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Sensology by Michel Gagné

You don’t have to work for the NFB to create NFB like videos. Michel Gagné artist extraordinaire has taken his animation to a whole new…

Stress Defined by Scott Adams

Scott Adams the Dilbert artist has an interesting spin on stress and how it is balanced in many aspects of life. My theory is that…

2012 Survival Guide

If we are made to believe Hollywood and a bunch of Aztec whacks, then we better be prepared for in the inevitable. We need a…

All My Friends Are Dead

Death will come to all creatures great and small. It’s a topic not too often explored in books for kids. The whimsical approach by both…

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth. Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, reveals today in a major press announcement the title, first-printing quantity,…

La Vilaine Lulu by Yves Saint Laurent

In 1967, Claude Tchou published an oddity called La Vilaine Lulu, the only comic strip written and drawn by Yves Saint Laurent. In this book…

Bugs Bunny Turns 70

Love him or hate him, Bugs Bunny turns 70 today. He was first introduced in A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released on…

Calvin and Hobbes Art Gallery

Everybody has their own unique interpretation of the Calvin and Hobbes universe. The cult series has been dormant for over fifteen years and still has…

DC Celebrates 75 Years

Celebrate 75 years of DC Comics with films and TV series inspired by some of the most popular SUPER HEROES including BATMAN, SUPERMAN and other…

Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour

Scott Pilgrim will have his day in the sun this year. This summer belongs to Bryan Lee O’Malley the creator of Scott Pilgrim. Born in…

Doug Wright’s Nipper

Every country at one time had their own Charles M. Schulz, Canada is no exception to this. Doug Wright and his Nipper creation is a…

New Green Hornet

The campy Green Hornet is back. Seth Rogen sheds a new comedic dimension to the 60’s popular second banana series to the Batman iconic TV…

Guns and Comic Books

Guns and comic books at one time went hand in hand. Daisy BB guns were plastered on the inside and back of comic books encouraging…

Good Grief Charlie Brown Graffiti

Graffiti cannot be good grief for any building owner if it is not wanted. Here found in Ottawa is a tribute to Charlie Brown ‘s…

New Smurf Movie

The official trailer for the Smurf movie hit the net and the reactions are very negative for the Americanized version of the Peyo classic. The…

Summer Reading

Summer reading is the best under a tree with a nice breeze close to the shore. What great books are coming out this summer? The…

Kids Say the Darndest Things!

Google Books online has a generous sampling of “Kids Say the Darndest Things!” A recent reprint of the original 1957 book which had a great…

Blacklight Posters

Blacklight posters were the rage in many head shops in the '70s but were around in the '60s. Still, you will find some gracing the walls of many teens. A rite of passage for many expressing their counter-culture stance.

Calvin Minus Hobbes

You know if it worked for Garfield then why not try it out for Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin Minus Hobbes is an attempt to duplicate past success like Garfield Minus Garfield. Will Bill Watterson be will either amused or send a cease and desist letter. On many levels Calvin Minus Hobbes works better, you could easily say Calvin must be medicated or something and is in touch with reality a bit more. Jeff Ocean the white-out guy behind this new strip is the architect of Calvin Minus Hobbes.