Dames Making Games (DMG) is looking for gaming pros to make short presentations and some general helping out for a four week game-making summer camp at the Rexdale Community Centre. Ten youths will learn about game-mechanics, art and visual design, programming, and sound design and effects. The camp will wrap up with an August 26th…
R/W: A Collection of Links On Language, Literacy, and Writing
Language For the language geeks, BuzzFeed contributor John Herman tells us Why We Sound Weird When We Talk About Tech. It involves, as you’d imagine, the verbing of nouns and adjectives, and our relative familiarity with these new verbs. Elegance? That’s mostly a matter of perspective, not an objective style fact.
Reviews Roulette: Spin the Wheel, Write Reviews
Welcome to Reviews Roulette, where editors randomly assign comics to our staff writers for review! This week we assigned The Auteur #4 (Oni Press), Thomas Aslop (BOOM!), and Emily and the Strangers: Breaking the Record (Dark Horse).
Update: DC to Allow Superman Shield on Statue of Jeffrey Baldwin
The Toronto Star reports that DC Entertainment has had a change of heart and will allow Superman’s shield to be used in a planned statue of murdered child, Jeffrey Baldwin. A Wednesday press release says that DC Entertainment uses a flexible set of criteria when we receive worthy requests such as this, and at times have…
Interview from Todd Boyce
Yesterday we reported that DC Entertainment declined the request of Todd Boyce to use Superman’s shield in a statue to honour murdered Toronto child, Jeffrey Baldwin. This morning, CBC radio host Matt Galloway spoke to Boyce on Metro Morning about the campaign, his dealings with DC, and how his plans have changed as a result…
HarperCollins Will Now Sell Directly to Customers
HarperCollins announced today that it will sidestep Amazon, by moving to sell directly to customers. The international mega-publisher already sells e-books direct to customers globally, and in August, will move to sell paper and physical audio books to its UK customers. US, Canadian, and Australian stores will follow.
TW: DC Refuses Use of Superman Shield On Statue of Murdered Child
Trigger Warning: Child Abuse By now, Canadians know the name Jeffrey Baldwin well. The boy, only five years old and twenty-one pounds when he died, spent years confined with his three siblings in his grandparents’ home, slowly starving.
Dogears: Alien Psychiatry
The Fire Witness Lars Kepler Random House Canada Lars Kepler is a pseudonym for a Swedish husband and wife writing team: Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril. The Fire Witness is the third book about Chief Inspector Joona Linna as he figures out a tricky murder only he can solve.
Staff Picks for July: Books
The Queen of the Tearling Erika Johnson HarperCollins The Queen of the Tearling is the story of a young queen, Kelsea, taking the throne in a dangerous time. She has lived in hiding almost her entire life and has no practical experience running a country. But she sets out to rule by the strong values…
Staff Picks for July: Movies
LUCY Luc Besson Universal There are a few reasons I want to see this one. First, Morgan Freeman. There are only a scant few movies he picks that aren’t winners on some level. Second, Luc Besson. This is the man who brought us the fun, action-packed, vivid ‘verse of The Fifth Element and made “Leeloo…
Staff Picks for July: Comics
Black Science Rick Remender (W) Matteo Scalera (A) Image Comics Black Science will return on July 30th after a three month break following the completion of the first story arc. Issue #6 left off with Grant McKay encountering a duplicate of himself from another aspect of the multiverse, rescuing his own children from said duplicate,…
Review: Fast Friends (NSFW)
Fast Friends Writer: Dale Lazarov Artist: Michael Broderick Dale Lazarov bills his work as “smart, wholesome, gay comics smut,” and that it is. Fast Friends, like Sticky and Manly is a wordless, erotic comic that balances poignant slice of life narrative with marathon sex.