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HandEye Society’s Arcadian Renaissance

July 6, 2010 Doug Groves arcade cabinet, classic arcade, Hand Eye Society, Nuit Blanche, Spooky Squid, TCAF 2010, TORONTRON4 Comments

The HandEye Society, the coalition of Toronto indie game designers and enthusiasts, has announced that their TORONTRON game cabinet will be appearing as part of Nuit Blanche this October 2nd, as well as offering up a full arcade of gaming goodness, under the name The Arcadian Renaissance. The TORONTRON is a classic arcade cabinet retro fitted to play video games from local developers, and has been touring around at various events, including the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. All of this will be presented as part of Nuit Blanche on Oct…

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is now an annual event!

June 29, 2010June 29, 2010 drsquid Arts, canada, Comics, event, festival, TCAF, TCAF 2010, TCAF 2011, Toronto, Toronto Reference Library2 Comments

A few days ago Christopher Butcher, the TCAF Festival Director & Co-Founder, posted his festival wrap-up on the TCAF website, Torontocomics.com. In this he thanks everyone who attended, and “some of the organizations and individuals who worked to make TCAF 2010 such an unprecedented success”. We can attest to this — this year’s TCAF was the best ever, and you can see all our coverage here. However the biggest news in his post was the announcement that the Festival would be returning in 2011, and would be occurring annually from…

TCAF 2010: Interview with Wondermark’s David Malki

June 24, 2010June 25, 2010 Doug Groves David Malki, interview, Show, TCAF, TCAF 2010, web comic, Wondermark9 Comments

In the latest of our TCAF interview series, Alex talks with David Malki about the Wondermark web comic, his vast collection of source images and much more. If you haven’t been to wondermark.com to check out the strip, I highly recommend it. At the end of the video we talk about beards…judge for yourself where in the Hierarchy of Beards chart Paul’s whiskers fall.

NSFW – TCAF 2010 – Evan Dorkin Interview

June 9, 2010June 9, 2010 Doug Groves Beasts Of Burden, Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Evan Dorkin, Hectic Planet, interview, Milk and Cheese, NSFW, Show, TCAF, TCAF 20103 Comments

Evan Dorkin, creator of books such as Hectic Planet and Milk & Cheese, and writer of the new Beasts Of Burden, gives us more of his time than he probably expected. In this wide ranging, NSFW, funny, insightful, some would say meandering – Alex and Evan talk about everything from Bangladesh to pop culture, cross dressing to ELO, and even the state of comics today.

TCAF 2010 – Emily Horne & Joey Comeau of A Softer World

June 7, 2010June 8, 2010 Doug Groves A Softer World, Emily Horne, interview, Joey Comeau, Show, TCAF, TCAF 2010, web comic, webcomic3 Comments

As we continue our TCAF 2010 coverage, Alex interviews the creators of the photo-comic strip A Softer World at the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Joey & Emily discuss their process, other projects, and their path to success on the web.

TCAF 2010 – Ryan North Interview

June 2, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves Dinosaur Comics, interview, Ryan North, Show, TCAF, TCAF 2010, webcomic6 Comments

Alex interviews Ryan North, creator of the popular webcomic Dinosaur Comics, at the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival Besides talking about Dinosaur Comics, Ryan gives us his take on what web comics mean for comics in general, as well as using social media to get the word out, without abusing your readers’ trust. Ryan also talks a little about his awesome Time Traveler Essentials Shirt, which you can see after the jump.

TCAF 2010 Brandon Bird Interview

June 1, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves Brandon Bird, TCAF, TCAF 20101 Comment

Brandon Bird’s unique pop culture art style frequently consists of taking well known figures and putting them in unexpected scenarios, or presenting them in an unexpected style. At TCAF this year, Alex had a chance to talk to Bird about comic style art, Law and Order, and Nicolas Cage.

TCAF 2010 Charles Vess Interview

May 27, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves Charles Vess, Comics, interview, Show, Stardust, TCAF, TCAF 20101 Comment

Alex interviews legendary artist Charles Vess, best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman on works such as the Sandman comic series and “Stardust”. Charles talks with Alex about his latest book called “Instructions”.

TCAF 2010 – Jim Munroe Interview

May 22, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves interview, Jim Munroe, Show, Sword Of My Mouth, TCAF, TCAF 20101 Comment

Alex interviews Jim Munroe, writer of Sword Of My Mouth, the follow-up to Therefore Repent, a graphic novel about those left behind after the Rapture. You can also read the first 22 pages of Sword online for free here.

TCAF 2010 – Mathew Kumar Interview

May 19, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves interview, Mathew Kumar, Show, TCAF, TCAF 2010, video, video games1 Comment

In the first of what will be a series of interview and panel videos from TCAF, Alex interviews Mathew Kumar, publisher of exp. magazine at this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

rgbfilter @ TCAF 2010: Day 2 Photos

May 10, 2010May 11, 2010 drsquid canada, Comics, event, festival, TCAF, TCAF 2010, Toronto5 Comments

On Day 2 we returned to Toronto Comics Arts Festival to talk to some more of the very talented writers and artists in attendance. We managed to get interviews with some great webcomic artists, like Ryan North, creator of Dinosaur Comics, Emily Horne and Joey Comeau of a softer world, Brandon Bird, and David Malki of Wondermark. We also talked to Jim Munroe, of nomediakings, writer of the ‘post-Rapture graphic novel’ Sword of My Mouth. Lastly, in a bizarro finale to the show, Alex interviewed Evan Dorkin, creator of Hectic…

rgbfilter @ TCAF 2010: Day 1 Photos

May 8, 2010May 10, 2010 drsquid Comics, Emily Horne, event, Jamie McKelvie, Jim Munroe, Matthew Kumar, Miguel Sternberg, Ryan North, Scott Campbell, Shannon Gerard, Sonja Ahlers, TCAF, TCAF 2010, Toronto1 Comment

Today was the first day of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and we were there with our cameras. Above is a slideshow of the crowds at the Toronto Reference Library, and two panels that we videoed, to be put up online in the next week… We went to the The Spirit of Indie: Where Comics Meet Video Games panel where creators Scott Campbell, Jamie McKelvie, Jim Munroe, and Miguel Sternberg were interviewed by games journalist Matthew Kumar. There were some great discussions about how indie games and comics are starting…