28.9.05
Ty "The Guy" Speaks
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Ty Templeton on Mr. Comics
by Bryan Munn
Sept. 28, 2005: After existing as a licensed property at several U.S. comic book companies, the Planet of the Apes franchise has somehow found its way to Canada and a new publisher, Mr. Comics. Publicity material and website text for the publisher is being written by industry veteran, cartoonist Ty Templeton who, as Ty "The Guy" Templeton, has adopted the freewheelin', avuncular style of the EC comics hosts and Marvel Comics' Stan "The Man" Lee for this new project.
Editor Templeton is enthusiastic about Mr Comics in general and the Apes in particular.
"So far, our first three projects are comics I'm DYING to put out so other people can read em! This isn't product at Mr. Comics, it's our babies," he raves.
The new imprint is itself the product of two key individuals: Templeton, a Toronto cartoonist with vast experience in the trenches of Marvel, DC, and most recently, Simpsons Comics; and Steve Valentine, entrepreneur and publisher.
As Templeton tells the story, the company is "based out of Toronto and its principal backer is a man named Steve Valentine, who's made a little money in the board games business and he's had a lifelong love of comics, and wanted to get involved as more than a fan. He'd been publishing small press comics in Ontario when I met up with him, with small circulations...energetic stuff, produced mostly by newcomers, you know. But and when I found out he was thinking about the licence for Planet of the Apes, as a way of expanding into a larger market, I crawled over glass to work on it."
The Apes franchise holds a special place in the heart of Templeton, who has also worked as an actor: "Planet of the Apes was my introduction to the world of sf films as a kid. It's in my blood. Just like working on the Simpsons Comics are a dream to me, so is this. So I'm editing, co-writing, and doing some art chores on the book. As our publisher started to see the work come together on Apes, he wanted to start doing other projects, and expanding. This is a fun project for everyone involved."
This planned expansion fits into the new publisher's overall philosophy of showcasing accessible work in the style and spirit of earlier generations. Templeton explains their reasons for publishing and the talent involved:
"Love of comics is the primary reason. I know that's corny, but there it is. In my case, I wanted a chance to work on the Apes, for one thing, and I wanted to give some opportunities to a) some talented friends who deserve the work, and b) some of the amazing newcomers I see at conventions who I can't BELIEVE aren't working already. We have some work coming up from a couple of new guys who make me sick they're so talented, and under twenty five. They should fall from a CLIFF, they're so good."
The roster of artists and writers include Salgood Sam, Tom Fowler, Gabriel Morrissette, Bernie Mireault, Marcus Moore, Dan Slott and James Fry.
On the question of Mr Comics' chances of survival and thriving in the Northa American retail comics market and plans for graphic novels and the bookstore trade, Templeton was bubbling over with confidence and enthusiasm.
"Our first Apes series is going to be collected up into a graphic novel at the end of six issues. And we'll be putting that into the bookstore market, one hopes. What do I think our chances are? Well, if it's a matter of putting out good comics, and not overextending ourselves, I figure our chances ain't too bad. Most of the companies that fail, do it through mismanagement...spending more than they make, etc. and sometimes, they just put out comics no one wants to read."
Finally, Templeton draws a sharp contrast between Mr Comics and the product of other adventure comics producers and certain recent trends: "I make this pledge...we're NEVER going to put out a comic I wouldn't want to read. And there's no rapes, no dead wives, no pointless blood. I make comics I'm proud of, and comics that are literate and fun and can be read by adults who are interested in MORE than the gratuitous nonsense that populates most "Mature Readers" titles. So....no topless sword carrying vixens, no heads coming off nuns, no blasphemy, no sex crime, but comics you'd want to read twice. FUN."
Mr Comics
Profile at Silver Bullet's "All the Rage"
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ACEC Convention 2005
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Editorial Cartoonists Meet in Halifax
A report on the annual gathering last July of Canadian editorial cartoonists at the
newly renovated ACEC website. That's Nic Kowsar, the expat Iranian cartoonist whose case was championed by the ACEC.
ACEC Convention 2005
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27.9.05
Marshall McLuhan's cool comics
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Guy Leshinski on early Comics Critic
"In his first book, 1951's The Mechanical Bride, McLuhan reproached the Man of Steel, calling Superman's crime-fighting tactics "the strong-arm totalitarian methods of the immature and barbaric mind." He was more favourable a few years later when surveying the medium as a whole. He devoted an entire chapter of his seminal book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man to unpacking the intangible ways comics ape and infect our culture...."
The Panelist --eye magazine
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26.9.05
Mr Comics
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Ty Templeton Apparently Launches Comic Book Company
Sept. 25, 2005: Canuck cartooning kingpin Ty Templeton is the contact man for a new adventure comics imprint, Mr. Comics. Initial projects include a licensed Planet of the Apes series, Revolution on the Planet of the Apes (with a release date of December); The Return of Hoverboy, written by Marcus Moore; and Big Max by Dan Slott and James Fry.
Mr Comics
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21.9.05
Imaged Text and Team Macho
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2 Comic Art Shows at Harbourfront Centre
Featuring art, cartoons, and books by Canadian cartoonists.
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IMAGED TEXT!
at Harbourfront's York Quay Centre
235 Queen's Quay West (at University Ave.)
Toronto, Canada
10am-11am M-Sa, 10am-9pm Su
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Team Macho: draws similar conclusions
September 16 - November 6
Team Macho is a collection of five old young men who prefer to appreciate each other from afar. This will be their first venture into formal installation.
Venue: York Quay Centre
Harbourfront Centre
Show review and photos by Christopher Butcher
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Ignatz Awards
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Canadians Nominated for Ignatz Awards
Bethesda, MD: The nominees for the 9th annual Ignatz Awards have been announced and several prominent Canadian cartoonists have made the list. Cartoonists Seth, Rebecca Dart, Steve Manale, David Collier, Marc Bell, and books released by Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly have all been nominated for various awards.
The awards are handed out annually at the Small Press Expo, a comics festival in Maryland. According to the SPX website, "The Ignatz Awards, named for the character in the classic comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman, is a festival prize that recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The ballot is created by a panel of five cartoonists and is then voted on by the attendees at the event. This offers a unique reflection of the views the professionals and their fans."
Canadian nominees and categories include:
OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC
Superslackers, Steven Manale
OUTSTANDING COMIC
Worn Tuff Elbow #1, Marc Bell (Fantagraphics)
PROMISING NEW TALENT
Rebecca Dart, RabbitHead (Alternative Comics)
OUTSTANDING STORY
"Homme De Le Bois," The Frank Ritza Papers, David Collier (Drawn & Quarterly)
OUTSTANDING ARTIST
Seth, Clyde Fans Book 1 (Drawn & Quarterly)
The anthology True Porn, Vol. 2, edited by Robyn Chapman & Kelli Nelson (Alternative Comics) received a nomination for OUTSTANDING DEBUT and contains work by several Canadian contibutors.
The full list of nominees can be read here.
The winners of the awards will be announced at a ceremony on Saturday, September 24th, 2005.
Ignatz Awards
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Cartoonists for Literacy
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"Cartoonists Sandra Bell-Lundy and Lynn Johnston are only some of the
Canadian celebrities who donated illustrated envelopes for Pitney Bowes'
Pushing the Envelope philanthropic initiative.
Running September 19 to September 29, during global literacy month,
Pitney Bowes Canada invites all Canadians to bid for their favourite
envelopes, illustrated by famous Canadians, in an online auction at eBay.ca
(www.ebay.ca/pitneybowescanada)."
Press Release
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20.9.05
From the page to the wall
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Guy Leshinski on the Canadian Art/Comics Nexus
"Artbooks like Ello, The Stacks and Lady Pep scoop up the language of comics and splatter it on art's limitless canvas. Slick and mass-produced, they're like heralds, halfway between comics' pulp origins and the museums they're destined to fill. The next step is off the printed page and into a frame.
That's where Michael Comeau's Regal Beast steps in. The Toronto cartoonist binds his handmade artbooks in Duo-Tangs so readers can remove the pages and frame them or tack them to a wall. Some of these pages are hand-painted, not just pictures of art but original art themselves. Both Bell and Thompson appeared in last summer's Regal Beast 2, alongside the cream of the indie crop: Billy Mavreas, Fiona Smyth, Chris Hutsul and others. Seeing their work unshackled from comics' constraints has its own distinct pleasures. Not least is the knowledge of an art world under invasion..."
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Nova Scotia Cartoon Exhibit
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Exhibit features former cartoonist's work
WOLFVILLE - An exhibition of cartoons by former Chronicle Herald cartoonist Robert Chambers is now on display at the Acadia University Art Gallery.
The exhibition was officially opened Sunday with a reception and opening remarks by Margaret Conrad, who wrote a book on George Nowlan, a Tory who represented the former federal riding of Digby-Annapolis-Kings in Parliament for 17 years.
Halifax Chronicle-Herald
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Liste des BéDénautes
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Liste des BéDénautes 2005-31
du 19 septembre 2005
Hello les BéDénautes . . .
Nouvelles
Le Rendez-vous BD de Gatineau : plus que 37 dodos!
C'est mardi prochain (le 27) que seront annoncés le programme d'activité et les auteurs invités pour ce sixième rendez-vous. Encore un peu de patience!
Atelier de BD au CÉGEP du Vieux-Montréal
Pour cette session, c'est Jimmy Beaulieu qui animera les ateliers. Laissons lui décrire cette activité : « Je voudrais aussi annoncer que j'anime un atelier de bande dessinée au cégep du Vieux-Montréal. La session débute ce mardi le 20 septembre, c'est ouvert à toutes et tous et c'est vraiment une chouette façon de passer ses mardis soirs (de 18h à 21h). Quel que soit son degré d'expérience, chacun et chacune réalise son histoire courte avec mon « coaching » éclairé, et l'histoire est publiée dans la revue « Vestibulles » à la fin de session. Nous recevons aussi deux auteurs invités par session. L'illustre Jean-Louis Tripp a déjà eu la gentillesse d'accepter mon invitation pour cet automne (je vous tiendrai au courant lorsque nous aurons fixé une date). »
Inscription jusqu'au 20 septembre.
S'informer au : CANIF du cégep du Vieux-Montréal
au 514-982-3437, poste 2164
Source : Jimmy Beaulieu mononclejimmy@hotmail.com
Du nouveau chez Mécanique Générale
Quatre publications sont au programme cet automne chez MG :
Véro, d'Edmond Beaudoin. Originalement paru chez l'éditeur Autrement, en 1999. Ainsi, MG fait maintenant place aux auteurs « hors écurie », et pas le moindre pour commencer.
Le pont du havre, de Luc Giard. «Un beau pavé de 120 pages avec une section couleurs. Un livre très musical, lyrique, romantique, qui sent bon l'hiver montréalais et les vieux livres » dit le communiqué.
Béatrice, de Phllp Grrd. Recueil de gags en une planche mettant en vedette la fille de l'auteur
Cyclope, opus 3 : Plan cartésien, collectif d'auteurs québécois. Issu de l'exposition présentée au CÉGEP du Vieux-Montréal en 2003, ce « catalogue ambassadeur » de la BD d'ici devrait faire le poids sur votre table de lecture.
Voir le site de MG au http://www.pastis.org/mg/ (section « catalogue ») pour tous les détails.
Source : Jimmy Beaulieu mononclejimmy@hotmail.com
Le MensuHell nouveau est arrivé!
Francis Hervieux nous informe que le numéro 70 de Mensuhell est maintenant disponible en kiosque. Pour le sommaire, voir :
http://www.geocities.com/mensuhell/
Rappel : Le retour de Câddinini
Johanne Lafond nous informe de la tenue d'une autre édition de Câdiddinini, un « festival » de BD organisé dans la couronne nord de Montréal. « Nous aurons des kiosques pour les exposants de BD, des tables pour les artistes Bédéistes, des conférences, deux expositions, deux défis relevés par les artistes bédéistes, de l'impro BD, des caricaturistes, des tables à dédicaces, un Coin Café, le vote de public, des bourses, un concours. » dit-elle. Le coût d'une « table » pour les participants est plus que raisonnable (10$) mais il faut réserver auprès de Sylvain Duhamel au sylvainduhamel@hotmail.com
L'événement aura lieu au deuxième étage du centre culturel Louis Saint-Laurent, à Ville de Lorraine!
Affaire à suivre, donc!
Source : Johanne Lafond joanne.lafond@videotron.ca
EVENTS:
Pour les amateurs de belles images, la Société des Arts sur Papier du 2 septembre au 5 octobre 2005
DU SANG DANS L'ENGRENAGE
une exposition des photographies de Matthieu Brouillard et Yvon Larocque.
Info : Matthieu Gauvin
Tel: 514.286.0352.Cell: 514.963.3041
www.sap-aps.org
Depuis le 7 septembre, la librairie Monet présente une exposition des toiles réalisées par Eva Rollin, une auteur de BD de la maison d'édition Les marchands de feuille http://www.marchanddefeuilles.com/web_page_-marchand_de_feuilles_1-_it_001.htm .
Site de l'exposition :
http://www.librairiemonet.com/email/expo_eva_rollin_web.html
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12.9.05
Comics Fans Who Shower
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Christopher Butcher on the culture of conventions and Toronto's squeaky clean aroma:
"So a few weekends back, Scott Robins and I decided to bring a little of late-May's TCAF to the more conventional experience that artists and publishing types were likely to experience. We threw a fabulous party. POST*CON. We dressed up nice and smelled good and tried to remind people that, when done right, Comics Events can be great..."
Comics.212.net
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MensuHell #70
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Still Ongoing! Quebec's Emporium of the Present & Future Comix
Courtesy Francis Hervieux:
As usual, here's the monthly MensuHell, the only regular publication of & about comics in Quebec:
This month's cover by Antoine Corriveau features a 4 pages fresh & new story of his. With that, you can find the still unfinished "Histoire de la bande dessinée au Québec" by the comic historian Michel Viau, a 5 comic books review by myself, and many pages of comics by the usual gang like Kurt Beaulieu, Rick Gagnon, Michèle Laframboise, Jane Tremblay, Mathieu Quesnel, Jocelyn Houde, Louis Rméillard & Jacques Boivin. Some new names are also present: Rachel Arseneau (aka Mazuko Chan) and Nicolas Plamondon. They shall make themselves at home in MensuHell for the months to come...
And for those of you who missed the last month issue with a Rabagliati cover, it's still available!
There's a 5 pages special file inside about the comic event "BD Montréal" held last July, during the Just For Laugh Festival. And a lot of original comics too.
Check out the summary & past issues:www.geocities.com/mensuhell
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10.9.05
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5.9.05
Chris Oliveros D&Q Hype
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Hour.ca - Books - Fall Cultural Preview
Quick profile of Montreal publisher in weekly paper.
Hour.ca
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2.9.05
Ye Books of Cerebus
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Dave Sim Exhibit
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – The Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of over seventy original pages from the groundbreaking independent comic book series, Cerebus. ‘Ye Bookes of Cerebus: the Comic Art of Dave Sim and Gerhard’ will open on Friday, September 23, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. and will remain on display through January 29, 2006. An artist’s talk and gallery reception will be held on Saturday, October 1st, 2005 at 1 p.m. At the event, Dave Sim will discuss the Cerebus project, his massive 26-year long, 300-issue publishing history, and the religious themes that make up the core of the exhibition.
Cerebus was the longest running independent comic ever published. At six thousand pages in length, it is the single longest graphic novel in the comic book medium, and, arguably, the longest sustained narrative in human history. Over seventy pages from this remarkable, and sometimes controversial, work will be on display, focusing on many of the religious themes that highlighted the later years of the book and culminating with a dramatic and unique retelling of the Story of Creation.
The series began in December of 1977 as a parody of the popular Conan the Barbarian comic. Sim quickly evolved as a writer and storyteller and began to tackle larger themes such as politics, religion, gender relations, and creator’s rights. At the same time, the artwork of Sim and background artist Gerhard was consistently some of the best in the medium and garnered numerous awards. Most recently, Sim and Gerhard won the 2005 Shuster Award (named after Superman co-creator Joe Shuster) for Best Canadian Achievement in Comics for the Cerebus project.
By the time the series ended in March 2004, Sim and Gerhard had worked together for over two hundred issues of Cerebus, an unprecedented achievement that more than doubled the one hundred issues of The Fantastic Four created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 1960s.
“The Cerebus series is the most stunning achievement in the comics medium, and it is quite a thrill for me to be able to work with Dave and Gerhard,” says curator Jason Trimmer. “It is also gratifying to be mounting a comic art exhibition here, since St. Bonaventure University has a history of interest and support for cartoon and comic book artists,” Trimmer continued, noting that the collection of the University includes original drawings by Milt Caniff, the creator of Steve Canyon, and Fred McCarthy, creator of the Brother Juniper cartoon strip.
This exhibition will feature work from three of the sixteen books that make up the entirety of the Cerebus series – Rick’s Story, Latter Days, and The Last Day. All of these pages showcase one of the most unique properties of the comic medium, which is its equal emphasis on words and pictures working together. As writers and artists began to explore more mature subject matter in comic books, starting in the mid-seventies, they also began to explore the dynamics between how the words and pictures on a page interact and affect the reader. For more than twenty years, Sim and Gerhard have been among the preeminent innovators of this dynamic in the comic book medium and the pages on display reflect several different approaches they have taken.
Combining stylistic innovation, humor, and the revelations offered by one man’s intensely personal spiritual journey, ‘Ye Bookes of Cerebus: The Comic Art of Dave Sim and Gerhard’ promises to be a unique and thought-provoking experience.
Admission to the Quick Center galleries is free and open to the public, Tuesdays through Fridays 10 am to 5pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from noon until 5 pm. For more information, call 716-375-2494, or visit
Regina A. Quick Centre
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1.9.05
Bubonix
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From Mini-Comic to Webcomic
Press Release:
The Crown Prince is a new webcomic written and drawn by J.G. Brin and published online by Bubonic Press. Go to CrownPrince.BubonicPress.Com to read the first two dozen comic strips with new installments posted every Monday.
Bubonic Press is based in Ottawa, Canada and is best known for the 27 issues of the mini-comic Bubonix which were published between 1994 and 1998. The entire run of Bubonix, including rare, hard-to-find issues and totalling over 500 pages of comix, are now available on-line at Bubonix.BubonicPress.Com .
Bubonix
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