FYI The Sequential Magazine Awards had 100 voters in just the fist couple of hours so it’s a real race!
Voting is now open for the Sequential Magazine Awards 2019 until February 9 at midnight. I’ve voted, have you? The line up introduced me to a couple new faces too. That’s what this is really for isn’t it? Go check it out and google some names to help make up your mind!
Item: Take a peek at this, some luscious art from Marco Rudy’s current WIP, a creator owned labour of love!
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Item: Adam Gorham is on Speech Bubble today with Aaron Broverman!
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Item: Paste Magazine has an exclusive look at TARTARUS!! Enjoy this sneak peek, plus interview with Johnnie Christmas and Jack Cole! Some very cool looking stuff. They also have a podcast interview with AIPTcomics here!
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Item: Cave of Solitude Episode 183 has a conversation with Casey Parsons here. The fine art aficionado and comic book creator sits with Eric Anthony and shares some stories from his life and career as a fine arts student, to teaching abroad, and recently attending art class with the likes of Bill Sienkiewicz and George Pratt.
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Item: You knew that Canadian comics sexy rock star class clown Chip Zdarsky has a newsletter right? Well now you do. It will amuse you I think.
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Item: Eric Orchard is moving some art to pay the bills, get your cool orriginals here!
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Photo by Jennifer Gauthier/The Globe and Mail
Item: Globe and Mail reports on a multinational comics project pairing Holocaust survivors with cartoonists. Miriam Libicki is the Canadian artist chosen by this University of Victoria-led project.
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Item: A former student of mine from Making Comics at Syn Studio art school in Montreal, Allan Matudio, is working on a story that he plans to be completed for Montreal Comiccon. Kasama is the story of two friends managing their cultural differences so that they can hunt down the filipino mythological creature the manananggal.
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Item: Enemy Alien is A True Story of Life behind Barbed Wire. A graphic history of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, a Ukrainian internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee testimony in existence. Created by Kassandra Luciuk (Dept of History, University of Toronto) and Nicole Marie Burton (Ad Astra Comix).
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Item: Jason Turner is working on his Year 50 Project, he’s posting it on instagram and his website. Check it out and root him on! The first two parts are here, and here!
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Item: Robin Bougie’s art for a “what if?” Movie review in the next issue of CInema Sewer in February! Spoilers: it’s Michael Sullivan’s reimagining of the classic early 70s horror classic THE EXORCIST as a raunchy screwball comedy starring Ryan and Tatum O’Neal!
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Item: Here’s a peek at concept art, part of what Katie Sawatsky and Kyle James Smith has been up to lately.
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Item: Andy Belanger is showing some of his latest work on a new thang called, Mother Trucker! Yep, check it out.
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Item: Lorne Craig has been working on an environmental comics project called Old Growth. Drawing and posting a 4-panel cartoon a day about Old Growth logging in BC to get people engaged and responding to the BC government consultation on logging before deadline Jan 31. See the story in order at unitoons.ca/oldgrowth or Follow on Instagram @OldGrowthCartoon Thanks!
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Item: Comic creator Elaine M Will is on Patreon posting pages from her new book, The Last Band On Earth as she finishes them. Planed for launching in print form at TCAF 2020.
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Item: David Daneman’s The Podcomics Webcast is a 4 year old podcast where he interviews joke-telling webcomics people about their ideas and how they think jokes work. At the moment he’s editing my 2019-year-in-review episode, and is planing for and an upcoming interview with Mikey Heller of Time Trabble.
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Item: Want to learn about making comics in May in Toronto Gainesville, FL? Consider signing up for the Koyama Press’ Scholarship for a May 11-15, 2020 week-long Workshop at SAW. Check out the links for details. FINAL DATE TO APPLY: March 11, 2020.
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Item: Despite the snow, the Vancouver Comic Jam went down, links to pics and it all here!
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Item: Some new Tin Can Forest art here!
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Item: Faith Erin Hicks doing some Mandalorian//Werner Herzog fan art!
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Item: Anthony Bonaparte aka Napoleon lists his New Years resolutions in this political cartoon.
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Item: There’s a K9 interloper guest starring in Doug’s Savage Chickens dog lovers!
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Item: Michael de Adder on Facebook and Canadian ad revenues.
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Item: Black Eye Books announced that it will be taking TCAF up on the offer of letting exhibitors defer their appearances until 2021 due to the recent Toronto Public Library’s hosting of a transphobic speaker. TCAF was unable to change their long time location in time for this year’s event themselves. Read more here.
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Item: Totally missed this, The Beguiling’s Peter Birkemoe has taken up publishing! His imprint BDP Kickstarted it’s first book successfully, Magician A from Japanese artist Natsuko Ishitsuyo.
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Item: Another successful KS for TO Comix Press, to publish Wayward Kindred. “A monstrous new comics anthology starring supernatural families, with stories ranging from the gruesome to the adorable.”
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Item: Roy Johnson let us know he’s got a KIckstarter coming up in February for Standard Comics‘ Sentinels #267-269 “… Abyss” .A retro Bronze-Age style superhero team comic a la Justice League (JLA) or Avengers, feat. updated public domain and original characters . Keep an eye out for it if that’s your thing.
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Item: Hey here’s the Previews listing for Mark Russell & Richard Pace’s Second Coming Trade Vol.1, I hear good things about it. Let your local comics guy know you want one. Also they got some nice props from Patton Oswalt here.
Go pick up SECOND COMING, an amazing new title from @AhoyComicMags. Profane, heartfelt and hilarious. A modern LIFE OF BRIAN. Lots of great throwaway details, like how the good court in Heaven has discontinued fast food chains. pic.twitter.com/yUyHi6Aoav
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) August 14, 2019
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Item: Snow day dad jokes from Robb Mirsky! It’s a slide show, click the right arrow to see the next panel!
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Item: Need a zombie fix? Bloody Gore Comix is restocking some out of print issues! Check them out here.
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Item: Boum on pet ownership! We’ll be featuring an interview with her about the upcoming conclusions to her long running webcomic series in Sequential Magazine.
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Item: Two is an Attempted Murder, by Eliezer Martin. A fantasy webcomic with some adult explicit bits on Webtoons here!
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Item: George Todorovski‎ inking for an upcoming Oktana And Ko Issue 3 Speed Inking!
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Item: Nick Bradshaw posted this cool looking preview of one of his upcoming cover gigs…Boy I have no Idea what’s going on in that comic these days…
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Item: Rick Taylor shared some of his thoughts and pages from “Wordsmith #6” “…was a popular issue. Clay begins thinking about writing a serious novel, “The Dirt of Heaven” while the pulp story within the story is a World War 1 adventure about one of his favourite heroes, Hunter Hawk. I got to tap into my love of one of the greatest comics of all time, Joe Kubert’s “Enemy Ace.” The hapless dirigible pilots were played by my chums, comic-book creators Mark Askwith and Rob Walton.”
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Item: And finally, here’s what I’ve been doing! Making more comics! You can keep up with me and my stuff over here on my patreon, Instagram, or Facebook!
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Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas: Max founded Sequenail in 2002, and is a Montreal based creator with 30 years of comic making madness under his belt. He started this site to increase the visibility of creators like himself, and help encourage a stronger more diverse regional comic market in Canada.
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