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Kate Beaton Bonanza
by Dan
Graphica / November 01, 2011
Well, after much excitement IFOA 2011 came to close this weekend in Toronto. As a parent to a pair of little monkeys I didn't make it to a lot of events this year sadly, but I was fortunate enough to meet the brilliant Seth and Dan Clowes and then tag along with superstar cartoonist and all-around charmer Kate Beaton who was speaking at the festival this past weekend.
Having already established a dedicated audience for her comics online and with the beautiful new hardcover book Hark! A Vagrant sitting pretty on the New York Times bestseller list for Graphic Books, Kate was very much in demand.
Not only did The National Post and NOW magazine review the book, Kate also stopped by the CBC to chat with Jian Ghomeshi and the folks from The Hour. As you can see from the photos, we had a lot of fun — even if Kate was a little disappointed not to meet Canada's Official Boyfriend in person!
It was all a bit of a whirlwind (especially as Kate was feeling a little under the weather on Saturday), but before she jetted off, Kate managed to fit in candid interview with the Toronto Star:
“I think that anybody who inadvertently starts a blog or a comic online will give a piece of themselves because they can’t believe someone’s reading it. There’s no institution, you are just yourself. You can’t help but be a personality. I had to learn over time how much of myself I wanted to give over and how much I wanted to hold onto. Like when I changed the name of the site from my name too Hark A Vagrant. It used to be katebeaton.com but I got rid of that because I didn’t want to be the focus of the comic. I wanted the comic to be.”
And Kate is still on the road for a few more days. Tonight, she is in Montreal at Librairie D+Q (the event starts at 7pm), and tomorrow, Kate will be at Strange Adventures in Halifax (also starting from 7pm). Catch her while you can!
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Rebecca Dart at Lucky’s on Friday
by Dan
Events + Graphica + Kids / October 19, 2011
Local cartoonist Rebecca Dart will be signing copies of the wonderful Nursery Rhyme Comics anthology at Lucky's Comics in Vancouver on Friday evening!
Nursery Rhyme Comics features 50 classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by 50 of today’s leading cartoonists and illustrators. Chock full of beautiful full-colour art and favourite characters (Jack and Jill! Old Mother Hubbard! The Owl and the Pussycat!), it's a great anthology for kids AND grown-ups!
Rebecca Dart
Nursery Rhyme Comics Launch
October 21st, 7pm - 9pm
Lucky's Comics
3972 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
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Dan Clowes and Seth on WNYC
by Dan
Graphica / October 19, 2011
Cartoonists Daniel Clowes and Seth talked to Leonard Lopate about comics and their new books, The Death-Ray and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, on WNYC yesterday:
If you are in Toronto this week, Seth and Dan are in conversation at the Harbourfront Centre on Friday as part of the International Festival of Authors:
Daniel Clowes in conversation with Seth
Friday, October 21, 8:00pm, 2011
Brigantine Room, The Harbourfront Centre
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Louise Penny A Trick of the Light Tour Dates
by Dan
Events + Fiction / August 22, 2011
The latest Chief Inspector Gamache mystery A Trick of the Light is released next week, and author Louise Penny will be reading from the novel at bookstores across Canada in August and September.
Here are the dates for your agenda:
Saturday August 27th 2011 / Knowlton
Brome Lake Books at 2:00pm (ticketed)
Monday August 29th 2011 / Toronto
Sleuth of Baker Street at 6:00pm
Sept 13th—14th / One Book, One Island / PEI
Tues: Charlottetown PE Confederation Centre Public Library at 2:00pm
Weds: Summerside PE Bibliothèque publique J-Henri-Blanchard at 2:00pm
Weds: Montague PE Montague Rotary Library at 7:00pm
Sunday September 18th, 2011 / Montreal, Quebec
Chapters Centre-ville at 2:00pm
Sept 20th—22nd / One Book, One Community / Kitchener-Waterloo
Tues: Kitchener, Victoria Park Pavilion (time TBC)
Weds: New Hamburg, Waterloo Oxford District Secondary School (time TBC)
Weds: Waterloo, First United Church (time TBC)
Thurs: Cambridge, (details TBC)
Saturday September 24th, 2011 / Victoria
Bolen Books at 7:00pm
Sunday September 25th, 2011 / Vancouver
Chapters on Granville at 2:00pm
Tuesday September 27th, 2011 / Winnipeg
McNally Robinson Grant Park at 8:00pm
Thursday October 6th / Montreal
Paragraphe Books (Details TBC)
You can follow Louise on her blog and on Facebook for news and updates about her books and the tour.
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Chevy Stevens Events This Weekend!
by Dan
Events + Fiction / July 19, 2011
Just a reminder that Chevy Stevens, author of New York Times bestseller Still Missing and Never Knowing, will be signing books in Nanaimo and Victoria this coming weekend. Chevy will also be signing at the Chapters at 2505 Granville Street, Vancouver next Monday.
The newly released Never Knowing was reviewed in The National Post at the weekend by Rachel Harry:
Never Knowing is the second in a trilogy focused on the common theme of the therapist’s office where these terrifying discoveries are confessed. Each chapter is divided into therapy “sessions” at which our heroine meets with, it is assumed, the same therapist from Stevens’ debut novel Still Missing... If you love racing through a psychological thriller, or if you’re interested in writing within this genre, read both of these novels back to back and witness the development of a talented new storyteller.
And by Carolyn Cooke for Surrey Now last week:
Stevens has a knack for capturing difficult family dynamics while building a breathless, twisting plot that rushes to an unexpected but inevitable conclusion.
Here are the details for those events:
Saturday July 23rd, 2pm
Chapters Nanaimo
6650 Mary Ellen
Nanaimo, BC
Sunday July 24th, 2pm
Chapters Victoria
1212 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC
Monday July 25th, 7pm
Chapters Vancouver
2505 Granville Street
Vancouver BC
Never Knowing Released Today!
by Dan
Fiction / July 05, 2011
Best-selling author Chevy Stevens' new novel set on Vancouver Island, Never Knowing, is a cracking page-turner, and the book received an early review courtesy of Margaret Cannon in Saturday's Globe and Mail:
Stevens takes us on a wild ride in this action-packed book... A terrific weekend read."
Saturday July 23rd, 2pm
Chapters Nanaimo
6650 Mary Ellen
Nanaimo, BC
Sunday July 24th, 2pm
Chapters Victoria
1212 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC
Monday July 25th, 7pm
Chapters Vancouver
2505 Granville Street
Vancouver BC
Chevy's acclaimed previous novel Still Missing was a New York Times bestseller and has just been released in paperback.
TCAF Photo Diary
by Dan
Graphica / May 19, 2011
If you missed the excitement of Toronto Comics Art Festival (TCAF) a couple of weekends ago, never fear! The awesome online art magazine that is Squidface & The Meddler documented the event with a slew of photographs by talented Toronto photographer Sam Javanrouh.
It was the 6th gathering of the annual arts festival founded by The Beguiling's Peter Birkemoe and Chris Butcher and it was bigger than ever this year with artists, writers, publishers and fans from all over Canada and abroad attending.
Needless to say the folks from Drawn + Quarterly were out in force and Javanrouh snapped these great shots of pals Chester Brown, author of Paying For It, and Seth, whose new book The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists is published this fall, working away at the D+Q table:
More of Javanrouh's photos of TCAF — including snaps of Adrian Tomine (Scenes From An Impending Marriage), Chris Ware (The Acme Novelty Library #20) and Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) — can be seen at Squidface & The Meddler, and you can see new pics by Sam every day at his Toronto photoblog Daily Dose of Imagery.
(Special thx to Sam Javanrouh and Mike and Jes at Squidface and The Meddler for letting use these pics).
The Next Day Trailer
by Dan
Graphica / May 10, 2011
The Next Day, the innovative new work from Pop Sandbox, is now available in bookstores, and if you would like to see what all the fuss is about, here's the haunting trailer for the book:
Beer
by Dan
Design & Typography + Vancouver / April 25, 2011
I just arrived this morning in Vancouver for Raincoast's Fall 2011 Sales Conference and, with 4 days of meetings ahead of me, my mind has (strangely enough) already turned to beer!
Fortunately, we hold our conference in the lovely Listel Hotel in downtown Vancouver and, coming in from Toronto, it's always great to have some local beer and catch up with my west-coast colleagues in the bar at the end of the day.
This sales conference tradition is also the perfect excuse to post this hilarious video for Vancouver Craft Beer Week 2011, which starts May 6th:
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Chester Brown Tour Dates
by Dan
Current Affairs + Graphica / April 13, 2011
Chester Brown's controversial new book Paying For It is published later this month and Chester will be on the road to launch it in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in May:
TORONTO: Sunday, May 1st at Goodhandy's with Sasha
TORONTO: Saturday & Sunday, May 7th–8th at TCAF
MONTREAL: Saturday, May 14th at Librairie D+Q
VANCOUVER:Wednesday, May 18th at Vancouver Public Library with Lucky's
In Paying For It, Chester Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics—prostitution.