23 July 2017
SDCC ’17 On the Floor: Comics Makers & Sellers
By Kelly Bedard // Books
Click Here to read all of our coverage from 2017 San Diego Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con at its heart is about one thing: Comics. More and more, TV and film …
23 July 2017
SDCC ’17 On the Floor: Books & Podcasts
By Kelly Bedard // Books
San Diego Comic-Con is known for so much more than comics. As we toured the crowded, expansive floor, we came across tons of great booths dedicated to books and other …
14 July 2017
Batman/Elmer Fudd: The Crossover You Didn’t Know You Needed
Batman/Elmer Fudd #1 by Tom King, illustrated by Lee Weeks, coloured by Lovern Kindzierski…
12 July 2017
Tetris: the Games People Play by Box Brown
Tetris for me will always be the first game I can remember an adult playing. As a kid, one of my earliest friends’ mom loved Tetris; I was astounded that …
30 June 2017
Matthew Loux’s Time Museum
If you’re looking for an all-ages comic that combines humour, heart, history, and adventure, then look no further: The Time Museum is an absolute delight from start to finish, and …
11 June 2017
TCAF 2017 Roundup
Once a year, the Toronto Reference Library transforms into comics nirvana – and despite my love of graphic novels and comics, I’d never been. The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is …
27 April 2017
Batman Watches the Watchmen?
*This article contains full spoilers for recent DC Comics – most notably Batman #21 and the recent Superman arc* On paper, what I’m about to pitch is going sound like …
02 March 2017
Helen Ellis: a modern American Housewife
By Lauren Webb // Books
Author Helen Ellis has many strings to her bow, novelist, World Tour poker player and (previously anonymous) social commentator on Twitter. Her latest book, American Housewife is based on her …
08 November 2016
The Book Club Chronicles: The Lake House
By Ann Fitzhenry // Books
The Book Club met to discuss The Lake House by Kate Morton. Our feelings as a group can be summed up by Patty’s comment, “I wanted to stay home from …
05 September 2016
Jane Two, a pre-Hollywood non-memoir
By Kelly Bedard // Books
Sean Patrick Flanery wrote a novel. Do you know who Sean Patrick Flanery is? Around the turn of the century, he was tied for first place as my favourite Sean …
30 August 2016
The Book Club Chronicles: Introduction
By Ann Fitzhenry // Books
Five women with a shared love of reading fiction came together just over a year ago. Our purpose: to enjoy the camaraderie of discussing books, to encourage the exploration of …
15 June 2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
By Beth McNeil // Books
Two half sisters, an ocean and a world away, give birth to two completely different dynasties. Homegoing follows these families through interwoven tales of love, heartbreak, classism, racism and the …
03 January 2016
Registering On The Snikt-er Scale
By Marty Chodorek // Books
Though it may not be quite as contradictory to my Canadian self-identification as my dislike of maple syrup, I’ve never felt particularly drawn or sympathetic to the character of Wolverine. …
28 December 2015
10 Novels I Read in 2015 That You Should Read in 2016
By Steve Marois // Books
2015 was an incredible year of reading for me. I read as many books as I could get through and was fortunate enough to meet several of my writing idols—David …
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