Item! Festival organizer Chris Butcher posts the official TCAF wrap-up, confirms that this year’s event had the highest attendance ever, and names the date and location for next year’s event: May 5 and 6, 2012 at the same location, The Toronto Reference Library.
Item! Seth writes an obituary for his father, John Gallant, with whom he co-authored the memoir Bannock, Beans, and Black Tea. Mr. Gallant died June 4 on Prince Edward Island.
Item! I forgot to link to these teaser images from Pascal Blanchet’s Nocturne, due out from La Pasteque for Fall 2011.
Item! The Alberta Winter Games are getting their own graphic novel .
Item! Douglas Wolk reviews the John Porcellino-illustrated The Next Day in the New York Times.
Item! A roundtable on Paying For It.
Item! Jeff Lemire is interviewed. He is writing a comic based on Grant Morrison’s Frankentein.