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Winning Streak: An Interview with Nick Maandag
Nick Maandag’s comic about a streakers club has won a Xeric grant. In Streakers, three men, menial workers by day, dedicated streakers by night, search for their Holy Grail - ...
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Grey Zone: A Conversation With Mark Laliberte
Where did you come up with the title Grey Supreme? The grey zone between art forms is what I’m interested in. I’m a practicing visual artist and comics is an interest. Increasingly there are people...
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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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Graphic Novel Review: Book of Hours by George A. Walker
9/11 Novel in Woodcuts by BK Munn Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings George A. Walker Porcupine’s Quill $19.95 ISBN 978-0-88984-335-6 George A. Walker is well-known as a...
View ArticleDavid Collier Video: Cartoonist Talks About the War Artist Program
Video from a talk Collier gave in February about the experiences that led to the creation of his CHIMO graphic memoir. Related posts: A sneak peek at David Collier’s ‘Chimo’ on The Cultural Magpie,...
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MID-LIFE by Joe Ollmann | A Review.
MID-LIFE By Joe Ollmann Published by Drawn and Quarterly Paperback, 6 x 9, black and white, 184 pages ISBN: 9781770460287 No time left for pretense. Joe Ollmann has been amusing us with sharp and...
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Graphic Novel Review: The Listener by David Lester
The Listener by David Lester Arbeiter Ring Publishing 304 pgs $19.95 ISBN: 9781894037488 “There is nothing more lonely than to have once felt passion and desire in your beliefs.” Reviewed by BK Munn...
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Walter Trier’s Toyland and The Animals’ Conference Exhibit at AGO
I mentioned cartoonist Walter Trier on the site recently. If you are in Toronto or will be for TCAF you should seriously consider checking out the permanent Trier Exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario....
View ArticleToronto Comic Arts Festival: Pencil it In
A cool TCAF promotional video. Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Pencil it In from Toronto Comic Arts Festival on Vimeo. Graphic Novelists: Chester Brown, Michael Comeau, Steve Charles Manale, Vicki Nerino,...
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TCAF Interview Series: Benjamin Rivers
In our first of a series of interviews leading up to TCAF, Sequential had the chance to catch up with Benjamin Rivers. His Xeric-winning publication is Snow, and it just arrived from the printer a few...
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Lorenzo Mattotti & Lou Reed’s The Raven
The Raven Lorenzo Mattotti & Lou Reed, based on the work of Edgar Allen Poe Debuting at TCAF 2011 Hardcover, 9″ x 9″, 188 pages. Price: $22.99 US ISBN-13: 978-1-60699-444-3 Reviewed by Salgood Sam...
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Sunday: Chester Brown’s Paying For It Booklaunch, Toronto
Chester Brown’s PAYING FOR IT – Book Launch & Party Hosted by NOW Magazine’s Sasha Von Bon Bon Sunday, May 1st, 2011 7:30PM-10PM – Doors at 7 Goodhandy’s, 120 Church Street Chester and his new...
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TCAF Interview Series: John Martz
John Martz on John Martz. In the second of our TCAF interview series (see Ben Rivers here) we had the chance to speak to Toronto-based cartoonist and illustrator John Martz. Martz was nominated for a...
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TCAF Interview Series: Jesse Jacobs
In the third of our TCAF interview series (see Ben Rivers and John Martz), Jesse Jacobs was kind enough to take time out of his schedule to answer some questions by e-mail. The London, Ontario based...
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TCAF event guide | Parties shows talks & panels.
It’s Huge! 79 Events panels presentations and parties, and that’s not including signings. As part of our TCAF 2011 special coverage, we’ve gathered as much of the info as we could get our hands on,...
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The C-List: Countdown to TCAF 2011
Amazing that there is anything but TCAF news to post here but I have a few non-Toronto links. And don’t forget to refer back to the Sequential events listing for TCAF we published last week. Also, you...
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The Koyama Press TCAF Preview
Jim Rugg on the Koyama logo. Unfortunately, Rugg will not be at TCAF this year. As TCAF has grown since its humble beginnings in 2003, so too has its importance as a tentpole for book launches. In the...
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TCAF Interview Series: Rebecca Kraatz
Kraatz in Studio. Photo from Conundrum Press. Nova Scotian cartoonist Rebecca Kraatz debuts her new graphic novel Snaps (Conundrum Press) at TCAF this weekend, marking the first major work from the...
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SEQUENTIAL PULP 2011 EDITION
Large | Medium | Small Download the PDF [^] read or embed online via issuu [v], or get the limited print edition for free in Toronto, at TCAF 2011. Open publication – Free publishing – More art...
View ArticleToronto Comic Arts Festival: Children of the Atom
A TCAF trailer I worked on with Vancouver-Toronto animator Michael Darmanin for Dave Lapp’s Children of the Atom. Man, we had a few late nights trying to get this thing out on time! Yes, the word...
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Post TCAF 2011 recordings video and photos.
The first of what will probably be a few posts wrapping up last weeks Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Jamie Coville reports in with 230 pictures from TCAF & Doug Wright Awards posted here, and...
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More TCAF, lots more.
Lots more stuff to mention, just got pinged by this post from The Alabaster Sock [tag, you’re it], and Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter, who i saw about but in all the rush never got to say hi to...
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TCAF Postmortem
R. Sikoryak covers the Doug Wright Awards. So now that it’s all over, I thought the Sequential team could gather around the corpse and read the entrails of the 2011 Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Joining...
View ArticleTCAF 2011 | The Adventure Time Panel
Comics & Animation: A Conversation with the Artists of Adventure Time Panelists: Michael DeForge, Bob Flynn, Andy Ristaino, Steve Wolfhard, and special guest Creator of Adventure Time Pendleton...
View ArticleGood Comics for Kids’s – TCAF 2011: A Librarian’s Report
The School library journal posted a lengthy report on TCAF here, and even better, blogger Eva Volin conducted a bunch of interviews with creators and organizers at the show, all posted to youtube....
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The C-List: By Odin’s Beard
Item! So I just saw the Thor movie. I knew it would be a bad movie (sorry, when you become an old man like me you get a sort of Odin-sense for these things) but I felt it was my journalistic duty to...
View ArticleThe Flickr feed for “TCAF 2011”
probalby one of the last posts for the event, just noticed we had yet to tap the raw Flickr gusher for a slide show – always a nice show. So here’s all that’s tagged “TCAF 2011“. All photo’s...
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POD Sequential Pulp III
SEQUENTIAL PULP III The TCAF 2011 edition Sequential Pulp III was the print edition we published for the 2011 the Toronto Comic Art Festival. Due to printing issues, what ended up being given away for...
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