National Distribution in the 1980s
When I started this column two years ago, I defined the Canadian Silver Age differently from how...
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When I started this column two years ago, I defined the Canadian Silver Age differently from how...
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Last September, I decided to use my monthly column here at Comic Book Daily to engage in a bit of...
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I had a nice visit from my good friend and Captain Canuck creator Richard Comely last week, it was...
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Chapterhouse is Canada’s newest comic book company (established in 2015) with its mainstay Captain...
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After last Saturday at Niagara Con, which seems to have found a more than viable venue in our...
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Captain Canuck #9, Comely Comix, April/May 1980 I’m quite lucky having Captain Canuck...
Read Moreby Ed Campbell | Mar 9, 2014 | Toronto Comicon | 2
Panelists: Fadi Hakim, Richard Comely, Paul Gardner, Dean Henry, Mike Valiquette, Kalman Andrasofszky, George Zotti.
The panel started with a viewing of the Captain Canuck web-series in its entirety. The web-series is an animated adventure that introduces (or re-familiarizes) Canada with their very own hero Captain Canuck. You can catch the series on the Captain Canuck website.
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Mar 5, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 5
Overall the documentary was a slick and informative effort. It reminded me a little of the recent PBS Superheroes three-parter because it made heavy use of talking heads in front of green screen projections. This allowed the film itself to take on a sense of comic book levity and healthy self-deprecation. A comic book doc has to be heavy on graphics from the books themselves and this one didn’t let us down in that respect.
Read Moreby Scott VanderPloeg | Feb 26, 2014 | Minutiae | 5
For those of you who are true fans of Canadian comics, including all WECA Canadian Whites diehards, then Lost Heroes is for you. This film about Canadian comics premieres 7 PM Friday February 28th at The Royal Cinema, 608 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M6G 1B4.
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Oct 23, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 3
“Johnny (Jack) Canuck.” He was a personification of our national identity much in the same way that America had “Uncle Sam” and Britain “John Bull,” who started to be depicted in political cartoons just a couple of years (1869) after Confederation. Like all national personifications he is an hyperbole, let’s say like a lumberjack riding a Timmie’s donut inner tube down the rapids a river of maple syrup and using a hockey stick for a rudder.
Read Moreby Leigh Hart | Oct 17, 2013 | Wham! Bang! Pow! | 1
I am lucky enough to live in one of the biggest cities in Canada (Toronto) and because of this I have had the opportunity to meet some amazingly talented people. Recently, many of these people have been launching projects that I am amazed and very proud of them for. So, I thought instead of hoarding all the information I know about these projects, I would share some of them with you.
Read Moreby Walter Durajlija | Aug 28, 2013 | Fan Expo | 0
Captain Canuck had a huge presence at this year’s Fan Expo. At the Captain Canuck panel on Friday...
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