From the Woodstock Art Gallery website: Exhibition Run: Oct. 12, 2024 – Apr. 5, 2025 The Kodansha Manga Gallery showcases the intricacy and detail of the art of Japanese comics (manga) through full-page pen-and-ink story pages and full-color paintings and digital illustrations, courtesy of Kodansha Advanced Media. This exhibition addresses the range of both art styles andContinueContinue reading “Woodstock Art Gallery: The Kodansha Manga Gallery showcases the art of Japanese comics”
Author Archives: Dave Howard
Mattea Roach Interviews Charles Burns on CBC Books
From the article on CBC Books: A flicker of a memory from Charles Burns’ teenage years was enough to pull him out of writers’ block and into a new book, Final Cut. In this memory, he is stoned at a house party, sitting in the kitchen and drawing, hoping that someone incredible will walk in,ContinueContinue reading “Mattea Roach Interviews Charles Burns on CBC Books”
🎨 Still Life Paint Night with Mason Jar Fri Dec 20
From Mason here: Welcome! Let’s finish off the year by getting together and creating some beautiful art. I will be providing acrylic paint, canvases, brushes as well as a variety of interesting objects to appear in your painting. This workshop is geared towards beginners but all skill levels are welcome. I will guide you throughContinueContinue reading “🎨 Still Life Paint Night with Mason Jar Fri Dec 20”
Marc Sobel TONIGHT!
Kate Beaton receives the 2024 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
Read it here: https://drawnandquarterly.com/news/kate-beaton-receives-the-2024-jan-michalski-prize-for-literature/ Read about the prize here: https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/pri
Marc Sobel at the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium
TCJ Recap: Nov 24 2024, 28th Anniversary of The Toronto Comic Jam
The 28th Anniversary of the jam was a great night with a nice turnout, over 20 pages were finished! Woo hoo! Francis brought some amazing home baked goodies, and he and Mip let us use their phones to play their favourite Spotify lists. Dave H set up a laptop and scanner and connected to theContinueContinue reading “TCJ Recap: Nov 24 2024, 28th Anniversary of The Toronto Comic Jam”
28th Anniversary of The Toronto Comic Jam is TONIGHT!
November is upon us once again and that means it’s time to celebrate our anniversary! 28 years! November also means it will be the last jam of 2024. We’ll have another trivia contest and give away more comic books! This time, Dave Howard wants to write the questions so they won’t be too impossible! BesidesContinueContinue reading “28th Anniversary of The Toronto Comic Jam is TONIGHT!”
Cold Cat is TONIGHT!
James Spencer is hosting his amazing cartoonist work-in-progress workshop tonight! You must go! Here is his instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCHR-fqRdtL/?igsh=MTZ6dDFzYm5nNG40Ng==
Canculture Mag writes about the Toronto Comic Jam
A very nice – and detailed – article about the Toronto Comic Jam by Luis Ramirez-Libertato. Many thanks for taking the time to get so many details! https://canculturemag.com/arts/the-toronto-comic-jam-torontos-third-place-for-cartoonists/
The Toronto Comic Jam 