30.11.03
Browsing BD/comics/comix news in Quebec
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 For English readers so far, this site is the only local (Qc) based comics news site. But francophones have had accesses to wed based news and publicity for some, both in the European BD Press, and locally. For those of you not familiar with Quebec’s francophone BD scene, BD Quebec is a good place to start.
A regional Quebec City based comics news site, BDQ features articles from a small but hard working roster of dedicated volunteer writers, message boards that, though predominantly in French, seem general friendly to English posters looking for info. Listings for BD/Comics oriented events in the province (en français), bios for many of the provinces creators in residence and fairly detailed listings of a goodly portion of the local comix/comics/BD publications.
There’s a LOT of content and local history on this site so if you really want to learn about the regional francophone scene, mainstream and underground both, then this site is for you. If you really just can't read in en français then you may find that the googled version of the site still very informative, though amusingly garbled somewhat.
BDQ has been around for a while now, making it the old man of the Qc Internet comics community. The new kid on the block en français isBÉDÉ-KA!. While their server seems to be rather unreliable, knocking the site out quite often, the message board is run buy Pierre-Andre Dery of the grafiksismik.net gang, also out of Quebec City. While less technologically reliable Pierre-Andre maintains a comprehensive local News section and the boards are very English friendly. Most of the Qc provincial mainstream comics scene and a fair chuck of the web-active underground post their news here as well so a good place to find out what’s up.
A recent addition to the pack is the CBC sponsored site and radio show "bande à part" which dedicates a fair amount of time on the air and online to comics related interviews and reviews. And the Local weekly papers [we have 4, two Fr two En] give a fair amount of space over to the subject of comics and related stuff.
After that it's down to the individual publishers. Mécanique Générale, Drawn&Quarterly, La Pastèque, L'Oie
de Cravan, Conudrum Press/Crunchy Comics, Le Pape est un Ours, Scribe, & Mensuhell all offer news of varying depth on their sites. Also several local authors do so as well. Most notably off the top of my head are Eric Thériault, Jocelyn "Strob" Simard, & Rick Trembles' sites, which all offer amongst other things, news on their friends and their own activities in the community. For more links to creators sites look to the right side of this page under 'Qc Artist's web pages' to find one of the most comprehensive lists of local creator's sites >>>
[we strive to keep this up to date so if you know of a creator's site that should be listed there that's not send us the link!].
Oh, yes, and then there is Sequential ici. Mustn’t forget to plug ourselves in all this, the only currently active English language, solely Canadian oriented, QC based, comics news page. Your gateway to comics in the great white north eh!
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29.11.03
BRIGHT ANVIL STUDIOS UNVEILS NEW WEBSITE
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CO: ComicBookNetworkEmag@yahoogroups.com
November 27, 2003 - Toronto, Canada
 Bright Anvil Studios, a creative studio providing services to Marvel Comics, LucasArts, Warner Bros, Hasbro Toys and many others, have relaunched their website at brightanvil.com. The all-new website features the talents of: Logan Lubera (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: OZ, OUTLAW 7); Adrian Alphona (RUNAWAYS); Craig Yeung (RUNAWAYS, UNCANNY X-MEN); And the rest of the Bright Anvil Studios crew.
The new website features over 500 new images including sketches, never before seen artwork and commercial artwork. The site also features news updates, a discussion forum, online comics, downloadable desktops, flash animations, photos and more.
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28.11.03
Rocking Raven in the street and Bark on the March
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[co. rockingraven.com] Rocking Raven serialized in newspaper
 The Street Newspaper in Vancouver Canada is printing a serialized Rocking Raven story- "The Strong Silent Type". You can click the thumbnail to read the page
In early 2004 the story will be available to other newspapers sold on streets throughout North America by marginalized and homeless people-
Also
Canadian design flaunts its ‘Raw Potential’
at exhibit in abandoned Gastown building
VANCOUVER, BC – A jet-setting exhibit of Canadian design that picked up kudos during its debut at the Tokyo Designers’ Block in October will be touching down in Vancouver from December 11 to 14 as part of its global tour. “Raw Potential: Design from Canada” will be flaunting the best of Canadian design in an offbeat exhibit in an abandon building at 44 Water Street in Gastown. The exhibit is headed to design shows in Toronto and London England in the new year.
“We want to break the stereotype that design is elitist by showcasing some of Canada’s best designers in an unorthodox, raw setting,”
says Rob Studer, a member of the Vancouver-based BARK Design Collective, which is organizing the exhibit. “We picked a derelict building in the heart of Gastown to bring this high-calibre, international exhibit down to earth, to make it accessible to everyone in the city.”
The exhibition showcases both conventional and iconoclastic design
that challenges stereotypes of Canada. Haida Manga, for instance, in the form of the retelling of the ancient saga of Raven Travelling illustrated in Japanese comic
book format or "manga", casting the lewd Trickster-Creator in fishnet stockings. "Aboriginal design is not some artefact buttressing the Canadian myth" says Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, a Haida illustrator.
"I want to reshape the elevated and sacred Haida iconography into a rudely familiar image, one that is relevant and accessible to all..."
Other offbeat designs include a white "one-piece" felt suit by Vancouver fashion designer Natalie Purschwitz, architectural renderings of an "extreme" museum perched precariously at the top of a rocky mountain by Cynthia Wilson and Oliver Lang, and a "Grow-Op" coffee table to green the interior of your cramped, downtown condo by Mark Brady.
"Canada is the Petri dish of human culture. We are an experiment in identity, where cultures from all over the world are grafted together, where social conventions about marriage and drugs are being radically reshaped, where creativity is unhindered by history," says Beth Hawthorne, a member of BARK.
"Yet our international image is strikingly out of sync. Canadians are seen as a painfully polite, terribly dull bunch whose greatest contributions to humanity are maple syrup, smoked salmon and log cabins."
Read more at Rocking Raven >>>
{Ed note: now, last I heard Canadians were thought of as Cool?:Here & Here  }
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26.11.03
Rick Trembles's MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY:
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D&Q NEWS!
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My goodness, I do declare! The decision to hire Peggy Burns has had a definite and apparent impact in the profile of D&Q books and authors. They handle some big guns so it shouldn’t be surprising that these people are getting attention, but there’s just an amazing amount of good, well informed press being generated recently. Looks like the work of a good Market & Pub person.
Here’s a batch of links from D&Q’s news page. Bravo Peggy
Publishers Weekly interviews Joe Sacco & spotlights The Fixer (November 24, 2003)
Publishers Weekly gives The Fixer a "starred" review (November 24, 2003)
Modern Times features D+Q; Sacco, Tomine & Matt to sign (November 24, 2003)
Time.com spotlights 4 D+Q titles in its list of 25 "must-read" graphic novels (November 24, 2003)
Publishers Weekly features The Fixer as one of its best books of the year for 2003 (November 24, 2003)
Portland's Willamette Week Features Joe Sacco & The Fixer (November 24, 2003)
The Portland Mercury reviews The Fixer (November 24, 2003)
The Globe & Mail features Louis Riel as one of 2003's best books (November 24, 2003)
Halifax's The Coast spotlights Chester Brown & Louis Riel (November 24, 2003)
The List reviews D+Q Showcase Book One (November 18, 2003)
The List reviews 5 Is The Perfect Number (November 18, 2003)
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23.11.03
!!the Monthly Montreal Comix Jam!! N0V 26th
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This from Niall Eccles, your host for this months Jam :)
Hey all you cartoon cats and comic book kittens - put on your hats and stick on your mittens. Grab that grubby garb and hit the streets: this Wednesday the 26th is the Monthly Montreal Comix Jam, ya dig? It's at 8pm as usual, and this one's gonna go late late LATE!
@ La Sala Rosa - 4848 St. Laurent!
- remindering Niall
Salut, tous les chats et chatons! Mettez vos chapeaus et aussi vos mouffles. On doit sortir avec classe: 26 mercredi - c'est le Comix Jam Mensuel de Montréal. Il commencera à 20:00, comme d'habitude, et il finissera tardif! Ça va barder!
@ La Sala Rosa - 4848 St. Laurent!
- rappelerant Niall
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TORONTO COMIC JAM | RATBOY LAUNCH | ASKING FOR DONATIONS AT THE JAM | DTM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS +++
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 A big pile of news from Toronto
First, the Toronto Comic Jam is coming up this Tuesday, Nov 25, and is coinciding with the release of Tony Walsh’s newest Ratboy comic Rat and the Beanstalk! It starts at 7pm at the Cameron in the front room, with discs being spun by DJ Stardust Dakota, carrying on after 9pm in the back with the comic jam, and you can pick up your copy for a measly $2.00! Come on out and support Tony, and have some fun.
ASKING FOR DONATIONS AT THE JAM
We’re going to start asking people for small donations at the jams, to help keep it going, if you can. We’re going to ask for a $2 or $4 donation or ‘pay what you can’. No, it’s not a hard, fast thing, and you don’t have to pay if you can’t do it, because being free and accessible is an important and defining part of the jam (and part of it’s success, I think). This is possible because the jam right now is supported financially by a handful philanthropists (Tom King pays for the hosting of the website every month out of his own pocket; NELVANA supplies us with the jam books; I’ve paid for our supplies in the past; and our nicer paper is supplied by the generous guys at Open Mind Comics a.k.a West End Offset) but this, really, is not a sustainable model. The model I’m thinking that would best suit the jam is somewhat based on the Toronto Small Press Bookfair, which is supported (to the best of my knowledge) by arts grants and modest fees by participants, and provides a place for small press artists and writers to support each other. This way, the jam could become more stable, be better publicized, and perhaps more respected as a Toronto institution that supports artists in a meaningful way.
COMIC JAM ART SHOW
Off the Map Gallery is hosting a month long comic-jam based art installation at their gallery at 506 – 80 Spadina Ave., between January and February 2004. More details will follow, but this is done in part to publicize the Toronto Comic Jam in the fine arts community, and provide a voice which helps show comics not as ‘legit’ because they are legitimizing product-based/ junk culture, but a development of a graphic and image based language. More details will follow, as well as a curatorial statement, so stay tuned. Their website is at www.offthemapgallery.com.
DTM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Don’t Touch Me Independent Comics # 10 is scheduled to appear at the February 2004 comic jam, and we’re asking if people would like to submit their short comics stories. Dave Lapp is working on getting established Canadian artist and Governor General’s Award winner John Scott to do this issue’s cover, which is a great cross over. Here’s a bio on him.
This issue will have a theme too of ‘Angels’. We’re asking for no more than 3 pages, submitted as 8.5 by 11 inch photocopies, and that they show some kind of title on them (it helps distinguish one story from another in the anthology). Deadline is January 15th 2004
Don’t Touch Me
c/o Dave Howard
131 Lindsey Ave., Toronto ON M6H 1E5, CANADA
ph 416 534 8882
email daveATdavewhoward.ca
visit www.donttouchme.ca
Toronto JAM CONTACT EMAIL CHANGES
My email’s changed from davidhowardATpatsty.ca to daveATdavehoward.ca. The ‘patsy’ email will go out of commission soon.
Don’t forget to check out the jam discussion board and events listings for stuff to do, and people to meet or ideas to share!
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Jimmy Beaulieu sends us news of his latest movements.
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 To start this past week he participated in a round table discussion at the Salon du livre titled "bande à part" along with Dupuy-Berberian and Jean-Louis Tripp. The event was recorded and broadcast, as well as put on line on "bande à part" [audio link ici]
“Our time on air was sweetened by Paul Martin’s speech {it's likely no one was listening while the new prime minister was being crowned], but interested parties who may have missed the broadcast will still be able to hear what we had to say!”
Jimmy also points out that there you’ll find a webography of Michel Rabagliati, along with audio material, available on this same site in the pop-up window when you first load the page.
 To see some more of Jimmy's comix Keep you’re eyes peeled for Issue 9 of la revue Égo comme X, in which Jimmy has a story. It is finally available to Quebec, though you may have to, and should, pester your local book seller to stock it.
And lastly he would like to announce the festival of the fifth anniversary of la PASTÈQUE. Jimmy has a small book [12 pages] done in collaboration with Michel Rabagliati for the occasion. There the booklet will be exclusively on sale at the anniversary party and NO where else!
8pm November 27 2003 @ O Patro Vys, 356 Mount-Royal - Montreal
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19.11.03
MT Cyclops/Cyclope artists exhibiting comics pages, paintings, and sculptures in two exhibits:
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Conudrum Press/Crunchy Comics News:
 There will be a book launch for Cyclops in Toronto at the Loop Gallery on November 21, 2003, from 7-10 pm, free.
1174 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
The gallery show, which features work from all the contributors in the book will run to November 30, 2003.
 There will also be a signing at one of the best comic shops in North America, The Beguiling - 601 Markham St - on Saturday November 22 from 3-5 pm
Appearing at the Launch will be Montreal creators Siris, Line Gamache, Marc Bell, Peter Thompson, Alain Reno, Stephane Olivier and Gilles Boulerice, Marc Richard, Marc Tessier, Bernie Mireault, Caro Caron, Jimmy Beaulieu, Phil Angers, Richard Suicide, Leif Tand, Rupert Bottenberg, Carlos Santos, Obom, Jean-Pierre Chansigaud, Jean-Claude Amyot, Phillipe Girard, Hélène Brosseau, Billy Mavreas, and Alexandre Lafleur.
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Curently still showing!
Cyclops:Contemporary Narrative Art
Ottawa School of Art Gallery / Galerie de l'École d'art d'Ottawa
October 23 - November 23, 2003
Ottawa, ON (October 7, 2003): CYCLOPS INVADE OTTAWA!!
The Ottawa art scene is set to explode with a new exhibit of incredible art &...comics?
Beginning October 23, the Ottawa School of Art Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of contemporary narrative art featuring 13 artists from Montréal.
The emergence of autobiography in graphic novels in Europe and the United States has opened the gates to representing personal and literary points of view by artists working in the narrative arts field. In Québec, and especially Montréal, a large community, both French and English, has emerged at the forefront of this graphic narrative movement after twenty years of struggle.
Perhaps it is the unique position of the city, influenced by both European and North American styles, which has made some of these artists internationally recognized.
Curated by Marc Tessier and Hélène Brosseau, the Cyclops exhibit will display the work of thirteen highly prolific, award-winning, Canadian artists known for their art and comics: Siris, Line Gamache, Alain Reno, Stéphane Olivier and Gilles Boulerice, Marc Richard, Marc Tessier, Caro Caron, Richard Suicide, Obom, Jean-Claude Amyot, Hélène Brosseau, Billy Mavreas, and Alexandre Lafleur. Consisting of graphic narratives mixed with paintings, sculptures and photography, the exhibition will allow these artists an opportunity to display their unique approach to narrative art.
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Location:
Ottawa School of Art / École d'art d'Ottawa, 35 George Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8W5
Tel: 241-7471; Non-profit Organization #126510528.
Contact: Anna Carlman, Gallery Coordinator
(613) 241-7471, fax (613) 241-4391, e-mail: osagallery@hotmail.com
The Ottawa School of Art Gallery
35 George Street in the Byward Market, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 8W5
www.artottawa.ca
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18.11.03
D+Q News: WNYC's On The Media Speaks To Joe Sacco
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14.11.03
Comic boom: Telegraph.co.uk name drops Dave Sim in a decent 'comics aren’t just for kids' type article...
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...While avoiding actually directly saying that tiered old line.
 Mind you, this is hardly all about ol' Dave. It's good longish piece on the literary merit of the current crop of alt comix to be found around your local bookshop...
"That good comics writers are clever and literate and think about their craft should not, really, be a surprise. Nor does it mean they need shun silliness. The fantastical remains a dominant feature of comics writing, and many of the best make a virtue of it. Perhaps the most sustained and inventive series by a single writer is called Cerebus the Aardvark. In 1977, Dave Sim started a rudimentary sword-and-sorcery spoof about a belligerent, drunken, three-foot-tall grey aardvark. More than a quarter of a century later, Cerebus (Dave's girlfriend couldn't spell 'Cerberus') is still going strong – and there has evolved around him a pseudo-medieval world of such political and theological complexity, and such allusive density, that you occasionally forget the hero is, well, an aardvark. You may scoff. But what if he had been a three-foot hobbit?">>>
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13.11.03
Armed at the animal farm: 55 acrylic paintings by Richard Suicide
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 From the Montreal Mirror's Matthew Woodley: Published in the Arts Week section:
Heat-packin' pigs, two-headed ducks, mutants and the like are Richard Suicide's weapons of choice these days. Briefly trading pen for brush, the artist (whose illustrations often appear in these pages) opens his Cinquante cinq raisons pour poser des bombes on Monday, Nov. 17, with an explosive 5 à 7 at the Cheval Blanc (809 Ontario E.).
Suicide's cheerfully cheeky style speaks to the four year old in us with a special grown-up twist. "I like to hook people with humour," he says, "but I'm constantly revolting against things that are going on. I didn't want to draw Charlton Heston, you know, so I drew Porky Pig with a gun. They're the same image to me."
The 55 acrylic paintings in Suicide's series, which will be displayed in comic-panel style, take on themes of war, power, chemicals in our food and other things that bug him. Ducks figure prominently. "I have a two-year-old daughter and there are little rubber duckies all over my house," he explains.
Cinquante cinq raisons shows until Dec. 14. In the meantime, Suicide is going back to comics and working on a book for French publisher Les Requins Marteaux.
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Rick Trembles' MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY comic-strip movie reviews reviews
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Paper Rodeo shows in Montreal & Toronto
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CO: Jamie Salomon
 The Paper Rodeo folks will be having exhibits in Toronto (at The Beguiling, Nov. 18, 6-9 pm) and in Montreal Nov 22 at a place called PILE O'BEER - 120 Mont-Royal East, near St-Laurent, starting at 7 pm.
Plenty of artwork, plus videos, books, etc., as well as work produced by the silkscreen studio Atelier Alphonse Raymond, who invited them to town and booked the space. There'll be beer and snacks, but you can also bring your own.
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12.11.03
11.11.03
It's coming up, the Montreal Comics Expo!
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Check out the events and appearances listings here>>>
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Signings, panels & headhunters @ the Salon du livre
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CO:bedenaute@videotron.ca
The 26th Salon du livre de Montréal [13th-17th Nov 2003]
BD takes their place along side the rest of literature this year, like every year at the Salon du livre. Thanks to the work of large and small distributors and a few booksellers.
Here an outline of BD specific events:
Signings:
Mirabel (Booth 124): Midam, Dupuy and Berberian, Jocelyn Jalette, François Miville-Deschêsnes, Réal Godbout, Andre-Philippe
Hachette (Booth 157): Didier Convard, Thierry Labrosse, François Lapierre, Andre Houot, Mordillo
Mille-îles 400 coups (Booth 660): Line Arsenault, Tristan Demers, Raymond Relative, Daniel Shelton, Jacques Goldstyn
Fichtre! Distribution (Booth 1063): Jimmy Beaulieu, Dupuy and Berberian for the version in English language of "Mr Jean" [D+Q]
La Pastèque (Booth 671): Rémy Simard
Vermillon (Booth 687): Christian Quesnel, Christ Oliver
Banjo (section o-9): Red-headed Paul
Mediaspaul (Booth 639): Michele Laframboise
Boreal (Booth 171): Caroline Merola
Bibliopolis (Booth 1051): Librairie Débédé
Meetings and Panels:
"Blake et Mortimer" - "Blake and Mortimer" ichez la délégation Wallonie Bruxelles Belgique (stand 181)
Thierry Groensteen in conference at the book professional’s day (Friday).
Headhunters & portpholio reviews:
Hachette (Booth 157): Didier Convard, writer for "Triangle secret" will meet québécois authors who have projects to submit or want to present their portfolios.
Glénat (Booth ?): Laurent Muller, directeur littéraire at Glénat will also be looking at submitions and portfolios, Friday from 11 H to 17 H.
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Conflict's cartoonist: Joe Sacco in the Monday Globe and Mail
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It bothers Joe Sacco that people are suffering in Gaza or Gorazde, and he uses his singular comic-book style to make sure it bothers other people too, JAMES ADAMS writes.
"In the past 10 or 12 years, Sacco has been one of about a dozen illustrator/writers who have taken the word balloons, crosshatching, Ben-Day dots and rectangular frames of the comics idiom and given them a visceral content that resonates with the intensity of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, a Robert Capa photograph and Bob Dylan's Tangled Up in Blue. Along the way, Sacco has picked up some pretty heavy-duty fans, both individual and institutional -- Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said (both of whom contributed forewords to his books of unfunny funnies), David Rieff, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Details, Time." >>>
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9.11.03
the Salon du livre de Montreal: A conference on Graphic Novels and Publishing Nov 14
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 Friday November 14, 2003 A conference on Graphic Novels and Publishing has been organized within the framework of a professionals Day at the Salon du livre de Montreal
The topic is: "the contemporary comic strip: between art and the market ".
“From its marginalized character, its integration of text and images and its assistantship, the comic strip poses several challenges to publishing professionals”
Present at this event will be Thierry Groensteen [Editor and former Director of the CNBDI] and Jean-Pierre Draper [scientific and formative Adviser with the CNBDI]
This event is geared towards books store owners, publishers and librarians but the event is open to the public with price of entry to the Salon du livre.
You can download a schedule for the panel from here and the flyer here
Contact Olivier Charbonneau for more info
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'The Rise and fall of it all': A new Book/Film/Hybrid Radio Play by John O'Brien & Salgood Sam
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 Chicago, today - The bright lights - The beautiful panoramic lakefront - The great city, the beautiful city...
But the glittering lights don't cast their glow everywhere or on everybody - some live in the shadows, and some have to learn to step from the light, into the dark.
When I got back to work, they gave me the cube with a view. They gave me the window. I asked for the window when they called me back to work but they'd said forget it? Forced off the payrolls into a life as a "contractor" -- Elliot is a middle-aged now and cast-off again -- At first he looks for a job, but the big companies seem to be doing more and more with fewer and fewer people and now they were merging all their resources, and so with little surprise he hears the final bad news from the woman at the unemployment office: "Your time has run out.". What does it mean when your when your time runs out? How far into the deep street can Elliot slide?
 In the vast scheme of things, Elmo, a vagabond trumpet player, is playing directly along side Elliot's boulevard to uncertainty. No visible means of support. No record of identity. No social security card or drivers license: all tactical advantages in his game of survival. Not homeless- just house-less, he "commutes" to the suburbs where it is easy to slip away to the woods, directly from the bus and train stops, to sleep on private properties & on the beaches in the northern suburbs. Descended from a band of migrant, American tri-racial dropouts. Indians, blacks and whites that banded together and wandered a migratory path through the Midwestern wilderness for 150 years. They wanted nothing of the 'American Dream' choosing instead to live in the wild. Escaping from rather than making history.
Elmo was a successful entrepreneur. Only the currency of his existence wasn't really money. It was time, air and sunshine and earth.
He tries to to open Elliot's eyes to what is really there, and in turn has his own eyes opened.
Follow the development of Salgood Sam and John O'Brien's upcoming project 'The Rise and fall of it all' online at this site.
There are regular updates of rough art, photos from the research being done, historical reference for the story, audio sketches from the Web Film/Hybrid Radio Play that is being produced in tandem with the Graphic Novel, Much more.
www.rise-fall.com
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D+Q: National Post & Exclaim! Features Chester Brown & LOUIS RIEL, The Fixer and Joe Sacco in Time
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 National Post: Leapin' Louis Riel!; Cartoonist Chester Brown uses the visual style of Orphan Annie to dramatize history Nov 6, 2003: "Louis Riel is one of the most resonant names in Canadian history; Little Orphan Annie is an icon of American popular culture. Although both Riel and Orphan Annie are famous, few would discuss these renowned figures in the same breath. It is part of the peculiar genius of Chester Brown's new book, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography (Drawn & Quarterly), that it fuses a historical subject with a pop-cultural approach, using the visual language of an Orphan Annie adventure to dramatize a pivotal event in our nation's past.">>>
Canada's national free weekly EXCLAIM! features an article on Chester Brown and Louis Riel Oct 31, 2003
Revolutionary Riel: A Graphic Tale of Canadian History
By Sarrah Young - "What does the name Louis Riel mean to you? If you’re Chester Brown, the name conjures up images of rebellion and organised strife. Louis Riel was the man who led the Métis against the Canadian government in a dispute over land sold to the Canadian government by the Hudson’s Bay Company. This was done without consulting the people who lived there and because of his involvement, Riel was eventually charged with treason and executed.">>>
 Andrew Arnold of Time.com reviews THE FIXER "'The Fixer' continues one of the most creative and unique visions in the arts today. Joe Sacco has single-handedly created a media sub-genre: comix journalism. He brings alive the life and world of a funny, friendly, dangerous, mysterious person who seems a pure product of his place. ">>>
THE FIXER will be in stores on 11/12/03.
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8.11.03
Paris' Dupuy & Berberian and Montreal's Michel Rabagliati at Salon Du Livre.
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CO: D&Q
Paris' Dupuy & Berberian and Montreal's Michel Rabagliati will be signing at the Fichtre! booth at the French book festival Salon Du Livre.
Please note that they will be signing their D+Q (english) books.
Saturday, 11/15 at Hall d’exposition, Place Bonaventure:
11 AM Dupuy & Berberian
1 PM Michel Rabagliati
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4.11.03
Thierry Van hasselt in Montreal Oct 4th for a workshop.
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This from Jimmy at MG
 Hello
Here’s a small announcement concerning the visit of Thierry Van hasselt of Frémok to the BD workshop I’m currently hosting @ du cégep du Vieux-Montréal 255, rue Ontario Est, Montréal.
It occurs this evening, Tuesday November 4, from 18:00hr to 21:00hr.
In room 11-35
Find out more about Thierry Van Hasselt & @
Frémok
Angouleme 2003
freon.org
You may need this to read those
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 Bonjour,
Petit rappel concernant la visite de Thierry Van hasselt à mon atelier.
ça se passe ce soir, mardi 4 novembre, de 18:00 à 21:00.
Au local 11-35 du cégep du Vieux-Montréal
255, rue Ontario Est, Montréal.
Pour en savoir plus sur TVH :
Frémok
Angouleme 2003
freon.org
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Photo essay from the Plan Cartésien Vernissage Pt2
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[link to pt 1 here]
Monday October 20 2003
@ cegep du Vieux Montreal, 255 rue Ontario Est.
I did one of these [see the link above] but my photos were pretty crappie by comparison.
 Heres a link to a Good short Photo essay from the Plan Cartesien Vernissage/Lunch on Oct 20th by Jocelyn Strob Simard
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An interview with the Grafiksikmik crew out of Quebec city
LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION: "What's up, crock?" 
Last week's review
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"Joe Sacco is a journalist, a cartoonist…and a cartoon journalist. Drawing himself into his books and strips as a kind of bespectacled everyman, he literally illustrates the difficulties involved in reporting from war zones around the world. His books about the Bosnian war and the Palestinian occupation have won praise for their honesty and bleak humor. Now, he's taking some time away from the battlefield to pen stories about the campaign trail for the Washington Monthly. He tells Bob about his new beat. ">>>
DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS (1977): "Bed-whetters beware!"
WONDERLAND: "Wadd" a bummer!
ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN: "To know death, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder" -Dr Frankenstein
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