The Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards are coming up next weekend in Toronto.

I’m very honoured to say Ojingogo was nominated in the web-comics category. Here’s a banner about that:

I’m going to try to make it down to Toronto, say Hi to everyone and pick up some comics all at once.

Just watched The Fountain with Assistant-to-the-director commentary. You can’t find that commentary track on the DVD. My girlfriend was assistant-to-the-director.

Anthony Lane has a nice overview of Tintin in last week’s New Yorker. Sadly, the piece didn’t make it online. Writes Lane: There is no sex in Tintin…

Tintin passes increasing portions of his life with an unmarried seaman, yet it seldom occurs to us to question their rapport. Tintin never has a girlfriend, nor does he express the need for one, and that absence is part of his greater mystery…. Tintin, nominally a reporter, never receives a salary nor files a story.

We receive these stories as children and never think to question them well into adulthood.