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DIE KITTY DIE! What Happens When a Longtime Comic Book Character Has Come to the End of Her Run? You Kill Her! but How? That’S Where the Fun Begins…
April 25, 2015 – Toronto, Canada CHAPTERHOUSE COMICS WELCOMES DAN PARENT & FERNANDO RUIZ’S DIE KITTY DIE! What happens when a longtime comic book character has come to the end of her run? You kill her! But how? That’s where the fun begins….. Chapterhouse Comics is pleased to announce its newest title: Die Kitty Die! - created, written and drawn by Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz. Die Kitty Die! comes to the upstart publisher after its successful Kickstarter campaign, which saw the 30-year Archie Comics veterans exceed full funding after only eight days. “Die Kitty Die! is a very special project for Fernando and I” says Parent, “It was an honour to see the outpouring of support from our community of fans!” ‘And now, we’re excited to give Kitty a home’ says Ruiz, ‘and Chapterhouse Comics seemed like just the spot!’ Finding a place in Chapterhouse’s ever-growing roster is an exciting prospect for Publisher Fadi Hakim. ’All of us at Chapterhouse grew up reading and still read Dan and Fernando’s work’ says Hakim. ‘Having Kitty on board is a dream come true!’ Die Kitty Die! releases to comic book stores throughout North America and Europe on October 26, 2016. In celebration, Chapterhouse has commissioned Parent and Ruiz to do Halloween variants for all of its titles that month, including Captain Canuck, Northguard, All-New Classic Captain Canuck and The Pitiful Human-Lizard. A small teaser of the series will be available in the Chapterhouse Summer Special 2016, releasing this June! Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz are both graduates of The Kubert School with decades of experience in creating comics. -
English-Language Graphic Narratives in Canada
Drawing on the Margins of History: English-Language Graphic Narratives in Canada by Kevin Ziegler A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfilment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2013 © Kevin Ziegler 2013 Author’s Declaration I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. ii Abstract This study analyzes the techniques that Canadian comics life writers develop to construct personal histories. I examine a broad selection of texts including graphic autobiography, biography, memoir, and diary in order to argue that writers and readers can, through these graphic narratives, engage with an eclectic and eccentric understanding of Canadian historical subjects. Contemporary Canadian comics are important for Canadian literature and life writing because they acknowledge the importance of contemporary urban and marginal subcultures and function as representations of people who occasionally experience economic scarcity. I focus on stories of “ordinary” people because their stories have often been excluded from accounts of Canadian public life and cultural history. Following the example of Barbara Godard, Heather Murray, and Roxanne Rimstead, I re- evaluate Canadian literatures by considering the importance of marginal literary products. Canadian comics authors rarely construct narratives about representative figures standing in place of and speaking for a broad community; instead, they create what Murray calls “history with a human face . the face of the daily, the ordinary” (“Literary History as Microhistory” 411). -
Truth, Justice, and the Canadian Way: the War-Time Comics of Bell Features Publications Ivan Kocmarek Hamilton, Ontario
Truth, Justice, and the Canadian Way: The War-Time Comics of Bell Features Publications Ivan Kocmarek Hamilton, Ontario 148 What might be called the “First Age of Canadian Comics”1 began on a consum- mately Canadian political and historical foundation. Canada had entered the Second World War on September 10, 1939, nine days after Hitler invaded the Sudetenland and a week after England declared war on Germany. Just over a year after this, on December 6, 1940, William Lyon MacKenzie King led parliament in declaring the War Exchange Conservation Act (WECA) as a protectionist measure to bolster the Canadian dollar and the war economy in general. Among the paper products now labeled as restricted imports were pulp magazines and comic books.2 Those precious, four-colour, ten-cent treasure chests of American culture that had widened the eyes of youngsters from Prince Edward to Vancouver Islands immedi- ately disappeared from the corner newsstands. Within three months—indicia dates give March 1941, but these books were probably on the stands by mid-January— Anglo-American Publications in Toronto and Maple Leaf Publications in Vancouver opportunistically filled this vacuum by putting out the first issues of Robin Hood Comics and Better Comics, respectively. Of these two, the latter is widely considered by collectors to be the first true Canadian comic book becauseRobin Hood Comics Vol. 1 No. 1 seems to have been a tabloid-sized collection of reprints of daily strips from the Toronto Telegram written by Ted McCall and drawn by Charles Snelgrove. Still in Toronto, Adrian Dingle and the Kulbach twins combined forces to release the first issue of Triumph-Adventure Comics six months later (August 1941), and then publisher Cyril Bell and his artist employee Edmund T. -
“More Liveable” Speculations: the Gender of SF in Margaret Atwood's
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, LXIII, z. 1 PL ISSN 0084-4446 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2020/63.1/2 Katarzyna Ostalska University of Łódź* https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8553-7517 “More Liveable” Speculations: the Gender of SF in Margaret Atwood’s Short Story “Oursonette” and in the Comic Book / Graphic Novel War Bears Abstract Taking into account the broadness of the SF genre, the article commences with examining the difference between speculative fiction and science fiction, as outlined specifically by Donna J. Haraway and Margaret Atwood. Drawing on Atwood’s understanding of speculative genre, the paper analyses two separate but intertwined artistic forms: a classic short story with embedded dialogue and a comic book / graphic novel based upon the extended version of the earlier narrative. The short story “Oursonette” was written by Atwood as a part of a national project of artists commemorating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. It depicts Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945, from the perspective of Canada and its impact upon the publishing of “Canadian whites,” otherwise known as WECA comic books. Partially black-and white War Bears (2019), referring to the tradition of “Canadian whites” comics, is a modern graphic novel, co-authored with Ken Steacy, which essentially uses the plot of Atwood’s “Oursonette” as the foundation for drawing an expanded story that precedes and follows the original. The narrative is not simply elaborated, a new dimension of visual imagery and a significant layer of intersectionality have changed its meaning to a large extent. The article analyses those alterations in detail to come to a conclusion as to whether they are beneficial or redundant to the original form and content. -
MUNDANE INTIMACIES and EVERYDAY VIOLENCE in CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN COMICS by Kaarina Louise Mikalson Submitted in Partial Fulfilm
MUNDANE INTIMACIES AND EVERYDAY VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN COMICS by Kaarina Louise Mikalson Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia April 2020 © Copyright by Kaarina Louise Mikalson, 2020 Table of Contents List of Figures ..................................................................................................................... v Abstract ............................................................................................................................. vii Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................... viii Chapter 1: Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 Comics in Canada: A Brief History ................................................................................. 7 For Better or For Worse................................................................................................. 17 The Mundane and the Everyday .................................................................................... 24 Chapter outlines ............................................................................................................. 30 Chapter 2: .......................................................................................................................... 37 Mundane Intimacy and Slow Violence: ........................................................................... -
Oberlin and the Fight to End Slavery, 1833-1863
"Be not conformed to this world": Oberlin and the Fight to End Slavery, 1833-1863 by Joseph Brent Morris This thesis/dissertation document has been electronically approved by the following individuals: Baptist,Edward Eugene (Chairperson) Bensel,Richard F (Minor Member) Parmenter,Jon W (Minor Member) “BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD”: OBERLIN AND THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY, 1833-1863 A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Joseph Brent Morris August 2010 © 2010 Joseph Brent Morris “BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD”: OBERLIN AND THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY, 1833-1863 Joseph Brent Morris, Ph. D. Cornell University 2010 This dissertation examines the role of Oberlin (the northern Ohio town and its organically connected college of the same name) in the antislavery struggle. It traces the antislavery origins and development of this Western “hot-bed of abolitionism,” and establishes Oberlin—the community, faculty, students, and alumni—as comprising the core of the antislavery movement in the West and one of the most influential and successful groups of abolitionists in antebellum America. Within two years of its founding, Oberlin’s founders had created a teachers’ college and adopted nearly the entire student body of Lane Seminary, who had been dismissed for their advocacy of immediate abolition. Oberlin became the first institute of higher learning to admit men and women of all races. America's most famous revivalist (Charles Grandison Finney) was among its new faculty as were a host of outspoken proponents of immediate emancipation and social reform. -
2016 NEPCA News
September 2016 NEPCA established 1974 WELCOME Welcome to second e-version issue of NEPCA News. Last year NEPCA abandoned the paper edition of the newsletter for ecological, financial, and logistical reasons. Newsletters are classic "throwaway" items once they've been read, so we decided to save some trees (and ink). Moreover, the cost of designing, printing, and mailing the newsletter had risen to the point where we needed to make choices about the best use of organizational resources. The Executive Council opted to use savings to create a second graduate-student prize, buy liability insurance, and fund other endeavors with the savings from the newsletter, rather than raising dues to bolster an ephemeral medium. The last point was primary. Slow production schedules for the old newsletter meant that much of the newsletter was outdated by the time members received it. Years ago NEPCA migrated news, reviews, and notices to its Website, https://nepca.wordpress.com/ so that we could deliver up-to-date information. Surveys revealed that most conference presenters, attendees, and active members now get information online and through social media. Attendance at conferences has soared, so we must be doing something right! HOW DO I KNOW IF MY MEMBERSHIP IS UP TO DATE? We also streamlined membership. It works like this. You are currently a member if: 1. You are a lifetime member or a past president 2. You have registered for this year's conference 3. You have mailed a membership fee during the 2016 calendar year. (Memberships run October to October.) 1 Your membership expires at the end of October 2016 if you registered for the 2015 conference, but do not fall into any of the categories listed above. -
Canadian Comic Books at Library and Archives Canada1 Meaghan Scanlon
Canadian Comic Books at Library and Archives Canada1 Meaghan Scanlon Abstract Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has what is likely the largest collection of Canadian comic books in a Canadian library. LAC’s collection has three distinct parts: comics acquired via legal deposit, the John Bell Collection of Canadian Comic Books, and the Bell Features Collection. These holdings, which span the history of the comics medium in Canada, represent a significant resource for researchers studying Canadian comics. This article looks at each of the three main parts of LAC’s comic book collection, giving an overview of the contents of each part, and providing information on how researchers can discover and access these comics. The article also briefly explores other comics-related holdings at LAC. Its purpose is to provide a starting point for researchers seeking to make use of LAC’s comic book collections. Résumé Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC) recèle ce qui constitue vraisemblablement la plus vaste collection de bandes dessinées canadiennes dans une bibliothèque canadienne. La collection de BAC comporte trois parties distinctes: les bandes dessinées acquises grâce au dépôt légal, la collection de bandes dessinées canadiennes de John Bell et la collection Bell Features. Ce fonds documentaire, qui couvre l’histoire du médium bandes dessinées, représente une ressource importante pour les chercheurs qui étudient les bandes dessinées 1 This article draws on research I have previously presented in two conference papers: “Drawn Across the Border: Canadian Comic Books at Library and Archives Canada,” Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, May 27, 2014, and “‘Written, Drawn, and Printed in Canada—by Canadians!’: Bell Features, CanCon, and the Perception of Comics in Postwar Canada,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Montreal, QC, July 10, 2015. -
9780521868761 Index.Pdf
Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86876-1 - The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature Edited by Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller Index More information Index Aboriginal drama 518–35, 624–5 Okanagan 499, 508, 509 beginnings of 520 Oneida 21, 22 (Illustration) community theater 534 oral traditions, oratory and early playwrights 520, 521–30, 532–4 (French) graphic forms 16–20, 27, 533–4, 535, 624, 625 508–9 white theater presentations of Aboriginal Pan-Aboriginality 526–7, 533, 534 themes 519–20 protests and activism since 1960s 499, 500, see also Métis 501, 505, 512, 526–7 Aboriginal peoples residential schools and abuse 500, 502, Algonquins 15, 119 512–13, 527, 531, 532 Beothuks 10, 484 Royal Commission on Aboriginal and Centennial debates 319–20 Peoples 509 Chipewyans 70, 75, 92, 96 Aboriginal writing (poetry and prose) Cree 74, 439, 503, 506, 508, 511, 516, anthologies 500, 501, 504, 507–8, 515 528, 534 En’owkin Center 507, 508 European representations of: (C17)10–28, 21 fiction 238–9, 396–7, 398, 505–6, 510, 512–14, (Illustration) 515, 516 see also exploration narratives (French); life-writing 502–3, 504, 512, 513, 551–2, Jesuit Relations 553–4 European representations of: (C18) poetry 439–40, 479, 499, 501–2, 503, 506–7, 51, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74;(C19) 75, 82, 85, 86, 511, 515, 516 92–3, 118–19, 121, 139, 142;(C20) post-1960 499–517 4, 296–7, 307, 403, 440, 442, 445, pre-1960 57–62, 93, 139, 168, 206, 215, 485, 487, 489, 496, 519–20, 637–8, 644, 305, 511 649, 651 publishers/publishing 503–4, 505 first contact 10–11 Trickster -
2021 ASHRAE Virtual Annual Conference June 28Th - June 30Th, 2021 Monday, June 28
4-29-2021 2021 ASHRAE Virtual Annual Conference June 28th - June 30th, 2021 Monday, June 28 Monday, June 28, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Seminar 1 (Basic) Fundamentals of Climate Change Track: Fundamentals and Applications Sponsor: 2.5 Global Climate Change, 4.2 Climatic Information , 2.10 Chair: Elizbaeth Tomlinson, P.E., Member, TKDA, St. Paul, MN As climate change impacts our built environment today, ASHRAE members seek to improve the design of tomorrow's buildings. This June, ASHRAE is publishing the new Fundamentals chapter, Climate Change. Along with climate science and mitigation, the chapter introduces climate adaptation. Planning for tomorrow's climate is a hot topic for public and private owners, consultants and citizens. This session provides an industry update on building design and climate risk management. Presenters include leaders from ASHRAE's 2021 Fundamentals Handbook chapter Climate Change, US Army and International Code Council. 1. Notice: New 2021 Fundamentals Handbook Climate Change Chapter Elizabeth Tomlinson, P.E., Member, TKDA, St. Paul, MN 2. US Army Installation Climate Resilience Steve Dornbos, Ph.D., American Association for the Advancement of Science, Milwaukee, WI 3. Adapting Codes and Standards to Address Changing Climate Risk Ryan Colker, J.D., International Code Council, Washington, DC Monday, June 28, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Seminar 2 (Advanced) Cleanroom Fan Energy Savings Through Variable Airflow Track: Design, Control, and Operation of Critical Environments Sponsor: 9.11 Clean Spaces, MTG.ACR Chair: Vincent Sakraida, P.E., Associate Member, Skanska, Evansville, IN This seminar presents the needed design steps for a cleanroom with variable airflow, cleanroom airflow and particulate CFD modeling that illustrates the impact cleanroom variable airflow has on airflow patterns and particulate generation. -
Canadianliterature / Littérature Canadienne
Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number 228/229, Spring/Summer 216, Emerging Scholars 2 Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Laura Moss Associate Editors: Nicholas Bradley (Reviews), Stephen Collis (Poetry), Glenn Deer (Reviews), Kathryn Grafton (CanLit Guides) Assistant Editor: Sarah Henzi (Francophone Writing) Past Editors: George Woodcock (1959-1977), W. H. New (1977-1995), Eva-Marie Kröller (1995-23), Laurie Ricou (23-27), Margery Fee (27-215) Editorial Board Alison Calder University of Manitoba Carrie Dawson Dalhousie University Cecily Devereux University of Alberta Kit Dobson Mount Royal University Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Helen Gilbert University of London Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde Lucie Hotte University of Ottawa Smaro Kamboureli University of Toronto Ric Knowles University of Guelph Christopher Lee University of British Columbia Linda Morra Bishop’s University Lianne Moyes Université de Montréal Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Reingard Nischik University of Konstanz Vanja Polic´ University of Zagreb Ian Rae King’s University College Julie Rak University of Alberta Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Gillian Roberts University of Nottingham Sherry Simon Concordia University Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Neil ten Kortenaar University of Toronto Marie Vautier University of Victoria Gillian Whitlock University of Queensland Mark Williams Victoria University, New Zealand Lorraine York McMaster University Editorial Laura Moss Notes from a CanLit Killjoy 6 Articles Lucia Lorenzi “Am I not OK?”: Negotiating and Re-Defining Traumatic Experience in Emma Donoghue’s Room 19 Melissa Li Sheung Ying “Liv[ing] Poetically upon the Earth”: The Bioregional Child and Conservation in Monique Proulx’s Wildlives 35 Articles, continued Shaun A. -
B Otto Binder
Vol. 3, No. 143 / November 2016 Editor Roy Thomas Associate Editors Bill Schelly Jim Amash Design & Layout Christopher Day Consulting Editor John Morrow FCA Editor P.C. Hamerlinck If you’re viewing a Digital J.T. Go (Assoc. Editor) Edition of this publication, Comic Crypt Editor PLEASE READ THIS: Michael T. Gilbert This is copyrighted material, NOT intended for downloading anywhere except our Editorial Honor Roll website or Apps. If you downloaded it from another website or torrent, go ahead and Jerry G. Bails (founder) read it, and if you decide to keep it, DO Ronn Foss, Biljo White THE RIGHT THING and buy a legal down- load, or a printed copy. Otherwise, DELETE Mike Friedrich IT FROM YOUR DEVICE and DO NOT SHARE IT WITH FRIENDS OR POST IT Proofreaders ANYWHERE. If you enjoy our publications Rob Smentek enough to download them, please pay for them so we can keep producing ones like William J. Dowlding this. Our digital editions should ONLY be downloaded within our Apps and at Cover Artists & Colorists: www.twomorrows.com George Wilson, Jesse Santos, et al. With Special Thanks to: Contents Heidi Amash Ernesto Guevara Writer/Editorial: That “Seventies” Issue! . 2 Sal Amendola Adam Haney Ger Apeldoorn Jim Kealy “[Gold Key] Didn’t Follow What Marvel Or DC Was Doing” . 3 Richard J. Arndt Al Kracalik An interview with Dr. Spektor creator “Dinosaur Don” Glut, conducted by Richard Arndt. Bob Bailey Mark Lewis ACBA—The Academy Of Comic Book Arts . 37 Bernie Bubnis Art Lortie A very informal history of comics creators’ 1970s professional association by Sal Amendola.