The winners of the 2008 Prix Expozine were announced at a ceremony in Montreal on Monday night. The prize is given to publications featured at Expozine, the annual small-press fair.
ENGLISH WINNERS
COMIC: Oola Dug by Malcom Sutherland
BOOK: Extraction! edited by Frederic Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington, Cumulus Press
ZINE: The Bedrooms of the Nation by Michelle Sterling
FRENCH WINNERS
COMIC: Comment le dictionnaire fut-il invente by Zviane & Charles Menard, Grafigne.com Editions
BOOK: Kaspar by OBOM
ZINE: Victor by Adrien Sanchez Valero
For full details, including information on the judges, links, and the judges' comments, see the Expozine website.
It's Owl Magazine's annual Comics Issue, featuring strips and profiles by Jean Chin, Steve Manale, Willow Dawson, Michael Cho, Charlene Chua, Eric Kim, Claude Bordelau, Brian McLachlan, & Scott Chantler.
Robin Bougie is launching a trio of projects tonight, including the second issue of the adults only Sleazy Slice comics anthology, featuring work by Bougie, S.H.K, David Paleo, S.C.A.R, Putrid, and more. Also on offer is the latest issue of Cinema Sewer, the Bougie-edited zine devoted to adult film.
Almost Missed this one...But I'll be there, not square!
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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: Special Effects on the Cheap
Indie Artist, Promote Yourself: A How-to Guide to DIY Promotion lead by indie promoter extraordinaire Trevor Coleman.
Bonjour a tous le 5 octobre prochain, dans le cadre du festival Atenne_a, lancement du prochain fanzine bidon accompagne d'un cd du groupe (swedish) death polka. et une merveilleuse couverture realisee par Valerie Morency. 5a 7 plus spectale a 19hr a la chapelle de l'amerique francaise a Quebec. histoire ecrite par samuel murdock basee sur le premier effondrement du pont de quebec 2, cote de la Fabrique. merci et au plaisirs http://www.swedishdeathpolka.com/ http://www.antenne-a.com/http://pishier.blogspot.com/http://kabochenook01.blogspot.com/
Expozine, Montreal's annual small press, comic and zine fair, will take place on Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Eglise Saint-Enfant Jesus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Metro) MAP. Free admission!
This incredible event brings together over 250 creators of all kinds of printed matter - from books to zines to visual art and comics - in both English and French.
In the past six 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!
It is one of the city's cultural success stories, and due to its ever-increasing growth, this year's edition will be expanded to two days.
Expozine brings together a multitude of publications and printed works that are often difficult to find in the first place, much less altogether in the same room! The result is a rare opportunity to peruse the work of hundreds of young and emerging authors, publishers and artists, and to see what the winners of last year's Expozine Alternative Press Awards are up to. Not to be missed!
An exclusive program dedicated to animation influenced by the New Yorker Magazine illustrator Saul Steinberg. Best known for his "View of the World from 9th Avenue,". Steinberg's elevated self-consciousness, reduced design to its essentials; freely melded the naive with the modern, and more than any other 20 century artist obliterated the wall between media and art. Animators as varied as Stefan Schabenbeck, Candy Kugel, Mo Williams and the "modernistic" designs from UPA and Zagreb owe much to Steinberg. The influence goes beyond the surface to include an abstract view of space, identity, and language. Curated by New York animator George Griffin.
3. Lynn Johnston's For Better of For Worse began it's new format Sept. 3 with a rerun some old strips framed by a journey through an old photo album. The strip is online here.
4. Toronto comics blogger and Beguiling employee is visiting Japan and already has a selection of manga retailing-related photos online.
5. Mike Aragona is a writer and the man responsible for keeping alive the long-running Canadian APA/zine Comicopia. He is currently going through some tough times concerning the health of his youngest child, as you will see from the updates from his livejournal page. If you know Mike or can identify with his situation, I'm sure his family would appreciate a note of encouragement or support.
Have you seen me? I am Canazine, a fanzine advertised in The Buyer's Guide in 1971, and published by Ralph Alphonso of Montreal. Persons with information about my whereabouts should contact this blog.
The 2nd Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala! Featuring as master of ceremonies perennial favourite Jean Giscagne, who will share the stage with musical/ lyrical entertainment by Montreal's Les Abdigradationnistes, plus special guests and surprises! You'll also have the chance to purchase copies of the nominated books, zines and comics!
To reflect the wide diversity of printed matter that was represented last November at Expozine, Montreal's only annual small press, comic and zine fair, six prizes will be awarded: three prizes in English and three in French, for the following categories: Best book, Best comic, Best zine. Each of the more than 200 Expozine 2006 participants were asked to submit their best creation for consideration for the prizes. The shortlist was selected by an esteemed panel of judges, and are listed below.
SHORTLIST
Best English Comic
Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Ojingogo (#2) by Matthew Forsythe
Revolver 2 by Salgood Sam with Jim Munroe
Screwed Ball by Bill Charbonneau
I Found It in My Urethra! by Robin Bougie
Best English Zine:
knoggin knowledge, a danger to themselves, and Rolling Man by Kerry Byrne.
A Queersafe Zine by Mary Potter, Leah Newbold, Adriana. Drawings by Sarah Mangle.
Welcome to Gayside by The Third Leg.
Wires by Jeff Otaku.
thanksgiving by Sarah Pinder.
Best English Book:
The Feast: A Collection of Art in Black and White by Permanent Marker Art Society / Shawn O'Keefe and Harley Smart
In Search of Divine Styler by Ryan Somers, a.k.a. Fritz tha Cat (MudScout Press)
Jugsaw Youth: Two New Stories by J.B. Staniforth
Monsters for Real (Loveletters #1 through 11) by Jim Holyoak
*Tattoo This Madness In by Daniel Allen Cox, Dusty Owl Press
*The Theory of the Loser Class by Jon Paul Fiorentino, Coach House Press
Meilleur Bande Dessinée:
Hasermeister (spécial Halloween) par Frédéric Mahieu
Le Bob #5 par collectif de Québec
Mélodie burlesque par Sylvie Rancourt et Jacques Boivin
Le commun des mortels par Louis Bouvier
Meilleur Zine:
FAS: Non-apprivoisable et non-domesticable, par fas.mjack.net
Sexyfall / shute nous, par Louise-Andrée Lapierre
Clémentine, par Vincent Couture
Fanzine bidon #13 spécial mouvement, par Pierre Bouchard
T.M. Maple was one of the most widely published comic book letter writers of the 1980s. His real name was Jim Burke and he was, of course, from Canada ("The Mad Maple" was his official name). He also published his own fanzines and contributed to many others: his column "The Canuck Stops Here" was a regular feature of Gene Kehoe's seminal It's a Fanzine. Sadly, T.M. died in 1994 of a heart attack. Over at The Comics Journal Message Board, older readers and fans share memories of him, including a comic strip.
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