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Alex Fellows, Ice Cream

by sam on December 11, 2015 at 10:54 am

I don’t even know how I ended up finding this week’s piece of pop culture. I have definitely been on a comic book tear lately, though, and am glad to work something new and local into the rotation…

SO. Through a series of clicks and searches, I somehow ended up finding Ice Cream, a comic being published online by Alex Fellows, a Montreal-based cartoonist. This is not Fellows’ first foray into serialized online publication – his graphic novel Spain and Morocco was also originally posted online, albeit on a more consistent schedule. So far, Fellows has posted chapters one and two of Ice Cream, in June and October respectively. I’m hoping that he continues this… “quarterly” publication schedule and that we’ll be seeing something new in January. Because I think I might be **hooked**. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: Alex Fellows, art, Asterios Polyp, comics, made-in-Montreal, Spain and Morocco

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The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, by Heather O’Neill

by sam on November 25, 2015 at 10:08 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Sam

For this week’s installment, part two in the series “Sam gets better acquainted with Montreal’s cultural products”, we have a book: The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, by Heather O’Neill.

Recently, this author has been coming up in basically every discussion of contemporary Anglo-Montreal literature. I even name-dropped her in my thesis, even though I hadn’t gotten around to actually reading her yet. Her third book came out this year, and the one I read came out last year. Both were nominated for the Giller prize, and her first book, Lullabies for Little Criminals won Canada Reads in 2007. She does great things with language, and her use of French is very much typical of the current literature coming out of English-speaking Montreal. I should have read her works ages ago. I am ashamed of how woefully out of date I am.

So, even though I picked up a couple new comics over the week and was secretly planning a Jessica Jones binge, I assumed I would be happy to spend time with this novel.

But. It didn’t work out that way. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: books, Heather O'Neill, made-in-Montreal, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

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An introduction and a first review: Série Noire

by sam on November 11, 2015 at 4:43 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Sam

The very tiniest, baby roots of this column started months ago, at a party. Knowing that Keith had this website happening and “did things with podcasts”, I naturally assumed he was an expert and would know if there was a podcast out there that focused on Montreal-made (or even Quebec- or Canada-made) content. In my head, there was a magical podcast and I just hadn’t found it yet. Something akin to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour (which is a true delight, if you haven’t listened to it yet). Someone, or better yet, several someones who would happily point me to the best books, movies and TV shows coming out of our city, and who would give me something a little critical to sink my teeth into.

So… it turns out this doesn’t exist. And after letting the idea percolate, Keith got in touch with me and asked if I would be interested in trying to fill this void with a blog. And even though my fondest wish was to be spoonfed, taking matters into my own hands and foisting my opinions onto the masses seems like a pretty decent alternative. The premise, then, is that for every article, I will consume a more-or-less recent piece of made-in-Montreal pop culture. Hopefully, it will be awesome.

First on my docket is dark comedy Série noire. The second season began airing last week, and the first one recently popped up in my Netflix suggestions. Like any reasonable adult and dedicated social butterfly, I decided to watch as many episodes of its twelve episodes as possible between Saturday and Sunday (ten).