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Calgary Expo Artbook: Stories for Canada's 150th

4/28/2017

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So, I wrote about what I'd be bringing to this year's Calgary Expo, but I saved my favourite thing for last. Every year the Expo produces a limited edition Artbook filled with work by a whole bunch of awesome contributors. Most people draw (beautiful) splash pages, but you know me, I just can't draw pictures unless there's a story. So I'm the one who always draws those weird autobiographical text-filled strips about my real-life adventures.

Last year, the Artbook theme was "Fairy Tales and Classic Monsters," which inspired me to write a strip about my experience with post-partum depression. I felt like that was going to be a tricky subject to follow up. Imagine my surprise when, this year, the theme was (again!??) ""Fairy Tales and Classic Monters!" (Why, Calgary Expo??) Anyway, this year I took that theme and picked a new focus.

It's Canada's sesquicentennial - our 150th birthday! That's the theme I'm excited about this year! So, I decided to draw some storytellers who are shaping the fairy tales, stories, and legends of this country. This was a random sampling of people I ran into in my neighbourhood, along with a few famous folks and a couple of tall tale tellers into the mix.

- Stuart McLean, revered Canadian storyteller;

- Northrop Frye, revered Canadian unscrambler of what stories are and how they're told;

- Ken Cameron, local storyteller whom I (luckily) ran into at Caffe Rosso just before I wrote this, and who gave me some ideas about what to write! (Another local storyteller, Barb Pederson, was there too, actually. Sorry Barb, I didn't draw you, but I appreciated hearing your ideas!)

- Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring, Canadian story-distorters (and yes, Pat really lived 3 doors down from me, long ago)

- The iconic Baba, CKUA's master storyteller, whose friendly voice has been spinning tales for so many Albertans through the radio waves for many years...

- Polarman, a recently-retired real-life superhero whom I met in Iqaluit long ago, and who's the recent subject of SESQUI, another sesquicentennial project.

- I'm honoured that my neighbour Nolene, whose inspiring story I recently wrote about in my Ramsay comic strip, gave me permission to include her on this list of storytellers. It's been a privilege for me to hear from her a little bit about her experience of discovering her Indigenous roots. The stories she's been telling me, and the ancient learnings she's been absorbing from her cultural community, are by no means "fairy tales," or "tall tales," by the way. These are real stories that are a necessary part of the story of Canada's 150th, despite the fact that some of them are sad stories. I wanted to include Nolene in here, because learning about stories like hers has been important to me in understanding what Canada really means, and could mean in the future.

Ok, that's all for now - time to go!
I'm going to post this without any links because I'm out of time, but I'll add them in soon! See you at the Expo!

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What I'm bringing to the 2017 Calgary Expo

4/20/2017

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Well, folks, it's time for another Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, that behemoth of pop culture that descends upon Calgary at the end of April every year. You can find me in Artist Alley at table R12!

This will be my sixth year as an exhibitor, but you can't really count last year. A few days before the Expo, I bumped my head and ended up with a concussion. I missed the Expo, but at least I wrote a comic about getting a concussion (which you can get from me at the Expo, this year!)
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What else am I bringing to the Expo this year?
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Well, I'll have the latest collection of Ramsay comics (2015-2017). These aren't exactly "new," but if you come and get it at the Expo you'll get a sneak preview of the May comic, which is all about a pretty wonderful project happening in my neighbourhood thanks to local non-profit Calgary Reads.

I'm not going to say anything more about it here except that my contribution to this project is one of my 3 Things for Canada. So, come see me at the Expo and be one of the first to find out!

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I organized a panel on contemporary Canadian indie comics, featuring this amazing lineup of panelists:

Julia Smith & Sean Carleton of the Graphic History Collective (and it's their first time at the Expo, so be nice to them); Eric Dyck from Lethbridge; and Hope Nicholson, all the way from Winnipeg!

This is happening on Saturday, April 29th at 1:15, so please come and talk to us about the local comics scene where you live.


That brings me to my next NEW thing.

I'm working on a little comics strip about the Calgary/Alberta indie comics scene for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (which is pretty darn exciting for me, for a few reasons).

This project is the reason I decided to organize the panel mentioned above. I mean, I could write about my actual experience of the Calgary indie comics scene since I got involved, and this would be it:
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Sam's Tale of Calgary Independent Comics

2002: Damian Willcox, Kandrix Foong, Laurie Breitkreuz, me

2002-2016: Damian Willcox kept going while the rest of us got distracted doing other stuff. Well, I kept making comics, but I didn't really do anything with them. In the meantime, a whole bunch of other people started making comics I had no idea about.

2016: Panel One comics collective hosted its first Calgary indie creator festival, and I got to find out what some of these other amazing people were doing!

2017: We're having this panel discussion so I can find out more! (I don't think the above tale is going to cut it.)
I am really looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts on this subject. Even if you can't make it to the panel, if you have some great insights about the evolving indie comics scene in this town (or around Alberta), please come and talk to me at the Expo or send me a tweet @calgaryhester! I'd love to hear what you think.

I'm also bringing ONE OTHER new thing to the Calgary Expo, and that's my contribution to this year's Expo Artbook. But I'll have to keep you in suspense just a little bit longer before I post that out. Stay tuned! And if you are coming to the show, remember... wear comfy shoes and bring water!
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Independent Canadian Comics Panel at the Calgary Expo!

4/11/2017

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So here's the 1st of my 3 Things for Canada: I pitched a panel about independent Canadian comics to the Calgary Comics Expo, and it's happening!

You've heard of the Calgary Expo, right? (If not, please drop everything and take a look!)

This gigantic homegrown celebration of comics and pop culture in general, takes place on the Stampede Grounds at the end of April every year. This year, it's happening from April 27 - 30. And I'll be there!

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I'm really interested in comics that are being created and published right here in Canada, and even more if they're about Canadian stories. Right here in Calgary, there's a growing independent scene, ranging from old-timers like Damian Willcox (sorry, Damian! Guess I should probably say "creators of long-standing status" or something more dignified...) to new movements like Panel One, an independent creators' collective established in 2016.

I've been thinking a lot about contemporary comics in Canada (and in Calgary in particular), since I read back in 2016 that the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics had put out a call for papers on "The Young Canadians." They were asking, "What's happened in Canadian comics in recent years?"

I'm definitely not an expert on this subject, but I'm interested in how my own local scene has been evolving. And I thought the Calgary Expo seemed like the perfect place to have a discussion about this. So, that's part of the reason why I thought this panel might be a good idea. I am looking forward to listening and learning!

If you're coming to the Expo this year, I really hope you'll come out to hear this conversation. Right now, the Expo website still hasn't posted its programming info, but when it does, this is where you'll be able to find it. In the meantime, here's some information about our panel!

When: Saturday, April 29th,  1:15 PM - 2 PM
Where: Calgary Comics Expo, Palomino AB
What: Independent Canadian Comics, featuring the Graphic History Collective

Comics scholars Sean Carleton & Julia Smith, Winnipeg-based Bedside Press publisher and Prairie Comics Festival organizer Hope Nicholson, and indie comics creators Sam Hester & Eric Dyck, will discuss comics about real life historical & contemporary Canadian stories.

Who: Read on...!

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Julia Smith & Sean Carleton

I'd been following the work of a pretty interesting comics project called the Graphic History Collective, when I happened to go to a party at a neighbour's house in Ramsay late last year. There I met Sean and Julia, co-founders of this project and new Calgary residents!

Here's a little bit of information from the GHC website:
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Founded in 2008, the Graphic History Collective (GHC) is a group of activists, artists, writers, and researchers passionate about comics, history and social change.
We produce alternative histories - people's histories - in an accessible format to help people understand the historical roots of contemporary social issues.
Our comics show that you don't need a cape and a pair of tights to change the world.


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Hope Nicholson

Adding a splash of colour to our panel (and I'm not only referring to this lovely Twitter avatar picture by Jenn St. Onge that I lifted from Hope's Twitter account), Hope Nicholson will be joining us at the Calgary Expo!

Hope publishes Bedside Press out of Winnipeg and she's also putting together a pretty amazing independent comics event in Winnipeg this year, the Prairie Comics Festival on May 6 - 7, which I've been wishing I could attend! Maybe next year!
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Eric Dyck

I am so pleased that Eric Dyck from Lethbridge is coming up to join in this conversation. His comics about history and real life in Lethbridge (and elsewhere in Canada) are beautiful, funny, and informative. I think that I'd call what Eric is doing, "comics journalism." Does he think that's what he's doing??? This is one of the things I want to talk about in the panel. Come and find out!
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Stephanie Chan

Geek Girl Gathering organizer, techie, artist, and wearer of many hats, Stephanie Chan will be moderating our panel!
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Drawing by Sam Hester

Sam Hester

Well, you've met me.
Why should you come and listen to this panel? Well, obviously, if you’re one of those few people who’s interested in the Canadian independent comics scene, you’ll know there are only a handful of opportunities every year to find people from the field congregating to talk about this cool subject. so you won’t want to miss this.

And if you’re in the category of folks who had no idea that this was even a thing, well, then clearly this is the place you need to be, to find out more! Either way, we hope you’ll come!

And now remember: putting this panel together has been the first of my 3 Things for Canada. Stay tuned for the next two, coming soon!
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 "Once Upon a Time" Graphic Recording at Calgary Expo 2015!

4/19/2015

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The team at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo asked me to be part of a pretty fun project this year: doing some graphic recording at a panel interview with the "Queens of Darkness" from hit TV series Once Upon a Time. That was a lightning-fast job for me - I often work all day on a graphic recording poster, but this was a 45-minute-long talk in a giant space! I'll post some more about this when the Expo madness is over, but for now, here are a few pictures of the poster - which was donated to the Expo Charity Auction and purchased by a huge fan of the show!
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Sketchnotes from Calgary Expo 2015

4/17/2015

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I took some notes during Stephanie Chan's panel on "Women Into Comics." It was a pretty engaged audience... and the discussion took a whole bunch of unexpected turns.

It was great to hear from Stephanie, as well as other panels Brittney Leblanc, Mary Arroz, Kara Swanson and Erin Millar. Hope this isn't too small to read! The whole image is here, followed by some closer-ups which I hope are not too small to read.
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Calgary Expo 2015!

4/17/2015

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I am so NOT ready for this year's Expo. Somehow two kids and a full time job got in the way of things this year. But, I'm here! We'll just make things up as we go along. For now, here's what I've got:

1. A new compilation of comics about life in my neighbourhood - Ramsay. Special for the Expo! Come take a look, local comics fans (and fans of local comics)! This is the cover:
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And, well, I do have a couple of other things up my sleeve, but I think that will have to wait. Sleep is more important right now! See you soon!
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Introducing: The Drawing Book - Vol. II

9/21/2014

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Good news and bad news, everyone. The bad news is: I'm not going to make it to the Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo this weekend! There is just too much family stuff going on around here in Calgary to make the weekend trip worthwhile. Too bad!!!

I was looking forward to catching a glimpse of scientist/photographer/ tireless Expo volunteer Nanc Price. And maybe see a few of the folks I met while working with the City of Edmonton's Evolving Infill team (surely there were a few closet geeks in that group!).

As I've written elsewhere (here, for example), I sure do like Edmonton. And I've really enjoyed the ECEE's mellow vibe (as depicted in this Edmonton Expo Alphabet comic I drew back in 2012). It's just what you'd expect in a city that boasts Happy Harbor Comics. Much more than just a comics store, it really seems like a community arts hub.
So... I'll look forward to heading up to Edmonton another time soon.

Now for the good news: I actually found some time (ok, that should say, "I actually chose to sleep less,") to write this post - in order to console myself that I won't be drawing comics in Edmonton this weekend.

I was inspired by an email I received last week from a comics fan by the name of Tim, who wrote to say he'd purchased my autobiographical sketchbook The Drawing Book at this year's Calgary Expo (thanks!) and was wondering what came next.
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Well, here's the answer: The Drawing Book, Volume 2!  I don't know why it never occurred to me to do this, but I think I'll post it here on my blog, a few pages at a time. This will be fun (I hope)!!! But first - a bit of background about the Drawing Book  in case you have no idea what I'm talking about.

The Drawing Book

As I've written about elsewhere, I started the Drawing Book as a journalling assignment back during my brief stint at the Ontario College of Art & Design (which, a look at its website informs me, is now called "OCAD University." I'm sure there is a story here - but why not "Ontario University of Art & Design?" How can it be a college and a university? Ok, this isn't my problem, let's move on...) In short, the Drawing Book documents my year at OCAD and some subsequent adventures. (And, maybe more importantly for me, it marks my total debut as a creator of autobiographical indie comics, without my even knowing I was getting into something like that!)

I always wanted to publish these real-life-inspired comics and finally tried to do so in 2012. However, the cost of printing a full-colour 80-page book proved too prohibitive and so I had it printed in black and white (except for the cover - shown here). But the black & white version really is not nearly as nice to look at. So here are a few samples from the Drawing Book's first volume to show you what it was really supposed to look like.
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The Drawing Book - like all the comics I have self-published - was printed at awesome local printing shop Rileys (yes, it's written without an apostrophe, but I can overlook that, I guess).


The Drawing Book - Volume I

Basically, at the beginning of the story I was a gloomy art student in Toronto, reading books, working at the Trinity College Library and turning down offers from knights in shining armour (as seen in this sad tale):
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By the way, the above link to the Trin Library takes you to a whole new, beautiful, renovated facility, which seems to bear little resemblance to the low-ceilinged basement in which I spent about four years of late-night shifts as a student! (I loved that midnight shift. There was hardly anybody there!)

Anyway, by the end of the first volume I was back in my home town of Calgary, working as a flight attendant, with no shining knights in sight. Instead, I was learning about how messy relationships can be (see below). Blech!
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Inevitable Digression about Lucy Honeychurch

The three last panels above refer to "Lucy Ashton's Song" (by Sir Walter Scott), which is performed by another Lucy - Lucy Honeychurch - in both the book and the movie "A Room with a View." That's a story that I felt I could really relate to, back at the time I was writing these comics (I always seem to end up quoting it, as in these comics).  Here's a video of Helena Bonham Carter singing the sad song in the movie.
Freddy points out: "The tune's right enough, but the words are rotten!"
E. M. Forster (in his novel, on which the movie is based), writes that Lucy nearly "joined the vast armies of the benighted," which is pretty much what I was doing back in Ontario, as depicted above. I still have that purple blanket though - it's on my son's bed! But that's a digression within a digression. Back to the facts!

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What Happens Next?

So, back to Tim's question: What happens next? Well, about five more volumes is what happens next, all unpublished and just sitting in a box in my basement. Scanning and photoshopping (and editing) that first volume took months (I mostly did it on a really clunky old laptop at Weeds Cafe in sleepy two-hour stretches while my son was at preschool). But luckily I also scanned the second volume. All those pages are right here on my hard drive just waiting for someone to read them. So - why not?


Why Not?

Well - the main reason "why not" is that everything in there is true. I actually went to great lengths to edit out a few compromising details in Volume 1. But I kind of feel I can't be bothered to do that again this time.

For example, I wrote quite a bit about my job. I worked as a flight attendant with Air Canada, usually on the Calgary-Frankfurt route..
One really isn't supposed to publish stuff about one's place of employment as a rule... which is why, in the first volume, I actually photoshopped all the uniforms to this lovely green (see right), and omitted any references to "Air Canada." (I changed the airline name to "Wildwood Air," the perfect name for an airline conjured up by a Bob Dylan fan (come on now Dylan fans, you all know the song that includes the line, "wildwood air," right?)
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But, for this second volume, I'll just work with what's there. This is the whole truth and nothing but the truth (for now, at least). Of course, though, if you see yourself in there and you'd rather I take you out, please send me a note and I will be more than happy to do so! Otherwise, here goes!

The Drawing Book - Volume II

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The Mainz City Hilton was like my home away from home for almost the whole fifteen years I worked for Air Canada. (It's the smallest Hilton hotel in the whole chain - how about that!)

The picture I drew on the first page of the book was the view from my window.

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The good old City Hilton.
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1. The coffee from that machine was really amazing.

2. Marlene: She didn't really forget she was married. It was just that she had only recently gotten married and so she still wasn't used to saying, "my husband," instead of "my boyfriend."

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Heidi: Her daughter had been engaged (or maybe even married?) to a really famous rock star! But that's another story.

4. I note that there were eleven of us cabin crew members to look after (if memory serves) 232 passengers. Ah. Those were the golden days of flight!! You won't find such large crew complements on many airlines in these penny-pinching days. Alas.


5. In my late teens and early twenties, I didn't see a lot of my mom. She was working a lot and I was away from Calgary a lot. So, when I returned to Calgary in 1997, it took a long time before I got used to the idea that I could just hang out with her anytime I wanted! It was so much fun! Hence my feeling that I was missing out on an opportunity to spend time with her.

6. "Cryptic" reference to the guy I was pining after!
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"I guess I like it fine... so far," comes from this song by the Doors.

With the pilots on strike, we couldn't leave Mainz. Hence my Euro-MTV-watching, late-night-dancing week in limbo. Hence also, all my free time to draw!

"What dance do you dance so late at night?" So spoke the brooding, greasy father in the hilarious Australian movie Strictly Ballroom (depicted below).
I couldn't find a clip of the part in which he actually asks this suspicious question, but here's what happens after the cocky young ballroom dancer hanging out with his daughter answers: "Pasadoble." 
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After our long stay in Mainz, my crew was flown home safe and sound via Manchester. And while in that city, we stayed at the amazing Palace Hotel. Lucky thing I wrote down that name in the book, or I'd never have remembered it. It looks as though it's still in business though, despite having first opened its doors in 1890!
As for my representatives of all things English, I've got: The Who's Roger Daltrey, quoting (for some reason) "Pictures of Lily" and Sara Dylan - who, as far as I know, isn't British at all! Oh well, two out of three ain't bad. Egg on toast sounds pretty British to me.

Speaking of Sara Dylan, I just happened to glance at the Twitter profile of Calgary filmmaker J. S. Johnson a couple of days ago, and here's what he wrote about himself: "
People often describe in detail how impossible I am to define, but so very beautiful to look at." Seems like an echo of a line in Dylan's song "Sara" - "So easy to look at, so hard to define."  Hooray for Dylan fans and obscure Dylan references everywhere!

That was the end of that adventure. The next page is about shoes.
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What is there to say about that? I still have the Salzburg shoes (I'm still waiting for an occasion to wear them!!) and I still have the silver slippers from Le Lavandou. As for the "ugly shoes" stolen at a gas station in Slave Lake, Alberta... I actually did start writing a comic strip about that story, but I have no idea where it is, so that'll have to wait for another day, too.

That's all for now, but when/if I have some free time again, I'll post the next installment. What do you think?
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Flash Gordon at the 2014 Calgary Comics Expo!

4/27/2014

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I had a blast attending the  2014 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo and drawing sketchy little comic strips about what was going on there. Unfortunately, I won't be able to come for the last day, because I have another drawing project coming up (watch this space!). But, my table will still be there, with a friend of mine to look after things, in case you'd still like to come by (and buy one of the original tweeted pictures, if you feel like it!).
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Sometime sooner or later I'll post the drawings I made at the Expo on this blog. But for now I just wanted to put up a different Expo-related thing.

I can't resist confessing that I was pretty thrilled to catch a glimpse of Sam J. Jones, the one and one Flash Gordon from the iconic 1980 movie.

The movie, which I vividly remember seeing at the age of about eight, in a downtown Calgary theatre with my dad and brothers, had a giant impact on me for some reason. I think it was the campy dialogue (which seems to have stayed in my head for all these years - and is often something I seem to have referenced in my old drawing books. Here are three pictures I just dug up from the archives).
Of course, it may also have been the powerful presence of Max von Sydow's Ming (whom I painted, nearly life-sized, on the wall of my bedroom as a teenager. I'm not making this up. But I'm too sleepy to go and hunt down a photograph of that just now).
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I am really not an autograph-seeking kinda person. And I didn't need Sam J. Jones' autograph. But I did go and take a look at him at the Expo as he sat chatting with some fans. I was speechless, Wow!
"Gordon's alive!??!!" "Get your toothbrush and whatever! He's at the Expo!!!"
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"Long live Flash. Have a nice day!"
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Calgary Expo 2014!

4/25/2014

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Here's a quick post to say that it's the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo this weekend!

I've been busy writing quick sketchy comics about what's going on around me on the Expo grounds. I'm posting these on Twitter (and the Calgary Herald is re-tweeting them... I feel like a real comics journalist!). I did this last year, too, and you can see some of those pictures here. I'll put this year's pictures up here when I have a chance (i.e. after I've had some sleep... and I have the feeling that isn't going to happen much during the next few days!).

If you're coming out to the Expo, please come and say hi - I'm at table G 10 in Artist Alley. Just so you know, I won't be able to come on Sunday (although a friend of mine will be at my table) - so I hope I'll get to see you before then!

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My grandfather's birthday!

3/8/2014

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On March 10th, my grandfather's turning 97 - wow!
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As I write this, he's on his way back to his home in Toronto from a trip to California. So you can see he's still just as active as ever. And that's not all.

He's recently published a book, entitled "A Broader Vision." It's a memoir of his life growing up in Canada, raising a family, and working as a scientist and entrepreneur. (You can check out his book - and buy it online - here.)

The book is full of fascinating tales and anecdotes about his very eventful life (and it's also full of his wise and witty commentary on all those events. I always knew my grandfather was a successful businessman and scientist. But the more I read his books  - he's got another one, too, and it's called "Applying the Scientific Method to the Understanding of Existence" (!) - the more I'm impressed by his great writing, as well! For the 2013 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo Artbook (which featured the theme "Weird Tales", I wrote a strip based on one of the anecdotes from "A Broader Vision." Here it is! Happy birthday!
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The 2014 Calgary Comics Expo is fast approaching (it's at the end of April) - so I'll let you know if I'll have a page in the Artbook for this year, when I find out. Stay tuned!
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