Photo courtesy of Brian Fukushima
This week was even crazier than last week’s fundraising show. I was joined by Brandon Graham, James Stokoe, Marley Zarcone, and the multi-talented Brian Fukushima. We were also had some fabulous call-ins from Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest programming director Bill Kartalopoulos, CCS librarian extraordinaire Jen Vaughn and long lost friend, Jordyn Bochon.
Brian Fukushima and Robin Konstabaris joined me for fun filled hour of talk. It was really great, we managed to raise a good amount of funds for the station and had a blast doing it. Thanks to Joe Keatinge, Jordyn Bochon and Jordan Shiveley for calling in. Brian will be back next week along with Brandon Graham. If you want to call in, the number is 604-822-2487.
Special thanks to Annie Koyama for her swell comic donations.
And, you can check out Brian’s twitter songs here.
Hey Folks! Tomorrow is the CiTR funding drive. I have a great selection of books from Conundrum Press, Drawn and Quarterly, Raincoast Books, and Top Shelf Comix.
This year, I will be doing a call in extraveganza. On Nov 18th at 2pm until 3pm PST, Brian Fukushima and Robin Konstabaris will be joining me in the studio and talking up storm with who ever calls.
Soooo, please call in and ask some questions, have something fun to say, or whatever tickles your fancy. the number is 604-822-2487. and you can listen live at www.citr.ca. Brian also hosts his own podcast called Spy Vs Pie and his awesome Twitter songs.
Check it out! I will be appearing with one of my favorite cartoonists, Dave Cooper care one of my favorite comic stores, the Beguiling. I will be interviewing Dave in front of an audience, asking only the best of questions. And to top it off, I get to sit next to him and sign my own book for whomever attends. I am really excited about this event.
This is just he beginning of my East-coast adventure. From there, I will be traveling to Vermont with the help of the fabulous Jen Vaughn for a visit to the Center for Cartoon Studies. After that, I will be heading down to NYC for a week of madness centred around the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. It looks like an amazing event and I am pleased as punch to be attending with my publisher, Conundrum Press.
If you want to meet up in New York, shoot me an email. I will be out having fun!
and in proper radio news, CiTR is doing their annual Funding Drive over the next couple of weeks, which means the show will be pretty different. It’s going to be a lot of talkin’. I am hoping that people will call in while we are doing this and have some fun Inkstuds style chats. This will be on November 18th and 25th at 2pm pacific time. Each week I will be joined by different local cartooning personalities. If you would like to call in, which i strongly suggest and promote – 604-822-2487.
More updates on that later this week.
Matt Dembicki has put together a great comic anthology collecting and adapting First Nations folklore stories called Trickster.
Comix Claptrap hostess and Bay Area cartoonist, Rina Ayuyang joins me for a chat about her new collection, Whirlwind Wonderland. Rina is a great chatter in all things comics and her book is pretty great too.
Sarah Glidden’s How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less is one of the more exciting books to come out from Vertigo in quite a while. It’s a great look at personal growth and development in the most unique of situations. and it’s a lovely book. Sarah’s work can also be found on the blog for her studio that she shares with some other talented folks.
And don’t forget about the Inkstuds book, which can be found here and in finer comic stores.
David King’s mini comics are among my most favorite mini comics. His newest and biggest collection, Lemon Styles, continues to delight me. Go read his comics. he makes the funny.
Gary Groth,Jeet Heer and Ben Schwartz joined me for a lively roundtable discussion on The Best American Comics Criticism collection out from Fantagraphics. It’s great discussion and I wish we had way more time. It gets very lively.
