Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Expozine Awards 2007
The Expozine Awards gala was held last night to celebrate the hard work of local publishers, illustrators, and page writers (not post writers like me...). Independent and DIY artists and their followers congregated for some cheap beer, entertainment, and lots of smoke machine to get a glimpse at this years winners:
Best English Comic
Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Best English Zine
Welcome to Gayside by The Third Leg.
Best English Book
The Theory of the Loser Class by Jon Paul Fiorentino, Coach House Press
Meilleur Zine
Ex Aequo (tie):
Le fascicule du FAS / spécial non-apprivoisable et non-domesticable, par fas.mjack.net
Sexy Fall // Chute! // Nous Numéro 1, de Louise-Andrée Lauzière; Éditions les cuisines piquantes
Meilleure Bande Dessinée
Hasemeister (spécial Halloween) par Frédéric Mahieu
Meilleur Livre
Cyclope opus #3 / Plan cartésien, Éditions Les 400 coups
Thursday, November 30, 2006
progressive print mags
As we all soak up our media intake online, from many, many, many outlets on the internet - there are some courageous media savvy individuals and organizations that still make hard copies of their work. Sometimes for free, and sometimes for low cost, and even, gasp, hand deliver it to your door, so that you can read over the breakfast table, rather than balancing your breakfast over your keyboard (and hence, spill coffee or egg yolks into it...which my dear news junky partner (rob maguire) so lovingly did to my imac, because his powerbook is in the shop. Speaking of Rob, here's his podcast, featured on CitizenShift on this very subject of independently published newsies, like The Dominion - a grassroots newspaper about Canadian and international politics, as well as Montreal's local bi-monthly issues based mag, Siafu.
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