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2017 Doug Wright Awards name three first-time winners

It was a year of firsts at this year's Doug Wright Awards, with all three winners being honoured by the Wrights for the first time. Toronto author Rebecca Roher won the Doug Wright Award for best ... Read More »

May 15, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Toronto Comic Arts Festival unveils 2017 poster

By Conan Tobias

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival unveiled the poster design for its 2017 edition, taking place at the Toronto Reference Library May 13–14. This year's promotional poster was created by Eleanor Davis, a cartoonist and illustrator from ... Read More »

March 10, 2017 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Nina Bunjevac, Meags Fizgerald, Connor Willumsen win 2015 Doug Wright Awards

By Becky Robertson

The 11th annual Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning were presented at a ceremony as part of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival on Sunday. Toronto artist Nina Bunjevac won the award for best book for Fatherland ... Read More »

May 11, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Q&A: Doug Wright Spotlight Award nominee Meags Fitzgerald

By Sue Carter

If you're heading to TCAF this weekend, stop by the Conundrum Press booth to congratulate Montreal comics artist Meags Fitzgerald, who is up for the Doug Wright Spotlight Award for her debut graphic novel Photobooth: ... Read More »

May 8, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Q&A: Pow Pow Press editor Luc Bossé on translating comics and successful crowdfunding

By Rachel Richey

In November, Montreal French-language comics publisher Pow Pow Press initiated a Kickstarter campaign to fund the translation of its books to English. The crowdfunding campaign was a success, and the resulting first four titles will ... Read More »

May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news

Toronto Comic Arts Festival Shop becomes a permanent fixture

By Becky Robertson

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival has announced that its pop-up festival shop will remain in the Toronto Reference Library for the foreseeable future. Rebranded as Page & Panel: The TCAF Shop, the store offers a ... Read More »

March 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news, Bookselling, Events, Libraries

Graphica’s next wave: Patrick Kyle

By Julie Baldassi

When Patrick Kyle was attending high school in his hometown of Whitby, Ontario, he says comics were his “main interest.” But it wasn’t until he began studying illustration at Toronto’s OCAD University in 2005 that ... Read More »

May 8, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Graphica’s next wave: Walter Scott

By Julie Baldassi

After graduating from Concordia University in 2009 with a bachelor of fine arts, Walter Scott spent a lot of time loafing around Montreal, underemployed, frequenting punk shows in dingy lofts, and living what he calls ... Read More »

May 8, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Graphica’s next wave: Nina Bunjevac

By Laura Tretheway

The comics of Nina Bunjevac don’t always look like conventional comics – in a good way. The Serbian-raised, Toronto-based artist came up through the fine art world, studying painting at the Ontario College of Art ... Read More »

May 6, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

Graphica’s next wave: Julie Delporte

By Julie Baldassi

In a culture that often seems to favour hyper-clever, narcissistic realism, it is surprising to encounter an artist as straightforwardly sincere and genuinely unaffected as Julie Delporte. This lack of pretention can perhaps be attributed ... Read More »

May 6, 2014 | Filed under: Authors

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