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Tuesday, October 05, 2004
doc robot to the rescue:
"Gotta love a win-win situation. The new Montreal publishing imprint X-Press has managed to concoct one - a comic book that benefits not only hospitalized kids but also, in the long run, the comic's own creator.
"The first X-Press title is Dr. Robot by Montreal's Bernie Mireault, best known for his work on Matt Wagner's Grendel and with Mike Allred on the Madman series, and of course his slice-of-life, everyday-superhero series The Jam.
"'Until the last decade,' says Mireault, 'I was ignorant of Japanese manga and anime. Dr. Robot is a reflection of how much I love that stuff now that it's taken a hold of me. Dr. Robot is my version of all the basic conventions of the Japanese stuff that I like - I'm just trying to do it my way.'
"Meanwhile, across town (as they say in comic books), Tony Medeiros of the Cantor bakery and deli chain has been diligently raising funds for kids in need for some time. 'I started some projects with Famous Players,' says Medeiros, 'charity events where I gave 'em cookies and we raised close to $10,000. So I proposed to them that we give something to the Montreal Children's Hospital. Maybe a comic or a book - we could raise money through that.'
"As a comic collector since 1972 and, in Mireault's words, 'a businessman with a large emotional component,' Medeiros was the perfect guy to make a link between comics and charity. When he passed along some cakes from Cantor to the publisher Drawn & Quarterly for their launch of the late Harry Mayerovitch's book Way to Go, he mentioned to D&Q's Chris Oliveros that he was seeking kid-oriented comics from Montreal.
"Oliveros steered him to Mireault, and now Dr. Robot is in motion again. The comic will sell at the concession stands of the Famous Players cinemas in Laval, Kirkland and downtown, from Oct. 1 to Nov. 4, in conjunction with Shark Tales and The Incredibles. 'The price is $2,' says Medeiros, 'but if you want to give more, that's fine. There's also a draw for a robot called Robosapien. It's going to be the toy of the year, $169 at Toys R Us. If you buy the comic, you have a chance of winning one.'
more at the montrealmirror.
posted by peter! 10:40 AM EST permalink
Monday, October 04, 2004
artbomb review: in the shadow of no towers by art spiegelman
"What does it take to publish the follow-up to your two-volume Pulitzer Prize-winning magnum opus that put both you, and 'serious comics,' on the mainstream map? Two fucking buildings falling down on your head, apparently.
"art spiegelman, the pioneer auteur behind the holocaust memoir Maus (and longtime resident of lower Manhattan), returned to comics by literally running away from the collapse of the World Trade Center. A lifelong paranoid leaning more than a little to the left, spiegelman is forced by 9/11 and everything after both behind the drawing board, and into the daily comics pages of the past, to try and make sense of the ultimate inexplicable.
"This collection of spiegelman's 10 strips are printed on cardboard-thick pages that approximate the massive galleys of the funnies page circa their invention; after spiegelman's run, he treats us to a look at the comics pages of antiquity that mean so much to him, each strip echoing some aspect of the iconography of the WTC attacks..."
(more from matt fraction)
posted by peter! 10:50 AM EST permalink
Sunday, October 03, 2004
rent girls on the road:
join laurenn mccubbin and michelle tea on the road and say "hello" for me if you get the chance...
Friday October 1 - Sunday, October 3
SPX
Bethesda, MD
Queer Cartoonists panel Saturday, from 2:00-3:30pm, along with Tim Fish (Cavalcade of Boys, Young Bottoms In Love), Justin Hall (True Travel Tales), Craig McKenney (The Magic If, Stalagmite), Ariel Schrag (Awkward, Likewise) and Jose Villarubia (Mirror of Love, Promethea)
Sunday, October 3rd
Baltimore, Maryland
Atomic Books - http://www.atomicbooks.com
1100 W. 36th Street
6:00pm
Free
Monday, October 4th
Washington, D.C.
The Black Cat - http://www.blackcatdc.com/
doors 8pm/show 9pm
$7.00
a MotherTongue event
Tuesday, October 5th
Philadelphia, PA
Space 126
8pm
art opening with Tristan Crane at Jigsaw in NYC on October 6th - http://jigsawnyc.com/
Thursday, October 7th
New York City
Starlight Lounge & Bar
167 Avenue A
between 10th & 11th
$8.00
a GirlSalon event - http://www.janinesays.com/textpages/girlsalontext.htm
Friday October 8th
NYC
signing at Jim Hanley's Universe from 5-7 - http://www.jhuniverse.com/
Brooklyn, NY
Lucky 13 - http://www.lucky13saloon.com/index.html
273 13th St. at 5th Ave.
8pm
$5.00
with Cheryl B, Rachel Kramer Bussell and Melody Henry
Saturday, October 9th
Buffalo, NY
the Squeaky Wheel - http://www.squeaky.org/
doors 7pm/show 8pm
$6.00
Monday October 11th
East Hampton, MA
Flywheel - http://www.flywheelarts.org/
2 Holyoke Street
$5.00
Wednesday, October 13th
Boston, MA
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
3rd Floor Conference Center
7:00pm
$5
with Jaclyn Friedman and Sara Seinberg
posted by peter! 11:45 PM EST permalink
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