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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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Jasper and the Solar Trial : an Indiegogo campaign
Glen Lovett–author/artist of ‘The Adventures of Jasper’ graphic novel series for kids–is currently working on the 3rd volume ‘Jasper and the Solar Trial’ and has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help...
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NOTES ON JOE SACCO in Vancouver by David Lester
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward’s, November 6, 2013 by David Lester The great Joe Sacco was articulate and engaging last night in Vancouver as he sat down for a conversation that included...
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Don King show at The Wallflower in Vancouver
By Colin Upton The Wallflower is a Mount Pleasant eatery known for supporting local Vancouver artists, including many from the comic’s community with monthly shows. For the month of December the...
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Cloudscape Comics Epic Canadiana
Cloudscape Comics announced the launch of its eighth graphic novel anthology, “Epic Canadiana”. A collection of stories featuring Canadian superheroes. Cloudscape is a six year old coalition of comic...
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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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4C: the 2nd annual Camosun College Comics Conference
Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia is a practical skills trade and community oriented Collage with strong ties to First Nations. Hosting about 18,500 students each year they offer a one...
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Kelowna Comic Jam
Media Release, June 20th, 2014 – Kelowna Comic Jam Kelowna, BC – The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art and local artist group Art Brew are pleased to host the first Kelowna Comic Jam, in...
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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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