Cy Bell textual box pt. ii: contracts, trademarks, and copyright
Last column, we began a look into the small textual material box belonging to Cy Bell in the Bell...
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Top Flight Comics
One-shots are outliers in this wonderful hobby of ours and there are many reasons for their...
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Comics from the Great White North: Captain Al Cohol, Super Shamou and Issues of Representation
As a socio-cultural anthropologist, the issue of representation has been part of my academic...
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Triumph-Adventure Comics
What would a Canadian newsstand have looked like in terms of comic books during the summer of...
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Collecting WECA Covers
The Top Ten WECA Covers A recent movement that has risen to the surface in comic book collecting...
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Can We Keep Calling WECA Comic Art second rate?
It’s hard to contradict the axiom that comic book collecting these days is character driven. In...
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Heroes of the Home Front
Publishing a book is a drawn out and often frustrating process even on top of researching and...
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Nelvana
Because it’s Canada Day week I want to do a bit of a more involved special column about the figurehead of the Canadian Whites this time–Nelvana. This mini-skirted, semi-mortal, maid of the Arctic skies has firmly become the totem (the chosen emblem) of the Canadian war-time comics.
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A Quest and A Question
As a lot of you may know, I am working on putting together a coffee table-sized book that would feature the main artists of these WECA comics, that is, the Canadian Whites. I’ve got about 10 sections finished and I have submitted a package with the first three sections to Dundurn Publishing in Toronto. I really don’t hold much hope for seeing my cache of fairly arcane information being picked up by a publisher over the next few months, but I will try a couple more (such as Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics). Most likely, my project will only be able to see fruition as a self-published e-book or a book for which a good deal of publishing funding could be raised through an online funding scheme such as Kickstarter.
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The Other Woman: John G. Hilkert’s The Wing
The Wing was the creation of John G. Hilkert and first appeared in Joke Comics No. 4 (Sept./Oct. 1942) as the Wing, but if we look closely we can find an appearance of a character (not costumed or super powerful) named Trixie Rogers in a text story written by Hilkert and art by Murray Karn in Dime Comics 5 called “Death Casts a Vote” a couple of months before she put on the costume in Joke Comics.
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Get Re-Auroralized!!
Ivan celebrates Nelvana’s crowd funding success, then discusses Canadian Whites and Overstreet.
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Bell Reprints and Covers
The first happened during the WECA period itself when, in 1945, Bell Features decided to issue 6 compendiums of stories from earlier issues. These took features already published and brought them together in large (68 pg.) books that sold for 15 cents.
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