Friday, March 19, 2010  
Saturday: Vancouver Comics Jam

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2010 05:15:00 AM
From Ed Brisson:

What: Vancouver Comic Jam!!!
When: Saturday, March 20th, 2010. 8pm until midnight(ish).
Where: The Wallflower – 2420 Main St, Vancouver (Right next door to Rx Comics – map )
Who: Anyone who is of legal drinking age is invited.
How Much: No admission fee. Bring your own pencils/pens. Paper is provided.

The restaurant provides their regular menu to order from and alcohol galore: beer, wine, highballs and shots.

Don’t forget to tip your waiter or waitress well!

If you’re drawing with markers that bleed through paper, be sure to either bring a drawing surface or place extra sheets of paper under the paper you’re drawing on.

Crosspost as you see fit.

See you there!

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Saturday: Cameron Stewart in Halifax

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2010 03:44:00 AM
Cartoonist Cameron Stewart (Seaguy, Batman and Robin, Sin Titulo) will be signing books at Strange Adventures in Halifax, Saturday March 20, 2-5 pm, according to the http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/?p=3378 blog.

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This weekend: Toronto Anime Convention

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/19/2010 12:17:00 AM
Hobbystar Toronto Animecon
March 20-21, 2010
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (North Building)
255 Front Street. West

Animecon Hours
Saturday : 11:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday : 11:00am - 5:00pm

$15 Flat rate all access pass; good for Saturday, Sunday or both days.

Admission only available at the door during the show hours

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   Thursday, March 18, 2010  
The C-List: Blogspot Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/18/2010 12:30:00 AM
Item: Jeet Heer on nostalgia, The Beguiling, Joe Matt, and crappy comic book shops.

Item: In international earthshaking news, the family of Jack Kirby (the artist and co-creator of X-Men, Hulk, and Captain America, among thousands of others) has announced their intent to sue Marvel/Disney for copyright of the Kirby-created characters. According to the LA Times, "Under copyright law, creators can seek to regain copyrights they previously assigned to a company 56 years after first publication and can give notice of their intentions up to 10 years before that.[...] Kirby's children would be eligible to claim their father's portion of the copyright of the Fantastic Four in 2017; the Hulk would come up in 2018 and X-Men in 2019. The copyrights would then run for 39 more years."

Item: The first review I've seen of the new Ho Che Anderson book, Sand and Fury.

Item: A review of Red: A Haida Manga at Publishers Weekly.

Item: Guy Delisle draws on youtube.

Item: Regis Loisel and Jean-Louis Tripp, cartoonists from France, are the subject of a new film about the creation of their graphic novel series Le Magasin General, in this report from Chris Hanna of the Concordia student newspaper.

Item: The Transmission X team is touring Europe.

Item: A sneak peak at the process behind Two Generals, Scott Chantler's upcoming graphic memoir project, to be released through McClelland and Stewart.

Item: Via Robert Pincombe, Alpha Flight's Box presents "differently-abled superheroes".

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   Wednesday, March 17, 2010  
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2010 JOE SHUSTER AWARDS

:: Posted by max @ 3/17/2010 08:26:00 PM

6th Annual JOE SHUSTER AWARDS have released their nominations, there's a lot of them so i'm going to post the list here and let you follow this link for more details on their home blog.  

A few details though: In January and February of this year, nominees were selected from master lists of eligible works originally published in English and/or French during the 2009 calendar year. Canadian citizens living at home or abroad, as well as permanent residents were eligible for consideration. Now that the lists of nominees have been finalized, nominated creators will have their work reviewed by juries, who will decide the winners.
Winners will be announced at a public ceremony in Toronto on the evening of Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, with master of Ceremonies Jonathan Llyr. 
NOMINEES for Work Published in 2009
Artist/Dessinateur
Cartoonist/Createur
Colourist/Dessinateur Couleur
 [don't have time to add links for all of these right now, will fill in later, but there's this thing called google though....]
* Brad Anderson
* Chris Chuckry
* Maryse Dubuc
* Nathan Fairbairn
* Lovern Kindzierski
* Francois Lapierre
* Dave McCaig 
* Ronda Pattison 
Writer/Ecrivain
* Kelley Armstrong
* Ian Boothby
* Herve Bouchard
* Maryse Dubuc
* Kathryn Immonen
* Dean Motter
* Ty Templeton
* J. Torres 
Cover/Couverture
* Kaare Andrews
* Paul Bordeleau
* Darwyn Cooke
* Darwyn Cooke
* Marc Delafontaine
* Dale Eaglesham
* Dale Keown 
* Igor Kordey 
Webcomics/Bandes Dessinees Web
* Attila Adorjany - Metaphysical Neuroma
* Kate Beaton - Hark! A Vagrant
* Andy Belanger - Bottle of Awesome and Raising Hell
* Rene Engstrom - Anders Loves Maria
* Karl Kerschl -The Abominable Charles Christopher
* Gisele Lagace and David Lumsdon - Eerie Cuties and Ménage à 3
* Tara Tallan - Galaxion
* Steve Wolfhard - Cat Rackham

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National Newspaper Awards Nominations Announced

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/17/2010 12:34:00 AM
2009 National Newspaper Awards Nominations Announced:
Editorial Cartoonists Category
By Bryan Munn

The finalists for the 61st National Newspaper Awards were announced March 15 in Toronto. There are 66 finalists in 22 categories, culled from 1,301 entries of works that appeared in the year 2009. The categories include beat reporting, photography, and investigative articles, as well as include editorial cartooning. The award in this category is considered the most prestigious prize given to editorial cartoonists in Canada. This year, the three nominees in the category of editorial cartooning are Brian Gable (The Globe and Mail), Malcolm Mayes (Edmonton Journal), Terry Mosher aka Aislin (The Gazette, Montreal).

Gable has won the award 4 times, most recently in 2005. Aislin has won twice previously (1977 and 1978).

An Edmonton native, Mayes has been nominated twice for the NNA, most recently in 2002, but has yet to win.

Beginning in 2008, cartoonists were instructed to submit their works online and then judged online. According to the Awards' website, the policart prize is given "for excellence in editorial cartooning for a body of work of five editorial cartoons. Preference will be given to cartoons that demonstrate humour, originality and satire related to news events, with quality embracing line, style and likenesses of personalities where relevant." A panel of three judges will choose the winner.

Founded in 1949 by The Toronto Press Club, this is the 21st year for the NNAs in its current format, administered by a Board of Governors under the aegis of a non-profit.

Winners will be announced and will receive a $1000 cheque at the awards ceremony in Toronto on Friday, May 14 following the Canadian Newspaper Association conference.

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   Tuesday, March 16, 2010  
New Books: Yuna

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/16/2010 05:48:00 AM



Yuna, T. 2: L'Ile aux Tombeaux
by Jacques Lamontagne and Yi Ma
$21.95
Soleil
ISBN : 9782302009622

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Daniel Clowes Presents: WILSON, official TCAF 2010 Kick-Off Event

:: Posted by max @ 3/16/2010 02:44:00 AM
Daniel Clowes

presents

WILSON


Friday, May 7th, 2010 @ 7PM
The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Free Tickets via: http://danclowes.eventbrite.com/
Facebook Event page

Presented by Toronto Public Library, Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and Drawn & Quarterly

Daniel Clowes will kick off the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival in style with the presentation of his new graphic novel WILSON, published by premiere Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly. WILSON is hotly anticipated by graphic novel fans worldwide and Clowes’ appearance at TCAF will make this one of the most eagerly anticipated comics events of the year. Clowes will present on WILSON, and be interviewed on stage.

Copies of WILSON as well as much of Clowes' back-catalogue will be available for purchase on site. A signing by Clowes will follow the event. For more information please visit http://www.torontocomics.com.

Event begins at 7pm sharp. Doors open at 6pm. No admission after 7:30pm.

Strict limit of 2 tickets per registrant enforced. Photo ID will be required to pick up tickets at the door.

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   Monday, March 15, 2010  
The C-List: Daylight Savings Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/15/2010 04:29:00 AM
Darwyn Cooke Overstreet price guide 2010 cover captain america bucky

Some links and notes about Canada, comics, and graphic novels for a Monday morning.

Item: Kate Beaton toy ponies. I think these were on sale at the Emerald City con?

Item: Montreal bookseller Monet presents a cartoon interview by Pascal Girard (Jimmy et le Bigfoot).

Item: The cover for the upcoming 3rd volume of Le Front, the anthology published by BDQ collective Front Froid, is now online.

Item: A write-up of Darwyn Cooke's presentation at The Smithsonian.

Item: Cooke also is doing the chores on one of the Overstreet Price Guide covers.

Item: Ty Templeton announces that the "reprints" of everyone's fave Canadian superhero comic strip, Hoverboy, are now back online in weekly installments.

Item: Dustin Harbin wants to know if readers think he should switch from daily fiction comic to daily diary comic.

Item: The most recent list of top 300 bestselling/most ordered graphic novels in North America from Diamond distributors (ie, comic shop orders) shows very few Canuck-created works on the list. Sure, there are lots of books illustrated by the likes of Stuart Immonem and Pia Guerra, but not so many examples of non-corporate work-for-hire. I think the highest rank is Skim at #141, followed by Scott Pilgrim 1 and 2 (164, 272). Is that it?

Item: Svetlana Chmakova has a facebook fan page.

Item: Call for papers for a book of essays on Dave Sim and Cerebus.

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   Sunday, March 14, 2010  
Printer refuses to print Doug Wright Awards Nominee's Work

:: Posted by Dave Howard @ 3/14/2010 02:51:00 PM
Doug Wright Awards nominee for best emerging talent, Adam Bourret has had his autobiographical comic I'm Crazy, refused to be printed by Toronto printer Harmony Printing because they were afraid of offending their 'religious' clients. Here is an excerpt from their letter:
Unfortunately due to the content I am going to have to respectfully decline. The reason is we have a lot of long standing clients who are religious organizations. They are in our facilities all of the time and cannot risk having this content out in the open during production. Please understand that this is not a slight against your artwork or the message that you are trying to convey to your audience.
I wish you all the best and I hope you can understand our position.

Adam's reply, posted on his website is below:

The only thing I understand is that you're discriminating against me for my sexuality. You're also attempting to mask your discrimination by hiding behind your "religious" clientele. This is your company's decision, not theirs.

I hope you enjoyed my website and will check back for updates. The content of your letter will be appearing on it very soon, as a warning to any other potential clients.


According to this extended editorial at The Torontoist, who contacted the printer for clarification, their refusal to print Adam's autobiographic comic is not based on same-sex issues but rather images of 'people having sex'.

This story has also been picked up by these other outlets as well:
Say it With Pie.
Hardcore Nerdity.
Award winning gay blog Towleroad
Quill & Quire
Comic Book Resources.

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Comic Book Opera

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/14/2010 05:43:00 AM
The Montreal opera company ECM+ has commissioned a comic book opera with a libretto to be written by Cecil Castelucci. Directed by Veronique Lacroix, four different cartoonists are contributing illustrations: Michael Cho, Scott Hepburn, Cameron Stewart and Pascal Girard. The opera is called "Les Adventures de Madame Merveille" and premieres May 6.

Here's Cho's art.

"Singing, illustrations, video projections and staging come together to recount four highly imaginative stories: The fight of a super heroine against the evil Mr. Degout, a fifties love story, the detective enquiry of François and his dog Pax and an interstellar combat. Never seen before!"

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   Saturday, March 13, 2010  
The C-List: Going Into the Weekend

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/13/2010 05:29:00 AM


Item: Toronto retailer Chris Butcher reacts to the news of a new manga line from Fantagraphics.

Item: Speaking of manga, one of Canada's two manga publishers, D+Q, has a preview of their new/old Tatsumi graphic novel Black Blizzard.

Item: Silver Snail employee, comics writer, and Wordburglar Sean Jordan talks to Living Between Wednesdays about one of my favourite 1970s characters, Marvel's Tigra.

Item: A profile of the Boychuks --the brothers behind The Chuckle Bros syndicated comic strip.

Item: Students grapple with moral question of Watchmen [no, the question isn't "Is this the worst movie ever?"].

Item: Policart Aislin hasn't been controversial for awhile. Now he's in hot water over a Montreal Gazette cartoon depicting a woman wearing a Niqab.

Item: There are probably whole sites devoted to comic book film hype, but this report of a Warren Ellis-based Bruce Willis film is sort of in my backyard.

Item: In Shuster Awards news, the venue and host for the June 5 event are online.

Item: Paul Rivoche interview by Jeffery Klaehn, author and cultural commentator.

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April Schedule: Toronto Cartoonists Workshop

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/13/2010 02:51:00 AM
TORONTO CARTOONISTS WORKSHOP is pleased to announce our line up of new classes for April 2010. They will be:

- Ty Templeton’s Comic Book Bootcamp Level One

- Kidding Around: Writing Comics for Younger Readers with Sam Agro

- Professional Layout and Story Telling for Comics and Graphic Novels with Ty Templeton


Comic Book Bootcamp Level I is finally back. It covers indepth both the pictorial and writing aspects of comic book creation. The response to this course is amazing and it has been constantly full over the past four years in its various incarnations. The September 2009 edition was sold out very quickly following Fan Expo and had a waiting list. Apply now to avoid disappointment.


Writing Comics for Younger Readers teaches the fundamentals of what is becoming a hot market in the book field. With critical and economic successes like BONE, AMULET and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID driving industry and consumer interest it is sure to be a growth area for some time. Sign up for this in depth study of the fundamentals of writing comics and animation for kids from 5 to 15 taught by Sam Agro. Sam has written for TVO’s Polka Dot Shorts, the animated segments of Elliot Moose is on the Loose and many, many scripts for DC’s Looney Tunes and Block Party comics.


Professional Layout and Story Telling is a course I have been asked about for a long time. Many aspiring comic artists are interested in studying with Ty Templeton, but would rather not have to go through the writing lessons that are a part of the Bootcamp. If you are a student who specifically wants to focus on the art side of making comics, then this is the course for you. It compresses the art lessons taught in the Comic Book Bootcamp Level I and Level II into one course. This class will be quite intensive and students should expect to be bombarded with information in each session. Due to Ty's schedule I'm not sure when this will be offered again, so please take advantage of the opportunity now.

For FULL information on these workshops please go to our site at: http://www.cartoonistsworkshop.com

Thank you for your interest in and support for the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop. If you have any questions please address them to me at info@cartoonistsworkshop.com or by calling 647-502-7605.

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   Friday, March 12, 2010  
6th annual Doug Wright Awards awards @ TCAF!

:: Posted by max @ 3/12/2010 07:10:00 AM
George Sprott, 
and Aboriginal manga 
lead nominations 
for the 2010.


March 12, 2010 Toronto -- Running the gamut from the acclaimed to the unconventional, the 15 finalists for this year's Doug Wright Awards were announced today in Toronto.

Hand-picked by an esteemed panel of comics experts, the 2010 finalists represent the finest, most thought-provoking work produced by Canada's vibrant comics community.   

The shortlist contains works that explore diverse subjects, from the legendary life of Kasper Hauser and the fictional life (and death) of a fading TV host, and spans a range of formats, from wordless lino-cuts graphic novels to "manga" inspired by Western Canadian Haida mythology.

The Doug Wright Awards finalists for Best Book are:

Back + Forth by Marta Chudolinska (The Porcupine's Quill)
George Sprott: (1894-1975) by Seth (Drawn and Quarterly)
Hot Potatoe by Marc Bell (Drawn and Quarterly)
Kaspar by Diane Obomsawin (Drawn and Quarterly)
Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas and McIntyre)

The Doug Wright Awards finalists for Best Emerging Talent are:

Adam Bourret I'm Crazy
Michael DeForge Lose #1 (Koyama Press), Cold Heat Special #7 (Picturebox)
Pascal Girard Nicolas (Drawn and Quarterly)
John Martz It's Snowing Outside. We Should Go For a Walk.
Sully The Hipless Boy (Conundrum Press)

The finalists for the 2010 Pigskin Peters Award (for unconventional, "nominally-narrative" comics) are:

Bebete Simon Bosse (L'Oie de Cravan)
Dirty Dishes by Amy Lockhart (Drawn and Quarterly)
Hot Potatoe by Marc Bell (Drawn and Quarterly)
Never Learn Anything From History by Kate Beaton
The Collected Doug Wright Volume One by Doug Wright (Drawn and Quarterly)

Founded in 2004 (in a dimly lit Toronto bar) to celebrate the finest in English-language comics and graphic novels, The Doug Wright Awards have since evolved into one of North America's foremost comics awards and one of its most anticipated events.

Wright Awards finalists defy easy categorization, and include past and present masters of the form and off-the-beaten-path newcomers alike, all vying for one of the most unique and coveted trophies in comics.

This year's nominees were chosen by a five-member panel who chose from works released in the 2009 calendar year. The panel included: comics historian and author Jeet Heer; filmmaker Jerry Ciccoritti; cartoonist Chester Brown; Walrus comics blogger Sean Rogers, and; writer and Sequential.ca publisher Bryan Munn.

The winners are chosen by a jury that includes cartoonists, writers, actors, directors, musicians and, on occasion, politicians.

A featured event of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF), the 2010 Doug Wright Awards ceremony will take place on Sat. May 8, at 7 pm at the Toronto Reference Library's new Bram & Bluma Appel Salon.  


For more information, please contact:
brad@wrightawards.ca
mackbrad@gmail.com

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   Thursday, March 11, 2010  
Superhero Hockey

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/11/2010 06:03:00 AM
This is the old-school magic that I'm talking about:

"The gay and roaring crows cheered lustily for their favourite hockey team ... and then Death came riding in on the cold air of the ice arena!"


Robert Pincombe does us all a great service by posting a 1940s comic book story featuring Ted Steele's Canadian superhero Speed Savage over at his ComicCanuck blog. As a post-Olympics bonus, its a rare hockey comic book story as well (and in true hockey style, hockey-loving cartoonist Jeff Lemire provides an "assist"). Go read "Murder Has The Puck"!

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carte blanche is looking for comics

:: Posted by max @ 3/11/2010 02:16:00 AM

Bi-annual Carte Blanche - The Literary review of the Quebec Writers' Federation - recently added sequential art to their roster, as graphic fiction. I'm going to be doing a turn as guest editor for the next issue, so part of the job is getting the word out. :)

So we are currently urgently seeking submissions for the Spring edition, the due date this coming 15th, monday! And take note american cousin, overseas readers and all canucks, Carte Blanche is open to submissions from anywhere! That's right, an open opportunity to get you're work in a recognized Literary review.

Submission page is here with details.

Currently from the fall edition, they are featuring
a really well done short by Dustin Harbin [dharbin],
part of a series of strips i've seen from him
called Fun with Autobiography.

Obviously on such short notice the call is open to existing content.

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   Wednesday, March 10, 2010  
Rough art for Sequential Pulp 2!

:: Posted by max @ 3/10/2010 12:20:00 AM

The pot is a brewing, more news to come soon but here's the rough art for the cover of this years edition of Sequential Pulp.

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Canadian Bestsellers: March 10 Edition

:: Posted by Bryan @ 3/10/2010 12:01:00 AM
bookmanager logo

compiled/edited by B. Munn

The first list for March.

Intro: The bestselling graphic novels and comics collections in Canada, courtesy of BookManager. The full list by BookManager is available, with some work, here. The list is compiled by BookManager based on sales through over 400 independent bookstores, including several comic book stores and the D+Q store. Sales through most comic shops and larger retailers like Chapters-Indigo are not reflected in this list. For balance, you might want to try the Amazon.ca and Chapters-Indigo lists. See here for our previous list.

Sequential's Over-All Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Naruto 47, Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ)
2. (2) Vampire Knight 9, Matsuri Hino (VIZ)
3. (-) Negima 25, Ken Akamatsu (Random House)
4. (7) Seekers: Toklo's Story, Erin Hunter (Harper Collins)
5. (4) Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks (Crown)
6. (25) Footnotes in Gaza, Sacco (Henry Holt)
7. (3) Book of Genesis, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
8. (-) Bleach 30, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
9. (15) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Camille Rose Garcia (HC)
10. (29) Watchmen, Moore/Gibbons (DC)
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11. (17) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
12. (-) Asterix/Olympic, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
13. (6) Garfield Fat Pack, Davis et al (Random)
14. (-) Asterix/Obelix's Birthday, Uderzo (Orion)
15. (13) Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis et al (Bloomsbury)
16. (-) Black Bird 1, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
17. (20) Louis Riel, Brown (D+Q)
18. (5) Black Bird 3, Kanoko Sakurakoji (VIZ)
19. (-) One Piece 30, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
20. (-) One Piece 34, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
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21. (-) Maus II, Spiegleman (Knopf)
22. (16) Maximum Ride: The Manga 2, James Patterson/NaRae Lee (Orbit/Yen)
23. (-) Manga Messiah, (Tyndale)
24. (-) Bleach 1, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
25. (-) All Star Superman 2, Morrison/Quitely (DC)
26. (-) D.n.angel Volume 13, Sugisaki Yukiru (Tokyopop)
27. (-) Asterix/Cleopatra, Goscinny/Uderzo (Orion)
28. (-) Bleach 2, Tite Kubo (VIZ)
29. (-) One Piece 29, Eiichiro Oda (VIZ)
30. (-) B is for Beer, Tom Robbins (HC)

Analysis: Only 2 Canadian Books in the top 30 overall.

Canadian Content: You have to wade through an awful lot of translated Japanese manga, U.S. superhero fantasies, and collected editions of Sherman's Lagoon to come up with a list of 30 bestselling books created by Canadians. In total, BookManager lists over 4000 graphic novels, trades, and strip collections, the vast majority of which are not by Canadians. On this list, a single sale in a single tiny bookstore can make all the difference. This list does not include books that are only illustrated but not written/created-by Canadians.


Sequential's All-Canadian Top 30 from BookManager

1. (1) Red: A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
2. (2) Louis Riel, Chester Brown (D+Q)
3. (-) Bigfoot, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
4. (3) Skim Hardcover, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
5. (-) Skim Paperback, Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)
6. (29) Scott Pilgrim 1, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
7. (17) Scott Pilgrim 3, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
8. (-) Scott Pilgrim 4, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
9. (9) Pyongyang, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
10. (8) Hot Potatoe: Fine Ahtwerks, Marc Bell (D+Q)
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11. (26) Senior's Discount, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
12. (16) Home Sweat Home, Lynn Johnston (Andrews McMeel)
13. (23) Important Artifacts, Leanne Shapton (FSG)
14. (-) Runaways: Homeschooling, K.Immonen/Pachilli (marvel)
15. (7) Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle (D+Q)
16. (4) The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum)
17. (11) Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe (D+Q)
18. (-) Scott Pilgrim 2, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
19. (-) Just One More Hug, Lynn Johnston (AM)
20. (10) Nightschool 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Orbit/Yen)
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21. (-) In Me Own Words, Graham Roumieu (Plume)
22. (5) It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth (D+Q)
23. (6) Nightschool 2, Svetlana Chmakova (Orbit/Yen)
24. (12) Parker The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
25. (13) The Plain Janes, Castelucci/Rugg (Minx/DC)
26. (14) George Sprott, Seth (D+Q)
27. (15) Collected Doug Wright 1, Doug Wright (D+Q)
28. (19) Essex County, Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
29. (22) Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws, Chad Solomon (Lone Pine)
30. (24) The Big 5-0, Lynn Johnston (Andrews)

Analysis: The top 30 Canadian books are all found in the top 960 comics.

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