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The C-List: NLWCC, or Leah McLaren Loves Stig’s Inferno?
Canadian comics culture is exploding all over the place! Item: The NLWCC, or “Newfoundland’s West Coast Con” wrapped up Sunday in Corner Brook, NFLD. Nothing on youtube from it yet but the organizer...
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Red Jumps to the top of Bookmanager sales lists
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas most recent book Red is the #1 best seller this month… With the return of Sequential’s All-Canadian Top 30 the Haida Manga is in fact the 4th over all best selling Graphic...
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Sully on Inkstuds
Sherwin Tjia aka Sully, one of my favorite people, is the latest interview subject of Robin McConnell on Vancouver’s Inkstuds. Great interview, just finished listening myself. The guys talk about his...
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The C-List: Happy Birthday Inkstuds!
Gotta bust out a C-List! “Inkstuds, Expozine, Jesse Jacobs, ohmy!” Item: The Inkstuds podcast celebrates 4 years (!) with a Seth interview. Congratulations to Robin McConnell and friends, and here’s...
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Keith Jones on inkstuds
Keith used to come to some of the Jams i hosted, always loved his work. “Cosmic Canadian Cartooning Cat lover, Keith Jones stops by for a chat about his epic comic, Catland Empire. It’s probably one...
View ArticleVideo walk through of the new Rand Holmes Retrospective
Fantagraphics has just uploaded a video from underground comix historian Patrick Rosenkranz about his new book on Canadian comix legend Rand Holmes. The clip is in promotion of Rosenkranz’s The...
View ArticleA half hour with Colin Upton
BC small press cartoonist Susan Ferguson has started a series of interviews starting with an extensive three parter with Colin Upton. It has a nice ambiance about it, with the rain in the background...
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Collect Them All: The Great Canadian Comics Critics
The GREAT CANADIAN COMICS CRITICS 6. Edmund Davie Fulton, M.P. Arguably the most influential comic book critic in Canadian history, E. Davie Fulton (1916-2000) was the Conservative Party Member of...
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On Message: A Conversation With Joan Thornborrow Steacy
Set against Toronto’s fledgling Queen St. West art scene in the 1970’s, Aurora Borealice follows Joan Thornborrow Steacy’s journey from shy self doubt to full engagement with a rapidly changing world....
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Gordon Reid, 1936-2011
Calgary Cartoonist Was Also Painter by BK Munn Gordon A. Reid, a cartoonist and painter who worked for the Calgary Herald, has died. Reid died February 26 of a combination renal failure and...
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C-list – a sunday in comics
Item: – Dustin Harbin this week reposted his journal comics this past week documenting his two trips to attend the Doug Wright Awards all in one place along with an essay about what he thinks would...
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The C-List: Of Policarts, Prizes and Prints
The Vancouver Province censored its political cartoonist over threats from advertiser. Item! The big news this past week is that The Vancouver Province censored its political cartoonist over threats...
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Friday Flashback: The Comic Shop, Vancouver, 1978
The Comic Shop 3638 West 4th Avenue Vancouver photo from c. 1978 click to enlarge (you can clearly see some Marvel titles on the rack, including Howard the Duck and The Invaders, not to mention EC...
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“I did Maus and I did this page.”
Notes on Art Spiegelman in Vancouver @ the VAG Feb. 16, 2013 By David Lester As he puffed on a cigarette, Art Spiegelman was charming and witty in conversation despite the meandering questions of...
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Camosun College announces its first annual comics conference in Victoria BC
Comics & Graphic Novels Program at Camosun College announces its first annual comics conference! Camosun College comics conference is a celebration of the artistic and literary impact of comics and...
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Uncle Upton’s neighbourhood
By Colin Upton I live in the Mount Pleasant/Main Street neighbourhood–just southeast of the downtown area–that I swear has to have the highest concentration of cartoonists and their hang-outs in...
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The 2400 Block Main Street
Uncle Upton’s Neighbourhood By Colin Upton Main Street around Kingsway/Broadway used to be a “dark zone” in Vancouver. I remember nervously walking through the area in the 1980’s on my way home in...
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The 2400 Block of Main Part 2
Uncle Upton’s Neighbourhood By Colin Upton Last entry I profiled several shops and a restaurant important to the Vancouver Comics community on the 2400 block of Main Street, but it doesn’t stop there!...
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Cartoonist Colin Upton has a thing about Tea!
Cartoonist and Military History enthusiast Colin Upton, has been posting a series of ‘tea of the day’ clips that I think you’ll find quite unexpectedly perfect. It’s called “Todays Tea”. I’m wondering...
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The C-List | Catching up with canucks!
Can’t say this about a lot of news lately, but It’s been a good week for comics in Canada. By Salgood Sam Item!: Last Friday Marvel announced that Steve Murray aka Chip Zdarsky had inked a deal to...
View ArticleColin Upton’s Black Friday report on Today’s tea: Gunung Dempo
Gunung Dempo, not only a wonderful tea, it’s fun to say. Post by Colin Upton Comics. Colin Upton Comics Related posts: Cartoonist Colin Upton has a thing about Tea! Tea with a clever cartoonist in BC!...
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C-list! Super every man, Sweet Romance, and stuff coming up!
By Salgood Sam Item: – Doug Cudmore, a senior Toronto newspaper editor with Ernest Hemingway’s old outfit, has self-published a new book called ‘Super Steve‘. Cudmore describes it as “an adult...
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This Weekend: Fan Expo Vancouver
William Shatner and actors who played characters who died on The Walking Dead are some of the celebrity guests I recognize who will be appearing sometime this weekend at the Vancouver Fan Expo, taking...
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The return of Word Under The Street!
By Colin Upton [op] In case you haven’t heard the Word Vancouver held at the main library branch downtown in late September is reviving the Word Under The Street, under a new name [tba] and featuring a...
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The C-List: Baba Yaga, Silver Snail’s Empty Shell, Toshiko
By Will Wellington Uh oh, here it comes! A veritable barrage of comics news from **the week that was**! Excuse me while I take cover under another piece of cheesecake…. Item! Marc Bell appeared on...
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C-List : May madness in Canadian Comics.
Hey regular readers and FB followers, time to take a look at the many many things going down this month! By Salgood Sam Looking back a week ago I held the Second Annual Salon BD MTL, which kind of...
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C-List: What’s up in Canadian Comics
By Salgood Sam Catching up from our last C-List, here’s some more goodies from the interwebs. More art this time, going to try to make a habit of spotlighting cartoonists work as much as I can in...
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Graphic novelist Kate Evans: Live In Vancouver
By David Lester British graphic novelist, Kate Evans demonstrated that single images, one voice and a lone percussionist can create an eloquently profound live experience. It was as simple as that when...
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True Loves | NXNW Interview with Jason Turner and Manien Bothma
True Loves co-creators (and couple) Jason Turner and Manien Bothma were interviewed for North by Northwest on CBC last year. The segment has been released as a podcast now, you can download it via this...
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Sequential Magazine Issue 06 Now Available
Sequential Magazine Issue 06 Now Available The latest issue of our digital first Sequential Magazine is now available for download from our gumroad store. It is pay what you want so you can download...
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