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I’m so glad we have two straight white republicans like Trey Parker and Matt Stone to tell us when we should or shouldn’t be offended by something. People calling each other “fags” because it means annoying or terrible or fem or whatever? Yeah, that’s done now, because our straight white republican friends told us ‘that isn’t what it means anymore, because that’s not how 12 year old straight white kids use it.”

Thanks for letting us know ‘the score’ you two giant douchebags, we appreciate the education.

Make sure to let the bashers know too though, wouldn’t want them kept out of the loop.

Fuckers.

– Chris

With the end-of-season BEST OF lists already cropping up, NBM’s announcement that a third volume of Lewis Trondheim’s diary comic LITTLE NOTHINGS would be dropping in January reminded me that I never did get around to posting that “best of 2008” list I’d meant to. I did a short review of the second volume in March of this year–losing myself in Trondheim’s world for a little while was a glorious respite from hectic TCAF planning–and mentioned how fortunate I felt we were to get books like these released with some regularity. A third volume less than a year after the second is a treat.

To prime the pump for the release of the new book, NBM has started running excerpts on their blog at http://nbmpub.com/blog/. It’s fitting, as I believe these short strips originally ran on Trondheim’s blog en Français much to the consternation of myself and all of Trondheim’s anglophone readers. Actually, checking his blog right now, the current diary strips appear to be from time spent in Quebec! Maybe I’ll try and puzzle through them with my highschool French after all. 🙂

– Chris

Hey folks! Myself and a few TCAF staffers will be exhibiting at The SpeakEasy Comics Show, a monthly themed exhibition of arts industry professionals, this Thursday November 6th at 7pm, at The Gladstone Hotel. We’re going to be exhibiting the various TCAF posters, as well as the art for them… plus some rarely seen promo art too.

If you’re in the Toronto area, come on out and say hi! Full info below.

– Chris

TCAF @ SpeakEasy’s Annual Comic Book Show

Canadian cartoonist Troy Little burst onto the scene about 10 years back with his series Chiarscuro, a one-man-band type effort heavily inspired by the self publishing efforts of fellow Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus. While that series did fade away after 7 or 8 issues, it was eventually completed and collected by… IDW of all places. I’ve mentioned it here before, but IDW have quietly been publishing a series of creator owned graphic novels, often in hardcover. They’ve done maybe a half-dozen of them now, with some of the nicest production values in comics… And almost all of them have flown under the radar of most folks I’ve talked to, which is a shame.

IDW was also the home of Little’s next project, a ‘quirky’ graphic novel called Angora Napkin. Not quite for kids but not quite for adults, heavily influenced by the animation of Tex Avery and John K., it was released in the same month as probably 300 other graphic novels (and probably 20 of them were from IDW) and that’s the way it goes sometimes. But now? Now the core concept behind the graphic novel is an animated series.

Actually, it’s a pilot for an animated series that might run on Teletoon, Canada’s answer to The Cartoon Network. Hell, it might eventually run on Cartoon Network too.

IF you check it out, and like it, and vote for it. How? Well first head over to the Teletoon website and view the complete pilot: http://www.teletoon.com/teletoon3/detour.php?language=En&func=php|/misc/detourPilotProject/pilotProject.php|0.

Then follow the instructions there to vote for Angora Napkin (click the little thumbs-up next to their name)… or any of the other series that catch your fancy of course. Commenting probably couldn’t hurt either. Do this and you can help make the dreams of a small-town Canadian cartoonist a reality!

The Angora Napkin graphic novel is in better comic stores everywhere now, courtesy of Troy Little and IDW.

– Chris