now, but there are photos of, taken by local aspiring photographer Alison Naimark. On White Rapids, by Pascal Blanchet
Labels: book launches, c, comics retailers, comicshoptalk, events, graphic novels, Montreal, new books, publishing, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments BLAST OFF to the Misanthropia Launch | Oct 18th MTL  Co:Daniel ZabbalMisanthropia Chapter One: is the opening act of a bizarre and entertaining story that takes place in the past, in the future and in the subconscious. It follows Paul Saint-Claire, a ne’er-do-well who finds himself stranded on a tropical island. Dumbfounded with amnesia, he enlists the aid of a mysterious woman to help reassemble his shattered memories. His journey draws him back through his horrifying jobs, and tenacious revenge fantasies. This book is the first in a three part trilogy, as planed now the first is 48pgs. $8.95. the next will be 96, and the finally 128. The festivities are to start at 9:30/10pm not sharp. 5311 Ave du Parc, unit 310, Montreal, Qc. Check out Danny's site here for a bit more... The book at Lulu.com Labels: book launches, Montreal, new books, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, October 15, 2007 Chiaroscuro Book Launch @ Confederation Centre of the Arts P.E.I. Fri, Nov 9th  Co:Troy Little The official book launch of the 'Chiaroscuro' graphic novel by Troy Little, published by IDW Publishing (Transformers, 30 Days of NIght, Star Trek)! Come by and meet the author/illustrator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on November 9th at 7 pm. Get your book signed with a sketch! Books will be available for sale at the show compliments of The Comic Hunter. Over 40 pages of original art are on display from the graphic novel as well as works by Seth, Charmaine Wheatly, Marc Gallant & Robet Harris as part of the on going "...And Other Stories" exhibit. Hope to see you there! Tell your friends!
Chiaroscuro is the story of Steven Patch, an unemployed artist with a single blank canvas. Steven's busy living the introspective, angst-ridden life of your average twenty-something; drinking too much and complaining about his situation while doing little to improve it. A case of mistaken identity pushes Steven into a flow of events that bring him places he'd never imagined and forces him to make a choice between art and mere existence.  Labels: book launches, can-con, cartoonists, comics on tv, new books, PEI, preview, profiles - Stumble It! - 0 comments Sunday, October 14, 2007 AFTER THE CAPE II | IN STORE SIGNING WITH HOWARD WONG Wen, Nov 7  Co:paradisecomics@on.aibn.com Paradise Comics is proud to present an instore signing and luanch of Howard Wong's new book, AFTER THE CAPE II
Six months after the events of the first volume, "After the Cape II" #1 finds Ethan in worse shape than ever and with even more on the horizon. Trouble is on its way in the form of the Russian Mob, with whom Ethan became entangled previously, as well as his former teammates from the United Heroes, a group he alienated deeply when they discovered how low he'd sunk. Worst of all, Ethan's wife Ellen and their children have left him, and she's determined to move on. "After the Cape" is by most standards an indie comics success story. Then an aspiring writer, Wong placed an ad online in hopes of finding someone to illustrate his story. Artist Marco Rudy answered the call, and their collaboration in-progress caught the attention of Image co-founder Jim Valentino, who worked closely with the pair of first-time creators to fine-tune their project into a three-issue miniseries that exceeded all parties' expectations. More Links CBR: RELAPSE: WONG & VALENTINO TALK "AFTER THE CAPE II" Preview on ComicSpace Labels: book launches, new books, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Friday, October 12, 2007 Contraband comic | Mobile speculative fiction  Co:TJ Behe Part of SLG new digital comics line [Eyemelt.com] is Contraband, a sophomore title from writer TJ Behe [can] and cartoonist Phil Elliott [uk].
Labels: digital comics, new books, webcomics - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, October 09, 2007 WHEN JOURNALISM AND COMICS COLLIDE | EXTRACTION! : Comix Reportage  Co: David Widgington, Cumulus Press.Kicking off the Expozine launch season, Cumulus Press presents EXTRACTION! A new Journalistic graphic novel about the dirty business of global resource extraction in the 21st century.  Edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier & David Widgington. Featuring comix art by Joe Ollmann, Phil Angers, Ruth Tait & Stanley Wany. Reportage by Dawn Paley, Petr Cizek, Sophie Toupin & Tamara Herman. And additional illustration by Alain Reno, Jeff Lemire & Carlos Santos. Since 2000, most energy and mineral prices have been skyrocketing. Junior mining prospectors and unscrupulous transnational corporations rush into new territories to suck what's hot out of the earth's lucrative veins. In today's gas, oil and mining industries, the pace of exploration, extraction, transformation and delivery of the world's resources is mind boggling. The German magazine Der Spiegel speaks of a Third World War for the world's resources. It is more like a blitzkrieg.EXTRACTION! looks into the exploration, exploitation and extraction of oil, uranium, bauxite and gold, from a common-good social justice perfective. David Widgington Cumulus Press 514-523-1975 info AT cumuluspress DOT com EXTRACTION! Comix Reportage Edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington November 2007 ISBN 978-0-9782474-1-6 128 pages www.cumuluspress.com Labels: anthologies, bd, can-con, cartoon reportage, comics writers, Expozine, Montreal, new books, news, Quebec, small press - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, October 03, 2007 STAGGER LEE COMES TO EDMONTON Oct 5Author Derek McCulloch makes latest stop in "STAGGER LEE 101" Tour Co:http://staggerlee.typepad.com/ - see site for full press release... Award-winning graphic novel writer and former Edmonton resident Derek McCulloch will return to his old stomping grounds this October to pass on a little of what he's learned about the blues in his time in America. On Friday, October 5th, McCulloch will appear first at Happy Harbor comics, where he will sign copies of his graphic novel, Stagger Lee. Later that evening, he will appear at the Edmonton Public Library, where he will give a slide show and lecture on the history and myth of Stagger Lee. Labels: book launches, comics in libraries, comics retailers, Edmonton, events, new books, news - Stumble It! - 0 comments Saturday, September 29, 2007 Oct: 5 le prochain Fanzine Bidon - Lancement!  Co:pishier.blogspot.com
Translated i think it says, this October 5th at the Atenne festival, they will be launching the latest issue of their zine, 'fanzine bidon', along side a new CD from swedish death polka The event is being held at la chapelle de l'amerique francaise, Musee de l'Amerique francaise Pavillon d'accueil 2, cote de la Fabrique, Quebec City. Cool looking zine. Check out the links. Labels: book launches, can-con, comics with music, events, francophone, links, music, new books, news, Quebec, undergrounds, zines - Stumble It! - 0 comments Saturday, September 22, 2007 Jim Munroe's on the road: Vancouver - Toronto + the Ample Free Sample ContestED:max:Ok, doing a little self promo, pardon my tangled web... The Rapture is spreading Jim Munroe's on the road
Write your own story with my art, maybe win a copy of the book....? Hey sinners.  So Jim's cracked up a fun idea for a contest!....the following is from his site....The first third of Therefore Repent! - 60 pages - is now available for your browsing pleasure. So are you Game? I'd love to see what you can come up with... Cheers Max Labels: book launches, British Columbia, can-con, contest, digital comics, events, graphic novels, new books, Ontario, preview, Toronto, Vancouver, webcomics - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, February 19, 2007 Secret Roses episode 9 launch - Monday, February 26, 8 pm @ MainLine  SECRET ROSES EPISODE IX: CHECKPOINT X-RAY THE SECRET ROSES A serial novel by Patrick Goddard Illustrated by Tim Moerman Designed by Marta Cooper The Secret Salon launches Episode 9 Monday, February 26 8 pm (Doors open at 7:30 pm) MainLine Theatre 3997 Saint-Laurent $5 (includes free copy of book) Hosted by Estelle Rosen The adventure continues! Patrick Goddard launches episode 9 of his fantasy serial novel, The Secret Roses, at 8 pm on Monday, February 26 at MainLine Theatre (3997 Saint-Laurent). The Secret Roses tells the story of a group of army brats stuck on a Canadian base in 1980's West Germany. To fight off the boredom of their surroundings, they start a role-playing game in which they play themselves - only as comic book super-heroes. In Episode 9, our heroes reveal the secret origin of their super-hero names. The Secret Roses is self-published by Patrick Goddard. In homage to the story's comic-book roots, the novel is serialized in monthly issues. Each issue also contains a "character sheet" from the role-playing game, illustrated by Tim Moerman. CKUT's Estelle Rosen hosts the evening. Special musical guest Nick Carpenter and Patrick take us underneath the Berlin Wall for a 1980's cabaret history of 20th century Germany. Patrick will read from Episode 9, and the salon topic is "Names". How did you get your name? Did you ever change your name? What's your nickname? What's your secret nickname?... Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show starts at 8 pm. Admission is $5 and includes a free copy of Episode 7. A 6-issue subscription is available for $15. The Secret Roses is also on sale through www.patricktgoddard.blogspot.com. www.patricktgoddard.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/patricktgoddard Labels: blogosphere, can-con, events, new books, news, people, publishing - Stumble It! - 0 comments Sunday, January 21, 2007 Comics Scholar Bart Beaty's new book Unpopular Culture now available  Comics scholar Bart Beaty- associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, as well as a columnist for both The Comics Journal and The Comics Reporter - has published a new book from University of Toronto Press, Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s.Gene Kannenberg of ComicsScholar.org is very happy to be offering this book on their blog at 20% off the cover price, directly from the publisher. Here's a link to the publisher, where you'll find great press such as: Here's a bio of the well respected Mr. Beaty; here's a query of his name on Sequential, and here is the book on Amazon. Labels: Alberta, Calgary, comics history, comics scholarship, links, new books, news, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Winnipeg Cartoonist Sets Comic in Home TownThe Winnipeg Sun profiles Greg Waller whose new comic book series Magnitude is being published by San Diego, California's Ape Entertainment. The comic has lots of local colour: His all-ages series is filled with references to or cameos of the city's recognizable personalities, landmarks, and businesses. Waller's website: www.voltagecomics.com Labels: Manitoba, new books, news, people, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, December 11, 2006 Joe Ollman InterviewTom Spurgeon interviews Montreal's Joe Ollman about This Will All End in Tears, possibly the best English-language comic published in Canada in 2006. "Thematically. it seems I like sad stories. I guess, but I always hope that they are tinged with a sense of humor so they are not mere poe-faced saddy-sad goth-kid bullshit. I hope. Life's never that simple; you can be on top of the world and win the Pulitzer Prize and find the perfect mate or lose one and at the same time cancer could be quietly eating away your colon like a carnivorous little caterpillar. At the same time, even in the most depressed, drunken, suicidal moments of your life, there are those funny moments that intrude and almost make you pissed for disrupting the flow of your beautiful sad-on." - Stumble It! - 0 comments Friday, December 08, 2006 This Weekend1. Event For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston will be meeting fans and signing books in North Bay As well, Tom Spurgeon rounds up recent commentary on the some of the plotlines of the strip as it enters its final year. Readers are concerned about the love life of Liz, the daughter character, apparently. Saturday, Dec. 9th, 1-3 pm Coles North Bay at Northgate Square 1500 Fisher Street North Bay, ON phone: 705-476-1550 2. Shopping Chris Butcher raves about the giant collected New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke, claiming that it's "inspiring, not only in being really good but also in seeing how uncompromising and... right... Darwyn Cooke's view of these characters is" and that it's "A damn-near perfect book, and a must-own for anyone who's ever loved superheroes, or still does (bless their hearts)." If you are interested in this book and can't justify paying over $75 for it at the Beguiling or somewhere else, over at The Comics Reporter, letter-writer Stephen Leach spills the beans on how to pay only $30 by buying online. As someone who once loved superheroes and still loves some old superhero comic books, I can testify that the book is not a "must-own" by any means but I'm sure it makes a nice gift for older fans. I recently resisted paying $6 to sit down and read Cooke's new Batman-Spirit team-up comic book myself so I don't know from compulsion. I imagine I will eventually read it though since Cooke is the only superhero artist who has been seriously and consistently considered by the Wright Awards (his Solo book was very very pretty). Other comics for sale? 2006 books by Jillian Tamaki, Salgood Sam, Svetlana Chmakova, Scott Chantler, Joe Ollman, Colin Upton, and many others (including tons of new books in French from Mecanique General and other publishers). And not a U.S. superhero in the bunch. Labels: events, new books, news - Stumble It! - 0 comments Monday, December 04, 2006 Ragmop/Makeshift Miracle LaunchDave Sim covers the Ragmop Party in Toronto last week. The event was a booklaucnh for Rob Walton's Ragmop and Udon comics' Jim Zubkavich's Makeshift Miracle --both self-published collections. Jim's friend Matt also reports on the event, as does Rob Walton himself --who also mentions the appearance of Sim's "cartoon sidekick, Chester Brown". Labels: events, new books, Ontario, people, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Thursday, November 30, 2006 the 7th edition of Exil  Les 400 coups and Dominique Desbiens are lunching the latest edition of the antholagy Exile with a party Wednesday December 13, 2006. Festivities start at 17h/5pm and go to 21h/9pm officially at Cafe/Bar Romolo, 272 Bernard Ouest, the Mile End district, Montreal. 514.272 5035 This edition features work by Bruno Rouyere, Leif Tande, Domenica Desbiens, Olivier Martin, Jerome Bretzner, Voro, Numa, Leou, Jeanlo, Billy and John Mavreas, Djief, Nickartoon and Stef Lemardele. This is a serious line up of local talent, should be a good book! Here's some info, & a google translation. Labels: events, new books, news, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments Makeshift MiracleJim Zubkavich launches a 200-page, full-colour print collection of his webcomic in Toronto. Scott McCloud calls it "a melancholy, enchantingly drawn meditation on imagination and yearning.": Also on hand will be Rob Walton who is launching a collection of his Ragmop webcomic/comic book: Makeshift Miracle / Ragmop Book Launch Thursday, November 30th @ 7PM The Victory Cafe 595 Markham Street, Just south of The Beguiling FREE Torontocomics.com Labels: new books, news, Ontario, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Toronto Kids Create Comic BookSomewhere, a Warner Brothers lawyer is firing up his Cease and Desist template: Grade seven students launch their own comic book - Shazaam! Press release Labels: new books, news, Ontario, people, Toronto - Stumble It! - 0 comments Wednesday, November 29, 2006 14 new books from Mecanique Generale!  Hey, this is a rough tech assisted translation of an email I received today from an exceedingly busy Jimmy Beaulieu. I blame all oddities on the google translation algorithms and Jimmy’s sense of humour! : - ) Hello-hello, it pains me to Spam you thus… but in a good way. I want to announce two get-togethers this week. This evening @ 20h at the Zoobizarre - 6388 St-Hubert, Montreal, corner of Beaubien & St-Hubert, 3 steps from the Beaubien metro stop. And, this Saturday December 2, @ 17h till 19h, when the kitchen closes. Location [un named] is 205 Saint-Vallier street E, Quebec city. The first will celebrate the publication of the 5 new Mecanique Generale publications and 9 new ones under the Colossi imprint [a small format chap book series]. The nights festivities will be in the presence of the authors who can make it. That can also be our “assessment 2006” party, because we published 25 pounds in all this year (12 MG and 13 colossi). In six years, one will have published not less than 55 pounds (29 MG and 26 colossi if one counts Voitures)!!!! It is perhaps the last gathering which one will have before spectacular the burnout that I envisage (meticuleusement) for 2007. The party will also mark the end of session for my workshop at Cegep Montreal. Who knows, if I am feeling sufficiently pompous, perhaps I will be making a speech! For those that know and those who do not, Colossus is not a collection of General Mechanics, as it is trying to believe. It is rather his/her small sister with glasses, a shy person, fragile and disturbed, which one discovers with rapture the depth when one tries hard to approach it stylishly in the evening, in the small corner where it hides, almost behind the curtains, close to the fire of hearth, while his/her frivolous older sister disrobes in the vicinity of the powers that be. Also, I'm trying to start a web comic series on my blog: See you this evening or Saturday, Yours Jimmy MG les coulisses mecaniques la chronique velue Labels: new books, news, Quebec - Stumble It! - 0 comments House of Sugar: comic strips by Rebecca KraatzThe inaugural publication from Hope Larson's new imprint, Tulip Tree Press, is now available for purchase online. The book is House of Sugar by Halifax cartoonist Rebecca Kraatz. We here at Sequential haven't seen a copy yet, but the book is being solicited in the December Previews and should be in comic book stores by February. Meanwhile, a few reviews are out. Labels: Halifax, new books, news, Nova Scotia - Stumble It! - 0 comments Scott Pilgrim NowBryan Lee O'Malley posts his recent Scott Pilgrim strip from Toronto's Now Magazine over at his livejournal site. 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