The Gene Day Award is given out by the Joe Shuster Awards committee honouring Canadian comic…
Marty’s Spinner Rack
The Name is Vitulina, Phoca Vitulina … Spy Seal #1
Spy Seal … okay … a seal, that is also a spy? Sure, why not?…
We DO Need Another Hero … Captain Canuck Season 3 Issue 1
Captain Canuck is back! Did you hear me? Captain Canuck is BACK! Sorry but I…
We Want More Bettie Pages … Bettie Page #1
I know all the cool kids are at San Diego Comic Con but little ol’ me…
Lil’ Auric and His Pals … Auric’s Tall Tales
Great North Comics and POP Culture Canada are teaming up to bring you the first edition…
Where Are All the Pictures … The Impossible Has Happened
Most of my reading that doesn’t involve comic books is usually in the non-fiction realm.…
Happy Birthday Canada … Captain Canuck in Niagara Falls 150
Canada is turning 150 this year on July 1st and celebrations are happening all over…
Don’t Miss His Amazing Adventures … The Atomic Thunderbolt #1
There seems to be a trend in pop culture to rehash, reuse, reboot older properties. Old…
Fear the Walking Peasant … Pestilence #1
The Black Death, The Plague. We were told it was a devastating pandemic of the Yersinia…
The Name is Bastard … Jimmy’s Bastards #1
Let’s get this right out of the way now. This comic is about Jimmy Regent, Britain’s…
Gosh That’s a Lot of Comics … Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2017
Before we start, I have edited this story a bit as it seems like many…
What Do You Call a Mini Lion … Auric of the Great White North Mini-Issue #3
Creating independent comics is not always a monthly or even bi-monthly affair. Most creators work full…
I’m Going Ape Over … Super Gorillas vs the All-American Victory Legion
Charlton Comics. You run across this publisher’s books at every flea market, boot sale, and antiques…
Captain Canuck #1 Tillsonburg Fair Comic Con Exclusive Variant
Artist Andrew Thomas, colourist Donovan Yaciuk and Chapterhouse Publishing strike again with a new limited edition variant…
Five Jolting Tales of Horror … Stephen King’s Creepshow
Back in 1983 my Dad bought a VHS video tape machine for our TV. I don’t…
Savage Dragon Moving To Canada!?!
Recently Erik Larsen posted this cover image to Twitter. Following up from issue #226 where “a…
Hangin’ out on the Red Carpet … Heroes Manufactured
Heroes Manufactured is a Canadian documentary which highlights the unique challenges that Canadian independent comic artists face…
An Interview with Blue Hour’s Dino Caruso
It is always nice to find a comic creator from my birthplace of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.…
It’s a Man Eat Man World … Z Nation #1
The Asylum is an American independent film studio and distributor known for making fairly inexpensive knock-offs…
Meddling in History and Other Unsavory Affairs … Aldous Spark Graphic Novel
“The year is 1899. A secret war is being fought for the control of the 20th…
I Will Have My Vengeance, in This Life or the Next … Gladiasaurs
So, you are sitting at home, bored and cruising Facebook. This article from creationist Ken Ham…
A Wild West Adventure on the … Red Range
Western comic books. Such a huge genre for so many years. Golden Age, Silver and even…
Hear the Mighty Roar, Again … Auric of The Great White North #3
Well it happened again. The fine folks at Great North Comics held a Kickstarter funding drive…
Canada’s Newest Super-Team … Agents of PACT #1
In case no one noticed I am a Canadian. Which automatically makes me an SCTV enthusiast…
For Threats Beyond Our Imagination … Freelance #1
Freelance #1 from Chapterhouse Publishing hails the return of a comic book character deep from within…
There is Something Big Brewing … Badassical #1
One of the great things about crowdfunding is the ease to which independent creators can drum…
Chapterhouse Publishing 2017 Upcoming Titles
A series of house ads in this week’s releases reveal Chapterhouse Publishing’s upcoming line up of…
Carry on My … Super Sons #1
Readers of the 1970’s World’s Finest issues which featured alternative, teenaged sons of Batman and Superman…
An Interview With Black Hammer Creator, Jeff Lemire
Recently I had a chance to chat with Jeff Lemire, Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator…
Grab a Pin and Pop That Nasty … Blood Blister #1
AfterShock Comics made some huge waves in the comic book industry last year releasing some stellar…
The Mean Streets of Chicago … Deathstroke #11
Every once in a while, in this era of six issue story arcs, we get treated…
I Am Invisible, Understand, Simply Because People Refuse to See Me … Grimm Tales of Terror #1
The comic book marketplace is crowded. The “Big Two” publishers, Marvel and DC swallow up the…
She Devil With a New Zip Code … Red Sonja #1
Red Sonja started out as a 16th Century swashbuckler in stories written by Robert E. Howard…
The Weird Western Savage Sword of … Harland Buck Freesword #1
As a kid, I enjoyed the wide range of comic genres in the mainstream comics of…
Da Dum, Da – No, That’s Too Easy … Hook Jaw #1
Okay, a comic book about sharks. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Let’s get the Jaws…
Man, Am I in for a Huge … Motor Crush #1
So, I’ve been at this comic book thing for a few years now. Just a bit…
It’s Going to be One Heck of a Cold Night up … NORTH #1
Back in September I featured a Kickstarter comic book called NORTH. For the preamble to the interview…
Captain Canuck Artist Edition Variant Cover!
The fine folks at Chapterhouse and artist Andrew Thomas have created a limited edition variant cover…
And They all Sorta Lived … Happily Ever Aftr
Happily Ever Aftr is a Kickstarter comic coming from the mind of Canadian Ricky Lima and…
Look, Not up in the Sky but Down in the Green … Superman Annual #1
The Annual. A weird tradition of putting together a special issue once a year, usually in…
A Girl and Her Best friend, a Gorilla … Motor Girl #1
Okay … this might be a bit of heresy but I have never read a Terry…
With Glowing Hearts, we See … True Patriot Presents #1
True Patriot was a 100+ page anthology launched by J. Torres using Indigogo several years ago.…
PIGS … IN … SPAAAAACE … Spacepig Hamadeus #4, Spacepig Hamadeus and the Captive Planet
Spacepig Hamadeus and the Captive Planet is an expanded 48 page issue featuring the title story…
A Mighty Reference Book … The MLJ Companion
The Shield … Black Hood … Hangman … The Fly … not superheroes at the forefront…
Hi Honey, first time ? … Peepland #1
2009 Crimespree Award winner Christa Faust and Novelist Gary Phillips team up to provide a modern…
HJC and Marvel Comics Unite for Officially Licensed Graphic Helmets
Are you ready to let your comic pride show when driving the roads on your motorcycle?…
Why Take by Force What You Could Gain by Diplomacy … Earth Alliance
“The year is 2190. The human race is thriving, but only after it looked to the…
What if SCTV made a comic book … The Pitiful-Human Lizard #9
No title personifies my infatuation with light, fun and whimsical Canadian comics better than The Pitiful…
Hear the Mighty Roar … Auric of The Great White North #2
The Northern Ontario Expo is a great little comic book convention held in Timmins, Ontario up…
When the Wall Comes Crumblin’ Down … Hadrian’s Wall
Hadrian’s Wall was a real life defensive wall in Britannia with construction starting around 122 AD.…
Crush Your Enemies. See Them Driven Before You. Hear the Lamentations of … Groo Fray of the Gods #1
Groo The Wander first appeared in Destroyer Duck #1 way back in May 1982. That must…
If You Have a Problem, If No One Else Can Help, Maybe You Can Find … the Homeless G-Men
Stop me if you heard this one. A rag tag group of crime fighters are wrongly…
She’s got style, she’s got grace, she’s a … Lady Killer 2 #1
This issue marks the long awaited return of Joëlle Jones’ best-selling and 2016 Eisner Award nominated…
Sci-Fi Comics Are My Coping … Mechanism #1
I loved DC’s Vertigo imprint. Sandman, Preacher, Hellblaizer. Dang it but those were golden times in…
Some days I wish I was a kid again … Captain Kid #1
Aftershock is easily one of my favourite new publishers to pop up over the past few…
We All Live Under The Same Sky … Horizon #1
Each time that I see the iconic Star Wars scrolling text I realize what a huge…
Bought It at The Five-And-Dime … Chapterhouse Summer Special 2016
If you recognize the “bought it at the five-and-dime” song lyric in my title, chances are…
Original or Extra Crispy? … KFC: Crisis of Infinite Colonels
DC Comics (have we all gotten over the fact that we say Detective Comics Comics yet…
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow … Jack Grimm: Harbinger of Death #1 & #2
One of my favourite things about modern technology is the ease to which independent story tellers…
When the Battle Cry is spoken … Adventures in the Rifle Brigade Vol. 1
Oh Vertigo, what has happened? Back in 2000 Vertigo released two mini series from the amazing…
They Continue to Come from Inner Space! … Micronauts #3
“The universe is being torn apart and the MICRONAUTS are caught in the middle! They find…
His name is Man, Action Man – Action Man #1
Action Man, not a name terribly familiar to us in North America but to many British…
Kevin moves to the Big Apple! … Life with Kevin #1
Move over Carrie Bradshaw, Archie’s Kevin Keller has made his big move to New York City!…
We can rebuild him, again … Six Million Dollar Man: Fall of Man #1
I was a child of the 70’s. TV was king and the coolest cyborg in the…
Far, far away, in another galaxy … ROM #1
IDW strikes again with another nostalgic comic from my childhood, and I like it. ROM The…