This week: Toronto SpeakEasy Comic Book Show

Toronto SpeakEasy, a monthly gathering of the city’s creative community, hosts its annual Comic Book Show this coming Thursday, Nov 5,  8pm-midnight at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West, second floor lobby).
The main event is in the evening, but I think you might be able to pop in any time during the day to check [...]

On tour: Seth in Montreal

Seth’s Canadian tour arrives in Montreal on November  3 at Drawn and Quarterly’s Librairie D+Q Bookstore. Get out and say hello.
His work also appeared in the Friday New York Times to illustrate a feature on haunted New York apartment living.

Comics at the Festival of Authors

A few years ago, I interviewed Seth and Tony Millionaire at one of Toronto’s first International Festival of Authors to feature comic creators. There is one week left in the 2009 edition and courtesy of The Beguiling, here is the comics and graphic novels lineup for the remainder of the festival:
Lynn Johnston reads Farley Follows [...]

Summer reading recommendations

This year’s CBC’s Canada Reads program includes a few graphic novel and comic picks.
In this video, The Beguiling’s owner Peter Birkemoe showcases Seth’s new book, George Sprott. Just have a look at how those pages are put together. Amazing.

Browse Birkemoe’s full list of recommendations here. I’ve not read a single one [...]

New format for Palookaville?

It looks like Seth’s Palookaville is changing formats.
He tells Guelph Mercury that the changing habits of comic buyers is prompting him to switch from floppy to trade.
“The traditional comic book just doesn’t sell any longer. Cartoonists have begun to change over to little hardcovers instead,” he said. “I’m still serializing my work. It’s just that [...]

Walrus Magazine – Seth and Doug Wright: Back In Palookaville

I’m a big fan of Seth’s work. Clyde Fans ranks in my top 5 favourite graphic novels. I didn’t enjoy Wimbledon Green as much, but it was good for a laugh. For a year or two, National Post newspaper commissioned him to illustrate the Avenue section’s ‘First of the month’ page; I’d love to see [...]

Comic events in Montreal and New York

 
Wishing I was in Montreal
Tomorrow (June 3), TV on The Radio and Dirty Projectors play the Drawn + Quarterly 20th anniversary bash. Twenty years already? That’s crazy. So much talent there: Chester Brown, Seth, Guy Delisle. I wrote this review of Michel Rabagliati’s Paul Moves Out (published by D+Q) for Maclean’s back in 2005.
 
Wishing I was in [...]