Item: The Metro chain has picked up the Six Chix group strip, which includes a weekly dose of Rina Piccolo. (Shorter headline: Metro picks Piccolo) Item: A North Bay comic shop gets its start with heart-warming tale of organ donation. The new store came about after the owner gave his liver tissue to his father. (Shorter headline: Grateful Pop Gives Nerd Shop Item: The Globe and Mail spotlights a Toronto aritist on the forefront of “gamics” –comic strips, webcomics, and graphic novels using screenshots of videogames like Half-Life 2 and Star Wars Galaxies. (Shorter headline: Gamer Fanfic= “lame-ics”) Item: Kate Beaton’s awesome Canada Day comic (Shorter headline: Awesome!) Item: The Shusters blog picked up on the news that Pascal Blanchet has won a French literary prize. (Shorter headline: Prix Baloney) Share this:TweetShare on Tumblr Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon Pocket Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like this:Like Loading... 2009-07-08