{"id":1599,"date":"2008-03-07T22:28:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T02:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/03\/07\/quick-links-canadiana\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T22:32:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T02:32:59","slug":"quick-links-canadiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"Quick Links: Canadiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chodrawings.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/what-ive-been-up-to-lately.html\"><strong>+ Michael Cho<\/strong><\/a> just got out of the hospital after a fairly serious bout of illness. Cho is known around town for some great comics, but is probably more familiar to my international readers for his inks on this week&#8217;s <em>New Frontier Special<\/em>. Speedy recovery sir! <em>There are comics to draw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrightawards.ca\/\"><strong>+ Doug Wright<\/strong><\/a> has been in the comics news as of late. First up, Drawn + Quarterly have been publishing previews (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/blog\/2008_02_01_archive.php#202013384244210720\"><strong>one<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/blog\/2008_02_01_archive.php#9192748433486460820\"><strong>two<\/strong><\/a>) of their forthcoming biography of this Canadian cartoonist little known outside of Canada. Then, just this week a fellow named John Adcock <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yesterdays-papers.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/doug-wrights-tackytown-township.html\">found a number of his comics on microfilm<\/a><\/strong>, and decided to post them to his blog.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sequential.spiltink.org\/\"><strong>+ Sequential<\/strong><\/a> is a Canadian comics news and linkblog that, for whatever reason, I hadn&#8217;t yet added to my blogroll. I&#8217;ve rectified that now, go visit today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toronto Comics Events Coming Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 15th: Michel Rabagliati in Toronto, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beguiling.com\/2008\/03\/reminder-michel-rabagliati-in-toronto.html\">http:\/\/www.beguiling.com\/2008\/03\/reminder-michel-rabagliati-in-toronto.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>March 26th: Skim Book Launch, with Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pagesbooks.ca\/events.php?type=event&#038;id=165\">http:\/\/pagesbooks.ca\/events.php?type=event&#038;id=165<\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 3rd: Art Spiegelman in Toronto, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uofttix.ca\/view.php?id=326\">http:\/\/www.uofttix.ca\/view.php?id=326<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a little bit &#8216;a Stompin&#8217; Tom Connors, courtesy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/beatonna.livejournal.com\/\">Kate Beaton&#8217;s Awesome Canadian History Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stompin' Tom Connors, by Kate Beaton\" id=\"image1598\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stompin_tom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>+ Michael Cho just got out of the hospital after a fairly serious bout of illness. Cho is known around town for some great comics, but is probably more familiar to my international readers for his inks on this week&#8217;s New Frontier Special. Speedy recovery sir! There are comics to draw. + Doug Wright has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quick Links: Canadiana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-cartooning","category-general","category-the-beguiling","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}