April 30, 2020
by Laura Kenins
In her first graphic novel, my favourite girl that I never see (ChiZine Publications), Alberta artist Courtney Løberg tells the story of Ori, an urban twentysomething witch who exiles herself in the tiny town of ... Read More »
May 9, 2019
Emily Carroll’s body of work has enthralled all kinds of readers: horror fans, comic artists, and adolescents with a penchant for the creepy. She made her name with the 2010 horror webcomic His Face All ... Read More »
May 6, 2019
“There are two posters of mine in the bathroom!” Fiona Smyth joyously exclaims as she sits down at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel. For 35 years, Smyth has immersed herself in the city’s artistic community creating comics, ... Read More »
May 10, 2018
Samantha Cutrara, an historian, educator, and curriculum specialist at York University, has been awarded the 2018 Frances E. Russell Grant. The $1,000 grant is presented by the Canadian section of the International Board on Books ... Read More »
May 3, 2018
Just over a year after closing its former Mirvish Village location, Toronto children’s comic bookstore Little Island Comics has a new home. The kid-focused offshoot of the comic shop the Beguiling shut its doors at ... Read More »
March 5, 2018
Julie Doucet is done with autobiography. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the Montreal artist built a following for her comics, which featured unapologetically sloppy, crude female protagonists and stories detailing menstrual mishaps, sexual encounters, ... Read More »
May 9, 2016
Last August, after John Wiley & Sons sold Frommer's to Google for $22 million, it was rumoured that the travel giant's ubiquitous guidebook series would soon be discontinued. Those concerns appeared to be justified when ... Read More »
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