News – Page 12 – The Toronto Comic Jam

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

https://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/marc-sobel-dec-3-2024-at-7pm-est/?page_id=5131

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/

We are now on Bluesky!

The Toronto Comic Jam is now on Bluesky! If you join Bluesky, please friend us at torontocomicjam.bsky.social. What is Bluesky and why should you join? Read this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-things-to-know-about-bluesky-before-you-join-and-why-you-should/ Enjoy!

800 pages of adventure with hundreds of woodcut illustrations by disciples of Hokusai

Recommended by every aspiring scientists’ favourite master cartoonist, Tom Guald, on everyone’s favourite social media platform, Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/tomgauld.bsky.social/post/3ktanroutsc23 https://bsky.app/profile/tomgauld.bsky.social/post/3ktanroutsc23

Graphic Memoir Workshop

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCRyeYEt1Pg/?igsh=Nzc0YzZpaHp4bmp6 https://www.instagram.com/p/DCRyeYEt1Pg/?igsh=Nzc0YzZpaHp4bmp6

Fieldmouse Press is Open for Submissions for December!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCQiVqcx-fh/?igsh=aGJzdDU2d3R4NzFy

Submit your comics to Alternative Pulp!

News from Instgram …. Check out their Instagram post below! https://www.instagram.com/p/DB6xsY6RK_C/?igsh=MWUyYnEyOWhyZTh1eg==

Maurice Vellekoop Wins The 2024 Toronto Book Awards!

Maurice Vellekoop’s graphic novel memoir I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together is the first graphic novel to win the Toronto Book Award. Congrats! Check out Reactor Art + Design’s Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCPaVn1S-6Y/?igsh=MWRrYjRzeXhtaTZhNw==

Help Fund Jordan’s Print Plaza!

This is some pretty earth-shattering news that can catapolt Toronto’s independent cartoonist community into the stratosphere! Cartoonist (and long time Toronto Comic Jam alumni) of Endless Fret, Jordan Aelick, is being given the opportunity of a lifetime to buy a print business and internet cafe in the heart of downtown. On top of this, JordanContinueContinue reading “Help Fund Jordan’s Print Plaza!”