Month: August 2013

Fan Expo and JSA wrap up, what’s happening in September

What happened to the summer?On August 21 we held the launch party for Reform School Ninja Girls which was a huge success — the original art is still up on display in the gallery until September 5th.

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Last weekend we wrapped up Fan Expo Canada for another successful year, and buzz around town is that they had well over 110,000 attendees over four days. It was an exciting weekend for the Lounge, what with our booth at the show, Kevin participating in the Canadian Superhero Renaissance Panel on Friday, JSA_poster_2013_LGRachel participating in the Golden Age of Canadian Comics panel on Sunday and the 9th Annual Joe Shuster Awards being presented on the Saturday night at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Joe Shuster Award Winners:
Artist – Isabelle Arsenault  for Jane, le renard & moi
Writer – Fanny Britt for Jane, le renard & moi
Cartoonist – Jeff Lemire for Sweet Tooth and the Underwater Welder
Cover Artist – Mike Del Mundo for some amazing covers for Marvel Comics
Gene Day – The Pig Sleep by Cory McCallum and Matt Daley
Dragon Award – Cat’s Cradle Vol. 1  by Jo Rioux
Webcomics – Ant Comic by Michael DeForge
Harry Kremer Retailer – Heroes (London, ON)
Hall of Fame: Vernon Miller, Murray Karn, Arn Saba (Katherine Collins)

On Monday we had an impromptu visit/signing with the fine folks from UK publisher Neil Gibson Comics, including creator Neil Gibson himself. They’ve left some copies of TWISTED LIGHT at the store for sale along with a special offer to those that buy it to get a copy of TWISTED DARK for free either digitally or in print!

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Rachel will be enjoying a restful vacation from September 3rd to 19th and we hope she has a great time. Mike Bothelho and Kellam Templeton-Smith will be filling in for her while she is away.

Our next evening event in September is the CEREBUS: LOW SOCIETY book launch on Saturday, September 7th with special guests Rob Walton (editor), Gerhard and the many talented participants in the Comics Lab Project. We’ll have copies of the book well in advance of the distributed copies, courtesy of Aardvark-Vanaheim.

On September 13-15 we’ll be exhibiting at the MONTREAL COMIC CON (look for us at booth 429) and Kevin will be accepting CGC Signature Series requests for the event. If there is something you would like us to bring to the event for you please let us know in advance.

On September 20-22 it looks like Kevin will be driving down to Columbus, OH for Wizard World Ohio to complete the Stan Lee signing that was originally schedule for Fan Expo (unfortunately Stan was not feeling well and had to leave early) and as a result he will be accepting some CGC Signature Series requests for that event as well.

On Saturday, September 28th we have LADIES NIGHT IV, one of our most popular reoccurring events.

TRUE PATRIOT BOOK LAUNCH & ART SHOW – Sat. Aug. 10, 7-11PM

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WHEN: Saturday, August 10, 2013 from 7pm – 11pm

WHERE: The Comic Book Lounge + Gallery, 587A College Street (2nd Floor)

WHO: J. Torres, Ramon Perez, J. Bone, Jack Briglio, Howard Wong, Adrian Alphona and Jay Stephens.

True Patriot is a comic book anthology featuring Canadian superheroes written and drawn by some of your favourite Canadian comic book creators. Most of the folks working on this project grew up reading Alpha Flight, Captain Canuck, or Wolverine comics and have always thought that there should be more Canadian superheroes out there. So, they put together a 100-page, full-colour anthology for your reading pleasure (and ours) for only $25!

The Anthology includes contributions from Adrian Alphona (Runaways), Andy B. (Kill Shakespeare), J. Bone (Super Friends), Jack Briglio (Scooby Doo), Scott Chantler (Two Generals), Tom Fowler (Hulk: Season One), Agnes Garbowska (Girl Comics), Faith Erin Hicks (Adventure Time), Tim Levins (Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes), Ramon Perez (A Tale of Sand), Ron Salas (28 Days Later), Jay Stephens (Secret Saturdays), J. Torres (Teen Titans Go), Howard Wong (After the Cape).

Launch Party includes guests such as: Adrian Alphona, J. Bone, Ramon Perez, J. Torres, Jack Briglio, Howard Wong and Jay Stephens! We’ve also received art from Tom Fowler, Adam Gorham and Agnes Garbowska to display in the gallery.

Those of you who live in and around Toronto who ordered the book from Indiegogo may request to pick up your copy of True Patriot at the event. If you pick up your book, they unfortunately cannot refund your shipping, however, in exchange you’ll get a True Patriot postcard, (blank) book plate, plus you can get some creators to sign your book! If you’ve already paid for a book plate sketch, you can get an additional (blank) book plate or a True Patriot/Pacific Rim mash-up mini-poster. Ooh…

If you did not preorder it don’t fret because copies of TRUE PATRIOT will be available for sale at the Comic Book Lounge. The book costs $25.

Note: artists attending these events may or may not be doing sketches, but if so you’ll have to arrange pricing individually, and the money will go directly to them. They may also have other swag for sale (e.g. prints, original art, etc.).

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