The Four Color Media Monitor

The CBC reported about Heavy Sweater Comics, a new publisher working around St. Johns:

In a sleepy area of St. John's, sprawling with agricultural land and homes dotted in between, Kevin Woolridge is launching his own boutique comic book publishing company to give local artists a platform for their work — something he said is lacking locally.

"We've got a really great community here and I don't think the general public really knows how wonderful all the artists are in that community," Woolridge told CBC News.

Heavy Sweater Comics is turning its gears, but at the moment Woolridge is keeping mum on the four comic titles he'll be releasing this fall, on top of his work.

He did offer hints, however, saying there are two comic collections and a shorter fantasy comic coming down the pipe.

"It's also a big experiment. Who knows that this is going to work, right? I'm kind of pouring a bunch of stuff into it this year just to get it off the ground and we'll see if it takes off," said Woolridge.

"If it does, and it continues to grow, then maybe I can start paying myself and then maybe I can bring some help on board."

Woolridge has a long background in the comic world. He has been making comics since he was a child and several years ago he started self-publishing his own series The Little World, which he would sell at local conventions.

[...] He said he wants to also get away from the idea that comics are only about superheroes.

"I don't think they know how deep it can go and how much it can speak to the human condition," he said.

Well good luck to him on his new venture, and I hope he offers up stuff that's tasteful, because there's too much woke perversions going on in the entertainment industry as a whole these days. And a good point made how comics aren't and shouldn't just be about superheroes.

Since we're in discussion of Canadian products and beginning in childhood, the CBC also spoke about a 10-year-old boy who's produced a comic of his own at that young age:

A 10-year-old comics fan from Summerside, P.E.I., has written his own comic book, and he's making some good money out of it, too.

Dominic Gallant says he's been a huge comics fan since stumbling upon a bunch at the local library when he was eight years old.

"They were like comedy, very immersive kind of comic books, and I wanted to do the same," Dominic said.

[...] Unicorn is a 40-page comic book Dominic wrote as a project for the Young Millionaires Program, which teaches P.E.I. youth entrepreneurship skills.

The book was inspired by some of Dominic's all-time favourite comics, including Dog Man and Big Nate. The budding author said he wanted the book to have a "newspaper-comic feel."

Good luck to him too. There have been youngsters here and there who've turned out all sorts of amazing ideas, and above all, let's hope this guy does his in good taste, thus earning the payments he's getting for real.

Labels: comic strips, conventions, indie publishers