Nice Cakes

Back in February 2011 I put up a Pick Five post on Birthday Cakes. I had all but forgotten just how marevelous the idea of comic book themed cakes were until I walked past the Cantor Bakery (Gateaux Montreal) booth at…

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Campaign of the Week: ‘Heroes of the North’ Season 2

Rushing from the success of their first season, which has netted over two million views across various online video platforms, the crew behind the series has returned for a second go-around with their Canadian-based superhero universe. The first season of the series was 20, 22-minute episodes long which ultimately won two "Indie Intertube Awards" in 2010 for Best Costumes and Best Opening Sequence.
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Crash 3! Page 25

Crash 3! by Dennis de Pues continues exclusively on comicbookdaily.com. If you enjoy this storyline, we are proud to announce that Crash!!1 and Crash!!2 are now available for Digital Download in our CBD Store.

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Superheroes and Marriage

Firstly, and I believe that many out there would attest to this, just because you are married doesn’t mean your personal life is all sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. In fact, one might even say that having characters going through marital troubles would make their personal lives even more difficult.
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Righting the editorial ship

There are very few praises I will sing for Mark Waid, and while this may sound as though I’m preparing to lambaste the current Daredevil scribe once again, I’m not. To his credit he has been a driving force behind the comic book industry's evolution as it steps towards its digital age, understanding what it is we're on the precipice of and making an effort to embrace it. A second point I give him credit for is the crux of this post he made in 2009 on the very necessity of the comic book editor.
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Home Ice

Let me then try to point to a few times in the WECA books that specifically locate the action on Canadian soil or at least, in some way, make it clear that the story is taking place in Canada or, finally, directly connect the story to Canada.
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Crash 3! Page 24

Crash 3! by Dennis de Pues continues exclusively on comicbookdaily.com. If you enjoy this storyline, we are proud to announce that Crash!!1 and Crash!!2 are now available for Digital Download in our CBD Store.

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Casting Call

The brief seventies awakening to and appreciation of the Canadian war-time comic industry began with Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert’s November, 1971 publication of the compendium of Bell Features material they called The Great Canadian Comic Books (Peter Martin).
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