Book your calendar for February’s Toronto comic jam! This is the second jam for 2025, come pick up January’s jam book, draw in the back room with us, and maybe catch some fantastic live music in the front room! It’s at the Cameron House. The event is free but jam books are $5 (or pwyc).ContinueContinue reading “TONIGHT: Toronto Comic Jam: Sunday Feb 23 2025, 7:30 – 10:30”
Author Archives: Dave Howard
TONIGHT! Book Launch- Paying For It: The Film Edition
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The Comics Journal Writes on the Making of Paying For It, with Sook-Yin Lee and Chester Brown
William Schwartz talks with Chester Brown and Sook-Yin Lee on the making of the movie version of Chester Brown’s graphic novel Paying For It, for The Comics Journal. From the intoduction to the interview: Sex work isn’t any less of a hot button issue now than it was ten or twenty years ago. But Paying ForContinueContinue reading “The Comics Journal Writes on the Making of Paying For It, with Sook-Yin Lee and Chester Brown”
Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman Collaborate on Comic Critical of Netanyahu, ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Gaza in The Guardian
Page one of the comic strip. From The Guardian: What happens when two comics artists ‘meet on the page’ to explore the tragedies of the Israel-Gaza war? Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, and Joe Sacco, author of bestselling graphic reportage Palestine, grapple with the ongoing crisis Read the wholeContinueContinue reading “Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman Collaborate on Comic Critical of Netanyahu, ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Gaza in The Guardian”
TONIGHT! Drink & Draw Toronto @ Bampot House! 6:30 pm
You should go! Details here: https://torontocomicjam.org/?p=699
Make Comics with James Spencer at Cold Cat III Comix Lab!
I speak from experience, it’s hella fun. Check out James’ Instagram post https://www.instagram.com/p/DFpvghJugqi/?igsh=aW9ua3kwMG5wMzFs
The Daily Cartoonist Appreciates the 100th Anniversary Issue of The New Yorker and Seth’s Comic About Rea Irvin
D. D. Degg of The Daily Cartoonist spotlights Seth’s comic appreciating Rea Irvin, the first art director of the New Yorker who created the magazine’s iconic look and its first cover, in its 100th Anniversary issue. Irwin’s font, design, and style defined the magazine in a way that is essential to its identity and enduresContinueContinue reading “The Daily Cartoonist Appreciates the 100th Anniversary Issue of The New Yorker and Seth’s Comic About Rea Irvin”
True North Country Comics: Andy Brown reveals 2025 plans for Conundrum Press
From the True North Comics Podcast site: True North Country Comics Podcast chats with Andy Brown about the graphic novels planned this year from Conundrum Press.Here’s my chat with publisher Andy Brown about graphic novels planned this year from Conundrum Press.Please like and subscribe to this website by hitting the subscribe button. You’ll be notifiedContinueContinue reading “True North Country Comics: Andy Brown reveals 2025 plans for Conundrum Press”
Toronto Comic Jam: Sunday Feb 23 2025, 7:30 – 10:30
Book your calendar for February’s Toronto comic jam! This is the second jam for 2025, come pick up January’s jam book, draw in the back room with us, and maybe catch some fantastic live music in the front room! It’s at the Cameron House. The event is free but jam books are $5 (or pwyc).ContinueContinue reading “Toronto Comic Jam: Sunday Feb 23 2025, 7:30 – 10:30”
Brigid Alverson writes of Diamond Comics Distributor’s Bankruptcy for The Comics Journal
In shocking news, the iconic monolith Diamond Distributors files for bankruptcy, but Brigid Alverson writes there is so much more to the industry today than before. Thinge are going to be alright: What has happened to Diamond is, ironically, an unraveling of the exclusives that allowed it to dominate in the first place. In theContinueContinue reading “Brigid Alverson writes of Diamond Comics Distributor’s Bankruptcy for The Comics Journal”
The Toronto Comic Jam 