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Gala des Prix EXPOZINE (le 4 avril)

20.03.2012
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Le comité organisateur a demandé à chacun des quelque 270 exposants et éditeurs d’Expozine 2011 de soumettre leur meilleure création. Six juges distingués ont procédé au choix des six finalistes dans les catégories : meilleur livre, meilleure bande dessinée et meilleur fanzine, en anglais et en français. Les gagnants seront connus au Gala et de [...]

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Sketchbook Montréal: Brice Artaud

16.02.2012
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Brice Artaud est actuellement au Baccalauréat en Arts visuels à l’UQAM et sa pratique tourne principalement autour du dessin. Son blog Quel monde de Naz! est plein de dessins et de Bandes dessinées en encre et aquarelle. “Cela à été assez difficile de trouver ceux que j’allais choisir car je pense que j’ai passé 4 [...]

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Personal Mythologies: Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo & Marigold Santos (MAI, Jan 14) + Comic Jam

11.01.2012
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The MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) presents artwork by artists Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo and Marigold Santos in Personal Mythologies, an exhibition that delves into questions surrounding migration and memory. “… Characterized by a hybridized visual aesthetic, their art practices collectively reference everything from religious iconographies, storybook illustrations, children’s games, textiles, and medieval bestiaries to political propaganda [...]

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Interview: EXPOZINE turns 10 !!

08.11.2011
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Expozine, Montreal’s small press, comic and zine fair, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Having established itself as one of Canada and North America’s première fairs dedicated to independent publication, we interviewed organizer Louis Rastelli to talk about the Expozine’s history and how zine culture has and hasn’t changed over the years… Drink & [...]

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Comics Festival: Les 48 heures de la BD de Montréal (Nov 4 & 5)

02.11.2011
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Lovers of independent comics, comic artists and comics jams should check out Les 48 heueres de la BD de Montréal (48hrs of comics from Montreal), a festival that brings together a select group of artists to create a collaborative comic book each year. In their 4th edition, 48hrs participants are inviting members of the public [...]

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Art Spiegelman: What the %&*! Happened to Comics? (Sept 24)

14.09.2011
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A co-presentation of SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Drawn & Quarterly and Pop Montreal, Pulitzer-Prize winning comics artist Art Spiegelman (best known for his poignant graphic novel Maus) will give a lively presentation on the history and importance of comics as an art form. For more information, and to purchase a ticket, visit the Pop [...]

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Matthew Forsythe: Comics Class Minicomic

02.09.2011
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Montreal illustrator and Drawn! co-founder Matthew Forsythe will be launching a new mini-comic pubished by Koyoma Press this fall. Comics Class features “44 pages of loosely-drawn, quasi-autobiographical comics about the comics class I taught last spring. Very little is true!” Expect to see it first at this year’s Expozine.

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Book Launch: Chester Brown’s “Paying For It” (May 14)

11.05.2011
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Reknown Canadian comic artist and former Montrealer Chester Brown will be in town this Saturday to launch his new book Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John, chronicling his real life relations with 23 Toronto prostitutes and, among other things, advocating to legalize this age old trade and protect its workers. [...]

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Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 7 & 8)

29.04.2011
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If you’re a lover of comics don’t miss next weekend’s TCAF, an event held every two years in Toronto to celebrate the comic arts. Participants to this year’s festival can expect two full days packed with panel discussions, readings, gallery shows, parties and a large exhibition area featuring publishers and comic authors and artists. Quebec [...]

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D&Q Double book launch: Joe Ollmann & Pascal Girard (March 23) + Writers Out Loud (March 24)

21.03.2011
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Drawn & Quarterly artists launch brand new books this Wednesday, March 23, 7pm (211 Bernard Ouest): Joe Ollmann’s Mid Life and Pascal Girard’s Réunion. Read about Pascal on the TCAFF website, and find an interview with Joe on Sequential. So just what is (or isn’t) a “graphic novel” and who are the crazy people that make [...]

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