WWWD: Diamond Rings, Onra, G20 Photo Exhibit
Posted by Anupa in Art, Concerts, Toronto, WWWD on 08. Oct, 2010 | 1 Comment
Too good to hang out with your family this weekend, eh? If you’re not ‘burb-bound or celebrating Turkey Day with family fights, bedroom drinking and board games this long weekend then rejoice in what your benevolent mother Toronto has to offer instead: Diamond Rings, Toronto Public Library Parkdale Branch, Oct. 8 So I tooootes saw [...]
Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2010: In Pictures
Posted by Simon in Art, Toronto on 03. Oct, 2010 | 4 Comments
Another year, another night spent exploring the nooks and crannies of Toronto’s downtown neighbourhoods. All judgment aside about whether any of what we saw was art (and even less judgment about whether if it was, whether it was good art), Nuit Blanche never fails to at least be a great chance to bust out the [...]
My brain: comics, Penguin Classics, and classic hip-hop albums
Posted by Jef in Art, books, comics on 26. Aug, 2010 | 2 Comments
These are two things that have helped make my week (and both serve as a nice segueway into this weekend’s Fan Expo) — first up, from the Flickr page of Penguin art director Paul Buckley comes some very great comics-inspired Penguin Classics cover designs (The Communist Manifesto, above):
Australia to Bruce LaBruce: “Gross.”
Posted by Jef in Art, Canada, Film on 21. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
For the first time in 7 years a film has been banned from the Melbourne International Film Festival, and yay, it’s by Canadian writer, filmmaker and photographer Bruce LaBruce. I’m not sure why that makes me happy, but it does. My nationalism asserts itself in weird ways. LaBruce is no stranger to controversy — he’s [...]
If resting in peace is possible, Harvey Pekar deserves it
Posted by Jef in Art, comics, Obit on 12. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
At around 1 a.m. this morning Joyce Brabner found her husband Harvey Pekar dead in their Cleveland Heights home. Pekar, a stalwart of the indie-comics scene whose American Splendor series of slice-of-life graphic novels helped create a sub-genre and were loved by comics fans and outsiders alike, was 70. A Cleveland news report puts it [...]
