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Decent Comics’ amazing The Last Paper Route debuts at DCAF 2017!

Issue #3 debuting next weekend at @dartmouthcomicartsfestival featuring this amazing cover by Andy Cotnam! Come find us at the Decent Comics booth and don’t miss the kick-off part at Gus’ Pub on Friday Aug 11th! #Halifax #DartmouthNS #wordburglar #DCAF2017 #TheLastPaperRoute #CanadianComicBooks 

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DCAF kick-off party at Gus’ Pub Friday August 11th 9PM! featuring Wordburglar, COINS, The Bad Nintendos, Vadell Gabriel, Komissar, Breaks Breen and more! $5 advance tickets available at Strange Adventures (Halifax & Dartmouth), $7 at the door

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Brenda Hickey will be at DCAF 2017!

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Michael de Adder will be at DCAF 2017!

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Tony White of Chapterhouse Comics will be at DCAF 2017!

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Troy Little will be at DCAF 2017!

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Tony White of Chapterhouse Comics will be at DCAF 2017! Tony is a Dad of two lovely geek girls, the husband of the most patient woman he knows and a Halifax based Editor for Canada's largest comic book publisher, Chapterhouse Comics. During his time with the publisher, he has helmed some of the company's most popular titles, like Captain Canuck, All New Classic Captain Canuck, Northguard, the Chapterhouse 2016 Summer Special & Die Kitty Die with involvement in new, recently released titles, Freelance and Agents of PACT. His latest editorial endeavours are in the May 2017 Free Comic Book Day issue of Captain Canuck also featuring Die Kitty Die and anthology series, True Patriot Presents.

Currently, Tony has moved into the role of Managing Editor for Chapterhouse Comics with responsibilities including creator owned titles like Spirit Leaves, the Fourth Planet, the Pitiful Human-Lizard, Life Death and Sorcery, True Patriot Presents as well as Die Kitty Die. In addition to that, he is helping to launch the paperback publishing division of the company with new authors from across Canada. He is always eager to find new projects by talented creators wherever he goes.

In his spare time he complains about having too many pets and enjoys microblogging about craft beers.

Follow him on Twitter @CanuckTony Follow Chapterhouse on Twitter @chapterhouseca

Founded in Toronto, Ontario, in 2015, Chapterhouse Comics is a vital new voice in genre entertainment, with a wealth of amazing characters in comics, prose, and animation, and ambitious plans to expand into live action. Chapterhouse provides a venue for some of the best creative voices from Canada and the world, both in our superhero universe and in our line of inspiring and inventive creator-owned titles such as Die Kitty Die, Spirit Leaves, True Patriot, and The Fourth Planet.

www.chapterhouse.ca

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“The design of which I’m most proud, my ever lovin’ Amazon Princess.” 

—Darwyn Cooke, The New Frontier (2004)

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Wherefore what thou, Romeo?

io9 ask Squirrel Girl writer Ryan North why messes with Romeo & Juliet - you can ask him yourself at #DCAF Aug 14th http://io9.gizmodo.com/come-ask-squirrel-girl-writer-ryan-north-why-he-wants-t-1782489949

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I had a lot of fun with this on twitter, so I just kept on going with it. But you know, I’m always kind of touched by how strongly fans support their favourite characters, and there is a lot of love for Cloak and Dagger, and you can see why because there are some pretty great things about that pair. But that costume, come on, it’s a big old slice of tit window pie. They don’t always dress Dagger like that, but yeah they mostly do! But they probably won’t on the tv show! I didn’t dwell on Cloak very much in a comic about tit windows, but, here’s something. I tweeted this essay a while ago when I read it, but Cloak’s lack of a body really brought it to mind again, and you should totally read it, though mostly it is about the character Cyborg, it is relevant here too: Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body by Robert Jones, Jr.

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DCAF #5 is on Sunday, August 14th, 2016!

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Applications update

Hiya folks - we're a bit behind on going through the applications as we're exhibiting at the East Coast Comic Expo in Moncton this weekend. We'll be sending out confirmations in a week or so to applicants. Please bear with us and stay tuned!

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Q: This isn’t meant to be an insult or a rant or anything of the sort, but I was wondering why in scott pilgrim vs the world (which I loved a lot btw) there aren’t very many people of color? There was Matthew but not any or many others, unless I was very silly and I missed them. Is this because...

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Lumberjanes drops today, you guys! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

I’ve been posting a lot about this series, because I am just so excited. First off, it’s created by an amazing team of badass ladies - It’s co-written by Grace Ellis (Intern Grace of Autostraddle) and Noelle Stevenson (who you know as Gingerhaze and the creator of Nimona), was co-created by Adventure Time and Regular Show editor Shannon Watters, and is being drawn by amazing AT/RS artist Brooke Allen. Not a single symmetrical haircut between them, and I love it.

More than that, it’s a story about five best friends at summer camp fighting MONSTERS. A little bit Gravity Falls, a dash of Babysitter’s Club, some riot grrrl attitude - and so much fun. It’s all-ages! It’s awesome!

And, on a more personal level, it is just so much GIRL POWER. You open the credits page on Lumberjanes and take a scan over those names - pretty much everybody who worked on the book is a tough lady. The cover artists were chosen from the massive pool of talented women working in indie and webcomics, and they are SO GOOD.

A whole bunch of awesome ladies making a comic about awesome ladies, but for everyone. Representation matters, and it does the heart good. Plus, it’s just super funny and wonderful. Pick it up, check it out! Wear plaid and tweet it at @Lumberjanes - the Valkyries will be doing it all day.

(Oh, and lastly - each issue deals with the girls earning a scout badge, and I designed ‘em!)

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"Life with Archie" is coming to an end in more ways than one!

A set of covers for #ArchieRIP, including cliffchiang, jillthompson and more!

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The New Yorker!!

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new titles coming from Kids Can Press! Looking forward to Scott Chantler's The King's Dragon!

New video plugging the spring titles from Kids Can Press, including The King’s Dragon. It’s funny to see me plugging my dark, action-oriented adventure amongst all those bright, cuddly animals. But I assume there are still kids out there who want thrills, the way I did (and still do).