Tag Archives: Comic publisher

Fans of spiky-haired manga heroes and Silver Age Spider-Man comics rejoice! There's now an app for that. (Er, those.)

November 18, 2009 – 2:12 am

The inauguration of comics to the digital world has been a slow, staggered process. I choose to examine it with similes involving rats and Super-Man.

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Profiling Happy Harbor's Jay Bardyla

June 18, 2009 – 9:56 am

Jay Bardyla, owner and founder of the award-winning Happy Harbor comic stores in Edmonton, talks about the Alberta comic community and shares his perspective on how the past year’s economic turbulence has impacted the retail comic industry.

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Creator Interview: Gareth Gaudin

May 20, 2009 – 11:38 am

Next month, Gareth Gaudin of Legends Comic and Books in Victoria, BC. will be celebrating a milestone that few comic artists ever reach. As of June, the artist/comic shop co-owner will have been producing one comic strip a day, every day, for the past five years.

I talked to Gareth about his one-strip-a-day commitment, the success of his character the Perogy Cat, and the state of the comic scene in Victoria.

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Profiling Richard Grzela

May 13, 2009 – 12:34 pm

Have you ever put down a comic book that you just finished reading, and been so inspired by the world you were looking into that you wished you could experience it firsthand yourself?

Richard Grzela, a Calgarian comic book writer/artist and entrepreneur, has attempted to tap into that desire with his company 14uComics (pronounced “one for you” comics).

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