Reminder: Kean Soo will be at the Dragon this Saturday, September 11th! From The Dragon, sponsor of the Comics For Kids award: The Dragon takes pride in our comic and graphic novel selection for all ages and to help support the young reader community we are hosting regular Comics for Kids Day events! The next… Read More Happenings: CTON @ The Dragon – Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010
UDON Entertainment and the Beguiling are celebrating 10 years of the UDON studio with a big FREE party and the VENT book launch next Thursday night – September 16th – the day after the book is set to arrive in stores. UDON 10th Anniversary/VENT Book Launch – FREE Event! September 16 – 7:00pm Revival Bar… Read More Happenings: UDON 10th Anniversary Party + VENT Vol.1 Book Launch 9/16
Gagne Tells “The Saga of Rex” Multi-talented creator Michel Gagne spoke with CBR News about the release of “The Saga of Rex,” his 200-page graphic novel that sends a little fox named Rex on a huge adventure through space and other worlds.
From The Dragon, sponsor of the Comics For Kids award: The Dragon takes pride in our comic and graphic novel selection for all ages and to help support the young reader community we are hosting regular Comics for Kids Day events! The next Signing and Drawing Workshop day is Saturday September 11th with special guest… Read More Happenings: Kean Soo @ The Dragon – Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010
Jamie Coville of thecomicbooks.com spent his time at the convention recording various discussion panels. See below: Drawing Ahead: The Future of Comics (51:36, 47.2mb) Moderated by Kill Shakespeare co-writers Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col, Creators Andy Belanger, Ramon Perez, Cameron Stewart, Willow Dawson and Scott Chantler talk about the Future of Comics. More specifically… Read More Jamie Coville visits FanExpo
Talk about timing, I wrote the previous post with no idea that Diamond would today confirm Tuesday delivery for Wednesday street date sales. The key thing to note: Diamond states that retailers can opt-in for Tuesday delivery. So if your biggest concern is that your business is closed on Tuesdays (and that is an interesting… Read More Tuesday delivery for retailers is go!
What is the biggest rumour/bit of news to come down the pipe regarding retailers? The main supplier/distributor of comics, Diamond Comic Distributors, surveyed retailers to gauge interest in Tuesday delivery. Recently, Bleeding Cool reported: In December (2010) … comics deliveries will be staggered through the month, with a number of comics distributed a week in… Read More Canadian Retailer Update – September, 2010
Toronto is fortunate to have a lot of choice when it comes to comic events: there are a myriad of one-off signings and lectures given in the city; there is the free-to-the-public TCAF event; there is the Wizard comic/media show held in the spring; and of course, the Hobbystar FanExpo show. There should be no… Read More The upcoming comic weekend
New in stores today is the The Broadcast, published by NBM publishing, art by Noel Tuazon, written by US-based Eric Hobbes. What’s it about? Set in 1938, THE BROADCAST is about a rural Indiana town that loses power halfway through Orson Welles’ infamous radio play having never learned the panic-inducing news bulletins are a hoax.… Read More The Broadcast by Noel Tuazon (with Eric Hobbs)
It’s just been announced that the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2011 will be held Saturday, May 7th and Sunday, May 8th. As you may be aware, TCAF “exists to promote the breadth and diversity of comics, and what is considered comics, as legitimate medium of literary and artistic worth.” TCAF as an event in 2010… Read More Free Comic Book Day + TCAF 2011
Jillian Tamaki was a special guest of Comic-Con and the following sums up her experience.
Available this week is The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective, written and compiled by Patrick Rosenkranz. Published by Fantagraphics. This work reflects on the spanning career of Hall of Fame inductee Rand Holmes. (Learn more about Rand Holmes in the Joe Shuster Awards Hall of Fame.) Thanks to Portland, OR native Patrick and US… Read More Releases: Rand Holmes Retrospective
Thanks to a slew of interesting new releases recently, such as: The Hipless Boy by Sully Children of the Atom by Dave Lapp Ruts & Gullies: Nine Days in Saint Petersburg by Philippe Girard and the very underrated The Undertaking by Michael J. Hind I’ve been asked by a number of Canadian retailers, ‘How do… Read More Conundrum Press – How can a Retailer order these books?
Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the releases, we didn’t get the press release in our inbox but we’ve got lots of UDON love over here. 3 limited print hard cover books: UDON’s Art of Capcom 2; Limited to 500 at the show. . The Art of Darksiders; Limited to 500 copies. Joe Madureira will… Read More UDON to premiere 3 books at SDCC
The Retailer Links have been updated this past week. Added: New photos, hours of operation, Facebook pages A few new stores were added, and, sadly, a few were removed. British Columbia New stores added: Sakura Media, Burnaby Iwase Books, Richmond Book-Off, Vancouver Pulpfiction Books West, Vancouver Closed stores: Gotham Collectibles, Burnaby (who just opened, are… Read More Updated: Retailer Links
The newest volume of the excellent anthology Flight is currently available for preview. A number of Canuck creators have been involved with this series; the creators involved in this volume: Kean Soo and Jellaby: Guardian Angel Dermot Walshe and TT Challenge Michel Gagné and the magical The Saga of Rex: The Harvest All three of… Read More Flight 7 preview is online
A call to all you self-publishers out there. The Great Canadian Lit Hunt now includes comics! ___________________________________ The 14th annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt has begun. For 14 years now This Magazine has surveyed this vast country for the best and brightest in Canadian new fiction and poetry and this year, just to keep things… Read More Comics eligible for the ‘Great Canadian Lit Hunt’
The Toronto Comic Jam runs this Tuesday, June 29th 9 p.m. till Midnight Cameron House, 408 Queen St. W., Queen-Spadina, backroom. Paper provided. Bring your own pens.
On Wednesday, June 30th we lose another comic book shop. Allstar Cards, Comics And Collectables, in Brantford, ON, will be closing its doors. Allstar opened about 20 years ago, when comics were still in a real boom phase. The only comic book shop in Brantford at the time was Comic Connection, having outlasted the late,… Read More Retailers – RIP Allstar Cards Comics And Collectables
Trio Magnus presents ‘As YES as it gets’ Jun 24 – Jul 22, 2010 @ Resistor Gallery As all Torontonians know, the G20 Summit will turn the city into a miserable tangle of concrete, chain-link and pepper spray. The one bright spot? The opening of As Yes As It Gets, a new, eye-popping show from… Read More Happenings – Trio Magnus Art Show – Thursday, June 24, 2010
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 