Turkeys and Thanks…
Where I discuss this month's events in Ottawa & Toronto, my latest release, and more free comics!
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend full of good food with family & friends. After a 2022 Thanksgiving where I didn’t have turkey…2023 made up for that with two helpings of turkey from both sides of the family on Saturday and Sunday! Lots to be thankful for in casa Briglio and it all starts with good health and family. The rest…is gravy.
September’s events…
Ottawa ComicCon was a blast and started the month off right. Promoting my latest books surrounded by friends and colleagues like J Torres, Hugh Rookwood, Mark Shainblum, Jay Odjick, Ed Brisson, Marco Rudy, Gisele Lagace, Dan Parent, Tom Fowler, Geoff Isherwood, Ronn Sutton, and Janet Heatherington was fun. Meeting veteran artists Charles Vess and Rags Morales for the first time was also cool.
And the Sequential Magazine-hosted Canadian indie comics panel I was part of with Gisele Lagace and Marco Rudy was well-attended and a treat to hear how everyone got their start in comics. Really happy that the show had some panels around comics this year as that’s not the case every year. Hope this becomes a regular thing.
At the end of the month, I attended the Toronto International Festival of Authors. The panel with Claudia Davila - a ThunderBoom inspired reading/drawing panel called - “If I Were A Superhero”, ended up being just me leading the charge. Claudia fell ill the day of the event, so I went solo. Great turnout - lots of kids with their parents attended, listening to my reading from the book, followed by a workshop where they were able to draw their own superheroes and present to everyone. A few preferred just to colour ThunderBoom sheets provided, but most gave in to their creativity and had a blast. I know I did! From SuperSid to SuperBrave and Further to Bird Whale, there were some great new additions to the superhero pantheon. :)
Exciting Comics 39
This month saw yet another new issue of Exciting Comics, #39, come out in comic shops and it featured chapters 2-4 of the Heroic Us, the first Dominion Jack serial I did with Hugh Rookwood. Only one more issue to go after this one to complete the story. If you haven’t already, let your local comic shop know you want your copy…
Books available to order…
Here are the links again to order all my latest books…comic shops, book stores, library (for ThunderBoom), online…wherever you see fit. :)
Growing Up Enchanted: Fighting Bullies, Hunting Dragons - Special Edition - Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Coming soon to Indigo and Canadian online shops.
Floyd the Ferocious Fly - Pages 4-6
More free comics! Here are the next few pages of Floyd, by me & Alex Serra.
SuperIcons - Pages 4-6
And SuperIcons by me, art by Tom Syzc and letters by Rachel Deering.
That’s it for this week. Until next time…
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