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A Dispatch From the Wright Awards Jury

Natalia Yanchak | Posted 04.11.2013 | Canada Music
Read More: Illustration, Comic Books, Toronto Comics Arts Festival, Canadian Art, Awards, Comics, Doug Wright, Graphic Novels, Canada Music News
Natalia Yanchak

While hardly a fan of awards (personally afflicted with "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" syndrome), I love nothing more than to use my unqualified opinion to judge others. Who is qualified, anyway? Reviews and art criticism are the pinnacle of narcissism, which is why I generally keep to myself on such matters.

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Advice on Surviving Family Business

Joshua Slayen | Posted 01.06.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Law, Partnerships, Business Law, Business, Comics, Litigation, Family Law, Family, Canada Business News
Joshua Slayen

There has been a colossal breakdown of the Archie family business, and it sounds like something right out of the movies; egos, lawyers, yelling matches, sexual harassment claims, defamation lawsuits and restraining orders. This one has it all. It makes me think of different measures that friends and family members can take when entering into businesses ventures

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From Blue Crayon Scribbles To Published Graphic Novel

David H.T. Wong | Posted 12.23.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Comic Books, Cartoons, Comics, Graphic Novel, Classics Illustrated, Chinese History, Escape to Gold Mountain, Bc Chinese, Chinese Community, Chinese American, American History, Chinese-Canadians, Canadian History, Racism, Canada British Columbia News
David H.T. Wong

I had spent a whole afternoon scribbling on the entry hall wall, up the staircase wall and onto the second floor sitting room wall. In those days, the discipline of choice for Chinese families was the bamboo cane feather duster. That too, I remember painfully well. So it is with much affection that I open and dedicate my graphic novel, Escape to Gold Mountain, to Granny with her words: "David! Stop drawing on the walls! When you grow up, you had better still not be drawing cartoons!"

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Immortalizing India's Master Storyteller

Sam Singh | Posted 04.28.2012 | Canada
Read More: Comic Books, Comic-Con, Anant Pai, India, Krishna, Comics, Amar Chitra Katha, Commonwealth, Hinduism, Bbc, Bhudda, Spiderman, Canada News
Sam Singh

His stories earned him recognition in the global comics industry and seriously large piles of fan-mail. And today marks what would have been the 82nd birthday of India's "Master Storyteller," Anant Pai who died last year in Mumbai. But this year, he is immortalized by way of his own medium.

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When Comic Books Aren't So Funny

Jane Tolmie | Posted 04.12.2012 | Canada
Read More: Literature, Art Spiegelman, Comics, Books, White Privilege, Racism, Culture, Sequential Art, Canada News
Jane Tolmie

Comic memoirs facilitate emotional, intellectual, and ethical investments in the experiences of others. It is not about appropriation, or belittling empathy, nor is it a search for satisfaction via vicarious experience. It is about imagination and the transformative power of visual/verbal works that document the world around us, as anti-racist work calls for the re-imagination of that world.

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Dealing With Illness? Read a Comic

Jane Tolmie | Posted 12.15.2011 | Canada Living
Read More: Medical Humanities, Living With Autism, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Human Suffering, Comics, Medical Memoir, Autobiography, Harvey Pekar, Sarah Leavitt, Special Exits, Our Cancer Year, Medical Comics, Sarah Leavitt Tangles, Canada Living News
Jane Tolmie

The experience of chronic suffering is difficult to convey in clinical settings and language, but it can be rendered more approachable via a combination of creative techniques. The 'medical humanities' movement is following up on what the world of medical comics can tell us about human experience.

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