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Stores We Love
Cyber City
1025 Steeles Avenue West, North York, (416) 667-7592
Comics and Anime stock, including art books and statues.
The Beguiling
601 Markham St., Toronto
The best place for indy and small press books.
Paradise Comics
3278 Yonge St., Toronto (4 blocks north of Lawrence Station)
Specializing in Silver Age and CGC.
Heroes World
4568 HWY #7 Unit 5, Markham
Carrying many product lines, much like we do.
People We Like
(who have websites)
J. Torres
J. Torres is the author of lots of great books for DC and Oni, including Teen
Titans Go!, Love as a Foreign Language, and Alison Dare.
James Kochalka
James Kochalka is a cartoonist with a bizarre sense of humour and his own
philosophy. He has a large list of works to his name, including The Sketchbook
Diaries and Monkey vs. Robot.
Jamie S. Rich
Jamie S. Rich is a prose author at Oni Press, whose pop-culture steeped works
include Cut My Hair, and The Everlasting. His graphic novels include
Love the Way You Love, and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her.
Jay Stephens
A local creator, whose work includes Land of Nod, and Jetcat Clubhouse which
led to the cartoon Tutenstein.
Jim Mahfood
Jim Mahfood mixes graffiti with beats, and creates truly great comics, such
as Grrl Scouts, and 40oz.
Kaare Andrews
Kaare Andrews is an artist whose work includes Incredible Hulk and Amazing
Spiderman.
Karl Kerschl Karl Kerschl's art has graced the pages of many a DC superhero, including Superman, Flash, and Teen Titans. You can read his webcomic, The Abominable Charles Christopher, at the Transmission X site.
Linda Medley
Linda Medley is the creator of Castle Waiting, a fabulous reworking of the classic fairytale. It's fun for all ages.
Man of Action
Four comic creators with talent and vision
Steven T. Seagle, Joe Casey, Joe
Kelly, Duncan Rouleau.
Matt Mohammed
Matt Mohammed is the Black Bastard. Really, that's all we need to say.
Michael Lark
Michael Lark's gorgeous, emotive art can be found in Gotham Central and
Daredevil.
Nick Craine
Nick Craine is a local illustrator whose work has graced the pages of Portrait
of a Thousand Punks: Hard Core Logo, and Parting Ways.
Oni
Fabulous publisher producing some of the finest independent books on the
market, including Wet Moon, Hopeless Savages, Blue Monday, Scott Pilgrim
P. Craig Russell
P. Craig Russell is a master illustrator whose work includes Opera Adaptations,
the very detailed Ring of the Nibelung, and various comic projects including
Fables, and the Spectre.
Pioneer Geneon
Producers of Mysterious Play, Gundam Wing, and Trigun
Ramon Perez
Ramon Perez is the artist for Butternut Squash, along with several other comic
and RPG projects. He's part of the Royal Academy of Illustration and Design, and his webcomic Kukuburi appears on the Transmission X website..
Ray Fawkes
Ray Fawkes is a Toronto based writer, whose works include Apocalipstix.
Richard Starkings
Richard Starkings is a busy man between Comicraft, Active Images, and writing
Elephantmen.
Ross Campbell
Ross Campbell is the creator of Wet Moon, the wicked zombie book The Abandoned, and the upcoming Water Baby for the Minx line.
Royal Academy of Illustration and Design
A Toronto studio comprised of Ben Shannon, Cameron Stewart, Roberta Carraro, Steve Murray, Chip Zdarsky, and Ramon Perez
Scott Chantler
Scott Chantler is an illustrator and the creator of Northwest Passage. He has also worked on Scandalous, and Days Like This with J.Torres
Scott Mooney
Scott Mooney is a local illustrator whose comic art can be found in Parting
Ways.
Scott Morse
An amazing illustrator and creator, whose works include Soulwind, Magic Pickle,
and Spaghetti Western
Stuart Immonen Stuart Immonen's work, ranging from cartoony to pure illustrative genius, can be found gracing such books as 50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions, Nextwave: Agents of Hate, and Ultimate Spiderman.
Stuart Sayger
This excellent painter is the creator of Shiver in the Dark, and can be spotted in Toronto at Paradise cons.
Svetlana Chmakova Svetlana is our good friend and Canadian manga superstar, writer and illustrator of Dramacon.
Ted Naifeh
Ted Naifeh is the creator of such fabulous projects as Courtney Crumrin and Polly and the Pirates.
Terry Moore
The creator of the long running indy hit Strangers in Paradise. He is now working on the equally great Echo.
Tim Sale
Artist on important projects such as Batman Long Halloween, and Superman
For All Seasons. He was also featured in DC's Solo line.
Tony Harris
Tony Harris is well known for his art on Starman, and more recently on Ex
Machina. Jolly Roger Studios is also home to Tom Feister and J.D. Mettler.
Transmission X This is a webcomic site collecting the strip work of a bunch of our favourite people, including Cameron Stewart, Arthur Dela Cruz, Ramon Perez, and Karl Kerschl.
Warren Ellis
The brilliant and prolific writer of such titles as Fell, Nextwave, and Desolation Jones.
Alex Robinson
Alex Robinson is the writer/artist of the masterpieces Box Office Poison and
Tricked.
Andi Watson
Andi Watson is the writer of very personal stories such as Breakfast After Noon,
Geisha, Love Fights, and Skeleton Key.
Andy Lee
Andy does beautiful and often messy brush paintings. You can find him at many,
many conventions, usually covered in paint.
Arthur Dela Cruz
Arthur Dela Cruz is the Toronto based creator of Kissing Chaos. Further installments of this series can be seen on the Transmission X site.
ASFA
Allen Spiegel is the artist representative for Thom Ang, August Hall, Phil Hale,
Jeffrey Jones, Dave McKean, Scott Morse, Jon J Muth, Bonnie To Yee de Muth,
George Pratt, Greg Ruth, Greg Spalenka, Jamie Tolagson, John Van Fleet, Kent
Williams. I love Allen for bringing all this talent together in one place.
Astro City
A whole new world of superheroes created by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, and
Alex Ross.
Bill Willingham
Bill Willingham is the writer of the Eisner Award winning Vertigo series Fables.
But he's worked on many other projects, and is currently both writer and artist on Shadowpact.
Brian Michael Bendis
Bendis is everywhere! Powers, Ultimate Spiderman, New Avengers... the list
goes on...
Cameron Stewart
Cameron Stewart is an artist with an extensive bibliography including Catwoman,
Seaguy, and the Eisner winning Seven Soldiers. He is part of the Royal Academy
of Illustration and Design, and his webcomic Sin Titulo appears on the Transmission X website.
Carla Speed McNeil
Creator of the series Finder. Finder will only be published in collected format,
individual issues will be posted on her website.
Chester Brown
Perhaps the most important current Canadian cartoonist. Creator of Louis
Riel: A Comic Strip Biography.
Chip Zdarsky
Chip Zdarsky is a very strange man. He is also the creator of Prison Funnies
and Monster Cops, and writes the Extremely Bad Advice Column for the National Post.
Cliff Chiang Cliff Chiang is a super-talented artist, whose work has recently graced the pages of Doctor 13 and Green Arrow Black Canary.
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson has gained great critical acclaim for his work, including
Goodbye Chunky Rice and Blankets.
Dale Eaglesham Dale is not only one of the nicest comic artists I've ever met, but also one of the most talented. He won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Artist 2007.
Dan Brereton
Dan Brereton's unique style has graced the pages of Batman Thrillkiller,
Giantkiller, and his own creation, Nocturnals.
Darick Robertson
Darick Robertson's work includes Wolverine, and The Boys. He also does an
excellent napkin sketch.
Dave McKean (And another!)
Dave McKean's comic work includes Sandman covers, Cages, and Batman
Arkham Asylum. His illustrations also grace the pages of SF Said's Varjak Paw,
and the books of Iain Sinclair. He is the director and co-writer of Mirrormask.
David Lapham
Creator of Stray Bullets and Murder Me Dead.
David Mack
David Mack is the creator of the character Kabuki, and his distinctive style has
also appeared in Daredevil
Eric Kim
Eric Kim is the artist on such books as Love as a Foreign Language. He's also
a karaoke master.
Eric Shanower
Eric is responsible for the stunningly detailed Age of Bronze, the complete tale
of the Trojan War. He also works on various Oz projects.
Frank Cho
Frank Cho is the creator of Liberty Meadows, a comic strip about an animal
sanctuary where everyone's a bit nuts. He also does covers for various titles.
Gary Spencer Millidge
Creator of Strangehaven, a compelling series that is a must read no matter how
long it takes between issues.
Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison is the overwhelmingly talented author of Invisibles, Batman
Arkham Asylum, DC 52, and New X-Men to name a few. His website is very red.
Greg Rucka
Greg Rucka has received great acclaim in both the comic and fiction world. He
has a number of novels under his belt, and his comic work includes Whiteout,
Queen and Country, DC 52, Wonder Woman, and Gotham Central
The Hero Initiative
Formerly known as ACTOR, the Hero Initiative is a non profit organization which provides a fund for veteran comic creators who need financial assistance. They appear at many conventions where they run events and signings for donations. You can also donate to the Hero Initiative in the store.
J. Michael Straczynski
Creator of Babylon 5 turned comic writer. His work can be found in Amazing
Spiderman, and his own creation Rising Stars, among many other things.
J. Bone
Cartoonist on various projects such as Alison Dare and Jingle Belle, as well as various collaborations with Darwyn Cooke.
