A couple things that piqued my interest while I slack off at work:
Suburban Glamour
Over at The Engine, Jamie McKelvie talks about his follow-up to Phonogram (which I shall really have to buy in trade – I enjoyed the first two issues, then lost track of the series) and unveil a nifty little promo piece:
(Much more promo art at the above link)
Toronto Comic Art Festival
The 2007 TCAF website is live, and sports a spiffy guest list:
Complete Alphabetical Guest Listing
Atilla Adorjany – Kalman Andrasofszky – Neelam Arora – Adam Aylard – T. Edward Bak – Andy Belanger – Joe Bluhm – J Bone – Chester Brown – Jeffrey Brown – Sam Brown – Brendan Buford – C.B. Cebulski – Scott Chantler – Shawn Cheng – Svetlana Chmakova – Michael Cho – Jeff Clayton – Becky Cloonan – Joey Comeau – Michael Comeau – Darwyn Cooke – Nick Craine – James Davidge – Eleanor Davis – Willow Dawson – Arthur Dela Cruz – Evan Dorkin – Sarah Dyer – Sara Edward-Corbett – Ray Fawkes – Tim Fish – Brendan Fletcher – Matthew Forsythe – Shannon Gerard – Marcel Guldemond – Cheese Hasselberger – Scott Hepburn – Sam Hiti – Kathryn Immonen – Stuart Immonen – Damien Jay – James Jean – Tom K. – Karl Kerschl – Eric Kim – Blair Kitchen – Mike Kitchen – Chris Kuzma – Hope Larson – Jeff Lemire – Stef Lenk – Jon Lewis – Melanie Lewis – Jason Loo – Kathleen MacCarthy – Steve MacIsaac – Jim Mahfood – John Malloy – Steve Manale – Jason Marcy – John Martz – Joe Matt – Billy Mavreas – Sean McCarthy – Tyrone McCarthy – Brian McLachlan – Carla Speed McNeil – John Mejias – Rosemary Mosco – Evan Munday – Michael Noonan – Bryan O’Malley – Ramon Perez – Rena Piccolo – Paul Pope – Zen Rankin – MK Reed – Dave Roman – Jim Rugg – Andy Runton – Lianne Sentar – Seth – Ben Shannon – Dave Sim – Josh Simmons – Karen Sneider – Kean Soo – Richard Stevens – Cameron Stewart – Craig Taillefer – Diana Tamblyn – Raina Telgemeier – J Torres – Gia-Bao Tran – James Turner – Jose Villarubia – Drew Weing – Lauren Weinstein – Joey Weiser – Matt Wiegle – Zach Worton – David Yoder – Ryan Yount – Chip Zdarsky – Jim Zubkavich
(My personal favourites in bold)
Be there, or be square. I shall be both there and square, probably, but I have a special gift.