{"id":949,"date":"2007-08-29T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=949"},"modified":"2007-08-29T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T14:21:38","slug":"canuck-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/29\/canuck-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Canuck Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Guide to Comic books Published in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/canuckc.jpg\" alt=\"Canuck Comics\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Edited by <strong>John Bell<\/strong> (Matrix Books 1986)<br \/>\nISBN: 0-921101-00-7<\/p>\n<p>Although not strictly a graphic novel, this slim volume engagingly details the history of the comic book in the various provinces of Canada, and even provides a dual English\/French essay on the European style Bande Dessin\u00c3\u00a9e produced in Quebec to rival the French language publications exported from Europe since the Second World War ended.<\/p>\n<p>Lavishly peppered with black and white cover reproductions, and a complete listing of every comic ever produced in the country&#8217;s history (at least up until this book&#8217;s publication), the knowledgeable enthusiasms of Harlan Ellison, John Bell, Robert MacMillan and Luc Pomerleau generate an actual hunger to see more of these beautifully executed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lost \u00e2\u20ac\u009d gems.<\/p>\n<p>Most comic fans are always eager for more, and new, and rare, so this window onto another world gave me a couple of hours of sheer anticipatory delight. Good books about comics are even rarer than good comics themselves, and this one should be welcomed to any fan&#8217;s bookshelf.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1986 John Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guide to Comic books Published in Canada Edited by John Bell (Matrix Books 1986) ISBN: 0-921101-00-7 Although not strictly a graphic novel, this slim volume engagingly details the history of the comic book in the various provinces of Canada, and even provides a dual English\/French essay on the European style Bande Dessin\u00c3\u00a9e produced in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/29\/canuck-comics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canuck Comics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-fj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}