Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher from which you never know what to expect. They keep selecting new and innovative work to publish that always defy and […]
Micro-French-Scene-Review: Comics and Graphic Novels at the Salon du Livre de l’Outaouais
I’ve had the chance to go this morning with my son to the 38th edition of the Salon du Livre de l’Outaouais. It’s the major Francophone book fair for the Outaouais Region, a region of western Quebec. It’s a mainly French event, but nonetheless, there are plenty of comics there since a parallel festival called […]
Annie Koyama Contributes Vast Collection of Original Art to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Annie Koyama, owner and publisher of Toronto’s Koyama Press, has donated a large selection of original artwork to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM). Koyama is donating over 250 original pieces from a wide range of contemporary cartoonist. The list provided by the BICLM includes Lisa Hanawalt, Theo Ellsworth, Katie Skelly, Noah Van Sciver, […]
Drawn & Quarterly Announces Their Fall 2017 Line-up with Barry, Gauld, Kafka and Unquotable Trump
Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly has recently announced it’s Fall 2017 publishing slate. It’s a fantastic selection. There’s a new softcover edition of Tom Gauld’s Goliath and Lynda Barry’s The Good Times Are Killing Me. Speaking of Tom Gauld, a new collection of his comic strip will be published with Baking with Kafka. There’s also new […]
A year of free comics – Joe Ollman’s Making of The Abominable Mr. Seabrook
Drawn & Quarterly recently released Joe Ollmann’s latest graphic novel, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook. Joe Ollmann worked on this graphic for a period of five years, not simply to write and illustrate the book, but also to do extensive research on the life of the extremely colourful author William Seabrook. Not simply content with this […]
Micro-Press News: Ley Lines 2017 Line-up & INK BRICK Crowdfunding Campaign
Busy news day for alternative comics, two micro-press comics publisher announced their plans for 2017. First up, Czap Books and Grindstone comics revealed the 2017 line-up of their joint publishing experiment Ley Lines. Ley Lines is published quarterly and, as per their own description is dedicated to “exploring the intersection of comics and the various […]
Comic Book Book Club Report – Nicolas by Pascal Girard
In 2015, I attended a conference on health care for work. Pierre Lavoie, an athlete and event organizer did a presentation at that event. Lavoie was a triathlete who lived in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. In the 90’s, he and his wife had a healthy son. A few years later, they had a daughter and soon learned that […]
A year of free comics – Kate Beaton’s Holiday Comics 2016
Kate Beaton is a Canadian national treasure. Her art is always lovely, her sense of humour refreshing and clever. Beaton offers us her holiday 2016 comic strip presented in two long posts. If you’re only familiar with her published books Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside Pops, this is a much more personal series of […]
A year of free comics – Spellwich by Valentine Gallardo
Valentine Gallardo’s Spellwich, is the story of a group of friends gathered around a campfire. They’re bored, and yet another ghost story or game of truth or dare will not work to push the blues away. Then one of them has an idea, something dangerous, something forbidden. Surely from the occult, from the impossible, they […]
A year of free comics – Titan by François Vigneault
I really like Francois Vigneault’s Titan. It’s a spectacular science fiction comic. It follows the story of MNGR João da Silva, as he is sent to Homestead Station on the moon of Titan to assess the issues with the station and gets caught in long simmering tensions between the genetically engineered workers and the small […]