Georgia Webber debuts Dumb #6, #7 and #8 at TCAF
By Salgood Sam Toronto-based artist Georgia Webber‘s debut series, Dumb, deftly exploits the “silent” medium of sequential art to describe her own — the result of a vocal injury sustained in October...
View ArticleTales of Myth, Adventure & Humour at the top of the world.
Renegade Arts Entertainment presents ‘Arctic Comics – Tales of Myth, Adventure and Humour. Told at the top of the world’ An anthology of 5 tales written and drawn by Inuit and northern Canadian comic...
View ArticleFulton’s law
In Canada your comics collection is technically illegal! Thank you Davie Fulton! When this Global News clip made the rounds it reminded us of our own past blogging on the subject, in Bryans 2011...
View ArticleThis comic is still illegal
By Asher J. Klassen – previously published. This material is subject to seizure under Section 164(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada (R.S.C. 1985, C. C-46, as amended) ~ This is a crime comic as defined...
View ArticleC-List – First of 2017!
All the fresh bits of can-con comics stuff fit to blog! By Salgood Sam We’ll be trying to make the C-list a bit more regular in 2017 again. We miss something or get it wrong? Let us know, email here or...
View ArticleC-List: What’s up in Canadian Comics
By Salgood Sam Catching up from our last C-List, here’s some more goodies from the interwebs. More art this time, going to try to make a habit of spotlighting cartoonists work as much as I can in...
View ArticleContinued Solidarity With Charlie Hebdo
On the Two-Year Anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo Shootings, It’s More Important Than Ever to Stand in Solidarity with the French Cartoonists by BK Munn A few articles from around the web this week make...
View ArticleThe C-List – Canadian English
Another week in Canadian Comics news and things, curated for you from the feeds! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter for the latest. By Salgood Sam Item: Cartoonist Jay Stephens makes a villain of crude...
View ArticleThe C-List : Johnny Canuck punched Nazis!
Another week in Canadian Comics news and things, curated for you from the feeds! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter for the latest! By Salgood Sam, via our FB Team! It’s been a packed one, let’s dig...
View ArticleC-List | Big lists of lists
Oh yeah, always playing catchup. Ment to do this over a week ago to keep it regular but just got too busy. Hey yeah remeber how we’re looking for more contributors? Hint hint. Said it before but would...
View ArticleThe C-List : TCAF is coming…
A Cartoon Trump, from Salgood Sam’s Revolver Vol.4 Ok it’s that time again gang, pull up a seat and come parooze the comings and goings of Canada’s comics scene since our last update eight days...
View ArticleJosh Silburt Exhibition – Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
CO: Allan Silburt at joshsilburt.com And exhibit of cartoonist and painter Josh Silburt‘s political cartoons from the 1940s opens this week in Nova Scotia. This exhibit takes place in two locations,...
View ArticleCartoonist Réal Bérard to Receive Order of Canada
by BK Munn Among the recent round of announcements of appointees to the Order of Canada was one overlooked tidbit: Manitoba political cartoonist and artist Réal Bérard was appointed to the...
View ArticleThe C-List | what’s up in comics land in Canada that isn’t named Gatesomething…
It’s been a while since we did one of these. Time for a rundown of some of the highlights from the Canadian Comics feeds and things of related interest! If you have a story, write us, or share it to...
View ArticleThe C-List | Week 7 of 2018!
Hey comics Canada, what’s up? You been making cool comics? Let us know, @ us on twitter, write the FB page, email us. Let us know about your Jams, launches, shows, and web comics. We’re also...
View ArticleThe C-List | Week 8 of 2018!
Time for this weeks C-List, summarizing the latest we’ve been made aware of that’s going down in Canadian Comics! Don’t forget if you’ve been making cool comics, or related things, let us know! @ us on...
View ArticleBruce MacKinnon Wins National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning
by BK Munn The National Newspaper Awards for Canadian journalism were handed out at a ceremony in Toronto Friday night and Halifax Chronicle Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon won in the editorial...
View ArticleMichael de Adder Apologizes for Cartoon
by BK Munn Michael de Adder, the award-winning and widely-syndicated Canadian political cartoonist, has issued a semi-apology in a series of tweets for a cartoon depicting a bound and gagged Jody...
View ArticleUnpacking A Political Cartoon and who calls for things to be erased from the...
Call it problematic if you think so, but don't call for it to be removed if you're an MP.
View ArticleWes Tyrell’s statement on Michael de Adder being let go by J.D. Irving, Limited
Wes Tyrell President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists posted a statement to facebook about the firing of de Adder over trump cartoons.
View ArticleThe C-List: Of Policarts, Prizes and Prints
The Vancouver Province censored its political cartoonist over threats from advertiser. Item! The big news this past week is that The Vancouver Province censored its political cartoonist over threats...
View ArticleIntegrals of Luc Giard
A presentation of Luc Giard’s Art, the first in a series of youtube collections giving an overview of his work since 1987. “Présentation de quelques unes de mes créations. Les intégrales sont le...
View ArticleFriday Flashback: Jimmie Frise, 1931
[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]Jimmie Frise got his start doing political cartoons for the Toronto Star in the 1920s, but he picked up other gigs here and there. This editorial image from a 1931...
View ArticleA COLOURFUL LIFE – the art and drawing of Josh Silburt @ Art-Square Gallery
The political cartoon drawings and oil paintings of Josh Silburt (1914 – 1991) will be featured throughout the month of October at Art-Square Gallery, 334 Dundas Street W. opposite the Art Gallery of...
View ArticleThe C-list : Nelvana roars, Chester gets hung, Joe's new book , and 211...
It’s been a busy 4 days! Personally in a novel way too, I taught the first classes of the new course I designed for Syn Studio, it was an auspicious start i think. Though slept most of the third day to...
View ArticleJeet Heer, Comic Strip Writer
by BK Munn If you’ve picked up the latest issue of award-winning culture and politics magazine The Walrus, you may have noticed a new comic strip feature about the love lives of Parliament Hill...
View ArticleSpecial Publishers Editorial on Charlie Hebdo, censorship, & political...
By Salgood Sam I was trying to think about drawing this sunday, but this kind of filled my brain, and I had to get it down somewhere and put it out there. So i’ve done a episode of the Spilt Ink...
View ArticleThe C-List | The Comics In The North!
Hey all, time for another round of The C-List! So first things first, there’s just a day and a bit left to vote in the Sequential Magazine Awards! Friday Sunday night at Midnight [EST] is when the...
View ArticleMichael De Adder Wins Herblock Prize
by BK Munn Michael De Adder, the fearless Canadian political cartoonist who was fired from his long standing post with the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal chain of papers for his Trump cartoons, is...
View ArticleThe C-List | Can-con Comics In Quarantine!
By Salgood Sam So how you doing? Almost anything would be understandable. Millions will be life threateningly ill and many will die. And Comics are far from alone in this shared peril but the direct...
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