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Fan Expo 2010 – Caanan Grall Interview

While make our way through artist alley, one of the many tables that caught our eye was that of Caanan Grall, creator of Max Overacts and Celadore, the latter which originally appeared as part of DC Comics ZUDA online experiment.  After taking a look at some of his work on Celadore, we had a quick [...]
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Fan Expo 2010 – Jeff Lemire Interview

Peter B. sits down with Jeff Lemire, creator of Sweet Tooth (see Peter’s review) and Essex County, to talk about his influences, and the recurring theme of small town life in his work.  The next chapter of Sweet Tooth will give readers more insight to Jepperd’s background.  Jeff also mentions that the mysterious event that [...]
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Fan Expo 2010 starts this Friday

The end of August is the one time of year where the various geek and nerd subcultures collide in a heady mix of homebrew costumes and unadulterated hero (and heroine) worship.  Fan Expo, the ultimate Canadian merger of fandom takes place August 27-29, and brings together the Canadian National Comic Book Expo, the Science Fiction [...]
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TCAF 2010: Interview with Wondermark’s David Malki

In the latest of our TCAF interview series, Alex talks with David Malki about the Wondermark web comic, his vast collection of source images and much more. If you haven’t been to wondermark.com to check out the strip, I highly recommend it. At the end of the video we talk about beards…judge for yourself where in [...]
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TCAF 2010 – Ryan North Interview

Alex interviews Ryan North, creator of the popular webcomic Dinosaur Comics, at the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival  Besides talking about Dinosaur Comics, Ryan gives us his take on what web comics mean for comics in general, as well as using social media to get the word out, without abusing your readers’ trust. Ryan also [...]
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TCAF 2010 Brandon Bird Interview

Brandon Bird’s unique pop culture art style frequently consists of taking well known figures and putting them in unexpected scenarios, or presenting them in an unexpected style. At TCAF this year, Alex had a chance to talk to Bird about comic style art, Law and Order, and Nicolas Cage. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to [...]
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Crackdown 2 hands-on and interview

When the original Crackdown came out, it came with a code to access the early beta of Halo 3. At the time, some considered Crackdown to be the bonus game you get when your buy your early access pass to the beta.  Some complained that this was just a crass marketing ploy to move [...]
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TCAF 2010 Charles Vess Interview

Alex interviews legendary artist Charles Vess, best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman on works such as the Sandman comic series and “Stardust”. Charles talks with Alex about his latest book called “Instructions”. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
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TCAF 2010 – Jim Munroe Interview

Alex interviews Jim Munroe, writer of Sword Of My Mouth, the follow-up to Therefore Repent, a graphic novel about those left behind after the Rapture.  You can also read the first 22 pages of Sword online for free here. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web [...]
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TCAF 2010 – Mathew Kumar Interview

In the first of what will be a series of interview and panel videos from TCAF, Alex interviews Mathew Kumar, publisher of exp. magazine at this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
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GDC: Part One

In this segment, Alex and Doug discuss the Portal update complete with embedded SSTV images and Steam for the Mac. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
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Episode 22: IPTV

Want to do away with your cable bill? Ryan does, so we take a look at different options, from low cost media players like the Asus O!Play Air, all the way up to HTPC setups using nettops like the ASRock ION 330 or Acer Aspire Revo. We’ve also got reviews of Book of Eli [...]
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