Jason Kieffer is a Toronto-based cartoonist and illustrator. His autobiographical series, Kieffer, was nominated for a Doug Wright Award in both 2008 and 2009. In 2012, Jason released Zanta, a comic book biography about the Toronto street performer’s rise to fame and fall.
Open Spaces and Closed Places is a humorous comic series with a magical realistic setting about high school delinquents, supernatural happenings, flowery young love, and dreamy-eyed youth. This newest issue explores the past of the three main characters Oscar, Vivien, and Jirou. Previous issues of OSCP can be read for …read more
[close]Knight, Strongman, Captain, Thompson, and all the rest return in this the second exciting, amazing, and thrilling volume of Double Fine Action Comics! This volume collects 200 Strips that include the Black Pyramid Interdimensional Adventure, Knight Turns Inventor, Tower Story, Gold Digger Adventure, The Uncle Black Knight Experience, The White …read more
[close]Sam is the grandson of a world-renowned space adventurer. Marvelled by his ailing grandfather’s stories of interstellar travel and alien romance, he models his life after these tales – even though they may be untrue. So focussed is Sam on fulfilling what he thinks is his natural destiny in life that …read more
[close]Hic and Hoc announces the festival debut of Unknown Origins and Untimely Ends, edited by Emi Gennis. This book contains over 30 non-fiction unsolved mysteries by relative newcomers and small press comics legends alike, including J.T. Yost, Julia Gfrorer, Noah Van Sciver, Simon Moreton, and Sam Spina. Featuring tales of …read more
[close]The award-winning author of Exit Wounds returns with a story about families, secrets, and the complex bonds of love The Property is a work that will inspire, fascinate, and delight readers and critics alike. Savvy and insightful, elegant and subtle, Modan’s second full-length graphic novel is a triumph of storytelling and …read more
[close]Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely …read more
[close]Using a grid of 9 panels over 40 wordless pages, Carlos Santos imagines multiple narratives driven by the power of the unconscious. With precise and accomplished images, Santos has created an experimental tour de force rarely seen in comics. “Carlos Santos creates strips in a manner that is essentially intuitive. …read more
[close]Snack Pak #1 is a new collection of autobiographical vignettes and diary comics from the creator of Curbside, Boy Trouble, and the Ignatz nominated THREE. “Kirby’s the kind of artist who can do just about any type of storytelling, and minis like this are clearly a way for him to …read more
[close]We Will Remain by Andrew White is a 44 page comic collecting comic stories about place and how places affect our lives. This collection of stories varies in subject from an astronaut entering that spot right between dimensions to a boy and a swimming pool.
[close]When the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after World War I, control of the Adriatic port of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) was hotly disputed. Enter “Pirate King” Gabriele d’Annunzio, an Italian poet who stormed the city with 3,000 Italian nationalists. D’Annunzio declared Fiume a free republic and himself commander. He envisioned a …read more
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The Doug Wright Awards
TCAF Queer Mixer: Featuring Tagame & Vellekoop!
