Wow, it seemed like for a while there, even though someone at the D+Q blog would post interesting stuff about events, art, and cartoonists, I wouldn’t bother to link to it since there were no permalinks and you had to scroll down the page to see anything. Now D+Q has two blogs, a general publishing blog and one for their store. Lots of great stuff to see at both, like the R.Suicide/Elizabeth Belliveau launch photos, links to a Pascal Blanchet interview with Jian Ghomeshi, a list of the top 10 bestselling comics at the D+Q store, etc, etc.
in other comic book news:
- Writing for Xtra, Chris Butcher provides a primer on Yaoi tranlations and OEL Yaoi available to North American readers.
- Leroy Douresseaux reviews Jeff Lemire’s Essex County 2 for Comic Book Bin.
- The National Post’s policart Gary Clement snags a top 10 berth on the Time magazine list of best editorial cartoons of 2007. It’s actually a sequential gag, to boot.
- Writing for Boston’s Edge magazine, Steve Stiffler provides an exhaustive overview of the problems with Canada Customs vis a vis comics: “A far more insidious quality of life incursion is being perpetrated by our neighbors to the north. Yes, the “friendly giant” of Canada has not been so friendly–or at least gay-friendly–of late.
Despite gay marriage and other actions, Canadian customs officers have been quietly but systematically blocking U.S.-made erotica. Their actions have had the effect of severely limiting free speech. Lest you think this is only about curtailing the masturbatory options of law-abiding Canadians and wreaking havoc on the profit margin of of the sex-industry, it is, in fact, a broad assault on civil liberties that should worry people on both sides of the extensive border.”
(image: Richard Suicide’s My Life as a Foot)