- Brad Mackay announces the debut of the Doug Wright Awards sticker program. See here for more images.
- Perro Verlag Books by Artists will be at Toque, the Western Front’s Christmas Craft Fair. We will have Hell Passports galore (21 completed in the 24 volume series!) as well as other exciting and insightful artists’ books, original gocco print postcards and exquisite small notebooks.The fair runs Friday, November 30th, 6-9 pm and Saturday, December 1st. 11-4pm at the Western Front, 303 East 8th Ave, Vancouver. Also launching: Ben L Jacques’ Hell Passport Volume 4, and Robert Pederson’s Hell Passport Preamble on Saturday December 8 at Lucky’s Comics, 3972 Main Street, Vancouver @8pm. Featuring an evening of music and animation projections.
- Renaissance man Ty Templeton talks to the Laurier student nerspaper about a gallery show featuring his 2002 graphic novel Bigg Time.
- BogTO’s Jenny reports on the closing of the IMaid cafe, Toronto’s first cosplay eatery, and ponders the reason for the closure. My take? Maybe the food sucked.
- Radio station listeners hate Vancouver Olympic mascots. Hard to fathom, considering how generically adorable the characters, revealed to the public only days ago, are.