Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity

A few weeks back when I was in Toronto for the Kameron Hurley signing, I went to the Toronto Reference Library to do some research. The library currently has an exhibit on called Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity, ending July 29. It's a fairly small exhibit and only took me a half hour or so to go through, but it's got some cool display pieces, like the bone and adamantium claw props used for the X-Men's Wolverine in the standalone Wolverine movies.

Some of the comics/characters on display I'd heard of (Scott Pilgrim, Captain Canuck), others I hadn't.

And while you're there, I recently discovered that there's an Arthur Conan Doyle room on the 5th floor.

Karl Schroeder Online Author Chat

Want to talk to Karl Schroeder, SF writer, futurist and Toronto Public Library SF Writer-in-Residence? He will be doing a live one-hour chat on Book Buzz (Toronto Public Library's online book club) next week. Check it out at http://bookbuzz.torontopubliclibrary.ca on Wednesday March 24th from 7-8.

Background on Karl from the WIR page:
Karl Schroeder's first science fiction novel Ventus was declared a New York Times Notable book in 2001, and his second novel, Permanence, won the 2003 Aurora Award for best Canadian Science Fiction Novel. Karl is best known for the Virga series: Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, Pirate Sun, The Sunless Countries, and Ashes of Candesce.

Karl has taught courses on writing science fiction at both the University of Toronto and George Brown College. Together with co-author Cory Doctorow, he wrote The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction, practical marketing advice for aspiring authors.

TPL WIR page: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/pro_wir.jsp
WIR Blog http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/karlschroeder/
Karl's homepage: http://www.karlschroeder.com/

(Thanks to Dawn Connelly for the information write up and links.)