Category Archives: conventions
FanExpo Scavenger Hunt
As we all know, Toronto’s biggest comic/sci-fi/horror/whatever convention, FanExpo, is just around the corner. Starting Thursday, August 22, the Metro Convention Centre (255 Front Street West) will host celebrity and artist signings, panel discussions, costume contests, and one of my favourite things … rows and rows of dollar comic bins.
There are so many repeated ‘tropes’ [...]
Also posted in Comic Characters That Time Forgot, comics, cover, Fan Expo
Tagged brian mclachlan, dollar bin, fanexpo, new universe, team america, ultraverse, valiant comics
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FanExpo Panel: Teen Screams - Friday, August 23
This August, I’ll once again be at FanExpo, Toronto’s monster comic/sci-fi/horror/video game/everything convention at the Metro Convention Centre (255 Front Street West). Why, everyone from Stan Lee to Nichelle ‘Uhura’ Nichols to Chumlee from Pawn Stars will be there!
On Friday, August 23, I’ll be on a horror panel entitled ‘Teen Screams,’ in which I’ll talk [...]
Also posted in Dead Kid Detective Agency, Events, Fan Expo
Tagged alisse lee goldenberg, carrie fisher, chumlee, claire hornsnell, fanexpo, max turner, monica s. kuebler, nathan fillion, nichelle nichols, stan lee
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At the OLA Super Conference: January 31 & February 1
This coming week, the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference 2013 hits Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre (255 Front Street West), and this year, I’ll be there as an author! The Ontario Library Association is Canada’s largest library organization and OLA’s Super Conference is Canada’s largest education event in librarianship. The conference includes a trade show, countless [...]
Also posted in books, Dead Kid Detective Agency, fairs, postcard
Tagged follett, forest of reading, kevin sylvester, ontario library association, silver birch, whitehots
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Artistic Crisis!
The other week I attended Fan Expo Canada, and while I sat on a great panel about writing the supernatural for young readers with Kelley Armstrong and Max Turner, then signed at my publisher, ECW’s, booth, it was the first year I wasn’t sitting behind a table (or ‘tabling’) at Fan Expo.
For the past ten [...]
Also posted in books, comics, Dead Kid Detective Agency, fairs, Fan Expo, Quarter-Life Crisis, SketchKrieg, TCAF
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