21.5.05
This blog needs a blogger
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Sequential has been running for 3+ years now, helping to shine some light on the Canadian comics scene. It was the first all Canadian comics news blog to my knowledge, and when most active gets a few hundred hits a day solid. Could be more probably but I don’t have a lot of time to promote it these days.
I have a lot of things on my plate now, and can’t really spend too much time keeping this up to date. Originally it was always meant to be modeled on the Indy media concept of community produced news, so it’s long over due some other folks get in here and helped out.
I think it's still a worthy exercise, but I’m not the one for the job right now.
So, if you think you’re up to it, I’m looking for a [few?] good blogger editor[s] for the job. To let me know if you’re interested you can apply for the completely unpaid job of being the right one[s] for the job here. :)
Qualified persons should be Canadian & well informed good researchers of their local underground & Indy comix scenes. Aware also of the larger commercial comics industry but attention is to be paid to all levels of the community fulfilling Sequential’s mandate to give voice first to those who have it least.
They need a basic understanding of html, and to be independent thinkers able to solve minor problems on their own. Know how to use a spell checker, avoid taste-making, ask constructive questions, and be able to report balanced and fairly.
They will also need to know how to compress and format image’s for the web, and how to use the blogger interface to upload images and format the text and links [any specialized knowledge represents can be learned for the blogger help fairly easily].
I'll be forwarding all press material sent to Sequential to you so you'll have the benefit of the existing research material available.
Maxim Douglas [aka salgood sam]
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19.5.05
eye - 05.19.05 | THE PANELIST | Toronto's comics festival
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BY GUY LESHINSKI
When Peter Birkemoe, co-founder and co-owner of The Beguiling, created the first Toronto Comic Arts Festival back in 2003, he knew he was onto something.
"This festival could, within five or six years, become one of the top two or three comic events in North America," he says, "given Toronto, the size of the comics community, the people we have here, the arts funding...."
That's what happens when you open the world of alternative comics to an awakened public. About 600 readers in 2003 braved the spotty weather and threat of SARS to stroll the festival grounds in Mirvish Village. They crowded panels and signings and basked in the heat of a comics craze that had sparked a mere year or two before.
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SKIM: A graphic tale from the diary of Skim Takota
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ED:This one looks really nice....!!
KISS MACHINE PRESENTS...
SKIM: A graphic tale from the diary of Skim Takota.
ON SALE IN JUNE!
Written by Mariko Tamaki (www.marikotamkaki.com)
Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki (www.jilliantamaki.com)
It's 1992. The jocks are suicidal, the popular girls are in mourning,
and the goths are bored.
It seems like everyone is freaking out, except for 16-year-old suburban
witch Skim Takota and her best friend Lisa. It's a weird time to fall in
love, but a witch has to do what a witch has to do.
The second Kiss Machine Presents... publication is a 24-page excerpt
from Skim's diary--a gothic romance for geeky goths and the people who
love them.
Visit SKIM online
--Check out the cover.
--Download sample inside pages.
--Purchase your own copy.
SKIM is $4. Pre-order online Or send a cheque for $4 to POB 108, Stn P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S8
...........COME TO OUR GOTH LAUNCH PARTY!...........
Crushaleptic presents Tainted Love, a goth-themed dance party/launch for
Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's comic SKIM (Kiss Machine Presents...) and
Mariko's new novel FAKE ID (Women's Press).
Welcome all goths, freaks, misfits, nerds, geeks, and the people who
love them! Cake on some black eyeliner and get your pleather overcoat
out of storage! Snacks and goth prom food provided!
Date: Friday, June 10. Admission: $5.
Faturing the techno stylings of Ina unt Ina.
Doors open at 10:30 pm. Band plays at midnight.
Venue: Tallulah's Cabaret, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander
St, Toronto.
.................ABOUT THE CREATORS.................
Mariko Tamaki is a Toronto author and playwright. Her third book, FAKE
I.D., was released by Women's Press in 2005. Mariko's play, SKIM, will
be part of Nightwood Theatre's Groundswell Festival, 2005.
Jillian Tamaki is a freelance illustrator living in Edmonton. Her work
has appeared in The NEW YORKER, The NEW YORK TIMES, MACLEAN'S, and she
is regularly featured on CBC Arts Online. SKIM is her first comic.
Media inquiries to: info@kissmachine.org
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16.5.05
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
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 ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Saturday, May 21, 2005, 10am-6pm
2515 rue Delisle
(near Lionel-Groulx metro)
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Free! Welcome to all.
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Mainspace and 1st floor rooms are wheelchair accessible.
The bookfair is a child-friendly event. Bring your kids!
Free childcare on-site. Kids and Parents Activities.
** The largest anarchist event in North America
** Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy (April 28-May 24)
** Followed by a full day of Anarchist Presentations, and Workshops (May
22, 2005)
link to site and more info
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3.5.05
Artist On Board : A Canadian cartoonist sketches life in the navy
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A CBC hosted DIARY By David Collier  |
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2.5.05
The 1st annual Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards: the Shusters
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The 1st annual Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards — named The Shusters after Superman co-creator Joe Shuster — were handed out on Saturday at the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon at Exhibition Place. The following is a list of winners: -
Outstanding Achievement: Dave Sim and Gerhard for the completion of their 300-issue series, Cerebus. -
Outstanding Writer (tie): Sara "Samm" Barnes for Doctor Spectrum and Ty Templeton for Batman Adventures. -
Outstanding Artist: Kaare Andrews for Spider-Man & Doctor Octopus: Year One. -
Outstanding Cartoonist: Darwyn Cooke for DC: The New Frontier. -
Outstanding publisher: Arcana Studio -
Retailer Recognition Award (posthumous): Harry Kremer, Now & Then Books in Kitchener, Ont. -
Hall Of Fame (all posthumous): Joe Shuster; Leo Bachle A.K.A. Les Barker, creator of Johnny Canuck; Adrian Dingle, creator of Triumph; Hal Foster, creator of Prince Valiant; Ed Furness, artist on Commander Steele; Rand Holmes, creator of underground comic strip, Harold Hedd.
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1.5.05
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