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Dream Life update | Page 14New comics Wednesday! Click through for larger image and my comments. ![]() Labels: art, dreamlife, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, March 18, 2010 The C-List: Blogspot EditionItem: Jeet Heer on nostalgia, The Beguiling, Joe Matt, and crappy comic book shops. Item: In international earthshaking news, the family of Jack Kirby (the artist and co-creator of X-Men, Hulk, and Captain America, among thousands of others) has announced their intent to sue Marvel/Disney for copyright of the Kirby-created characters. According to the LA Times, "Under copyright law, creators can seek to regain copyrights they previously assigned to a company 56 years after first publication and can give notice of their intentions up to 10 years before that.[...] Kirby's children would be eligible to claim their father's portion of the copyright of the Fantastic Four in 2017; the Hulk would come up in 2018 and X-Men in 2019. The copyrights would then run for 39 more years." Item: The first review I've seen of the new Ho Che Anderson book, Sand and Fury. Item: A review of Red: A Haida Manga at Publishers Weekly. Item: Guy Delisle draws on youtube. Item: Regis Loisel and Jean-Louis Tripp, cartoonists from France, are the subject of a new film about the creation of their graphic novel series Le Magasin General, in this report from Chris Hanna of the Concordia student newspaper. Item: The Transmission X team is touring Europe. Item: A sneak peak at the process behind Two Generals, Scott Chantler's upcoming graphic memoir project, to be released through McClelland and Stewart. Item: Via Robert Pincombe, Alpha Flight's Box presents "differently-abled superheroes". Labels: C-List, graphic novels, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, March 11, 2010 carte blanche is looking for comics Bi-annual Carte Blanche - The Literary review of the Quebec Writers' Federation - recently added sequential art to their roster, as graphic fiction. I'm going to be doing a turn as guest editor for the next issue, so part of the job is getting the word out. :) So we are currently urgently seeking submissions for the Spring edition, the due date this coming 15th, monday! And take note american cousin, overseas readers and all canucks, Carte Blanche is open to submissions from anywhere! That's right, an open opportunity to get you're work in a recognized Literary review. Submission page is here with details. Currently from the fall edition, they are featuring a really well done short by Dustin Harbin [dharbin], part of a series of strips i've seen from him called Fun with Autobiography. Obviously on such short notice the call is open to existing content. Labels: graphic novels, Quebec, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, March 08, 2010 Upcoming: Moving PicturesMoving Pictures, by Kathryn & Stuart Immonen and published by Top Shelf, is now available for pre-order from the March Diamond Previews catalogue (order code MAR10 1136) or directly from the Top Shelf website: Top Shelf is proud to welcome Kathryn & Stuart Immonen (Ultimate Spider-Man, Nextwave, Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Never as Bad as You Think) to the Top Shelf family with this thrilling, intimate tale of love, war, and art. Labels: graphic novels, upcoming, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, March 05, 2010 Hark, a vagrant: 250 "Canadian stereotypes" HaHa HaHaHa HaHaHaHa HaHaHa HaHaHa HaHa Ha..... hey, that's not nice...."All fucked up on hokey"....HaHaHaHa! I'm sorry....:) I <3 Kate Beaton. Labels: canadiana, comic strips, comics, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, March 02, 2010 Dream Life update That latest post is accompanied by a short story from 2002, a memoir called Red. There are daily pages for another two days, before we settle down to a page a week Wednesdays. Drop by and leave a comment! hope to hear from you cheers Labels: art, comics, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, February 26, 2010 NEW! Sequential Comics | Dream LifeHey gang, max here again. So I've been wanting to add comics to the site for a while, and was wondering how to go about it. Then i realized, hey, i draw comics! duh. To be honest I've been reluctant to use the site to promote my own stuff, feel a bit funny about it. But it increasingly seems the best way to continue doing both. So to start I've added a new area to the site here, sequential.spiltink.org/comics [rss] - and for now the main attraction is my own ongoing graphic novel project called Dream Life. I had been publishing it on Live Journal but it's needed a new easier to read and follow web site too for a while. For the next week there's a new post each day, after that I'll have new updates every Wednesday. I'm still working out how Wordpress works, when i get it sorted I'll be adding an index for other stories. I have some other ideas for comics of my own that i may add later, and if you draw comics, then consider this - Sequential is looking for creators to publish on site. If you're interested contact me about publishing your comics on the site here Directly. Ongoing and short stories are both welcomed submissions. I want to leave the subject open on subject matter for the moment, but looking for good story telling and consistent work. It would be great to have s traditional style strip to post right here on the blog too! Hope you enjoy the new story, some of you may have seen the first pages on LJ, for you it will catch up with where i left off there very soon. Cheers! ~ Labels: About this site, comics, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, February 21, 2010 Tablets : IPad comic readers. Caught mention of one of the platforms that will be among the first to be available to Iphone and Ipad users, called panelfly. They got perked by the lovely Cali Lewis [see the embedded clip, 2:50 to 3:40], and seem to be playing the hot girl factor in general. Clever. The My fly section is not up yet but not bad so far. I hear we can expect some big news From LongBox this month, wich i'm eager to check out. Nothing specific from them but it seems like it's possbile they will have an Apple app too. Labels: digital comics, digital publishing, ipad, tablets, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, February 19, 2010 This Weekend: Con-G Anime Event, Guelph ![]() The Guelph anime convention, Con-G (both a short form for "Convention Guelph" and a pun on the Japanese word "kanji" which means pictograms, I think --although "congee" is a rice porridge popular in many Asian cultures) takes place this weekend. Guests include webcomicker Lar deSouza, Doctor Holocaust, the 404s improv troupe, Savage Bandito, Solar Tempest, Stillvisions, Featherweight, and Hypersapiens. Back for year 2, Con-G is "being held at the Best Western Royal Brock Hotel & Conference Centre (same location, the hotel changed names shortly after Con-G 2009) on February 20 and 21. What's special about our convention? Guelph is an awesome location! We're currently the only convention west of Toronto [In Ontario], making us more convenient for people in London, Hamilton and the Tri-City area. The Best Western is located across from the university and near the centre of Guelph. It is easily accessed by bus or car. Finally, the convention takes place in February, at a time when there are few other anime conventions. For those that don't know, an anime convention is a place where anime enthusiasts come to share their love for anime and have a great time! There will be anime, themed games, dancing, vendors, discussions and much more. It's a great opportunity to meet people interested in the same things you are and discuss your favourite shows. Don't be intimidated! We welcome the young, the old, the casual anime enthusiast and the most hardcore fans. There's something for everyone." Labels: conventions, events, manga, Ontario, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, February 11, 2010 The C-List: Webcomics and OthersItem: Bryan Lee O'Malley has an assistant? Item: Am I the last to link to this? The Beguiling's Chris Butcher makes an appearance in U.S. webcomic DHarbin. Item: Robert Haines reports that the popular (and quite beautifully drawn!) webcomic anders loves maria by Rene Engstrom is ending. Item: Edmonton comics collective Chamber of Comics is starting its Olympigus Monthlon --a marathon of comics creation coinciding with an international sporting event in Vancouver. Item: Speaking of Vancouver, a February literary speaking series will feature author Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas discussing his graphic novel Red. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Saturday, February 06, 2010 Transmission X on London UK radioOriginally broadcast 04/02/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Listened to this last night, it's a very good interview I think. Starting of a month dedicated to web comics, UK talk host Alex Fitch sat down with three members of the Canadian webcomics collective Transmission X - Ramon Perez Karl Kerschl and Cameron Stewart - in an interview recorded during last year's Comica festival after a signing. They talked about working in a variety of genres on the web, how this contrasts with their superhero comics for more famous publishers and the experience of updating web comics on a regular basis. Stream or download from this page. Labels: international, interviews, pod casts, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, February 05, 2010 Upton uploadingAnother artist we don't talk about so often, at the other end of the spectrum, is obscure Punk zinester Colin Upton. So here's the latest - sort of - from him, this is the link to the comics he's promoting here, he's posting a page a day of his previously published zines online, so for those of you have not had the pleasure you can check it out now. Ok, on to the press release...January 31st, 2010 [arrived in my inbox Feb 4, 2010] After years of floundering in the shadows in a desperate move to reach some sort of audience Colin Upton Comics is going online. In what Colin is calling his "page a day" project he is posting a page from his extensive backlog of mini-comic art every day until he runs out... considering Colin has produced over a thousand pages of mini-comic art alone and is still putting out new mini-comics this will keep him going for awhile yet. Most of the comics are 8-16 pages. So far Colin has put up the "F-word" trilogy, next will be the series "Diabetes Funnies" and later "Self-Indulgent Comics" which starts way back in 1985. So far Colin is posting on his Live Journal & Facebook and the Colin Upton Comics Facebook Fan page created, he plans to put the comics as they come out on his web site… which will happen as soon as a "technically challenged" Colin figures out how... the web site need a major overhaul.Print versions of Colin Upton Comics may still be purchased from Colin, including several collections that are a real deal! Vancouverite Colin Upton ha been doing comics for 25 years, starting with Newave mini-comics in the 1980's, Indie comics in the 1990's and back to mini-comics in the new century. A lack of interest on the part of publishers, readers and editors has not extinguished his passion for the comics art form or the need to express himself long after sensible people would have walked away. He now enjoys a dubious distinction of being a senior statesman of the Vancouver comics scene. On the way he has drawn comic books, comic strips, editorial and advertising cartoons, web comics, cartoons for a play, a series of films and for art gallery walls. Colin has been a performance artist, Lowbrow artist, drummer, radio broadcaster, lecturer, interviewer, reviewer, wargamer, miniaturist, flanuer, animist/iconoclast, illustrator and in one occasion a historical expert. Send inquiries to: 604-327-1544 Labels: British Columbia, can-con, Vancouver, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, January 28, 2010 A round up of other Tablets/SlatesUpdated 1/28/2010 2:05pm To round out our Tablet coverage, thought i'd post a list of some of the other players that the IPad will be running up against this year. All will likely make good digital comics platforms, so worth keeping an eye on. First up, it looks like an Ipad, and has the name a lot of people we're expecting, it's the HP Slate. First seen at CES 2010, HP posted this teaser just the other day no doubt to steal a little thunder from Jobs. Not sure about this factoid but given that it's a windows 7 device it might be able to support a pressure sensitive styluses [digitizer] as well as multi touch like some other penabled tablet pc's. So that may be of interest to a lot of creators like myself too, as a comics making platform, as well as reading. We'll see about that, sadly the current line of HP's Touchsmart machines have lost some of their appeal with the latest round of models due to a switch from Wacom tech to N-Trig, the pressure sensitivity of which does not work with most major programs artists use. Manga studio 4 might work from what i've read, and some consumer level & platform specific programs, but nothing by Adobe seems to. A lack of drivers appears to the problem. So far Modbooks, HP's older tx2500z's, an obscure list of other older tablet PC's and the mighty Cintiq have been the only devices to offer that kink using Wacom tech. The N-Trig problem is a know issue so it's a strange move for HP to switch to it. Perhaps more of a Wacom decision? In anycase we don't have a lot of details about the Slate yet so it's all speculation. Previously called the Crunch pad, this device was conceived by Michael Arrington, but has been poched by a Singapore based design studio Fusion Garage he brought on board to build it, and renamed JooJoo. This device started a lot of the Tablet buzz for hard core geeks, and does look promising but has some negative karma to deal with and a bit of a yellow tint to the screen. One of the first second gen E-Readers that was anounced over a year ago was the Plastic Logic's Que E-book Reader. It's a simple low power B&W reader with lots of functionality. Lenovo's "Ideapad" is a hybrit Tablet/Net book with some sexy tricks, and will probably give the IPad and HP Slate a serious run at about $500 when it comes out. And to cover the basses, they also have another hybrid model, The U1, in the works for later in the year with a detachable tablet screen... There's the slightly redundant looking but maybe cool double screen Ereader/Netbook called the enTourage eDGe running android. At $490 it's a contender. There are more, models from Dell and others are also in the works or being sneak peeked, but so far these are the ones with delivery dates. But this isn't really a tech blog after all so we'll leave it at that for the gear. Suffice to say, with all this coming out it does seem that self publishing, digital comics, and the print world will have a lot of new ways to distribute thier wares. In a day or so i'll post a round up of some of the secure and open digital comics distribution software platforms that have been brewing too. A few names to google are Longbox, ComicBookLover, Marvel Digital Comics, Graphic.ly, and the low rent favorite CDisplay. Labels: computers, digital comics, digital publishing, ipad, islate, itablet, self-publishing, tablets, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, January 27, 2010 IPad buzz and live feeds Updated: 5:20pm: So unless you're living in a cave, you will have heard by now that tablet computers are/maybe/aren't the great hope to save the publishing world.As in most things digital now, everyone has been waiting for Apple to put it's weight behind the category. Well first off most missed the mark on the branding, the name is IPad. And so far from the bits and bites you can glean live online from engadget and elsewhere, it looks promising. Not so much a game changer i think as clear progress in the ongoing evolution of digital media. Especially the entry price point which will make it possible for most people to get into the game - $499 for a 16gig wifi model! [see here for the different configurations and prices] The thing itself is not quite as slick looking at first blush as some of the speculative images that have been posted over the last few months. But i think it's probably more practical, with a wide boarder on all sides and no buttons to accidentally press while reading. Bellow I've posted a couple of video clips, and at this time the engadget blog The name is getting a bit of flack for being tauntable in a school yard context. ISlate or ITablet might have been more macho, but I do think this might just be the player people have been hoping for in the print world. It's much more powerful than most of the other low end tablets and e-books out there that it's entry price let's it compete with, and comics are going to look really good on that color screen, much better than a kindle or other e-readers. With a large keyboard and access to google docs it will make a viable alternative to netbooks for many users, and with 3G options it can play the roll of phone for some. The only thing i think is missing that keeps it from being an all in 1 is a built in camera, and no Adobe Flash! ouch. That makes Marvel cautious about the device, but even so the niche's this thing can play in are pretty wide ranging. Anyone feeling like being my sugersomone should be made aware that i'd love a wifi model myself. :) Comics news site Newsarama has an extensive posting here too. Parts of Steve's presentation in San Francisco Apple's slick product ad First hands on clip from engadget Labels: comics, computers, digital publishing, ipad, islate, itablet, publishing, tablets, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 4comments - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 The C-List: Happy Birthday Inkstuds! ![]() Gotta bust out a C-List! "Inkstuds, Expozine, Jesse Jacobs, ohmy!" Item: The Inkstuds podcast celebrates 4 years (!) with a Seth interview. Congratulations to Robin McConnell and friends, and here's to 4 more years, and many more! Item: Blogger and cartoonist Jack Ruttan recorded interviews at Expozine with some of the bright lights of Canadian comics. He's posted them with notes on his blog here and here, and we've created a playlist/player of them in sequence here. Item: Sequential's own Salgood Sam was briefly at Expozine as well. He shot and edited a short doc of the event around 4pm to 5pm of the last day. Item: A good large flickr photo set cataloging zine prints buttons and art books predominantly in a minimalist & cute style. The rare blue Mermacorn is the invention of probably this years youngest exhibitor, Jasper! Posted by Montreal designer Janice Wong.Item: And rounding out the visual record of Expozine 2009 so far is an excellent set of 111 photos by Montreal Photographer Camille McOuat. The last one of Billy is perfect. Item: Vancouver cartoonist Doug Fraser has designed an Absolut Vodka bottle just in time for the Olympics. Item: Webcomics writer Ryan Sohmer in Montreal. As well, Sohmer and his "Least I Can Do" collaborator Lar DeSouza have announced a webcomics scholarship at the Vermont Center for Cartoon Studies. Item: Another profile of Jesse Jacobs! He's on a run! Item: Stuart Immonen has announced that the free webcomics serialization of his collaborations with his wife Kathryn have been pirated and that future online comics by the couple are in doubt. There is further comment here and many comments by others elsewhere. The latest collab, Moving Pictures, is due out in Mat 2010 from Top Shelf. Item: Canadian comics historian, blogger, humourist, erstwhile Sequential contributor, and scriptwriter on the perils of maintaining 4 blogs while writing animation scripts for a living. Item: The DC/Warner vs Disney/Marvel war is really heating up. Alarmed at the massive build-up of Canadian superheroes by Marvel, and with only one of their own DC plans to fire back by adding a Canadian to the Outsiders, previously a 1980s superhero team based in Batman's Gotham City. (Thanks to reader Maddy B for the tip!) Item: Jeet Heer on Marx/Barks and Tomine/Oliveros. Labels: blogosphere, British Columbia, C-List, capes, comics history, Expozine, Montreal, new books, pod casts, U.S. superhero franchises, Vancouver, video, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Super Party 10th post aniversery ![]() Co: funky crazy man, Sean Ward.
Labels: Ontario, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 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! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, October 02, 2009 Toronto Word on the Street Podcasts ![]() Jamie Coville reports: Sequential Presents: Oh, Canada. Surveying the Landscape of Canadian Comics. (50:50, 46.5mb) "The panel was hosted by Bryan Munn and Salgood Sam from Sequential. On the panel was Brad Mackay (pronounced Macka-eye) from the Doug Wright Awards and Kevin Boyd from the Joe Shuster Awards. Much of the panel talked about their respective organizations when it comes to a variety of Canadian cartooning topics. Brad Mackay did do much of the talking." Webcomics! (50:02, 45.8mb) "Hosted by Chris Butcher, the panel consisted of 5 webcomic creators. They were Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics), Andy Belanger (Transmission X), Kean Soo (Jellaby), Faith Erin Hicks (Ice and War at Ellsmare) and Emily Horne (A Softer World). They talked about a variety of webcomics issues, how and why they started, what day has the lowest web traffic, supporting themselves with a web comic, getting into print, etc.. Due to a dead battery lost about the last 5 minutes of the panel." Pictures Labels: awards, events, pod casts, Toronto, webcomics, wordonthestreet - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, September 28, 2009 The Monthly Prince Edward County Comix Jam The Monthly Prince Edward County Comix Jam is held on the LAST Wednesday of every month at THE ACOUSTIC GRILL, 172 Main St., Picton (behind Buddha Dog). 8pm. Next one is Wednesday, September 30, 2009!Websites online editions of their jam zine Facebook group Myspace Location: 172 Main St. Labels: comic jams, events, events links, Ontario, social ink, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 TX honoured with 6 nominations for 2009 Joe Shuster Awards Item: An article by Alex Hoffman, posted on the transmission-x forums, speculates about the ghettoization of Web comics in the Shuster Awards. "While being nominated for a Shuster or an Eisner award is a great honour for any creator, if we take a closer look at the award categories -- specifically where webcomics are concerned -- it seems like something is missing."Well, it's arguably the best work he's been doing, so if he should get best artist for something, why is it not that, in the regular best artist category? The rules i suppose but, why is a fair question. It's also true that there is still in general terms, a significant culture firewall between the pulp and digital worlds of comics in many people's minds. Strong speculation in any case, but they don't seem to have asked the Shuster's? Something to look into for us this weekend on the panel. [15:00-16:00: Sequential Presents: Oh, Canada. Surveying The Landscape of Canadian Comics.] In general asking the Panel what role they see for web comics is one for the list. Labels: awards, C-List, can-con, events, events links, news, shusters, webcomics, wordonthestreet - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 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! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 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! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - 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! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, July 10, 2009 McGill = Comics U? ![]() Friend of Sequential (FOS?) and Big Man on Campus (BMOC), Brad Mackay, investigates the preponderance of comics creators with a McGill University degree. Interview subjects include Mariko Tamaki (BA '94), J. Torres (BA '93, DipEd '94,, Bryant Paul Johnson (BA '94), and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (MA '97): A fast-talking 33-year-old who balances her literary bona fides with a punk sensibility, Tamaki has ridden the Skim wave into a promising career in comics writing. Her sophomore graphic novel, Emiko Superstar, about a suburban teen who unexpectedly finds acclaim in the underground arts scene, debuted in late 2008 and she has an autobiographical story in the upcoming Top Shelf anthology, Awesome 2: Awesomer. Labels: comics in school, graphic novels, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, July 02, 2009 I'm Crazy wins Xeric Grant The Xeric Grants were announced this week and Toronto cartoonist Adam Bourret was one of the recipients for his serialized webcomic I'm Crazy, "an auto-biographical graphic novel, dealing with, among other things: histories, secrets, obsessive compulsive disorder, drugs, gay romance, hallucinations and insanity." Congratulations Adam!The Xerics are made possible by Peter Laird, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They are awarded several times a year and go towards the cost of self-publishing a graphic novel or comic. Past Canadian winners of the Xeric include Essex County creator Jeff Lemire. Labels: awards, grants, international, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 The C-List: TCAF Link Round-Up, Part 3 ![]() More incredible links about the incredible Toronto Comic Art Festival: More photos from Dr. Squid, Day 2 JM Douville reports Ryan's Disneyland Autograph sketchbook Transmission X's Eric Vedder Ty Buttars says TCAF 2009 should be called "the Tatsumi show" TCAF guest and manga blogger Deb Aoki has a full report and photo gallery TCAF pics Patrick Kyle of the Wowee Zonk collective on their booklaunch and TCAF show Webcomicer and TCAF volunteer misidentifies Bryan Lee O'Malley Kate Beaton was driven towards motherhood at TCAF, apparently Kevin Boyd of the Shuster Awards blogs his impressions (that's the Dave Sim print the Shuster folks were selling at the show up top) Photos from the Tugboat Press gang The Doodlers photostream, including the james Turner Rex Libris action figure Labels: blogosphere, C-List, comics in libraries, events, graphic novels, links, tcaf, TCAF09, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, May 04, 2009 James Turner's Warlord of IO Rejected by Diamond ![]() The Toronto cartoonist James Turner has had his latest project rejected by Diamond Distributors. The series, Warlord of Io, is Turner's follow-up to the Wright Award nominated Nil graphic novel and the Rex Libris comic book series. The cancelled series, a comedic space opera set on Jupiter, was to be published by Slave Labor in the U.S. but has become the latest casualty of Diamond Distributors new minimum standards policy that denies distribution to comics deemed unlikely to sell a minimum number of copies. The policy is controversial since it reduces the chances of quality art reaching an audience. According to a report at Comic Book Resources, the book will be distributed online for now, with a possible trade collection in the future. Turner, who will be appearing at TCAF this week, has posted several updates along with a video preview at his website. Tom Spurgeon writes, "I know that Warlord of IO is only one comic book, but a long time ago that what's the Direct Market was set up to do: give people a chance to buy the one comic book they wanted to buy. That obviously couldn't hold, but where the line gets drawn seems to me a much more vital issue than should be decided by a single company around which whirls occasional rumors of external financial distress. If the Direct Market will inevitably go away with the rise of an on-line replacement, why not have the best possible Direct Market until that happens?" Labels: digital comics, floppies, publishing, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, April 30, 2009 Publishing: Never Learn Anything From History by Kate Beaton ![]() Never Learn Anything From History Kate Beaton 68 pages $18 plus shipping buy it here Labels: comic strips, publishing, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Sunday, April 12, 2009 Publishing: Michael Cho NewsQuill and Quire reports that Toronto cartoonist Michael Cho has sold two new book projects to publishers. D+Q has picked up Cho's collection of Toronto back alley landscapes --a preview of which you can see at Cho's blog. As well, Cho has sold his first solo graphic novel to French and Spanish publishers. Titled Five Pieces, the book has been sold to Delcourt and Spain's Reservoir Books Mondadori. Cho is perhaps best known as an illustrator. His previous comics work includes illustrations for the Max Finder mystery series and work on Marvel's Age of the Sentry superhero series. Currently, Cho is continues to serialize his Papercut webcomic on Transmission X and blogging about his cartooning influences like Wally Wood, inbetween time off for taking care of a newborn baby. Labels: graphic novels, international, publishing, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, April 09, 2009 The Mindless ones net Cameron Stewart for 13 questions "We captured Cameron Stewart after many hours spent stalking him through the streets of Montreal, Canada.""We then set about beating him with bamboo canes through the thin webbing of the net in which he was held. Cameron withstood the breaking process for 5 days, but ultimately, through clenched teeth, agreed to answer 13 exquisitely crafted questions. He swore he'd die before answering any more." --->> Labels: can-con, interviews, Montreal, pod casts, U.S. superhero franchises, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, April 07, 2009 Tonite: Webcomics Talk in TorontoGraphically Speaking: Webcomics! Tuesday, April 7, 2009 6:30pm - 8:30pm North York Central Library 5120 Yonge St. Toronto 416-395-5535 Chris Butcher moderates a panel on the art and commerce aspects of webcomics with a bevy of talented cartoonists who just happen to produce comics partly or exclusively online (not counting t-shirt and coffee mug sales). The panel includes Kate Beaton, Willow Dawson, Emily Horne, Brian McLachlan, and Ryan North. Labels: comics in libraries, events, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Publishing: Never As Bad As You Think ![]() One of the more graphically interesting webcomics of recent years, Never As Bad As You Think, by husband-and-wife team Stuart and Kathryn Immonen, is now available as a print graphic novel, from Boom! Studios. Publisher's blurb: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN artist Stuart Immonen teams up with HELLCAT writer Kathryn Immonen for a fascinating original graphic novel! NABAYT tracks the alarming failures of paranoid urbanites, murderous waitstaff, heart-broken ambulance drivers, mariachi bands, talking cats and dogs, people who like cake and many who wield knives for a variety of purposes. This full-color printing contains all 52 strips from the Immonens' year-long web project along with two new strips and fresh, revealing bios in a perfect-bound deluxe edition hardcover designed by the House of Immonen. A gorgeous collection in a handsome limited edition! Never As Bad As You Think Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen Boom! Studios $15.99 January, 2009 ISBN13: 9781934506738 Diamond Code: OCT083926 preview Labels: graphic novels, publishing, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, January 15, 2009 Karl Kerschl makes some waves with The Abominable Charles ChristopherI was just having diner with Karl last night and remembered that he had a profile in the local weekly, the Montreal Mirror this week as part of their Noisemaker annual revue of hot local talent...
Labels: cartoonists, Montreal, people, profiles, Quebec, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, January 07, 2009 Publishing: Time Management for Anarchists ![]() self-published/No Media Kings 22 pages October, 2008 We missed this when it was released late last year. Available as a free download/pdf/webcomic/etc, this comic by creator Jim Munroe and illustrator Marc Ngui is a cartoon version of a talk Munroe (writer: Therefore Repent) has been giving at writer gatherings for awhile now. You can find it online, along with more details, here. Labels: publishing, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, August 25, 2008 Shock Effect production processShock Effect, a newly-minted sci-fi comic by Toronto writer Ian Daffern and Toronto artist John Lang, is in competition at DC Comics' publishing competition site, www.Zuda.com, at this link: www.zudacomics.com/node/543 www.Zuda.com is a site where artists submit their work and compete against similar comics, in order to win a publishing contract with publishing giant DC Comics. You can vote for them, offer critcism, leave comments about the comic and offer support. To promote their effort -and to drive people to their appearance at Zuda and encourage people to vote for them - Ian and John have put up a production blog, which includes a short documentary on their creative process, at www.shockeffect.blogspot.com Take a look, vote at www.Zuda.com, and consider leaving a comment - it ends Aug 28th. Best of luck, guys! Labels: publishing, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Second Life Comic-Con ![]() The Comic Book Bin is one of the co-sponsors of the first Comic Book convention and symposium to take place in the virtual world/video game of Second Life, a website owned by Linden Labs. The "Second Life Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference" will be held October 3, 2008. - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, June 30, 2008 Weltschmerz, R.I.P. ![]() Weltschmerz, Gareth Lind's long-running weekly political comic strip, has come to an end. The final strip appeared Thursday, June 26. Citing a need to move on after almost 15 years of producing a weekly strip, cartoonist Lind ended the adventures of uber-liberal ranter Horst Weltschmerz on an open note, wrapping up a long-running sub-plot involving comatose terrorism suspect Raj but leaving the relationship crisis of the title character in permanent limbo. As he writes in the blog post accompanying the final strip, Lind is still planning future projects, perhaps with the same characters, but his loyalties remain with the serialized comic strip form, as opposed to the graphic novel or webcomics: "... it was hard for me to imagine the characters not living on. They may well, somehow, in some incarnation. But right now it feels like they've lived long enough with me. It's time for Horst -- and me -- to move on [...] But my cartooning ain't over. I've got plans. Whether I can find an economic model for them remains to be seen ..." The full text of the blog post is worth reading for anyone interested in webcomics economics and the shift away from print. Running since 1994 in a small number of Canadian alternative weeklies that at one time included Toronto's Eye Weekly as well as Pulse (Edmonton), Echo Weekly (Kitchener-Guelph area), View (Hamilton) and Pulse (St. Catharines/Niagara), the strip revolved around the neurotic political worldview of Horst Weltschmerz (a Woody Allen-Noam Chomsky type and Lind's chief mouthpiece) and his coterie of trend-embracing, buzzword-spouting friends, rivals, and mortal enemies. The strip was decidedly left-of-centre and often concerned with issues surrounding technology and the environment, with particular venom and satire reserved for Conservative Party politicians like PM Stephen Harper and the widely-hated former Ontario premier Mike Harris. In many ways, and to use another German loan-word, with its deer-in-the headlights fascination with neo-cons, the web, sex, and global warming, the strip perfectly captured the zeitgeist of millennial and post-Sept. 11 Canada. By way of example, the most recent storyline featured Horst cyber-stalking his ex-girlfriend, who left him for a lesbian lover who is secretly streaming their sex-life to pay-per-view fans online, while Horst's friend Cosmo has embraced veganism and the SUV-diet, a parody of the 100-mile diet that involves eating only the equivalent of the bio-fuel consumed by a typical SUV in one year, all while their friend Raj hovers on death's door after being abducted by CSIS. A restless, intelligent strip, Weltschmerz featured inventive design, tight linework, and an economy of presentation that was distinct, instantly accessible, and funny, despite its often dense wordplay and subject matter. A collection of strips featuring a linked continuity, Attack of the Same-Sex Sleeper Cells, was self-published by Lind and released in 2006. An interview with the Guelph-based Lind, who also runs a graphic design business, accompanied the final strip in select papers. Labels: comic strips, Edmonton, Ontario, political cartooning, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, June 12, 2008 I Would Really Like a Thundra T-Shirt ![]() A webcomics day:
- Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Tuesday, April 22, 2008 News Roundup, Earth Day 2008Most of these links are entirely unrelated to Earth Day:
Labels: graphic novels, links, Newfoundland, Ontario, real world, Toronto, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Wednesday, April 09, 2008 Midweek Madness ![]()
Labels: comics history, comics retailers, events links, graphic novels, Manitoba, Ottawa, webcomics, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, March 24, 2008 In Other News: ![]()
In 1949, E. Davie Fulton, an up-and-coming Tory MP from British Columbia, got Parliament to pass a private member's bill banning crime comics from our pristine dominion. Fulton's efforts were loudly praised by a 10-year-old Baie Comeau boy named Brian Mulroney, who delivered an award-winning speech denouncing crime comics.
Labels: British Columbia, comics history, comics on film, comics retailers, manga, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto, U.S. superhero franchises, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 1comments - Thursday, March 06, 2008 Webcomics Economics ![]() Von Allan is an Ottawa-based cartoonist who is serializing his graphic novel, the road to god knows..., on the Girlamatic webcomic site. In this massive blog post, Allan takes a long, hard look at all the numbers available to him, page views and hits as recorded by his own page counter, Girlamatic, and advertisers. Serious serial strips by relatively unknown talents, as opposed to humour strips or genre adventures written by Warren Ellis or a webcomics collective of perhaps lesser-known, well-established cartoonists like Transmission-X, seem like the hardest sell to a generally inattentive, nebulous webcomic audience, as Allan notes, but the actual data he presents is worth a look. I'm particularly interested in the mechanics of Project Wonderful, the hands-on indy business shared advertising model that many bloggers and webcomics participate in. In my opinion, Allan is doing a good job promoting his work and getting the word out about his book, which I am assuming will eventually be collected in print somewhere after the online run is finished and archived at the end of this Summer. He's not making any money, but neither does about 99% of all webcomics. Project Wonderful uses an auction process for it’s buyers and sellers. If you want to run an ad to attract visitors to your site, you need to compete with other sites doing the same thing. You can do this on a site by site basis (someone can advertise, for example, on one or both boxes on my GirlAMatic site) or you can do it as a campaign. In the latter case, you enter in criteria and have PW bid on your behalf on sites that meet your specs. Personally, I use a combination of both. For instance, I find that I get a really good Q Rating on Wahoo Morris, probably because the two stories are somewhat similar and both Craig Taillefer and I are Ottawa-based creators. 'Course, maybe it's something entirely different. Regardless, I keep on bidding on his site because I like the results that I get. Labels: blogosphere, graphic novels, Ottawa, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Friday, February 29, 2008 In Production: Gustav Hayes by Morgan JeskeVancouver web start-up Zeros 2 Heroes asserts that it is publishing its first comic book, a post-apocalyptic adventure called Gustav Hayes written by first-timer Morgan Jeske. From the press release: Zeros 2 Heroes Media is currently producing Gustav Hayes from Winnipeg creator Morgan Jeske. Jeske is working with editors and artists provided by Zeros 2 Heroes Media to bring his comic to life on the page. Labels: British Columbia, Manitoba, pr, publishing, Vancouver, webcomics, Winnipeg - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Thursday, February 21, 2008 Zeros 2 Heroes UpdateThe Vancouver-based social networking site and webcomics idea factory Zeros 2 Heroes recently picked their fourth weekly winner in its ongoing webcomic pitch popularity contest, "Canada: Comic Creation Nation". In related news, the first such pitch to be chosen for actual production is described in the following Press Release: Vancouver, British Columbia (February 11, 2008) – After a month of (see previous stories about this company) Labels: British Columbia, pr, Vancouver, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, February 18, 2008 Monday Round-up: Happy Family Day! Happy Louis Riel Day! ![]() Jellaby review Why do comic book readers exist? (Herve, please follow up with your research!) Glamourpuss review Webcomics fun: The Lonely Monkey and Waiting by Michael Cho Labels: links, reviews, webcomics - Stumble It! - Leave a comment!| 0comments - Monday, February 11, 2008 Things to See and Read: Monday
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