FAN EXPO Canada gets even stranger as Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard, Jamie Campbell Bower, and…
Martin Boruta
Martin Boruta has been reading and collecting comics for over 40 years. A life long fan of Captain Canuck, Martin is the curator of The Unofficial Yet Definitive Captain Canuck Comicography website. Since 2016, Martin has been reviewing comic books and highlighting great new Kickstarter projects at First Comics News. Recently Martin expanded his writing and contributes to Sequential Magazine. For kicks Martin enjoys teaming up with his pals and sharing hosting duties on The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show broadcast on Trent Radio 92.7 CFFF FM in lovely Peterborough, ON Canada and available at First Comics News & The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show website. Martin is an active member of the Canadian Comic Book Alliance and can be found participating in the lively conversations on the Peterborough Comic Book Collectors Facebook group. In his various adventures, Martin has demonstrated an innate ability to spell “Erik Larsen” incorrectly. You can send Marty an email at martin@boruta.ca but if it is spam, he might make a voodoo doll of you, just sayin'.
Fan Expo Canada is Fully Loaded!
FAN EXPO CANADA LOADED WITH BRAND NEW AND FAN FAVOURITE PROGRAMMING FOR ITS FULL RETURN Highlights…
Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn to appear at FAN EXPO Canada 2022
Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn to appear at FAN EXPO Canada 2022 Season 4’s breakout star…
Rise of the G-Men – Sgt. Flag #1
Launched as part of the Rise of the G-Men Kickstarter, Sgt. Flag #1 is one of…
Faster Action Figure! Kill! Kill!
Faster Action Figure! Kill! Kill! Legendary actress Tura Satana finally gets her own action figure! LOS…
Marty’s Kickstarter Pick … Auric: A God In Plastic
“It’s 1941…” “And it’s been nearly thirty years since Auric’s mission to save the north began,…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 191
Comic Safari Tony White gets the scoop on the comic safari Marty Boruta and Adam Bishop…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 190
Duolingo Not an April Fool’s prank where everyone thought it would be funny to not show…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 189
Speculacular Tony, Martin, Chris and Adam discuss how media trends can affect comic pricing. The speculator…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 188
Ummmmm Tony, Martin, Chris and Martin sit down and talk about comics. That’s all I got.…
Canadian Comic Book Alliance Free Sampler
The Canadian Comic Book Alliance has released a free, 128-page digital sampler comic book. Within the…
Aldous Spark: Meddler in History and Other Unsavory Affairs Volume 2
“It’s 1899. A secret war rages for control of the 20th Century. At the center of…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 187
Captain Canuck #1 Dan Collins, Tony White, Chris Ellis, and Martin Boruta break open a copy…
Dead Work Collective Kickstarter
Dead Work Collective New Canadian Comic Collective Forms and Launches Kickstarter WINNIPEG, February 7, 2022: Nine…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 186
Grab Bag Martin Boruta, Chris Ellis, Adam Bishop and Tony White just sit around and talk…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 185
Star Wars Martin Peterson joins Martin Boruta, Chris Ellis and Chris Gilpin to have an M²C²…
Happy Holidays … G-Man Edition
Does every Christmas Special review start with a reference to Clement Clarke Moore’s, Twas the Night…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 184
Read it Again, Sam Short description this time around folks. The lads delve into the collected…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 183
Is There Anything in the Box? Tony White joins the lads to discuss what’s arrived in…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 182
Uncanny X-Men Chris, Adam, Chris and Martin go all X-canny and X-stonishing looking back at their…
American Comics: A History … A Review
American Comics: A History is “the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 181
Favourite Comic Runs Dan, Chris G. and Marty talk about their favourite story runs of comics.…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 180
Variant Cover Gimmicks Die cut, Holograms and Chromium … oh my! Dan, Chris² and Marty discuss…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 179
Movie & TV Comics Everyone, except Dan, sit around the Zoom mics and wax nostalgically about…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 178
Image Comics We were there, on the ground floor, watching it all unfold. The birth of…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 177
Batmania Marty, Adam, Chris Ellis and Dan delve into Batman. Just batman. Broad subject yet somehow…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 176
ComicCon Crud Marty, Adam, Chris Ellis and Dan tell comic convention war stories. From smelly carpets…
The Definitive Edition of Brian Heiler’s Rack Toys Returns
Press Release: LOS ANGELES, CA — The Nacelle Company, the people behind Netflix’s The Movies That…
The Golden Years … Big Bang Adventures #8
So .. comic books … yeah. My pull-list is at an all-time low in terms of…
Mego and Hasbro Team Up for Exclusive GI Joe Product Lline
During a special live stream event on Facebook, Mego Corporation and Hasbro have announced that they…
Sequential Magazine Issue 9 – Spring 2021 Now Available
Spring 2021 Issue 9 is available for download Our latest issue and second for 2021 has…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 175
WE READ COMICS! Marty and Dan’s insanely stylish hair cuts cause more than a little envy.…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 174
Existential Crisis Marty, Chris Ellis and Dan return to the radio waves after a couple of…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 173
Do it! Once again, none of the show hosts have read a single comic this week!…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 170
Episode 170 – sigh Is everyone okay? How are you feeling? Covid-19 lockdowns got you down?…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 169
Episode 169 – Chapter No More Chris, Chris, Dan and Adam hold on tight as Marty…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 168
Episode 168 – Memory Lane Chris, Chris, Marty, Dan and Adam … the entire crew made…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 167
Episode 167 – Read-Only Memory Chris Ellis is watching Doctor Who now! Much to Adam’s chagrin…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 166
Episode 166 – Frank Bolan Marty, Dan, and Chris chat about Marvel facing calls to cancel…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 165
Episode 165 – Gimmie a Dalla! Marty, Dan, Chris and Adam were floored by the recent…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 164
Episode 164 – MMXXI Marty, Dan, Chris and Adam ring in the New Year with tales…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 163
Episode 163 – Wutdaflug Marty, Dan and Chris talk comics, at least, they talk about what…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 162
Episode 162 – Auric Davis Dewsbury from Great North Comics stops by to spill the tea…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 161
Episode 161 – whoops No! I didn’t lose the first 15 minutes of this episode, you…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 160
Episode 160 – Jeepers Oh boy! Our wallets are thor with all these hikes in collectible…
Marty’s Kickstarter Pick … Dark | Sanctuary
The fine folks at Sandstone Comics have launched a Kickstarter to fund a new horror comic…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 159
Episode 159 – Let’s Do This The Boys are Back! After an eventless summer, the crew…
Tidalwave Productions Political Power: Justin Trudeau
Biographical comics are not my thing. Never have been. I think the only one I ever…
Marty’s Kickstarter Pick … Spectrum #2
Press Release – Spectrum #2 Kickstarter Launch COMING OUT IS A RAINBOW OF EXPERIENCES. ESPECIALLY WITH…
Nominations for the 2020 Joe Shuster Awards
Press Release – September 8, 2020 It has been a challenging year, and while this announcement…
An Open Letter to PayPal from an Independent Creator
Recently I supported a crowd-funding project from the PlaidStallion himself, Brian Heiler. It is for a…
Taking the Wraps Off … Group of 7: A Most Secret Tale
Chris Sanagan and Jason Lapidus‘ Group of 7 series released their 6th issue a while back…
Captain Canuck Turns 45 & American Daredevil Hits Stores!
PRESS RELEASE … CAPTAIN CANUCK TURNS 45 + AMERICAN DAREDEVIL HITS STORES! It’s that time of…
Chapterhouse On-Demand Back Issues Now Available
Exciting news as Chapterhouse Comics has made their entire back catalogue of comics and trade paperbacks…
Heroes Manufactured Live Presents Comics Vault
Heroes Manufactured Live TV is a streaming Web Series from Yaron Betan, producer of the award-winning…
DC Comics Officially Dumps Diamond Comic Distributors
In an email to retailers today, DC Comics announced the end of its long-standing distribution arrangement…
Auric’s Legion Strike Card Game
ATTENTION TEAM AURIC! Great North Comics is announcing the Auric’s Legion Strike card game open Beta…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 156
Episode 156 – Out-of-Towner The at-home hijinks continue as the lads chat about impulsive quarantine buying…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 30
Episode 30 – Revisited During our Covid-19 quarantine, we thought this would be a great opportunity…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 155
Episode 155 – Homegrown Ladies, Gentleman and distingushed guests that identify somewhere inbetween … welcome to…
Marty’s Kickstarter Pick – Banana Tail and The Checkerboard Jungle
Comic book veteran Mark McKenna is launching a Kickstarter campaign for his third storybook in the…
Runner-Up Favourite Podcast 2019 – Hey Kids Comics Radio Show
Hosted right here at First Comics News, The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show won Runner-Up Favourite…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 151
Episode 151 – Angry Cartoons Dan, Marty and Adam hit the airwaves actually reviewing comics! It…
Whatever Happened To … Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics
EiC: Hey, Marty, can you do a review for me? Me: Sure Chief EiC: Great, and…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 149
Episode 149 – Tijuana Bible Studies Dan, Marty and Adam update our loyal listeners on the…
Vote for The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show!
Brendan Montgomery, Editor in Chief of Sequential Magazine is pleased to announce, on behalf of the…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 148
Episode 148 – La Broma Asesina Welcome to 2020!! First episode of the decade sees Chris…
Need a Ride? … Afterlift #1
Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing apps are a bit of a novelty to me. See, our…
The Hey Kids Comics Radio Show – Episode 147
Episode 147 – Happy Holidays Dan, Chris and Chris sit down on this, our last Hey…