John Seven reviews ‘Aurora Borealice’ and ‘Nhun the Huntress’
INDIE VIEW: Taking stock of personal inventory manufactures a crippling void in ‘Clyde Fans’
John Seven reviews ‘Clyde Fans’
Interview: D. Boyd talks ‘Chicken Rising,’ only childhood, and dealing with your stuff before you write a memoir
John Seven talks D. Boyd, author of ‘Chicken Rising’
INDIE VIEW: Canadian Anti-Semitism explodes in ‘Christie Pits’
John Seven reviews ‘Christie Pits’
Review: ‘Idle Days’ gathers the darkness
In Idle Days, writer Thomas Desaulniers Brousseau and artist Simon Leclerc traverse the connection between personal psychological distress and the ghostly sins of the past, in a backdrop of world-shattering dread that, in many ways, mirror what too many people are probably feeling these days — or at least, believe we are on the brink […]
07/01/2018 Small Press & Indie Comics Galore: Canada Day Edition
Small Press & Indie Comics Galore: Canada Day Edition
Review: Assessing the damage in ‘Roughneck’
Jeff Lemire has become quite a prolific comics creator since 2008. He’s largely devoted himself to the varying forms of genre fiction that comics offers, both his own creations, like Sweet Tooth or The Underwater Welder, and the classic characters of DC and Marvel, though sometimes his superhero work was defined by its quirkiness, like […]
J. Torres finds some True Patriots for Canada
By Steve Morris Wolverine, Alpha Flight, Jack Bauer, Captain Kirk: many of the most famous heroes in modern history have been Canadian. But despite that, Canada still has a reputation mainly for politeness, rather than spandex-based punching and flying. As an attempt to finally wake the world up to Canada’s innate ability to defeat supervillains, […]
Fan Expo 2012: DC and Marvel Roundup
By Steve Morris Fan Expo Canada unfolded across this weekend, bringing all sorts of unwashed comic creators to Toronto. And with them came all sorts of pictures and words which, when assembled into coherent form, will result in exciting and surprising announcements for us all to digest, before experiencing a series of hot sweats. Read […]
MONTREAL COMIC ARTISTS – West Coast Book Tour
August 17-25, members of Canadian independent comic book collective Colosse tour from San Francisco to Vancouver BC with multimedia readings of their acclaimed and edgy works, followed by book signings. Authors include Sophie Yanow (In Situ, a graphically daring, poetic journal strip) and Francois Samson-Dunlop and Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau (Pinkerton, an indie-rock rom com about getting over a truly 90s breakup in a post-90s world). Don’t miss this rare West Coast appearance!