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More on Chapleau
I must confess that the only newspaper cartoonist I read on a regular basis is published in the local free weekly that is delivered to my door and so I am usually quite clueless about the day-to-day...
View ArticleBrussels Blog on Anti-Semitic Cartoons in Quebec
(via The Comics Reporter)A round-up and reprint, wondering at the non-response in traditional Canadian media to the publication of a trio of anti-semitic editorial cartoons from 3 Quebec papers, by...
View ArticleSaid Rahimi Event
An update on the event last month to raise funds for the family of cartoonist Said Rahimi, who was killed last January. Somehow I missed the coverage of this event, which cartoonist Graeme MacKay...
View ArticleEverett Soop Exhibit
The life and work of Everett Soop, an aboriginal cartoonist who co-founded the Kainai News newspaper, is featured in a new exhibit at University of Calgary’s Nickel Arts Museum. According to the U of...
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John Collins, 1917-2007
by BK Munn John Collins, long-time editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette, has died at 89. Collins died Sunday, September 16. Born in Washington, DC, Collins moved with his family to Canada in...
View ArticleKeeping Track, One Boring News Item at a Time
Looking over the links to news and reviews about people who create sequential cartoon images and/or static caricatures reveals a short list of interest to loyal Sequential readers. Seemingly no-one...
View ArticleShahid Mahmood Update: Human Rights Complaint
Canadian cartoonist Shahid Mahmood has filed a Human Rights Complaint against Air Canada. The complaint is the result of his continued inability to get answers about why he is on an Air...
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D+Q has Permalinks!
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...
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Happy New Year!
Sequential predicts: 2008 will be great! Lots of great comics, lots of bad comics, and lots of dopey internet blather about both! One last go around: Some quick links about comics in Canada....
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Comics-related news and opinions from across Canada: Western Standard ex-publisher Ezra Levant goes before the Alberta Human Rights Commission today to “defend his former magazine’s 2006 publication of...
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Brad Mackay on Comics Journalism
For This Magazine, Brad Mackay writes on the history of reportage by cartoonists, with a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of Extraction!, the Cumulous Press collection of comics stories about...
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Policart Peter Pickersgill is profiled by his own paper, Newfoundland’s Exploits Valley Advertiser. Writing for the McGill Tribune, Carolyn Yates discusses the rise of webcomics, with some comments...
View ArticleWestern Standard Mohammed Cartoon Controversy, part 20
Ezra Levant, the publisher of the now-defunct Western Standard magazine, appeared before a closed hearing of the Alberta Human Rights Commission last Friday. The hearing was ostensibly to determine if...
View ArticleToday: Nik Kowsar: The Price of Freedom
Policart Nik Kowsar, ex of Iran, gives a talk today at York University: “The Price of Freedom” McLaughlin Senior Common Room, 140 McLaughlin College, York University. (www.yorku.ca) Noon. Iranian...
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Some quick comics-related links: Canwest sues journalist over cartoonist firings Mountie exhibit to include comics? The Dave Sim Show continues at the Comics Journal board Brian K Vaughn and Pia Guerra...
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Seth Covers The New Yorker
For the Super Tuesday political issue of the Feb 4 New Yorker, Seth provides a rare (as in never) political drawing, a pastiche of the famous Eustace Tilley drawing by cartooning giant Rea Irvin. I...
View ArticleHalifax Daily News Closes, Staff Laid Off
The Halifax Daily News has been closed down and replaced by a free daily, according to several sources. All of the paper’s staff, including journalists and cartoonists, have been fired. The Daily News...
View ArticleMuslim Leader Drops Levant Complaint
The National Post is reporting that Syed Soharwardy, the man who lodged a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission against publisher Ezra Levant and his Western Standard magazine for...
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Cartooning a New Canada
The Sequential Contest: A columnist for the Orangeville Citizen gives a brief history of cartooning in Canada (of the editorial sort) and puts out the call for a new cartoon representation of Canada....
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Bob Bierman, 1921-2008
Cartoonist Sued by Vander Zalm Victoria Times and Monday magazine editorial cartoonist Bob Bierman died as a result of a stroke April 16, according to a report by the Globe and Mail. Born in Amsterdam,...
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