Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
In today’s National Post I talk to artist Matt Kish about his project, Moby-Dick in Pictures. Yesterday, I hosted a live chat with Margaret Atwood to talk about her new book, In Other Worlds.
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Lisa Occhipinti turns books into art. She’s written a book about it, too, called The Repurposed Library. I talk to her in today’s paper.
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
In today’s paper I talk to Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier, founding members of the Royal Art Lodge, about their new book Constructive Abandonment.
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Saturday, May 7th, 2011
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival takes place this weekend; I preview it in Saturday’s National Post. Also: I sit down with South Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin to talk about her new book Please Look After Mom.
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Essex County was the first book voted-off Canada Reads last week; in this week’s Culture Club, I ask our distinguished panel what that means.
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
Canada’s largest book distributor, H.B. Fenn and Company, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday. The move caught most everyone in the Canadian publishing industry off-guard. I also spoke to members of the Toronto-based illustration collective Sketchkrieg! about their latest project, Paper Trail.
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
I last interviewed David Collier in August, when he drew the liner notes for Luke Doucet’s Steel City Trawler. This time, I spoke to Collier about his own project, Chimo, a graphic memoir that chronicles his second tour-of-duty in the Canadian Forces.
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
You don’t have to be a regular reader of MAD magazine to recognize the work of Sergio Aragonés: he’s contributed more cartoons and comics to the satirical magazine than just about any other artist in the world. His work is collected in a new book, Sergio Aragonés: Five Decades of His Finest Work, and I recently spoke to him about it.
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
In Friday’s National Post I chat with Charles Burns about his new graphic novel, X’ed Out.
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