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With a week to go before Canada's federal election, the writer Jeet Heer pens this article on the subject of Stephen Harper's Conservative government and their recent decision to slash nearly $50 million in arts funding. …

books and meeting readers at Orbital Comics on Charing Cross Road, from 2-4PM. Details here. November 22 (Vancouver, British Columbia): Join Matt Forsythe for the launch of his new book Ojingogo at Lucky’s Comics on Main Street, beginning at 5PM. Details here. November 23 (Washington DC): Get Your War On creator David Rees will be getting his personal appearance on at Busboys and Poets on Fifth Street, beginning at 6PM. Details here. Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link

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was named as a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award for children’s literature up in Canada, except that Tamaki’s name was left off of the official list of nominees, because technically, she’s the artist and not the “writer.” Letters of protest were written, but apparently to no avail. Tom has reactions from those involved, including Jillian Tamaki. – Spurgeon also has an interesting interview with Slow Wave cartoonist Jesse Reklaw. I never knew, for instance, that Reklaw left Yale to

had nominated the graphic novel SKIM, for an award in children’s literature, but had seen fit to recognize only writer Mariko Tamaki; artist Jillian Tamaki isn’t mentioned, and she isn’t even invited to the awards ceremony. The letter writers think this is an injustice: We’re guessing that the jury who read SKIM saw it as an illustrated novel. It’s not; it’s a graphic novel. In illustrated novels, the words carry the burden of telling the story, and the illustrations serve as a form of visual reinforcement.

was named as a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award for children’s literature up in Canada, except that Tamaki’s name was left off of the official list of nominees, because technically, she’s the artist and not the “writer.” Letters of protest were written, but apparently to no avail. Tom has reactions from those involved, including Jillian Tamaki. – Spurgeon also has an interesting interview with Slow Wave cartoonist Jesse Reklaw. I never knew, for instance, that Reklaw left Yale to

not need to be created to properly address the graphic novel. In fact, it is best to see graphic novels appear in literary awards only when they deserve to compete equally against prose on their literary merit alone.” - Chester Brown and Seth’s letter (with a dozen other creators lending their name to the cause) to the Governor General’s Literary Awards challenging the fact only writer Mariko Tamaki is receiving credit for the “creation of the book

remote friends, missed friends–I’m having a day with so many of them!   Mary Burkey sent me  (with permission!) podcasts of some of what I missed last weekend, so I had a lovely couple of hours here today with Gene Yang, Peggy Burns, and an audience that asked good questions and clapped with energy. Between listens, I caught up with Elizabeth O, who, like me, isn’t at the California Library Association conference this weekend, although we know lots of folks who are (I think

from statenews.com An Open Letter To The Governor General’s Literary Awards

works so well is because she understood how to write for this medium. But we feel that as things now stand, Jillian is being slighted. We want both of the enormously talented creators of this book to be honoured together for their achievement.” - Letter by Seth and Chester to Governer Genera’s awards via drawn and quarterly