What: The 2012 Doug Wright Awards Where: Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario When: Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) Admission: FREE! The Poster: Poster Design for the Awards was done by previous Doug Wright Award winner Michael DeForge. Copies of the poster will be available… Read More Reminder! Doug Wright Awards presentation tomorrow night in Toronto.
Success can be a good thing, too much success can be a nightmare in the convention circuit if the convention cannot handle the demand and the Fire Marshall has to step in and shut the event down. While we are seeing an explosion of interest in comic book conventions here in Canada lately, that growing… Read More The Curse of Overcrowded Cons in Canada Strikes
I thought originally I would go through the Canadian shops and give an update on what they were doing for FCBD, which is this Saturday, but then it dawned on me that just about EVERY comic shop across the country was likely doing SOMETHING, so if wherever you are this Saturday, make sure to go… Read More FCBD in Canada is this Saturday – what is your local shop doing?
The second annual Star Wars Day TO will take place at the Toronto Underground Cinema on Friday, May 4th, 2012 and all proceeds from the 2012 event will go to the SickKids Foundation. The goal is to bring together Star Wars fans of all ages and levels of interest. This family-friendly event celebrates the series… Read More Star Wars Day TO – May the 4th be with you.
Anthony Falcone asked me to link to this column he wrote about his experiences moderating a Q&A panel at the Toronto Comic Con earlier in April with Ken Lashley, Marcus To and Marco Rudy.
Kill Shakespeare’s Anthony Del Col went to Dubai for it’s first Comic Con and wrote about the experience for the Beat. Last weekend was the first Fan Expo Vancouver and the turnout was a lot better than anticipated. The rest of the crew is on vacation for a couple of days so I won’t know… Read More Lots of stuff going on or just passed… Dubai, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and FCBD
According to Comic Book Resources, this is now happening, and I have little to say on it except that in business, lawsuits happen all of the time when lines of perception are crossed. In the end, this will hopefully settle some long unresolved questions. Update: Yes, since the same individual that has been stalking Hobbystar… Read More Hobbystar is suing Wizard over Toronto Comic Con / Comicon
Poster designed by Camp Pepper. As part of Kazoo! Fest 2012, the Zine & Comic Expo will be held on Saturday April 14th in Guelph. The website says they will present awards, and provide post-expo drinks and treats. Hours are 11am – 4pm at the Norfolk Street United Church (75 Norfolk St). The Kazoo! Zine… Read More Happenings: Kazoo Festival this Saturday, April 14 in Guelph, ON (reminder)
Metro Toronto Convention Centre Saturday, April 14, 2012 – 10am – 7pm Sunday, April 15, 2012 – 11am – 6pm 1-day ticket: $40 Weekend pass: $55 VIP Weekend pass: $200
This Friday night in Toronto, the Comic Book Lounge + Gallery is having it’s Grand Opening Party and the launch of The Art of Mike Del Mundo display that runs at the Gallery from now until mid-April. Mike Del Mundo will be at the event to sign autographs and prints and discuss his craft. For… Read More Happenings: Comic Book Lounge + Gallery Grand Opening Party / Launch of the Art of Mike Del Mundo display – 3/23/2012 7pm-11pm
As of today, Toronto’s 98 branch public library system is closed. This includes places like the Lillian Smith Branch (home of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy which has a large graphic novel contingent) where we held the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards ceremony, and the Metro Toronto Reference Library, the home of… Read More Toronto’s Public Libraries Closed – Workers on Strike. But for how long? What about TCAF?
Not much to add other than it was great to see many creators and fans in one space. Attendance was better than anticipated, especially on Saturday. I think that this was a wise move on the part of the company – instead of having a one day February comic show, a 2-day March anime show… Read More ComiCon post-mortem
Coming this Saturday and Sunday: Toronto ComiCON – presented by Fan Expo Canada METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE SOUTH BUILDING – HALLS F & G ADMISSION $20 (daily) or $30 Weekend Kids 12 and Under Free COMIC GUESTS ATTILA ADORJANY A12 (cancelled) SAM AGRO A13 KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY A73 MARK BAGLEY A88 ANDY BELANGER A76 KEN BRANCH… Read More Happenings: Reminder – Toronto ComiCON this weekend March 10-11 at the MTCC
My apologies for the lack of posts of late, but I just wanted to provide a quick update: – The nomination process is still underway for the 2012 awards. The nominating committees still have another month or so to deliver their selections for the various categories, and we are still planning to announce them in… Read More What happened to February?!?
It’s a milestone year for the annual Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec (which roughly translates as the Quebec Festival of Francophone Comics) which is scheduled to run from April 11th through to April 15th in Quebec City. The details on the event have yet to be released, but given the star power… Read More Happenings: FDBFQ – April 11-15, 2012 in Quebec City, QC
Poster designed by Camp Pepper. As part of Kazoo! Fest 2012, the Zine & Comic Expo will be held on Saturday April 14th in Guelph. The website will be updated soon with registration info and more information such as guests attending. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the Zine & Comic Expo… Read More Happenings: Kazoo! Zine & Comic Expo April 14, 2012 in Guelph, ON
We received the following information this morning from Chris Dabrowski: The Niagara Falls Comic Con is set for Saturday, June 9th, 2012 at the Scotia Bank Centre! Vendor and ticket information is available on the site…! If you’re an artist or vendor looking to secure space, visit the site for details. Spaces are limited, so… Read More Happenings: Niagara Falls Comic Con – June 9, 2012
Full list of 59 guests can be found here As always, the list is a mix of people working in different areas of the field, some legendary creators, some international creators and some people producing some ground-breaking webcomics. It’s no surprise to see that three out of the five Canadians on the list are there… Read More Comic-Con 2012 announces final special guests. Five Canadians featured.
Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2012 Poster by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon The Toronto Public Library presents The Toronto Comic Arts Festival Jeff Smith, Alison Bechdel and Guy Delisle highlight TCAF’s 2012 programme, which features more than 300 international cartoonists
Last night’s Industry Night was fantastic. Probably one of the best attended events we’ve held so far at the TCW space. All the copies Archaia sent up of A Tale of Sand sold out in under two hours and the reaction from those seeing it for the first time was priceless.Ramon’s art is stunning in… Read More Industry Night follow-up and Prophet 21 news
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 