Photo by Amber Hayes The Kao is Vincent Kao, an illustrator and comic artist known for his slice-of-life Web series, Mondo Mango, and the Prism Award-winning webcomic Magical Boy. Vincent graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a bachelor of fine arts in illustration. His work includes storyboarding, comics for independent studios, covers and posters... Continue Reading →
Your Thunder Bay Public Library is creating an Indigenous Knowledge Centre at each branch. Although it is still in progress as we are selecting new books and other materials for it and working with the Indigenous Advisory Council and Liaison to design the spaces to include artwork, treaty maps and other key elements, the basic... Continue Reading →
Duncan Weller is a very complex person; chatting about his art, he exudes a nervous energy, yet is simultaneously very soft-spoken and unassuming. “I love to draw and paint all sorts of subjects,” he says when asked about the complexity that is in many of his pictures. “I love assembling a number of images together.”... Continue Reading →
Duncan Weller is a writer of children’s books, adult fiction and poetry. He is also a visual artist who shows his work regularly. He lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and travels often to get ideas and images for his books. He won two of Canada’s top awards (Governor General’s, Schwartz) for his picture book, The... Continue Reading →
Christopher “Merk” Merkley makes stuff from nothing. Comics, paintings, photography, illustration, tshirts, multimedia, sculptures....whatever he can get his hands on. He has 2 graphic novels under his belt (another one on the way), an ongoing comic strip, a regular weekly piece for Comic Book Resources' 'The Line it is Drawn' , and fits in as... Continue Reading →
I'm b-a-c-k. I was asked to continue submitting and at first I said no. Then "someone" said "I can see you in a coffee shop with your laptop writing on the blog". So - here I am (and I'm in a coffee shop). Just finished "The Good Daughters" by Joyce Maynard. It's a 7 day... Continue Reading →
The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment. This summer I read Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment. I enjoyed it and wondered what else I could read. Well her novel “The Tattoo Artist” caught my eye, but we didn’t carry it. So I requested it on Interlibrary Loan. I really enjoyed it and passed it on to... Continue Reading →
As a total “java junkie”, Fabian Vas is one mellow guy. Anyone capable of consuming thirty cups of coffee in a single night and keeping it all together, though, would have to have something very serious brewing just beneath the surface. From the outset, the reader is informed of two important details concerning Vas. The... Continue Reading →
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