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The National Post saw fit to run this article about the Quebecois verion of Herge's Coke en Stock on its front page Saturday. It's not exactly an earth-shaking front-page style story, but hey, it was the weekend. The lowdown? The book was supposed to be the first "regional" translation of the Tintin adventures for Quebec. Even though French-speaking people in Quebec have been reading Tintin

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Wright Award-nominee Dave Lapp has a new project out soon: a compilation of his well-remembered Children of the Atom strip. The book is out from Conundrum in May."Originally serialized in Western University's The Gazette, then weekly in Vancouve'’s Georgia Straight newspaper from 1996-2001, Children of the Atom is like a Samuel Beckett play in comic strip form. The two characters Franklin Boy

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Originally 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

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Special weekend edition.Item: New from La Pasteque, it's Pascal Girard's Jimmy et le Bigfoot, a tale of adolescence, youtube fame, and the North American great ape. Item: Karl Kerschl was hacked and then it stopped.Item: Darwyn Cooke in Washington.Item: There is only one Jay Stephens and he's working on a new syndicated comic strip.Item: Saturday (today) Danielle Corsetto of the Girls With

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Another 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,

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Kalman Andrasofszky posted some lovely new art and B&W inks of his recent Captain America work on his blog today.  There's mention of a star fish drinking game? And if you're clever, a hint for someone he's drawing next, which being an old club going lad, i bet he's chuffed about! Don't mention him here much as he works mostly for the big boys down south which doesn't fall under our beet that

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Tonite in NYC is the opening reception for a new show and sale of art by the cartoonist Seth. Inked pages from the comics work are rarely offered for sale by Seth, who will be on hand for the opening. GEORGE SPROTTAN EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGSFROM THE PICTURE NOVELLAAdam Baumgold Gallery60 East 66th StNew York CityFebruary 5 - March 13, 2010Reception: Friday, Feb 5, 7-8 pmAlso: Six Cardboard

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Some quick items.Item: Writer Richard Poplak and artist Nick Marinkovich are the creative team behind Kenk: A Graphic Portrait, May 2010 from Pop Sandbox press. Poplak is interviewed by Peter Scowen here for the Globe Books "In Other Words" blog. The book is about convicted bike thief and dealer Igor Kenk. Marinkovich is also illustrating a graphic memoir about the residential schools system by

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Sequential's own Dave Howard had a chance to interview Beguiling manager, book buyer, TCAF Director, and all-around Toronto alt-comics catalyst Chris Butcher about comics212.net, the history of TCAF, his own history, and his take on Canadian publishing. books.torontoist.com

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Toronto Cartoonists' Workshop Coordinator Walter Dickenson sent out this message on facebook: Small Press Networking and Promotion Opportunity. Hi: I recently became aware of an excellent networking initiative called WORK IN COMICS. Run by local entrepreneur and publisher Nicola Defina , WORK IN COMICS is a free service to promote your skills as an artist, writer, designer or even.. publisher.

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Item: There is a benefit on Friday, Feb. 5 for cartoonist Robin Konstabaris, whose studio burned down on Christmas Day.Item: Vancouver cartoonist Ed Brisson among those with claims against superhero start-up Bluewater. Chris Butcher comments.Item: Marc Bell profile at New Brunswick gallery.Item: Kevin Boyd profiles Marvel artist Leonard Kirk.Item: Got an idea for a comics podcast? Robin at

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Michel Rabagliati's latest graphic novel, Paul a Quebec, the sixth in his Paul series, has won an audience favourite prize at the giant Angouleme comics festival in France. This is the first time a Canadian book has won one of the many Angouleme prizes, handed out over the course of the week-long festival. The book won the complicated-sounding "Prix du Public FNAC-SNCF" (sponsored by a book

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Jonas Diego posted to us a link for a post he has up on Comics University showing the proses he Elbert Or and Robo Monkey Pixel Fighters used in creating the art on thier book with J. Torres, LOLA: A GHOST STORY

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By Sam Hunter. This and more classics at PUNCH IN CANADA, Blogging by John Adcock, see also Yesterday's Papers.

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Time to put the month to rest.I like to think of the C-List as a tribute to the old Bullpen Bulletins from Marvel Comics. Some of the items are really neat (KISS meets Howard the Duck!) and some of them are just meh (Sal Buscema visited the dentist). And oh yeah: no Stan's Soapbox!Item: The best thing I saw all week.Item: Ed Brisson has some shared studio space available in Vancouver.Item:

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[by Dave Howard] Kean Soo was very generous as I tortured him through two interviews - the first one I realized after I'd hung up the phone that the tape had run out very early on.  We stayed up late the following evening to get the second one done - thanks so much for your patience Kean. Read the results here on books@torontoist Keaner dot net 

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Remember when there was hardly enough news about the comix culture in Canada to warrant a daily blog, let alone 2 or 3 C-Lists per week? Item: Robert Haines profiles Dundas, Ontario comic shop The Dungeon for the Shuster Awards blog.Item: First printer Quebecor World merged with World Color Press. Now World Color Press has been bought by the Wisconsin-based Quad Graphics. When the resulting new

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Updated 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

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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

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DIRTY DISHES by Amy LockhartDrawn and Quarterly$11.21 US / $12.71 CDNISBN 9781770460041Diamond Code DEC090839preview pdfaboutblogLockhart 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

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Toronto Comic Jam Co-ordinator Dalton Sharp sends out this messageThe Comic Jam is tomorrow night [that's tonight, folks!], Tuesday, January 26th, 9 o'clock till 12ish, Cameron House, backroom, 408 Queen St. W., Queen-Spadina. Bring your own pens, paper provided.See you there!DaltonP.S.: - Rob Westall has revamped his website at oddnogginz.com- Cartoonist Rutz and myself are having an afternoon

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Once more with feeling: your semi-regular round-up of Canadian comic book links.Item: There must have been a big push for this item, since a writer friend who hates comics sent me a link to the preview for the upcoming Gary Taxali artshow at the Narwhale Projects Gallery beginning Thursday, Jan 28. Taxali is the mega-popular Toronto-based illustrator who works in a cartoon-y style and is a

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Refus totalby Renaud Germain$15.50self-publishedavailable here

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Bonjour a Tous! Hello to all! The first Montreal Comix Jam of 2010 will be this Thursday, January 28! 8 PM at L’Escalier, 552 Sainte-Catherine East, Metro Berri-Uqam. As always, bring your gear and a happy mood! See you there! View Larger Map

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Item: Sequential's own Dave Howard profiles Jason Kieffer for the torontoist blog.Item: Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester's A Comic Studies Reader has won a U.S. award for best book in the field of pop culture studies. Congrats to the editors!Item: Bryan Lee O'Malley on Inkstuds.Item: More on the "Jellaby going out of print" story, courtesy of Johanna Draper Carlson.Item: D+Q is having a sale on some

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