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Moebius or Jean Giraud is one of those world famous comic book artists that no one in North America (except, of course, true lovers of the medium). He’s known for his far out sci-fi comic strips from Heavy Metal or…
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Moebius or Jean Giraud is one of those world famous comic book artists that no one in North America (except, of course, true lovers of the medium). He’s known for his far out sci-fi comic strips from Heavy Metal or…
Above you see Fred Ray’s patriotic 1942 cover to Superman #14 Arguably one of those crazy iconic covers that’s been homaged and or just straight up ripped off by a generation of comic artists. The cover was from the collection…
We overheard at Toronto ComiCON a rumour that Hobbystar CEO Aman Gupta is planning to have hold 2011’s Toronto’s Fan Expo over the course of four days. The Thursday hours will be the same as the former Friday’s. For dealers…
So Donald Glover tweeted this photo last night: For those of you not in the know – that’s Andrew Garfield the new Peter Parker. He who looks like a Ditko drawing, all bushy eyebrows and thin, bordering on sickly physique.…
If you’re a fan of Bryan Talbot’s Steampunk/Furry action adventure series Grandville (Grandville Mon Amour was released last week). Then It’s a good day to be open with your family that you’re reading books about police detective badgers. Over Twitter…
Paul Pope let slip some interesting factoids via his twitter feed today when he showed off some gorgeous concept artwork for an aborted Kamandi pitch to be written by Brian Azzarello with art by himself. Pope wrote: He went on…
Pete DeCourcy answers the comic book questions that no one will. Any questions. Feel free to submit them via vyou, email or use the hashtag #askcbd on Twitter. This Week’s Question: “Do you think that superman and flash both have…
Cameron Stewart posted his amazing “pencils” from Batman and Robin #16 on his blog the other day. I would love to buy the original pages! Too bad they’re aren’t any. From Cameron Stewart’s blog post: Unfortunately, none of these pages…
As a fairly stylish person I often scour the internet for clothing to better show off my own personal brand. While I usually stick to American Apparel, because really where else will my obsession with the 80s and Woody Allen…
The Joe Shuster Awards, the Canadian Comic Book Oscars, or if you’d rather get colonial The BAFTAs of Canadian Comics, has announced that this year’s 7th Annual Joe Shuster Awards will be announced at a public ceremony on the evening…
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the theory of the Uncanny Valley, it is that strange place in digital graphics where a human looks so almost real that it’s almost unsettling. Here’s how 30 Rock explains it: Tracy:…
Speakeasy has been a great hub for Toronto’s creative community for the last eleven years. Next week they’ll be hosting Toronto’s eclectic mix of comic book artists: from those who do newspaper strips and political cartoons to underground comix and…
I’ve read plenty of Colleen Coover’s work; Small Favours ranks among the best ‘erotica’ series I’ve ever read, and her output with Jeff Parker on the X-Men: First Class series basically made me a fan of both of them for…
Have you ever had an artist that you’d follow to whatever project they’d do? Joelle Jones is that artist for me. Luckily though everything she’s done so far has been something I’d totally want to get anyway. I first found…
Fan Expo is absolutely crazy. Usually Friday is the dead day, the day that you don’t have to worry as much about the crowds. This was definitely not the case. Luckily it’s Canadian comic crowds so everyone is really nice,…
I love Batman. Maybe not as much as this guy, but maybe that’s a good thing. The last four years have been a very good time to be a Batman fan. Grant Morrison has been giving us a run that…
I’m a sucker for slice of life autobiographical comics. There’s something really refreshing about not knowing what to expect with each update. Whether it’s a gag strip, or a ‘hits-to-close-to-home’ moment that seems oddly out of place until you realize…
I thought I’d chime in this week with a series of contemplations and hypothesis about some recent comic book news and such. Javier Pulido is one of my favourite artists. Straight up. I think his panel layout and his ability…
When I was – god.. let’s just say younger ..I happened upon a Swamp Thing cartoon. At the time I thought it was all kinds of awesome. I mean, I had no idea who Swamp Thing was – not really…