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The Daily Mail ran a piece the other day in which it criticised Hayden Panettiere for charging $30 a signature at the Fan Expo Canada in Toronto this past weekend, claiming that she must have fallen on hard times. Weird, since I featured her doing the same at Big Apple Comic Con right in the middle[...]

From the Fear Itself panel held at Fan Expo Canada last night, come the following bullet points; The Fearless mini-series will focus on Valkyrie and Sin and what happens to the hammers. Battle Scars will be a murder mystery that turns into a conspiracy. Matt Fraction says to count the foot steps in this image as it is[...]

Jeff Lemire had a spotlight panel at Fan Expo Canada At which we learned; Sweet Tooth will probably end at around issue 50 His Atom back ups in Adventure Comics will tie in to his new Frankenstein series as Ray Palmer becomes a member of the S.H.A.D.E science team. Lemire sees S.H.A.D.E[...]

According to a press release, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has announced it's forming "a coalition to support the legal defense of an American citizen who is facing criminal charges in Canada that could result in a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in prison for comics brought into the [...]

Night all.

Chino is the first graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist David Collier and is an autobiographical account of his decision and experioence re-enlisting in

According to the Toronto Sun, Professor George Rigakos of Carleton University has created a four issue comic book based on the Communist Manifesto, in

Canada Reads, a popular Canadian book club radio programme on CBC has been running a vote for "the essential Canadian novels of the past decade" and has announced its final five And Jeff Lemire's Essex County is amongst them. Probably better known now for Vertigo's Sweet Tooth and DC's Superboy, it may well be that his[...]

Will they rename it Winnipeg Wizard World? Or how about W2C4? October 28th-30th 2011 will see Wizard World head up over the border as Gareb Shamus has bought yet another comic convention to add to the string around his neck, making his second Canadian show, the Central Canada Comic Con (previously the Manitoba Collector's Expo, then[...]