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Submitted by Vepo Studios on July 30, 2009 - 3:34pm.
In the second Open Bar, able drinker Ian Daffern talks to author Rebecca Rosenblum about her favourite Toronto patio, the Victory Cafe. Along the way hear how her short story collection Once got started, her undying love of bars, and the joys of being on your feet.
Open Bar is a cocktail of photos and conversation from your favourite authors; serving up stories of their trusted locals for writing and relaxing; discussing their latest book or their drink of choice.
Submitted by Vepo Studios on July 6, 2009 - 9:38am.
When Whazamo was getting ready to launch, one of the first artists to get back to us was Jeff Lemire, an amazing Toronto cartoonist best known for Essex County, a haunting graphic novel series about life on a small town Ontario farm. Now he’s back with a whole slew of new projects, including The Nobody , an update on the Invisible Man, the trailer for which you can find here. Though we missed it during May, we knew we had to share it with you now—think of it as the Whazamo bonus track!
Name: Jeff Lemire
Hometown: Woodslee, Ontario
Website: http://jefflemire.blogspot.com...
Role: Cartoonist
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 31, 2009 - 1:06pm.
Name: Eric Kim
Hometown: Toronto
Website: http://www.inkskratch.com
Role: Comic artist, illustrator, co-creator, aspiring creator
Latest Work: Most recent was The Sidesteppers for Owl Magazine. My next upcoming work will be “The Push” for the Popgun vol. 4 anthology, followed by a my webcomic “Streta”...then a project from Oni Press.
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 27, 2009 - 10:20pm.
Name: George A. Walker
Hometown: Brantford Ont. Although I’ve lived in Toronto since 1979. Toronto.
Web site: www.george-walker.com
Role: Illustrator, graphic novelist (Book of Hours); writer (Woodcut Artists Handbook , Graphic Witness ,pub. Firefly Books)(Inverted Line and Images from the Neocerebellum, pub. Porcupine’s Quill); Acquisitions editor of the Graphic Novel Series at The Porcupine’s Quill
Latest Work: Name of Book, Press, Graphic Witness ,Firefly Books, Images from the Neocerebellum, Porcupine’s Quill and an upcoming trade edition of Book of Hours 2011 Porcupine’s Quill
What’s It About in a Nutshell: Visual narratives : the image as text.
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 25, 2009 - 11:26am.
Name: Brian McLachlan
Hometown: Toronto
Website: www.theprincessplanet.com
Role: Cartoonist
Latest Work:
Ticket To Space , Scholastic Canada
What’s It About in a Nutshell:
After a clerical error, a 13 year old girl gains a chance to go aboard the space shuttle. The space agency tries to make the pre-flight training ridiculously hard that she'll give up and they won't have to put a child into a dangerous situation. Ha! Good luck, space agency!
What first inspired you to create comics or graphic novels?
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 20, 2009 - 6:52am.
Name: John Bell
Hometown: Montreal-born Haligonian living in Ottawa
Website: http://www.collectionscanada.g...
Role: Comics Historian
Latest Work: Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe (Dundurn, 2006)
What’s It About in a Nutshell:The history of comics and graphic narrative in English Canada, with emphasis on comic books.
What first inspired you to write about comics? I grew up in the 1950s, when comics were a mass medium – and a kid’s salvation.
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 17, 2009 - 6:54pm.
Name: Kate Beaton
Hometown: Mabou, Nova Scotia
Website: www.harkavagrant.com
Role: comic artist
Latest Work: Never Learn Anything From History, self published
What’s It About in a Nutshell:A collection of comics, mostly poking fun at historical events and people.
What first inspired you to create comics or graphic novels? It's just been something I've done for myself for a long time, and now for an audience.
What for you makes a comic or graphic novel AWESOME!? Ah that is a hard question, I think it is different for every example.
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 14, 2009 - 11:06am.
Name: Marta Chudolinska
Hometown: Toronto, ON (as well as St. John's, NL; Vancouver, BC; Mississauga, ON; Warsaw, Poland)
Website: www.backandforthbook.wordpress...
Role: artist
Latest Work:Back + Forth, The Porcupine's Quill
available at http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com...
What’s It About in a Nutshell:
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 12, 2009 - 8:52am.
Name: Evan Munday
Hometown: Toronto? (Originally Ramsey, NJ, or Oakville, ON)
Website: www.idontlikemundays.com and www.sketchkrieg.blogspot.com
Role: Sometimes illustrator, sometimes cartoonist
Latest Work: Stripmalling (written by Jon Paul Fiorentino), ECW Press
Submitted by Vepo Studios on May 8, 2009 - 9:34am.
Name: Ashley Spires
Hometown: Tsawwassen, BC
Website: www.ashleyspires.com and www.chickentika.com
Role: writer/illustrator
Latest Work: Binky the Space Cat, Kids Can Press (Coming August, 2009)
What’s It About in a Nutshell: A delusional house cat entertains notions of exploring outerspace (which is anything outside of his house) and fighting aliens (all flying insects) while secretly building a rocket ship in his litter box.
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