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by Ivan Kocmarek | Jun 6, 2018 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 8 |

The big news this week is that the WECA Price Guide is finally finished and available! I have to...

Maple Leaf Checklist

by Ivan Kocmarek | Feb 5, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 14 |

Of all the WECA books, those produced by Maple Leaf Publishing out on the west coast of Canada are in the most demand and are the hardest to find. In this post I want to initiate the question of the number and dates of all the Maple Leaf issues… especially that murky last year—1946.

WECA Toons 1

by Ivan Kocmarek | Jan 22, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 2 |

Comic book art runs the rainbow spectrum from realistic, to semi-realistic, to surrealistic, each time the metaphor getting stronger. In the surrealistic “toons” the world is populated by caricature humanoids and/or anthropomorphic fauna (‘funny animals”). Each of the four WECA publishers, except Educational Projects, had features that fell somewhere on the surrealistic end of this continuum.

A Whites Christmas

by Ivan Kocmarek | Dec 19, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 4 |

Think back, even imagine, a time before our internet brains, before even our TV brains… when things inside our heads were much quieter and much clearer. Think back to the time of the Canadian Whites when tension came not from a barrage of digital and video bits streamed into our cortex but from a sustained home front war effort. Imagination didn’t have its dots connected with computer generated imagery. Here’s a war era imagination machine.