Tag FECA Comics

1942

Ivan Kocmarek
November 23, 2022
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1942, the first full year of Canadian wartime comics, was a year of transition and expansion. Canada had been in the war for more than two years. 1941 had given us the birth of Canadian comics with comics from that…

Cy Bell Textual Box 1: Contest back covers

Ivan Kocmarek
July 8, 2020
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If you want to research, first hand, the Bell Features holdings of the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC) up in Ottawa, you have to go into an imposing solid block of a building located just west of Parliament Hill…

First FECA Book

Ivan Kocmarek
November 28, 2018
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By now, a lot more of us know that there were two eras to the Canadian Golden Age of comics. In the U.S., the measure of the Golden Age extends from Action 1 in 1938 to about Showcase 3 in…