A Tribute To Joe Matt (1963 – 2023)
I can remember the first time I saw a piece of cartooning by Joe Matt. It was a poster in
Read more
Author: Koom Kankesan
Toronto International Film Festival 2023: ‘The Critic’ Film Review
Another film that premiered at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last week was Anand Tucker’s The Critic, a period drama
Read more
Toronto International Film Festival 2023: ‘Finestkind’ Film Review
Boasting a strong cast, the story revolves around inveterate and ageing fisherman Ray Eldridge (Tommy Lee Jones) and his estranged
Read more
Toronto International Film Festival 2023: ‘The Holdovers’ Film Review
Alexander Payne‘s new film The Holdovers was one of the screenings I looked forward to the most at this year’s
Read more
Toronto International Film Festival 2023: ‘Dumb Money’ Film Review
Craig Gillespie‘s Dumb Money premiered at last week’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film recounts some of the events
Read more
Field Report: Fan Expo Canada 2023 — Saturday’s Panels
I only went to two panels on Saturday at the Fan Expo in Toronto (running Aug. 24th – 27th) but
Read more
Field Report: Fan Expo Canada 2023 – Friday’s Panels
These are the panels on Friday I caught at Fan Expo Canada (in Toronto, August 24th-27th). The first featured ex
Read more
Field Report: Fan Expo Canada 2023 In Pictures
The Fan Expo Canada show is back in Toronto this year. It is held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Read more
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2023 In Pictures
The wares on the Fantagraphics table: Ho Che Anderson and Noah Van Sciver greeting fans and signing at the Fantagraphics
Read more
Field Report: Toronto Comicon In Pictures
The Toronto Comicon is the smaller of the shows taking place in the T-Dot (the larger one is Fan Expo
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: Illuminations: “And At The Last, Just to Be Done With Silence”
The last story in Illuminations, “And at the Last, Just to Be Done With Silence”, is a mere ten pages
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “American Light: An Appreciation”
What are we to make of this pastiche that comes right after the story “What We Can Know About Thunderman”,
Read more
Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 7
Daredevil #233. As soon as the character Nuke gets mentioned, someone will inevitably say “give me a red.” It seems
Read more
Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 6
Daredevil #232. There are many fantastic individual elements in this issue including Karen’s struggle to kick her habit and her
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: Illuminations: What We Can Know About Thunderman
The longest story in Illuminations, at 241 pages, ‘What We Can Know About Thunderman’, is a savage satire of the
Read more
Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’: Chapter 5
Daredevil #231. This issue wraps up the main arc of the Born Again trade paperback. There are still a couple
Read more
Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ – Chapter 4
Daredevil #230. This issue’s cover is one of my favourites. It highlights Ben Urich’s struggle to stand up with dignity
Read more
Christmas Book Club – ‘Daredevil: Born Again: Interregnum’
While discussing Daredevil: Born Again, it might be worth thinking about what might have been. Born Again isn’t the first
Read more
Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 3
Daredevil #229. I read in an interview somewhere a long time ago that someone gave Frank Miller a copy of
Read more
Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 2
Daredevil #228. David Mazzucchelli’s partner Richmond Lewis colours this issue though Mazzucchelli is credited in the original printing. I’m not
Read more
Christmas Book Club: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Chapter 1
Frank Miller experienced a very successful and significant run as artist on Daredevil from issue 158 to 191. With Daredevil
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “Illuminations”
The sixth entry in the book, ‘Illuminations’, at eighteen pages long, is the short story which also bears the same
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’: “The Improbably Complex High-Energy State”
The fifth entry in the book, “The Improbably Complex High-Energy State”, at thirty-eight pages long, is a playful but ultimately
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – “Cold Reading”
The fourth entry in Illuminations by Alan Moore, “Cold Reading”, is eighteen pages long and was originally published in the
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – Location, Location, Location
The third entry in Moore’s collection of short stories Illuminations, “Location, Location, Location”, is thirty-six pages long and deals with
Read more
Alan Moore Book Club: ‘Illuminations’ – Not Even Legend
The reader surmises that the stories in this collection might not be presented in the order in which they were
Read more
‘The Woman King’ Inspires A Discussion
The Woman King, Gina Prince-Blythewood‘s female-driven film about the Agojie, woman warriors who were part of the Dahomey kingdom (now
Read more
Review: Noah Van Sciver’s ‘As a Cartoonist’
Noah Van Sciver’s new book from Fantagraphics, As a Cartoonist, is a miscellany of short pieces chronicling Van Sciver’s personal
Read more
Toronto Comic Art Festival 2022 In Photos
The first in person TCAF (since the 2019 show) brought people out in strong numbers. Here are photos of what
Read more