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.
Tag Archives: Writers
Profiling Troy Little
May 27, 2009 – 10:41 pm
Lecherously evil brit-punk spirits, ghoulish graveyard parties, stadium pop rock stage antics, and the zombie apocalypse.
All this and more adds up to just one day’s adventures for the girls of ‘Angora Napkin’, protagonists of Troy Little’s graphic novel of the same name and stars of their own upcoming pilot on Teletoon.
Troy talks about the Angora Napkin cartoon & graphic novel, as well as his ongoing three-volume epic, Chiaroscuro.
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.
Growing Pains, Why Your Opinion Matters.
April 29, 2009 – 8:50 am
To all our newborn community of artists, writers, and comic fans, I’d like to send you a quick note asking for your help. The goal of this community is to create a place for you. Please bare with us as we work on creating a bug free robust environment. But in our times of tribulation, [...]