Con Etiquette 101: Talking to Creators
With con season upon us, we spoke with several creators, artists, and authors about the proper etiquette and important reminders when approaching people you're really excited to see.
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Toronto Comic Con Interviews Part One
Last month the Dork Shelf crew had a chance to invade Wizard World Toronto and a fun time was had by all. I got to interview some lovely people, including Andy Belanger from Kill Shakespeare, as well as as Mike Stoklasa from Red Letter Media (largely famous as the voice of Harry Plinkett the film critic).
Art-O-Bot: Oeming, Manupul, and Reilly
What is Art-O-Bot? Quite simply they’re a series of profiles of comic book artists, our way of helping you discover new and talented local artists, as well as highlighting the great work being done by established artists. Any comic artist qualifies, though we hope to focus on artists in Toronto and Canada. We’ll do our […]
The Definitive Collection of Awesomely Bad Wolverine Costumes
To celebrate the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine humour site Nextround.net has posted the definitive collection of bad Wolverine costumes. From costumes without claws, to guys who have no business even attempting to look like everyone’s favourite Canuck this list has pretty much everything you would expect from horrible fan made Wolverine costumes. Definitive Collection […]
Etiquette: Asking for Convention Sketches
As a personal joy, I yearn to own original art created by my favourite creators, friends, jam pieces—I love ’em all. One of the best places to getting this art is at a comic convention. The one thing I noticed when I first started collecting was there was very little in the way of con […]
