The Wilding #4 available at TCAF

The latest issue of the Wilding will be available at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend, May 7th and 8th.
Many thanks to uber talented Jesjit Gill for screenprinting the cover and risographing the issue. Thanks to Eunice Luk too and Punchclock Studio!
The outstanding contributors are:
Davis Weir,Selena Wong, Dave Lapp, William Davison, Patrick Kyle, Robert Dayton, Maurice Vellekoop, Tanya Read, Michael Comeau, James Turner, Jason Mclean, Gerry Withey, Melissa Luk, Ryan Dodgson, Ginette Lapalme, Mark Connery, Michael Enzbrunner, and Freshdiscoporkergas!!
Don't miss TCAF, many of these folks will have their own tables as well. And check out:
Wowee Zonk's BLESS THIS PRESS
http://woweezonk.blogspot.com/2011/04/wowee-zonk-presents-bless-this-press.html

TCAF-Kids Programming

Come on down!
http://torontocomics.com/kids/

11-11:45am: Comics for Change
Do you have strong opinions about the environment? Do you consider yourself an activist with no way to voice your thoughts? Fiona Smyth (The Never Weres) and Claudia Davila (Luz Sees the Light) will help you explore how comics can be a powerful message for change and touch on different ways to expand that message.

Editing Graphic Novels Seminar in Toronto

My Graphic Novel The Never Weres could not have happened without the expertise of the insightful and creative editor David Wichman. If you are interested in learning about this essential part of the creative process then the Editors' Association of Canada has the seminar for you.

Editing Graphic Novels will be lead by Jennifer Lum and Alison Kooistra:

Sat., April 30th

9:30–4:30 (lunch is provided)

Early registration (April 23): $175 for EAC members, $195 non-members

(HST extra)

After April 23: $210 for members, $240 non-members (HST extra)

Room 007, Northrop Frye Hall, Victoria College, U of T

For more information and to register please go to:

http://www.editors.ca/content/editing-graphic-novels

Fundraisers for Japan in Toronto

In 2005 I traveled with Craig to Tokyo and Kyoto, through an art grant from the Ontario Arts Council. The photos here are from that awe inspiring trip.
If you are in Toronto this week please come out to support two events to raise funds for Japan. Many local artist friends works will be auctioned.

http://www.torontoheartsjapan.com/

http://ashita11.tumblr.com/

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=153943768000329

March Finds

It’s been a busy March.

The OCAD Zine Fair was held on March 3, in the lobby of 100 McCaul. It was a smallish affair but lots of goodies.

http://www.ocad.ca/

Check out http://bonblivious.blogspot.com ’s Fuck Making a Zine. !

Daniela Jordan Villaveces, on the far right, sold her own prints as well as The Wilding for me. Beside her: Toni Darling and Jesjit Gill.

Daniela: http://glowinthedarkmoustache.blogspot.com/

Jesjit: http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=169006

http://www.tonidarling.com

Jesjit offered up an old gem, Raw Pizza Zine from 2007, and brand new Adrienne Kammerer’s Summoning Sickness.

http://adriennekammerer.blogspot.com/

Andrea Manica always brings the goods.

See the insides of her mini-zines at http://cerealwithasmile.blogspot.com/

Got issue #2 of Jason Bradshaw’s comics zine Boredom Pays.

http://boredompays.blogspot.com/

New discoveries for me at and next to Fantasy Camp’s Eunice Luk’s table: her boyfriend on left, Ted Gudlat’s Bald Men, and on right Nathan Robert Enkel’s collab with Spencer Butt’s Digital Warlock Criminalz.

http://euniceluk.blogspot.com/

http://tedgudlat.blogspot.com/

http://digitalwarlockcriminalz.blogspot.com/

Ness Lee, on right, in the house, scored some free stickers.

Nancy Zhang zine-ing on the left.

http://nessleee.blogspot.com/

http://www.nancyzhang.net/blog/?p=1996

Marta Ryczko had new mini-zines and moustache stickers! Score!

http://martaryczko.com/about.html

Also picked up list #14 and babe-a-day-ish Zine Vol. 2 from twelveohtwo zine distro

https://www.facebook.com/twelveohtwo?sk=info

Another new zinester to me: Jocelyn Cheung, on the left side, sold mini-zines and mini-print outs.

http://www.jocelyncheung.com/

The zine fair was taking place in the OCAD Learning Zone as well. Daniela continued making free buttons post fair. Mick Hemans gets one. Roomies Eunice Luk and Andrea Manica exhibit their art works on the wall of the zine library.

Andrea Manica
Eunice Luk

Sometime during the month I dropped by the Beguiling and picked up wildman painter/drawer Casey McGlynn’s new zine masterwork. It’s chock full of his colourful rawk n’ roll drawings. References to food, love, Satan, Star Wars, and vans create a very potent mix!

http://www.beguiling.com/index.php

http://www.cuckoocollection.com/mcglynn.html

This week I received in the mail my hot new copy of Wowee Zonk co-founder and wunderkind Chris Kuzma’s new comic COMPLEX. Be sure to order this one, it is sure to sell out:

http://chriskuzma.blogspot.com/

http://www.woweezonk.com/

My new graphic novel The Never Weres was launched by This Is Not A Reading Series last Sunday, March 13^th. Have a look at the TNW blog for the full story:

http://www.theneverweres.blogspot.com/