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Frenching with Joe Ollmann

by Dan
Graphica / November 07, 2011

Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Joe Ollmann – who was recently on CBC radio show Tapestry discussing his mid-life crisis – is now exposing his fish-out-of-water anxieties as an Anglophone in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood in this funny video for BravoFACT!:

 

You can read a preview of Joe Ollmann's new book Mid-Life here (PDF).

(via Drawn!)

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Louise Penny: Westward Ho!

by Dan
Events + Fiction / September 22, 2011

A Trick of the Light, the latest Chief Inspector Gamache novel by Canadian author Louise Penny, is currently sitting pretty on the national bestseller lists and is garnering glowing reviews from the likes of the Globe and Mail and the New York Times.

Louise is currently on tour in Canada and has spent the last week in the Waterloo Region of Ontario as part of One Book, One Community.

This weekend, however, she will be heading west!

On Saturday evening you can catch her at Bolen Books in Victoria and then on Sunday afternoon she will be in conversation with Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit founder of yoyomama and reading from A Trick of the Light at the Chapters bookstore at Granville and Broadway in Vancouver. 

Next week, Louise will be in Winnipeg at the Grant Park McNally Robinson on Tuesday September 27th at 8pm. 

Then, to round off tour, Louise will be heading home to Quebec where she will be appearing at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore on October 6th as part of their 'After Dark' reading series.  

Here are all the details:

Victoria: Saturday September 24th, 7:00 pm
Bolen Books in Hillside Centre
Telephone 250-595-4232

Vancouver: Sunday September 25th, 2:00 pm 
Chapters, 2505 Granville Street
Telephone: 604-731-7822

Winnipeg: Tuesday September 27th, 8:00pm
McNally Robinson, Grant Park in Prairie Ink Restaurant
Telephone: 204-475-0483

Montreal: Thursday October 6th
Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
Telephone: 514-845-5811

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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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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: 

 

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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.

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Lonely Planet Comes To The Aid Of Stranded Traveler’s With Free City Guide iPhone Apps

by Crystal
Environment + News + Travel + Vancouver / February 02, 2011

Lonely Planet is once again coming to the aid of travelers stranded across Canada and the US do to snowstorms! For 72 hours Lonely Planet is offering 14 of it's iPhone City Guide apps for free.

“We recognize that travelers are stuck all over the country due to these recent storms and will need access to our content”, said John Boris, Lonely Planet’s Managing Director. “Thus, we made all our USand CanadianiPhoneCityGuide apps free so that regardless of whether they are stuck in a blizzard or on the beach, they can easily download the practical information and recommendations we provide straight onto their phone”. 

The 14 guides will be free in the iTunes App Store from 5pmPST on Tuesday, February 1^st to 5pmPST Friday, February 4^th 2011.

 

The cities available are:

·         San Francisco

·         New York City

·         Boston

·         Washington DC

·         Chicago

·         Seattle

·         New Orleans

·         Vancouver

·         Las Vegas

·         Miami

·         Toronto

·         Los Angeles

·         Montreal

·         Fort Myers & Sanibel

 

Lonely Planet has a history of helping stranded travelers, having offered their EuropeaniPhoneCityGuide apps free during the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull and again during the Christmas snowstorms. This is the first time they’ve offered their US or Canadian city guides for free.

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KENK Montreal Launch

by Dan
Events + Graphica / May 25, 2010

The creative team behind KENK: A Graphic Portrait are in Montreal this week. 

Author Richard Poplak, illustrator Nick Marinkovich, publisher/producer Alex Jansen, filmmaker/designer Jason Gilmore, and director/animator Craig Small will be at the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore at 7pm on Thursday evening (May 27th!) to talk about the project and sign books. 

The team will then be back in Toronto on Friday for an event at Conspiracy Culture, 7pm-9pm. 

If you haven't had chance to check out KENK yet, this is what Geoff Pevere had to say about the book in the Toronto Star on Sunday:

An innovative mashup of comic, journalistic documentary and 21st century case study in urban flux, Kenk filters this fascinating and infuriating figure through a prism of media modes that both situate the man as a kind of mutant thumbprint individual and symptom of seeping new-world disorder. While the narrative structure of the book is provided by the countdown to that 2008 bust — Igor was caught instructing a flunky to liberate a bike chained on the street — most of the pages are taken up with the man giving a seemingly 24/7 one-man performance of his own life: talking, haggling, scavenging, driving, philosophizing, repairing, talking. And talking some more.

Kenk loves the attention of the camera and makes you wonder who, or what, he’d be without an audience. He never seems in doubt that he’ll eventually be caught. 

KENK - MONTREAL Book Launch
Thursday May 27th - 7:00pm

Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore
211 Rue Bernard Ouest,
Montreal, Quebec
514-279-2224

ADMISSION IS FREE

Event page on Facebook

 

KENK - Conspiracy Culture
Friday May 28th - 7:00pm

Conspiracy Culture
1696 Queen Street West,
Toronto, ON
416-916-1696

ADMISSION IS $5. Tickets available from Conspiracy Culture. 

Go to Kenk.ca for more news about the book.

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