I didn’t know these existed until today, but Retronaut has quite a collection. If anyone ever decides to re-publish I’m down for at least one copy.
Adam Ant Comics from the Early 1980s
I didn’t know these existed until today, but Retronaut has quite a collection. If anyone ever decides to re-publish I’m down for at least one copy.
Your Online Funny Pages
Episode 45 of This Is Toronto is now available! This latest edition features Bitstrips.com, a Toronto-based website that allows users to create their own comic strips. www.thisistorontopodcast.blogspot.com Next episode: Feb. 25, 2011
Some random notes: Politics to Comics to Movies
I note an opinion piece in yesterday’s Toronto Star by James Travers on the present state of our democracy. I have some concerns of my own about some of the issues Travers raises, and it makes me happy to note the elements of constructive-minded hope he included in that article. If there’s anything we need…
Comics and Canada: the Gene Day Award
Some among you already know about the Joe Shuster Awards, our own counterparts to the like of the Harveys and Eisners south of the border. They’ve added a new category: the Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing. I refer you to the Shuster Awards’ own page on the subject in the second link above. What…
Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Toronto, I’ve noticed, has become increasingly blessed with comic book-related events in the last decade. This is to the good of many, I think. But being a cartoonist part of the time, I have an admitted bias on this point. One of the events coming up this year is the Toronto Comic Arts Festival on…
Whoa, the Jetlag…
I finally got back into Ottawa yesterday morning from an overnight flight from Vancouver Island, where I was happily priviledged to attend a wedding in the family. Those of you already following my home blog will have noted some of the posts I’ve set up, as well as some of the photography I took during…
From Book Fairs to British Columbia
Crossposted from On the DEWLine: Well, It’s a bit of chaos at the moment. One of my extended family’s getting married this week, so I’m haring off to Vancouver Island to attend the ceremonies and whatnot. It’s a rare chance to actually do this without too much fiscal chaos, so I’m taking advantage of it.…
Free Copyright Comic Book
Thanks to Dr. Michael Geist for pointing this out: Appropriation Art a coalition of “over 600 artists, curators, directors, educators, writers, associations and organizations from the art sector. All have come together to express their concern over the state of copyright policy for artists and the future of ‘Appropriation Art’.” The coalition has put together…
Belated Self-Introduction
I finally agreed to start contributing to the house weblog of publicbroadcasting.ca this past month. It was something that I’d put off for several years for reasons I won’t get into here, but most of them were simply matters of time management on my part. In the process, I ended up simply posting my earlier…