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COMICS FESTIVAL 2007!
About COMICS FESTIVAL!
Welcome to Comics Festival 2007! It's a brand new comic book featuring tons of stories from Canadian creators! You can pick up your copy of COMICS FESTIVAL 2007! on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday May 5, 2007, at participating Comic Book Retailers. We've put together a list of retailers that are guaranteed to have the book on Free Comic Book Day, but if you don't see a retailer near you, make sure to visit the FREE COMIC BOOK DAY website and the Comic Shop Locator Service, both located to your right!
Comics Festival! 2007 is designed to be comprised of short, stand-alone works that evoke the larger catalogue of the creators involved. It serves to function as being 'new work' for a variety of talented creators, and introductary pieces to new or 'civilian' readers. COMICS FESTIVAL features:
We put the book together for to highlight some of the great work by Canadian cartoonists available in better comic shops everywhere, and to spotlight comics from the great writers and artists attending this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, being held in Toronto, Canada August 18th and 19th, 2007! If you like any of the stories in this book, check out the biographies to the right, which have details and ordering info on all of the other in-print work from our contributors!
Frequently Asked Questions about Free Comic Book Day
What is Free Comic Book Day (FCBD)?
Free Comic Book Day is the newest Holiday out there, it's the one where you go to comic book specialty shops across North America and get free comics.
Are all of the comics free?
Not exactly! Participating publishers have made special issues with the FREE COMIC BOOK DAY logo on them, and those are the freebies. One of those books will be COMICS FESTIVAL!
So any comic book store will have these?
Sadly, no. Not every comic store chooses to participate in Free Comic Book Day, a day designed to get people to read comics... Some stores do participate, but they don't get every book available either, despite the fact that they can.
So even if I go to a comic book store on Free Comic Book Day, I might not be able to get a free comic book?
Yeah, which is unfortunate.
That sucks.
Don't give up hope! The easiest way to make sure a comic shop near you participates in Free Comic Book Day is to check the list of stores a little further down this page. You can also ask the retailer in your area, visit the Free Comic Book Day Website for stores in your area and check to see if they'll be stocking COMICS FESTIVAL 2007.
I checked, and my shop is either not participating or isn't getting COMICS FESTIVAL! What can I do?
Well, first off, ask'em again. You're a customer, vote with your wallet! Also, check out the list of participating retailers at FreeComicBookDay.com. If none of that works for you, COMICS FESTIVAL! will be given away for free during The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, August 18th and 19th, 2007, and will be available throughout the month of May at various spots around the city of Toronto.
That's not going to work either.
Dude, too bad. TCAF 2007 is going to be awesome. You really oughtta come.
You're killing me.
We'll do our best to make the book available either online or for 'sale' after Free Comic Book Day, but as this is a promotion for comic specialty stores, we REALLY WANT YOU to get your copy at a comic shop. This is gonna be an awesome book, so do your best to ensure your local comic shop has it!
I Still have questions, actually.
Check out the official Free Comic Book Day website at http://www.freecomicbookday.com!
Comics Retailers We Love CANADA Calgary Another Dimension Comics New Brunswick STRANGE ADVENTURES Nova Scotia STRANGE ADVENTURES Ontario The Beguiling Big B Comics Dragon Lady Comics & Paper Nostalgia Paradise Comics USA California COMIC RELIEF: THE Comic Bookstore Comics Conspiracy Comix Experience Earth-2 Comics FLYING COLORS COMICS Hijinx Comics Knightly Games Waterfront Comics Georgia Bunjee’s Comics Bunjee’s Comics Ohio Laughing Ogre Maine Casablanca Comics Massachusetts Comicopia Toy Soldier : 113B Main Street Michigan Comic City Comic City Comic City Minnesota Mind's Eye Comics New Jersery The Record Store New York Main Street Comics North Carolina Chapel Hill Comics Oklahoma Speeding Bullet Comics & Ricochet Cafe Oregon Bridge City Comics Pennsylvania Comix Connection - York Comix Connection - Mechanicsburg Phantom of the Attic Texas Austin Books & Comics Virgina Phoenix Comics & Toys Inc. Phoenix Comics & Toys Inc. Phoenix Comics & Toys Inc. Wisconsin Neptune Comics
The following Comic Book Specialty Retailers have told us that they're gonna have plenty of Comics Festival! 2007 in stock for Free Comic Book Day! If one of them is in your area, Check'em out!
424B-10th St. NW
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1V9
(403)283-7078
www.another-dimension.com
68 York St.
Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 3N5
506.450.3759
http://strangeadventures.com/
5262 Sackville St.
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1K8
902.425.2140
http://strangeadventures.com/
601 Markham Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6G2L7
416-533-9168
www.beguiling.com
1045 Upper James St
Hamilton, Ontario
905-318-9636
www.bigbcomics.com
609 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M6G 1B5
Telephone: 416.536.7460
3278 Yonge St.
Toronto Ontario M4N 2L6
416.487.9807
www.paradisecomics.com
2026 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, Ca. 94704
510-843-5002
www.comicrelief.net
115-A E. Fremont Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
305 Divisadero St.
San Francisco, CA, 94117
www.comixexperience.com
15017 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
(818)386-9590
www.earth2comics.com
& Other Cool Stuff
2980 Treat Boulevard
Concord CA 94518
925-825-5410
www.FlyingColorsComics.com
2050 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
www.hijinxcomics.com
1560 Ocotillo Dr., Suite C
El Centro, CA 92243
760-353-5253
609 Main ST.
Suisun, CA 94583
707 425-6308
569 Jonesboro Rd.
McDonough, GA 30253
678-565-4886
www.bunjeescomics.com
1414 Hwy16 West
Griffin, GA 30233
770-412-6723
www.bunjeescomics.com
4258 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43214
(614) 267-6473
151 Middle Street
Portland, ME 04101
www.casablancacomics.com
464 Commonwealth Av #13
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 266-4266
www.comicopia.com
Amesbury MA 01913
978.388.2512
42823 Ford Rd
Canton MI 48188
734-981-3561
www.comiccity.com
328 N. Telegraph Rd.
Pontiac MI 48341
248-334-4139
43538 West Oaks Dr.
Novi MI 48377
248-449-7114
1565 Cliff Rd Ste 6
Eagan, MN 55122
651-683-0085
atroth@mindseyecomics.com
6299 Route 9 North
Howell, NJ 07731
www.therecordstorenj.com
157 Dolson Avenue
Middletown, NY 10940
(845)342-0458
412 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
(919) 967-4439
www.chapelhillcomics.com
614 N Porter Ave.
Norman, OK 73071
(405) 360-6866
www.speedingbulletcomics.com
3725 N. Mississippi Ave.
Portland, OR 97227
www.bridgecitycomics.com
West Manchester Mall
1800 Loucks Road
York, PA 17404
Phone: 717-767-4871
www.comixconnection.com
6200 Carlisle Pike, Suite C
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
Phone: 717-591-2727
www.comixconnection.com
3766 William Penn Highway
Monroeville, PA 15146
(412) 856-4403
5002 N. Lamar
Austin, TX 78751-2318
512-454-4197
www.austinbooks.com
19340 Promenade Drive Unit N-102
Lansdowne,VA 20176
678 Elden St.
Herndon, VA 20170
(703)437-9530
10647 Braddock Road
Fairfax, VA 22032
(703)250-6479
141 E. Sunset Dr
Waukesha, WI 53189
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That's right! The original Comics Festival is now online to read and completely free! Just click the graphic above!
COMICS FESTIVAL CONTRIBUTORS:
These are the fine folks who made Comics Festival! 2007 possible. We've listed a little bit about them, as well as their in-print comics work with Diamond order codes or ISBN's.
J. Bone
A talented Toronto artist and writer, J. Bone is the co-creator of the series Alison Dare and has provided the art for Mutant, Texas, Mr. Gum and Jingle Belle. His current assignment is assisting Darwyn Cooke in the production of the monthly The Spirit series for DC Comics. He can be found online at gobukan.blogspot.com. He hopes to turn his Jett Vector into an ongoing series or graphic novel at some point. Hint. Hint.
ALISON DARE LITTLE MISS ADVENTURES VOL 1 TP, 8.95, DEC053149
JINGLE BELLE TP, 12.95, JUN050025V
MUTANT TEXAS TALES OF SHERIFF IDA RED TP, 11.95, FEB032087E
Michael Cho
Michael Cho's drawings and comics have appeared in magazines across North America. He has illustrated several children's books including Media Madness: An Insider Guide to Media. His latest book series Max Finder Mystery: Collected Casebook is a collection of the popular children's comic featured monthly in Owl Magazine. He is currently devoting his time to writing and drawing more comics for both children and adult readers. You can always see his latest work online at MichaelCho.com.
MAX FINDER MYSTERIES CASEBOOK VOL 1, CDN$11.99, ISBN: 978-2895791164
MAX FINDER MYSTERIES CASEBOOK VOL 2, CDN$11.99, ISBN: 978-2895791218
Darwyn Cooke
Darwyn Cooke is the author of the critically acclaimed and Eisner-Award winning DC: The New Frontier. An animation and illustration veteran, Cooke is currently writing and illustrating the new adventures of Will Eisner’s venerable comic creation, The Spirit, monthly for DC Comics. An animated adaptation of DC: The New Frontier is currently in production at Warner Bros. Animation.
ABSOLUTE DC THE NEW FRONTIER HC, 75.00, JUL060153
BATMAN EGO AND OTHER TALES HC, 24.99, MAR070177
BATMAN THE SPIRIT, 4.99, SEP060190
CATWOMAN SELINAS BIG SCORE SC, 17.95, MAY030152D
CATWOMAN THE DARK END OF THE STREET TP, 12.95, JUN020406D
DC THE NEW FRONTIER VOL 1 TP, 19.99, FEB058027D
DC THE NEW FRONTIER VOL 2 TP, 19.99, FEB050272D
SPIRIT #1 2ND PRT, 2.99, JAN078204
SPIRIT #2, 2.99, NOV060234
SPIRIT #3, 2.99, DEC060238
SPIRIT #4, 2.99, JAN070313
SPIRIT #5, 2.99, FEB070296
Rob Coughler
Master of Disguise, Unsurpassable Lover, and Mr. Charlize Theron are all titles he clings to tightly and his friends refuse to acknowledge. Butternutsquash aside, Rob is currently working on a variety of other independent writing projects. His main focus is an oddball comedy film script, which he hopes to independently produce. www.butternutsquash.net
BUTTERNUT SQUASH #1, 3.99, SEP053085
Ray Fawkes
Ray Fawkes is the Shuster award-nominated author of Mnemovore, Spookshow and other comics, as well as a contributing writer and developer for the Vampire: The Requiem line of games. Look for more of his work in The Apocalipstix Vol. One and Two from Oni Press this year, and Junction True from Top Shelf Publishing in 2008. Ray is based in Toronto, Canada. RayFawkes.com
Eric Kim
Less of a greenhorn than he used to be, Eric Kim has been fortunate enough to work with J. Torres twice: once with Love As A Foreign Language (Oni Press), and again with Degrassi: Extra Credit vol. 3. He's also worked with Owl Magazine on a comic called The Sidesteppers, and also does a bunch of illustration. You can see the rest of his work at his website, InkSkratch.com
DEGRASSI EXTRA CREDIT VOL 3 MISSING YOU, 9.95, JAN073811
LOVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE OMNIBUS VOL 1 TP , 11.95, MAR063341
LOVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE #4, 5.95, JUL053013
LOVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE #5, 5.95, DEC053140
LOVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE #6, 5.95, FEB063205
Hope Larson
Regarded as one of the most promising young cartoonists in comics, Hope Larson started her career on the web comics site, Girlamatic, and has contributed to anthologies such as Flight and You Ain't No Dancer. Her first graphic novel was Salamander Dream, published by AdHouse Books. Her second book, Gray Horses, was published by Oni Press in 2006. She is currently working on her third graphic novel, Chiggers, to be published by
Simon & Shuster in 2008. HopeLarson.com
GRAY HORSES GN , 14.95, DEC053139
SALAMANDER DREAM GN, 15.00, JUN052659F
YOU AIN'T NO DANCER VOL 1, 5.95, JUL053011
YOU AIN'T NO DANCER VOL 2, 8.95, AUG063478
Steve Manale
Steve Manale's webcomic Superslackers has been nominated for an Ignatz and a Shuster Award. When not hard at work drawing kids comics for clients
like YTV, Thomson Nelson and Chickadee Magazine, Steve spends most of his time agonizing about how he really should be hard at work drawing kids comics for clients like YTV, Thomson Nelson and Chickadee Magazine. Steve agonizes mostly in Toronto, Canada. Steve Manale, Superslackers.com
John Martz
John Martz is an illustrator and cartoonist living deep in the wilds of Toronto, Canada. His illustrations and comics can be found at John Martz, johnmartz.com
and in various questionable publications. He's also the editor of the illustration and
cartooning blog Drawn! at drawn.ca which showcases creative people far more talented than him.
Brian McLachlan
Brian McLachlan is a cartoonist living and working in Toronto, Canada. He has worked for The Toronto Star, Wizards of the Coast, and YM. His graphic novel No Dead Time (with artist Tom Williams) was published by Oni Press in 2005, and he is currently serializing his comic strip The Princess Planet at ThePrincessPlanet.com. Brian can be found online at adept.wire-fu.com.
Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe had his first novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask published by HarperCollins. He founded No Media Kings where he published his next three books and drew considerable public attention to the issues of media consolidation and the alternatives to it. His website nomediakings.org's do-it-yourself publishing resources created an international network of people through which he was able to found The Perpetual Motion Roadshow – a circuit that has sent 100 people on seven-city tours over four years. He is currently in post-production for a lo-fi sci-fi movie he wrote and produced called Infest Wisely.
FLYBOY ACTION FIGURE COMES WITH GAS MASK (NOVEL), 12.50, ISBN:978-0380810437
ANGRY YOUNG SPACEMAN (NOVEL), 13.95, ISBN:978-1568582085
EVERYONE IN SILICO (NOVEL), $13.95, ISBN:978-1568582405
AN OPENING ACT OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL, $14.00, ISBN:978-0968636336
Ryan North
Ryan North is a pretty okay dude who lives in Toronto, which is in Canada. He has two degrees in the computer sciences, if you can believe that! Dinosaur Comics is his comic about talking dinosaurs who have adventures, and it is good times for every single person involved. You can read them every day for free at www.qwantz.com, and can buy the first book collection, Dinosaur Comics: Your Whole Family Is Made Out Of Meat, which has like a billion jokes in it!
BEST OF DINOSAUR COMICS 2003-2005, 14.99, ISBN:978-0756005184
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series has taken the comics world by storm, selected as “Indie Comic of the Year” by both Entertainment Weekly and Wizard, and optioned as a major motion picture at Universal. O'Malley's accolades include winning the Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging
Talent and the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Cartoonist. He has been nominated for three Harvey Awards, two Eagle Awards, and an Eisner Award for Best Writer /Artist-Humor. www.radiomaru.com
LOST AT SEA NEW ED GN (DEC042753) , 11.95, APR063297
SCOTT PILGRIM VOL 1 SCOTT PILGRIMS PRECIOUS LITTLE LIFE GN, 11.95, MAY042851E
SCOTT PILGRIM VOL 2 VS THE WORLD GN , 11.95, DEC042750E
SCOTT PILGRIM VOL 3 INFINITE SADNESS GN , 11.95, OCT053132
Ramon Perez
Ramón has been working as a cartoonist for a little over a decade. His most recent project is volume two of the Degrassi: Extra Credit graphic novel series, and his past comics work include Spellgame and The Incredibles, as well as the children’s book Fear This Book. His and Rob Coughler’s Butternutsquash aside, the remainder of Ramón’s professional catalogue includes numerous role-playing games, collectible card games, character design, magazines and whatever else happens to land in front of him! www.butternutsquash.net
BUTTERNUT SQUASH #1, 3.99, SEP053085
DEGRASSI EXTRA CREDIT VOL 2 SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER GN, 9.95, AUG063506
Steve Rolston
Vancouver-based artist Steve Rolston won an Eisner Award as the premiere artist of the spy series Queen & Country. Since then he has illustrated various comics, including Pounded, Jingle Belle, Mek, Tales Of The TMNT, Degrassi: Extra Credit And The Escapists. With both his artist and writer hats on, he created Jack Spade & Tony Two-Fist and the graphic novel One Bad Day. Steve can be digitally located at www.steverolston.com.
DEGRASSI EXTRA CREDIT VOL 4 SAFETY DANCE, 9.95, JAN073812
FOUR LETTER WORLDS GN, 12.95, NOV041533D
ONE BAD DAY GN, 9.95, JUN032452E
POUNDED TP, 8.95, AUG022273E
QUEEN & COUNTRY VOL 1 TP, 8.95, STAR15478
QUEEN & COUNTRY VOL 7 TP, 14.95, JAN052894
RELOAD MEK TP , 14.95, JAN040284D
Salgood Sam
Salgood Sam has worked on a number of great comics projects including Sea of Red #1-4 from Image Comics, Revolution on the Planet of the Apes from Mr. Comics, and his own self-published comics collection RevolveR One. His next project will be working on Therefore Repent! with novelist Jim Munroe, which will debut at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. www.salgoodsam.com
Howie Shia
Howie is a founding partner in the Toronto-based music/design/film studio PPF House where he illustrates, animates and scores both independent work and commercial projects. Chalmers nominee and Vtape Video Art Award winner, Shia’s work has screened around the world at venues including the Art Gallery of Ontario, MIPTV (Cannes), the Lux (London, England) and the University of Cairo. Howie’s newest film, Flutter, is the first North American production to win the open entries grand prize at the Tokyo Anime Fair.http://ppfhouse.com/
Kean Soo
Much to his surprise and amazement, Kean Soo has recently become a full-time cartoonist. It is not as glamorous a job as he thought it would be, and he has since resigned himself to a life-long relationship with instant ramen. An assistant editor and contributor to the Flight anthologies (Ballantine Books), his first graphic novel, Jellaby, will be released by Hyperion Books for Children in 2008. Kean continues to post new Jellaby short stories to his website www.secretfriendsociety.com.
FLIGHT VOL 1 GN BALLANTINE ED , 19.95, FEB073248
FLIGHT VOL 2 GN (IMAGE EDITION), 24.95, JAN051598D
FLIGHT VOL 2 GN BALLANTINE ED , 24.95, FEB073249
FLIGHT VOL 3 GN , 24.95, APR063014
R. Stevens
Richard Stevens 3 has drawn Diesel Sweeties on the internet for seven years and was among the first web cartoonists to actually make a job of it. He currently draws the original version of DS, a syndicated print version and ships a lot of t-shirts. He only discovered Canada in his late twenties, but
thinks about moving there every single day. If you'd like to hang out, he's at dieselsweeties.com twelve days a week.
Cameron Stewart
Cameron Stewart has recently illustrated the critically-praised Vietnam War graphic novel The Other Side. His resume includes the Eisner Award-winning Seven Soldiers, Catwoman, Seaguy, BPRD, and many others. The Apocalipstix will soon be seen as a series of graphic novels from Oni Press. You can see more of his work at www.cameron-stewart.com.
CATWOMAN CROOKED LITTLE TOWN, $14.95, STAR20150
CATWOMAN RELENTLESS, $19.95, NOV040242
CATWOMAN WILD RIDE, $14.99, JUN050339
INVISIBLES VOL 7, 19.99, JAN078237
THE OTHER SIDE TP, 12.99, FEB070359
SEAGUY TP, 9.95, NOV040357
Zach Worton
Zach Worton is the creator of the mini-comics series Corpse, and does regular illustrations for Toronto’s EYE Weekly. This is an excerpt from his forthcoming graphic novel about the Canadian gold rush, tentatively titled The Greatest. Zach can be found online at www.corpse.ca.
Doug Wright
Doug Wright (1917–1983) was the creator of the strip Doug Wright’s Family, which ran from the late 1940s through the early 1980s in newspapers across Canada. Wright’s cartooning is little-known outside of Canada, but a number of organisations are working to change this. Founded in 2005, The Doug Wright Awards were established to cast a spotlight on the range of cartoonists and comic artists working in Canada, and you can find out more about them at www.wrightawards.ca. Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly is also planning a retrospective and collection of Doug Wright’s cartooning for 2008, and more information on this project will be available soon at www.drawnandquarterly.com, and you can find out more about The Doug Wright Awards at WrightAwards.ca.
Chip Zdarsky
And Prison Funnies begat Monster Cops and Monster Cops begat Comics Trip and Comics Trip begat Zdarskyverse and it was good. chipzdarsky.livejournal.com.
CHIP ZDARSKYS MONSTER COPS #1, 4.00, AUG063424
Jim Zubkavich
Jim Zubkavich is an illustrator and comics artist in Toronto, Canada. Jim is the creative director for Udon Comics, the head of Seneca College’s prestigious animation program, and a master on the karaoke mic. His first graphic novel, The Makeshift Miracle, is available in better comic stores
everywhere. MakeshiftMiracle.com
MAKESHIFT MIRACLE VOL 1 GN, 12.99, SEP063621