This Week at The Bloor: 5/9/14
This week at the Bloor, a look at an inspirational pianist that picked up an Academy Award this year and a not so inspiration, but comprehensive and artistically enlightened look at the history of teenagers.
TCAF
TCAF 2013 Recap
This past weekend marked the 10th anniversary of TCAF, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We take a look at some hits from the show.
FCBD Wrap Up: Welcome to Paradise
Free Comic Book Day unites lit and art lovers, creative types, and penny-pinchers looking for some free swag. Our own Mike Pignataro travelled to Paradise Comics on FCBD to see what all the fuss was about.
Thought Bubble: A Weekend to Remember
Eric Weiss reflects on a seriously dorky weekend in Toronto, one that amazingly didn't include watching The Avengers .
Free Comic Book Day:
A Survival Guide
Free Comic Book Day is upon us! Lucky for you, we're here to help make it all worth it by pointing you spendthrift nerds in the right direction. Like your personal Comic Book saviours we'll guide you through the weekend with a complete list of Toronto's best comic-related hot spots and ”˜must see’ events.
TCAF Preview:
Guy Delisle
With Wizard World Toronto Comic Con out of the way and four long months until Toronto's FanExpo, all roads lead to TCAF (The Toronto Comic Arts Festival). One of the major releases at this year’s festival is iconic artist Guy Delisle's newest work, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City . Unfamiliar with Delisle? Let me fill you in.
Snaps Review
Snaps's inspiration was a box of old photos that author and artist Rebecca Kraatz found at a flea market, apparently taken during the 1940s. "I studied the unknown people in the pictures," she explains in her introduction, "often with a magnifying glass, trying to decipher their relationships with one another."
TCAF 2011 Review: Dr. McNinja: Night Powers
My opinion of webcomics is about the same: anything with a continuous thread more than five panels long gets on my nerves. Thankfully, Dark Horse Books has been compiling some of the most prolific webcomics into hefty printed volumes, the latest of which is Christopher Hastings’ The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Night Powers , which debuted at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
TCAF 2011 Interview:
Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge is a busy dude. At the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend, DeForge will debut two comic books, an art book, a porn-anthology that he co-edited, and he's featured as an artist in a third anthology. DeForge has also emerged as one of Canada's most celebrated young comic book artists. He kindly agreed to chat with us this week about his new comics, TCAF, immature Hotmail addresses, cable television and Toronto's best ethnic food.
TCAF 2011 Review: Snow
Heavily embedded in the culture and locations of Queen Street West, Snow , by Benjamin Rivers, is a very Toronto-centric indie graphic novel. It's the 30-something equivalent of Brian Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim saga, but with a more culturally relevant storyline and less manga-influenced art.
TCAF 2011 Review: The Next Day
In the last few years, Paul Peterson and Jason Gilmore talked to four suicide survivors, about their experiences, the lead up and the aftermath. The compilation of these talks is called The Next Day , illustrated by acclaimed artist John Porcellino, accompanied by an interactive online component co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada. So even if you can’t talk to anyone else about it, I’m sure you may be comfortable reading it.
Interview with Kill Shakespeare Creators Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col
In this dark tale, the Bard’s most famous heroes embark upon a journey to discover a long-lost soul. Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Falstaff, and Romeo search for a reclusive wizard who may have the ability to assist them in their battle against the evil forces led by the villains Richard III, Lady Macbeth and Iago. That […]
