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TCAF 2010: Interview with Wondermark’s David Malki

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.

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NSFW – TCAF 2010 – Evan Dorkin Interview

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.

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TCAF 2010 – Ryan North Interview

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.

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New Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World trailer & on-set interview

Yesterday, the second trailer for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was released after Edgar Wright had decided to withhold its premiere until his Twitter campaign reaped a desired 100,000 ‘likes’ on Facebook. It was a little disappointing to find out that he was clamouring for ‘likes’ on a site that many people have moved on from. And, naturally, the cynic in me suspected that, even if the goal hadn’t been met, the trailer would have come out all the same. This trailer gives us a much better look at the…

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Crackdown 2 hands-on and interview

When the original Crackdown came out, it came with a code to access the early beta of Halo 3. At the time, some considered Crackdown to be the bonus game you get when your buy your early access pass to the beta.  Some complained that this was just a crass marketing ploy to move more copies, which it undoubtedly did.  If you look past those meta arguments though, Crackdown was also a bright, vibrant, open world superhero sandbox which in many ways still holds its own against the newer entrants…

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Toronto Underground Cinema open for business

Though the Toronto Underground Cinema officially launched its regular schedule last night, a couple of weeks back they held a free screening of “Clue” and “Big Trouble In Little China”. At that showing, we had a chance to talk with Charlie Lawton, Alex Woodside and Nigel Agnew about their plans for the literally underground theatre. This weekend’s line up includes Rumble In The Bronx, Runaways, A Prophet, Ghost Writer and one I’m definitely planning on seeing, Hard Core Logo. If you haven’t already seen the 1996 film from Canadian director…

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The People vs. George Lucas Interview

Alexandre O. Philippe and Robert Muratore, makers of the documentary “The People vs. George Lucas“, came by the studio while in town for the recent Hot Docs screenings.  What was originally going to be a short interview turned into a wide ranging discussion on Star Wars fandom, the process of making the film and a whole lot more. You can also check out our review here.

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