Tag: canadian comics
Review: Unpacking your demons in ‘The Vagabond Valise’
You can go find all the horror comics currently being published and line them up with The Vagabond Valise and probably not find one that is anywhere equal in the level of disturbance lobbed...
2018 Joe Shuster Award winners announced
This year's winner in the Joe Shuster Awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, have just been announced. You can see the whole list with bios here, and a lot more information about the colorful panoply...
Review – Where She Walks’ Incomplete Urban Fantasy
Where She Walks: A Canadian urban fantasy comic that's almost there
Live from TCAF with news and notes!
I'm in Toronto for TCAF and I'm trapped in a hotel room with bags and bags of maple bacon potato chips. Oh, Canada!
Yesterday it was the Librarian-Educator Conference, and Word Balloon Academy and you...
Delisle, Ollmann, GG, Jacobs, and Willumsen lead this year’s Doug Wright Award nominations
The best in Canadian comics 2018 edition is saluted by these annual awards.
Drawn & Quarterly offers a Publishing Fellowship
If you are Canadian and like comics, Montreal-based Drawn & Quarterly is offering an exciting new program: a paid publishing fellowship that will focus on all facets of the book business: editorial; production and design;...
Goodbye Gord Downie 1964-2017
https://twitter.com/JeffLemire/status/920666917311881216
Gord Downie, the lead singer of The Tragically Hip, passed away on Wednesday, October 18th. Downie had an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer he discovered in December 2015. Him and his band...
2017 Joe Shuster Award winners include Lemire, Cho, and Paquette
The annual Joe Shuster Award winners, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were announced over the weekend, in conjunction with Fan Expo Canada I'm guessing. Some excellent winners - and the Cho referred to...
Review – Loneliness in the North in Jon Iñaki’s Yukon Ghost
The Canadian North is a vast, cold and isolated places at times. It can be a tough place for the soul, it seems to make the edges rough and each cut, a little deeper....
2017 Joe Shuster Award nominees announced
Oh dang I forgot the Canadian branch of comics awards, the Doug Wrights and the Joe Shusters, the latter of which just announced their 2017 nominees. Winners will be announced the first weekend of September...
01/07/2017: Canada 150 Special: Small Press & Indie Comics
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§ For this monthly "Small Press & Indie Comics Galore", we'll focus more than usual on Canadian content to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary! My small contribution to the event.
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§ Nice art:
Let's start with Montreal...
The TCAF Interviews – Michel Hellman on the Challenge of the Canadian North
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It's mission is to "promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse...
