https://cartoonfoundry.ca/f/flash-marvel-artist-jason-loo-added-to-artists-alley From the Cartoon Foundry website! Hamilton’s Annual Festival of Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Narrative! Celebrate the Art of Cartooning in Hamilton. The Cartoon Foundry is a not-for-profit, art-focused event that promotes and celebrates the art of cartooning in Hamilton. We aim to create a vibrant and inclusive community for cartoonists of all levels andContinueContinue reading “Hamilton’s Cartoon Foundry June 14 Features Jason Loo”
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Conundrum Press Welcomes New Editor Irene Valentzas to Young Adult Imprint Emanta
Some great news from Conundrum Press! Conundrum Press is pleased to announce the appointment of comics editor, scholar,and journalist Irene Velentzas to the role of Editor with Emanata, Conundrum’s young adult imprint!As a scholar of graphic medicine and the former Comics & Graphic Novels Editor for HighWater Press, Velentzas will bring her experience to acquiringContinueContinue reading “Conundrum Press Welcomes New Editor Irene Valentzas to Young Adult Imprint Emanta”
Glad Day Bookshop: A New Chapter for Glad Day — I Need Your Help 🌈
An email from the amazing people at Toronto’s Glad Day Bookstore: ——— Forwarded message ———Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 at 21:01Subject: A New Chapter for Glad Day — I Need Your Help 🌈To: Hello friends and family, and Happy Pride Month! I’m reaching out with some exciting news in my world, and for the larger 2SLGBTQI+ community in Toronto: theContinueContinue reading “Glad Day Bookshop: A New Chapter for Glad Day — I Need Your Help 🌈”
TCAF! Contribute a page to CCOL’s Still Zine!
From the TCAF Website! Still Zine: TCAF x CCOL Zine Jam Join Still Zine, TCAF, and the Canada Comics Open Library (CCOL) for a weekend-long Zine Jam! Still Zine is an ongoing Toronto-based community anthology created by Jordan Reg. Aelick (@endlessfret), where contributors share one-page diary entries about everyday life. This year at TCAF, you’re invited to take part in aContinueContinue reading “TCAF! Contribute a page to CCOL’s Still Zine!”
Winners of the 26th Bédélys Awards Announced at MCAF
From the MCAF home site! Hosted by author and columnist Marylise Hamelin, the opening night also featured the presentation of the 26th Bédélys Awards, in collaboration with SODEC, celebrating the most outstanding comic books published or distributed in Quebec in 2024. Six comics were rewarded, with a total of $5,000 in grants given to this year’s winners.ContinueContinue reading “Winners of the 26th Bédélys Awards Announced at MCAF”
Latest Edition of The Comics Journal, #311, features Kate Beaton!
And (if you read the fine print) Marc Bell! Get it! https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/the-comics-journal/products/the-comics-journal-311
True North Country Comics: Eric Olcsvary discusses anthology comic books
From John Swinimer’s True North Country Comics: By truenorthcountrycomics on May 28, 2025 Here’s my chat with Eric Olcsvary about supporting an artistic community, the AllsCherry anthology and more. Check it out here!
Alberta Gov’t Continues Hassasment of LGBTQ Communitues With Potential Prominent Graphic Novel Ban in School Libraries
From The Comics Journal’s current week in links: Literary freedoms news now, as politicians in Canada this week decided to take a leaf from the playbook of their friends to the south, with education officials in Alberta laying out plans to “determine the appropriateness” of books in school libraries, after a group of parents (surely not influenced byContinueContinue reading “Alberta Gov’t Continues Hassasment of LGBTQ Communitues With Potential Prominent Graphic Novel Ban in School Libraries”
The Tyee Reviews Eadweard Muybridge by Guy Delisle
From the review by Dorothy Woodward: I haven’t thought a lot about the legendary stop-motion photographer Eadweard Muybridge since I studied film animation at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. But now I can’t stop thinking about him in the wake of celebrated Canadian graphic novelist and animator Guy Delisle’s new book aboutContinueContinue reading “The Tyee Reviews Eadweard Muybridge by Guy Delisle”
Conundrum Press has Free Shipping Sale – Pick Up Doug Wright and Eisner Nominees!
Conondrum Press has free shipping this weekend when ordering directly from their website, this is the petfect time to pick up their Doug Wright and Eisner nominated graphic novels! The Field by Dave Lapp has been nominated for both an Eisner for best Graphic Memoir and a Doug Wright award for best book! Dave’s onContinueContinue reading “Conundrum Press has Free Shipping Sale – Pick Up Doug Wright and Eisner Nominees!”
The Toronto Comic Jam 