Cartoonist Matt Madden, maybe best know for his 2005 book 99 Ways to Tell A Story: Exercises in Style and his work with Oulipo around constraint-based comic creation, disusses his experience with the Philly Comic Jam, and has some exercise suggestions to try at your own next comic jam on his Substack. From Matt Madden’sContinueContinue reading “Matt Madden on Comic Jams”
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TCAF Word Balloon Academy: Building Comics Community, Friday June 6, 9:30 am
Check out this Instagram post on one of TCAF’s first panels for their amazing Word Balloon Academy: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKXNXs5twwL/?igsh=MXFmYXV3cjhidGtteg==
True North Country Comics: Executive Director Amie Wright talks about TCAF 2025
John Swinimer’s True North Country Comics continues to provide concise, timely and informative Canadian Comics news, and this time he interviews the wondetful Amie Wright, new Executive Director of TCAF, in his podcast. Really worth a listen! From the True North Country Comics site: Amie Wright is a comics librarian and public historian based inContinueContinue reading “True North Country Comics: Executive Director Amie Wright talks about TCAF 2025”
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
Cartoonist Coop Presents: Nib & Ink Fest, May 1-31
The Cartoonist Coop is an organization looking to support cartoonists all over the world. Their month-long virtual festval can be enjoyed from the comfort of your own home. Very much worth checking out! From their website: The Cartoonist Co-op is a community of over 1,300 comic creators who support each other’s work and contribute toContinueContinue reading “Cartoonist Coop Presents: Nib & Ink Fest, May 1-31”
Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Tessa Hulls for her graphic novel ‘Feeding Ghosts’
From May 7 2025, from “10,000 Things” on KUOW Yesterday, Seattle-based author Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer Prize for her graphic novel “Feeding Ghosts.” Hulls’ first published book starts with her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi, a journalist and author who fled Shanghai after the Communist Revolution. Then, the narrative shifts — to her mother Rose,ContinueContinue reading “Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Tessa Hulls for her graphic novel ‘Feeding Ghosts’”
NY Comics & Picture Story Symposium: Laura Park, May 20, 2025 at 7pm EST
CBC Books: 33 Canadian kids’ books we are excited to read in spring 2025
This is a wonderfully detailed article that includes first-reader and illustrated kids books, and the people behind them, being published in Canada this spring. Added bonus: in many cases the article includes links to interviews and reviews for further reading. Kate Beaton’s book for 3 to 6 year olds, Shark Girl, for example, caught myContinueContinue reading “CBC Books: 33 Canadian kids’ books we are excited to read in spring 2025”
The Guardian Profiles Guy Delisle and His Newest Book, Eadweard Muybridge
A wonderfully wide-ranging article on Delisle’s career by Phil Hoad appeared in the Guardian in April this year, centering around his new book from Drawn & Quarterly Eadweard Muybridge, the “pioneer of the moving image”. From the article: The new comic book from the revered Quebecois graphic novelist vividly relates the extraordinary life story ofContinueContinue reading “The Guardian Profiles Guy Delisle and His Newest Book, Eadweard Muybridge”
The Toronto Comic Jam 