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Road to Riverdale: Penguin Random House Canada Screening Event

January 29, 2017

This past Friday, Penguin Random House Canada invited me to their offices for a screening of the first episode of the new CW show, Riverdale. It’s a modern take on the iconic Archie characters set in their small town of Riverdale and attendees were encouraged to dress up in either 1950s ...

Comics, Con Diaries

To All the Cons We Loved This Year

November 18, 2016

I went to a lot of cons this year. So many cons. I attended SDCC for the first time, flew to New York for the second year of FlameCon, did some shopping at TCAF, some press and panels at FanExpo, and covered several of Toronto’s hundred-odd film festivals. I’m not a fan of cons, ...

Comics, Reviews

Let Me Live Through You: Go To Safari Festival

August 23, 2016

Safari Festival is August 27th–this upcoming Saturday. And, it being in London, which is far away and tricksy once you get there, I can’t go. Can you go? If you want to, you should. Here’s the sell! Safari is run by Breakdown Press. Like their comic output, it is curated. ...

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Line-ups and Lock-ups at the #BelleReveTO Suicide Squad Exhibit

August 2, 2016

I take my job as the ear-to-the-ground or pulse-checker (whatever floats your boat) of pop culture very seriously and when I heard there was a some kind of Suicide Squad promo exhibit, I jumped at the chance to get locked up at Belle Reve sanatorium. Decided to be @womenoncomics' ...

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White Pine Awards & Toronto’s Reading Festivities

May 24, 2016

On May 17th, I got up early and made my way down to Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre for the first day of the Festival of Trees. It’s a two day literary festival, with a third day in French, and has expanded to satellite events in Sault Ste. Marie and London, Ontario. It’s put ...

Comics, Con Diaries

TCAF 2016: Festival Diary

May 18, 2016

I love the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) and I’ve gone every year since 2013. The 2016 festival was fantastic and I’m still recovering from the exciting things that went down. TCAF is a free event that focuses on independent comics and creators with guests from not only Canada ...

Comics, Con Diaries, Zines

Con Diaries: Chicago Zine Fest

May 17, 2016

It’s been two weeks since I attended the Chicago Zine Festival (CZF), but I still feel the aftershocks of love, community, excitement, and exhaustion. In my experience, zine festivals and alternative comics expos are designed with accessibility in mind. There is no entrance fee or admission ...

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Dita Von Teese’s Opium Den: Consuming Problematic Media

May 16, 2016

My partner recently surprised me with tickets to see Dita Von Teese’s Burlesque: Strip, Strip, Hooray!, purported to be a revue of high production-value, best-of-the-best burlesque performed by Dita and a cast of striptease superstars. Though I’d never seen Dita in person before, many of the ...

Comics, Events, Interviews, Reviews

Comic Cons, Comic Books, and a Library Magazine: Anne Drozd on the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival, Pulp, and a Mystery Comic

May 6, 2016

In the past few years, Anne Drozd and her husband Jerzy Drozd have produced a boatload of comic events: Comic books, podcasts, conventions, cartoonist instruction for kids/teens/adults, school workshops, library events, Nerd Nites, tiny expos, big expos; these two do it all. I was thrilled that ...

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Southern Hip-Hop Meet Gymnastics: On Diversity in Gymnastics

February 23, 2016

I really can’t stand sports for the most part, but the sports I do like are the so-called “girly” ones: figure skating, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and dancesport. Like my beloved ballet, they display grace and power, usually with sequins and glitter. In my mind, ...

Events

Road to Riverdale: Penguin Random House Canada Screening Event

To All the Cons We Loved This Year

Let Me Live Through You: Go To Safari Festival

Line-ups and Lock-ups at the #BelleReveTO Suicide Squad Exhibit

White Pine Awards & Toronto’s Reading Festivities

TCAF 2016: Festival Diary

Con Diaries: Chicago Zine Fest

Dita Von Teese’s Opium Den: Consuming Problematic Media

Comic Cons, Comic Books, and a Library Magazine: Anne Drozd on the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival, Pulp, and a Mystery Comic

Southern Hip-Hop Meet Gymnastics: On Diversity in Gymnastics

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