We watch closely our food… but what about our average media intake?
At any event, signing tables are at a premium… It’s the only time we can meet face to face and, may be, win over new readers. Ugly fights might erupt, especially with schedule errors getting more common! Fortunately, the friendly stand manager is present!
PS: and, yes, I changed the title in English for this series.
The Busy Fans – Texts and art by Michèle Laframboise – There are many ways of telling others that you’re busy…
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This comic is very close to my heart because it concerns my favorite literary flavor ice cream, SF.
To write science-fiction, you have to be not only passionate, but you must also know how to explain the genre to your beloved audience! Most readers associate these words with all other things like (badly written) big movie blockbusters.
There has been intellectual snobbery of genre literature by the “white” litterature, an attitude which fortunately is beginning to fade.
At the end of this article, I put a sketch drawn in 2012 to capture the sense of wonder that came over me during my early discovery of science fiction. I would read late in my father’s library.
If you speak French, I recommend that you visit the blog of Jeanne-A. Debats, a writer who does not shy away from daring ideas! She propvided a few lines from the Paris Book fair which has just ended. When I was on site in 2008, I heard some, among those: “Oh, I do not read fiction because it is unreal! »
The “talking squids” allusion is a recent catchphrase in Canadian SF literature, born of a joke by Margaret Atwood, who wrote good SF anticipation and post-apocalyptic, but did not want at one time be associated with the genre. She finally came around and admit the writing, as she explores many genres.
A website had been put up by Vonda McIntyre, featuring a short-story by Stephen Baxter, Sheena 5, about, of course, squids in space.
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The “OK” fan is the one who seems to agree to everything you say about your book… but is s-he really listening, or simply polite?
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Tagged Book fairs, Comics, humor, SF, Webcomics
The TCAF is an annual event in Toronto for all Comics lovers. I went from the opening until 13h, sorry for all of you I missed!
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My May special of the Joys of Signing is ready !
50+ years of Spiderman… and my husband and I almost read them all!
Yes, the new Spiderman Movie is out… and, by a splendid coincidence, this weekend is the Free Comic Book Day! Come and enjoy the activities organised by the Streetsville at the Image Collections store!
This scene unfolds at the Salon du livre de Québec, so the last panel shows the Québec Parliement in the background. There was no freezing spell there, but it really happened at a similar event!
This comic page was done with my Intuos tablet and modified on Manga Studio. It is no 27 in the Splendors and Miseries of the Signing Table series, the French version here. And yes, it was snowing when I drew this comic…
Many thanks to Jack Ruttan who translated this page from French!
Echoes of a Sunday artist 