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rgbfilter @ TCAF 2010: Day 1 Photos

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…

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rgbfilter @ TCAF 2010: Kick-off Event – Daniel Clowes presents Wilson

We went to the Daniel Clowes presents Wilson event on Friday night, where Mark Medley, arts writer from the National Post, sat down with Daniel, and talked with him at length about his career, art, and Wilson (his new graphic novel). Some interesting info I learned was that he created art for an animated Ramones video, and there was the short-lived ‘OK’ Cola created by Coca Cola, that featured his artwork on the can. He also mentioned that while he still pencils, inks, and letters everything by hand, he now…

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Mobilicity clears CRTC hurdle – launching ‘spring’

Though the imminent launch of Mobilicity this spring has been more or less known for a couple of months, they still had to meet the ownership regulations of the CRTC.  Well, it looks as if, after a little bit of tweaking of their shareholder agreement, they’ll be cleared to go. As such, the Commission finds that, upon completion of the required modifications to the Shareholder Agreement set out in the Appendix to this decision, DAVE Wireless will be Canadian‑owned and controlled, meeting the requirements set out in section 16 of…

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Daniel Clowes Presents WILSON: Official TCAF Kick-Off Event

Tomorrow night TCAF 2010 kicks off with Daniel Clowes presents WILSON at a FREE, but ticketed, event at the Toronto Reference Library. Seating is limited, and the first round of tickets released are already SOLD OUT, but there is another block being released tomorrow morning – you’ll have to act fast to get one!

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Don’t Miss the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival

The first Toronto Comics Arts Festival was held in 2003, as a “natural progression of years of disparate book signings, author appearances and miscellaneous events” put on by world renowned Toronto comics store The Beguiling. Since that first event, it has quickly grown to be one of the most preeminent comic festivals in the world. Unlike other comic conventions, like the Toronto Fan Expo and San Diego Comic-con for example, TCAF does not focus on the big names (Marvel, DC etc.), nor is it full of aging actors from old…

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The People vs. George Lucas: the verdict?

Ever since the release of The Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans old and new have debated the merits of the new trilogy, and Lucas’ decision to drastically alter the original trilogy to make it more ‘modern’, not just in the effects department, but taking some rough edges off main characters.  The new documentary The People vs. George Lucas, from director Alexandre O. Phillipe, is a good distillation of that debate.  It offers up, in a compressed timeline, an overview of the history of George Lucas and the almost religious following…

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Free Comic Book Day – Toronto style

For a good eight years now, Free Comic Book Day has become an early May tradition, where comic book retailers promote the event and hand out copies of comic books to customers, which has unsurprisingly become a hit.  You can see the North America wide list of artist signings at FreeComicBookDay.com This year,Greg Dunford, writer of Hard Drive and friend of the show has organized a Free Comic Day Comic Crawl [Facebook event] through Toronto, with a number of notable guests from fandom.  If you know of events going down…

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Enter the ViewPoint Film Challenge #3

The Toronto based ViewPoint Film Challenge gives filmmakers the challenge of creating a short film based on the same script. After the success of the first and second challenges, in 2008 and 2009, the third edition of this unique film event returns – after the script is released on May 1st the directors only have 1 month to complete their film! The ViewPoint Film Challenge is all about sharing the same pages of dialogue that we provide, allowing you to focus on your own unique point of view and compare…

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Cineform closes, at least for now

If you’ve spent any time looking at the myriad posters put up in downtown Toronto, you’ve surely seen the black and white letter-sized flyers for some of Reg Hartt’s film festivals and presentations, such as The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival, Triumph Of The Will and Kid Dracula (which uses Radiohead’s Kid A as a soundtrack for F.W. Murno’s Nosferatu).  Some of these Reg Hartt presentations have been around for decades. Now, Reg Hartt has had to shut down his unique film location Cineforum, after receiving a notice of violation…

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Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2010: Headlining guest is Dan Clowes

Unlike previous TCAFs, which were held bi-annually, TCAF 2009 is being followed by another festival this year. Like last year, it is being held at the Toronto Reference Library, and is on May 8th and 9th. The TCAF 2010 website will being going live on January 19th with the full guest list, but it was announced on Friday that the headlining guest will be Dan Clowes, an artist who rarely makes convention appearances. He also created the TCAF 2010 poster above. Clowes is well know for being the author, and…

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Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Coverage, continued…

Our continued coverage of the December 16th Wind Mobile launch in Toronto…in Part 2 Ken Campbell, CEO, and Chris Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, talk in more detail about Wind, the phones, and their initial plan offerings. Part 3 includes rest of the press conference, and their first customer getting his phone. Parts 4 & 5 conclude the coverage, with a Q&A session, some shots of their phones, their second customer, and a short interview with Chris from Wind, where he mentions Wind’s current lack of support for enterprise mail on…

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