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Written by Katie St Jean
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Monday, 13 November 2006 |
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 Canada’s Foremost Graphic Novelist Ho Che Anderson to Read at Laurentian University
They used to be known as “comic books”, but they’ve come of age. No longer limited to superheroes, Graphic Novels are addressing some of today’s most significant public issues.
The fourth visitor in Laurentian’s 2006-2007 LUminaries Reading Series is Ho Che Anderson, Canada’s foremost graphic novelist and author of King, a critically acclaimed graphic novel format biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. On Friday November 17 Ho Che Anderson will read from his work and offer a Power Point presentation of his graphic art. |
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Written by Linda Sendecki
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Wednesday, 08 November 2006 |
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 Toronto, ON (November 7, 2006) – Vincent Lam has been named the 2006 winner of The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s premier literary prize for fiction, for his novel Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, published by Doubleday Canada. The announcement was made at a gala dinner and award ceremony that drew more than 450 members of the publishing, media and arts communities. Hosted by Justin Trudeau, The Scotiabank Giller Prize was broadcast across Canada in primetime at 10 p.m. ET on CTV and, for the first time, live around the world on The CTV Broadband Network at 9 p.m. ET at CTV.ca. The telecast will air again tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. ET and Saturday, Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. ET on CTV (check local listings), as well as on-demand on The CTV Broadband Network at CTV.ca.
The largest annual prize for fiction in the country, The Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $40,000 each year to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English and $2,500 to each of the finalists.
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Written by Mike Lecky
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006 |
 Loose Teeth turns one year old in less than a month. In that year we've published a novella, a comic anthology, and a comic chapbook, totalling just over 7,000 individual books. We've done readings up and down the east coast from Halifax Nova Scotia to New York, and we've sold books to people overseas in at least 25 different countries (the love us in South Africa, actually). |
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Written by Daniel Sendecki
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006 |
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Perpetual Motion Roadshow #38 is on very shortly featuring comedienne zinester MARY VAN NOTE from San Francisco, d(sc(rip)t)or poet OLATUNDJI AKPO-SANI from Boulder and groovin' singer-songwriter YEHUDA FISHER from Toronto!
The Perpetual Motion Roadshow is an indie press touring circuit, an unholy combination of a vaudevillian variety show and a punk rock tour. Each month, three new lively indie performers pile in a car and do seven cities in eight days, doing shows with the bold guarantee: NO BORING READINGS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! Transnational, it loops the northeast May-October and makes runs down the west coast during November-April. Founded by No Media Kings, we've been making our own fun since 2003—running on pure volunteer power and dirty dirty gasoline. All shows are pay-what-you-can.
Details after the jump, including maps to the venues and artist bios! |
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Written by Katie St Jean
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Thursday, 19 October 2006 |
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 This weekend at the Spinning Plate Gallery in East Liberty, Unicorn Mountain presents "Tomb of the Spy Magicians."
OK, it sounds like a prog-rock show with lots of fog, robes and keyboards—but it's not.
It's a two-day event showcasing the city's comic art, small press publications and independent music, organized by Unicorn Mountain, a cross-disciplinary art collective, along with art-zine Encyclopedia Destructica.
"We're trying to marry the idea of an indie comics show with a small press convention with the beginnings of a Pittsburgh music festival, and our idea is to do it under one roof," says Curt Gettman of Unicorn Mountain. "As we grow we'd like to open it up to people out of town." |
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Written by Katie St Jean
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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 The next installment of the Test Reading Series (curated by Mark Truscott) will be a conjoined event: it's also doubling as the Toronto launch-pad for CAROUSEL 20 (see content list below). Rob Read, one of the featured poets in the new issue, will be reading from his 'Book of Sparrows' suite, and copies of CAROUSEL 20 will be available for purchase at a discounted rate of $8 for the evening!
Rob Read and Souvankham Thammavongsa (bios below)
Mon 23 October 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Mercer Union, a Centre for Contemporary Art
37 Lisgar Street, Toronto
pwyc ($5 recommended), all of which goes to the readers:
For more info, visit: the Test site and Carousel. For more information, contact details, and a handy-dandy map, click here. |
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Written by Daniel Sendecki
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Friday, 13 October 2006 |
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 SPX 2006 will be held the weekend of October 13 and 14, 2006 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Centerm, Bethesda, MD, just one mile outside the nation's capital, Washington DC. In its tenth year SPX now serves as the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comic books and the discovery of new creative talent.
SPX will bring together over 300 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, distributors, and each other. SPX will be open to the public from 2pm Friday, October 13th and run through 8pm that evening. The celebration continues Saturday from 10am to 7pm, culminating in the 10th annual Ignatz Awards Reception. In addition, expect great programming all weekend long for you to enjoy!
SPX 2006 marks the tenth annual presentation of The Ignatz Awards for outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The Ignatz, named after George Herriman's brick-wielding mouse, recognizes outstanding work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an artform and as a means of personal expression. The Ignatz is a festival prize, the first such of the United States comic book industry. Winners will be determined by ballot during SPX and presented at the gala Ignatz Awards ceremony.
As with every year all profits from SPX will go to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, protecting the First Amendment rights of comic book readers and professionals. |
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Written by Linda Sendecki
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Thursday, 12 October 2006 |
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Chaudiere Books (rob mclennan & Jennifer Mulligan) & the ottawa international writers festival invite you to the launch of three of the first four Chaudiere Books titles on Thursday, October 26, 2006, 7pm at the National Library & Archives Building, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa as organized by the ottawa international writers festival. A free event, lovingly hosted by Chaudiere Books editor/publisher rob mclennan. They will be launching Ottawa writer Clare Latremouille's first novel The Desmond Road Book of the Dead, Toronto-area Meghan Jackson's first poetry collection movements in jars, and former Alberta poet Monty Reid's first Ottawa poetry collection Disappointment Island. |
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Written by Linda Sendecki
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Thursday, 12 October 2006 |
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Eloquent, poignant and witty, Garry Gottfriedson’s new collection of poetry explores themes of duality in the parallel world of cowboys and Indians. Whiskey Bullets speaks to the unique experience of growing up aboriginal while remaining immersed in cowboy and ranching culture. Gottfriedson unveils hidden truths, bringing to the fore inescapable issues of gender, sexuality, race and politics. Candid and challenging, Whiskey Bullets is thought provoking and deeply engaging. |
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