Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

October 26, 2014

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 22 Part 2: An Interview with Rachel Richey

At Fan Expo Canada, I ran into Rachel Richey, part of the dynamic duo of women who brought back Nelvana of the Northern Lights. We had a chance to talk about her latest project, bringing the WWII era Johnny Canuck comics back into the public eye, recovering this lost figure in Canadian comic book superhero history. We had a chance...

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October 26, 2014

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 22 Part 1: An Interview with Hope Nicholson

You have heard me talk previously about my adoration for Nelvana of the Northern Lights, Canada’s first Superheroine, now you can hear from one of the brilliant women who brought back this figure of Canada’s comic book history and republished the Nelvana comics. In our interview, Hope Nicholson talks about her newest comic book recovery project, bringing Brok Windsor, WWII...

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October 22, 2014

Appologies – link to Mark Shainblum interview was broken

Sorry all, the link to my interview with Mark Shainblum was broken, but is now repaired. I hope that you have a chance to check it out! Thanks for your patience everyone and thanks to Claude for letting me know that the link had stopped working! Much appreciated. Here is the link to the post http://speculatingcanada.ca/2014/10/19/speculating-canada-on-trent-radio-episode-21-an-interview-with-mark-shainblum/

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October 21, 2014

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 19: An Interview with Dominik Parisien

When I mention Speculative Poetry to most people, they respond with a bit of confusion. I often think this may be because they are seeing poetry as the quintessential example of high culture and anything “genre” as the pits of low, popular culture… then again, maybe they just picture poems like this: Roses are Red Aliens are Green Space is...

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October 19, 2014

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 21: An Interview with Mark Shainblum

After reading Northguard, I knew I had to meet with Mark Shainblum and talk to him about his work in Canadian comics and the overall idea of creating a Canadian superhero. I was lucky that I ran into Mark at Fan Expo Canad and had a chance to chat with him. In our interview, we talk about the characteristics of...

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October 17, 2014

Quote – Lived as Everyone Else Did.

“If things had been different, I would have lived out my life as everyone else did: loved by some, ignored by others, finding my life’s joys or sorrows in my small portion of the world.” -Nancy Baker – A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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October 12, 2014

Fluid

A review of Jay Odjick and Patrick Tenascon’s Kagagi: The Raven (Arcana, 2010) By Derek Newman-Stille Portrayals of aboriginal people in comics are often tokenistic, two dimensional, and stereotypical. Aboriginal women in comics are sexualized, with costumes that are reduced to a few bands of leather and tassels. Aboriginal men are made into stoic figures. Aboriginal groups are often invented...

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October 9, 2014

Quote – Cape Doesn’t Make A Hero

“I may wear a cape, but that doesn’t make me a hero.” – Steve Vernon – The Glint of Moonlight on Broken Glass in Nothing to Lose (Nocturne Press, 2007)

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October 6, 2014

Superheroic Sundays Throughout October

Canada has often had a complicated relationship with the idea of the superhero. We often see comics as a genre from “away”, not “of here”. Our comics have historically had a fairly short run, been overwhelmed by an American market, and have experienced our Canadian view that pop culture created in Canada is always going to be second rate. Superheroes...

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September 30, 2014

Mojo Disabled

A review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine (Grand Central Publishing, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille There is a beauty in complexity, an ethereal quality to the display of Otherness and the richness of diversity. Sister Mine evokes the complexity of reality, the beatuty and power evoked by the richness of the human experience. Nalo Hopkinson’s characters are diverse in cultural background,...

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