The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

Happy Hangover Day, Canada. Hope you didn't have to get up to go to work. Today I am going to do a review of a book by another local Ottawa artist, a man by the name of Steve Coffin. Steve was born in 1974 in Portsmouth, England, and after trying to make a go of a career in music, emigrated to Canada in 2000. After graduating from Wed design from my alma matter, Algonquin College, he has been working hard as a graphic artist ever since. I particularly love this cover as a big fan of the Guild, in fact this was what attracted me to his work in the first place. I had the pleasure of meeting Steve at a small Aylmer show where he was giving drawing lessons. I had my kids with me, so partaking in the session was impossible, but I did watch as he passed his knowledge on to an eager batch of what I would call, the next generation. Steve's website is www.stevecoffin.com , so give it a look and maybe you'll see what I do. You can get some of his comic work, including the book ...

Good day, my fellow comic denizens, I have just arrived back home from Ottawa Comiccon, the 2018 edition and I can honestly say, that from a comic book perspective, never had I have had so much success at a convention (I almost did last year, but I was one book short.) Pictured above is the first comic book I have bought as an investment in my life. As the first appearance of Power Girl, I like to think that this book (like her obvious...qualities) will appreciate larger in time. But it is a book I have coveted for a long time and since I have completed my Supergirl goal, I went for it. I managed to sit through many comic panels this year, I attended the one Dan Parent of Archie Comics fame (hosted by Josh Stafford of the Mayfair Theater, also known by many as a huge comic fan in his own right.) Parent talked a lot about the current state of affairs at Archie, about Dan Decarlo and his work with him, and talked up his Kickstarter for his project Die, Kitty, Die (you can read abo...