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Joan Steacy

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Jason Lapidus

Marco Rudy

Shawn Daley

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In celebration of the comic book creators who were planning to exhibit at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival 2020, here’s my chat with Joan Steacy. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.  Joan is a visual artist who has worked in a variety of disciplines, including sculpture, illustration, and digital painting. A graduate of Sheridan College, The Ontario College of Art &amp; Design, and The University of Victoria, she currently teaches at Camosun College in the Comics and Graphic Novels Program she co-created with partner Ken Steacy. She is also the author/illustrator of So, That’s That! the biography of her father, a scrap-metal dealer who lived to be 100. Most recently, she illustrated a short story for “A Minyen Yidn” by Trina Robbins. Her most recent graphic novel is entitled Aurora Borealice.   You can discover more about Joan on Instagram at @JoanSteacy and online at joansteacy.com ++++++ Please subscribe to and like this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Please check out the TrueNorthCountryComics.com website Follow along on Twitter @TrueNorthComics Please send your feedback to John@TrueNorthCountryComics.com https://truenorthcountrycomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joan-Steacy-June-2020.mp3 True North Country Comics Podcast is Copyright True North Country Comics. Copyright 2020.

In celebration of the comic book creators who were planning to exhibit at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival 2020, here’s my chat with Joan Steacy. The podcast is available on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vancaf2020-in-conversation-with-joan-steacy/id1279049887?i=1000482324253" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a> and Google Podcasts. Joan is a visual artist who has worked in a variety of disciplines, including sculpture, illustration, and digital painting. A graduate of Sheridan College, The Ontario College of Art &amp; Design, and The University of Victoria, she currently teaches at Camosun College in the Comics and Graphic Novels Program she co-created with partner Ken Steacy. She is also the author/illustrator of So, That’s That! the biography of her father, a scrap-metal dealer who lived to be 100. Most recently, she illustrated a short story for “A Minyen Yidn” by Trina Robbins. Her most recent graphic novel is entitled Aurora Borealice. You can discover more about Joan on Instagram at @JoanSteacy and online at <a href="http://joansteacy.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">joansteacy.com</a> ++++++ Please subscribe to and like this podcast on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-north-country-comics-podcasts/id1279049887" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a> and Google Podcasts. Please check out the <a href="http://TrueNorthCountryComics.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TrueNorthCountryComics.com</a> website Follow along on Twitter @TrueNorthComics Please send your feedback to John@TrueNorthCountryComics.com <a href="https://truenorthcountrycomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joan-Steacy-June-2020.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://truenorthcountrycomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joan-Steacy-June-2020.mp3</a> <h6>True North Country Comics Podcast is Copyright True North Country Comics. Copyright 2020.</h6>

VanCAF2020 — In Conversation With Joan Steacy

Comics power couple Ken and Joan Steacy ring in their 40th wedding anniversary with a live interview on Speech Bubble during TCAF weekend and a graphic novel each. The first, Aurora Borealice from Conundrum Press made its debut at TCAF and is the first part of a three-part fictionalized memoir from Joan Steacy following Alice (standing in for Joan) and her struggle with illiteracy. As Joan says on the podcast, “I graduated high school functionally illiterate and I knew I had to do something about that.” The memoir also documents how meeting legendary media theorist Marshall McLuhan and his son Eric changed her life. How having people of that calibre believe in her gave her more confidence and how she embraced new technology to help overcome her struggles with reading. Meanwhile, she had to overcome being perceived as a dummy in her own family and she explains what it's like to be failed over and over again in school and then overcoming that to go to university. The graphic novel she releases now helped her accept her own personal style and embrace who she is as a cartoonist. Ken began his career working for Marvel as an inker right out of school, but it wasn't the dream he thought it would be. He talks about having to carve his own path through the comics industry as a military brat. He went to Sheridan College and learned art fundamentals and basically started again to unlearn bad habits and learn good habits. He eventually would go on to win the Governor General's medal for his work in sequential art and draw books like Iron Man and Astro Boy. He talks about his journey toward authorship and away from being a cog in a wheel. His latest project War Bears happened thanks to an article he illustrated written by Margaret Atwood that takes place during the golden age of Canadian comics -- The Canadian Whites. The article was published to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday and War Bears is its continuation – a further exploration of the story. He talks about what it was like to work with Margaret Atwood and the creation of Oursonette – a fiction hero of the Canadian Whites period. The two Steacys pack a great one-two punch as you listen to them react to each other's work as Joan explores her own history and Ken explores Canadian comics history both real and fictional. This episode is sponsored by Hairy Tarantula. @joansteacy Joan's blog Conundrum Press The Comics Journal interviews Joan The Comics Program that Ken and Joan teach at Camosun College Joan and Ken's son Alex's forthcoming webcomic Drainers Buy War Bears Buy Aurora Borealice Sponsor Hairy Tarantula

Comics power couple Ken and Joan Steacy ring in their 40th wedding anniversary with a live interview on Speech Bubble during TCAF weekend and a graphic novel each. The first, Aurora Borealice from Conundrum Press made its debut at TCAF and is the first part of a three-part fictionalized memoir from Joan Steacy following Alice (standing in for Joan) and her struggle with illiteracy. As Joan says on the podcast, “I graduated high school functionally illiterate and I knew I had to do something about that.” The memoir also documents how meeting legendary media theorist Marshall McLuhan and his son Eric changed her life. How having people of that calibre believe in her gave her more confidence and how she embraced new technology to help overcome her struggles with reading. Meanwhile, she had to overcome being perceived as a dummy in her own family and she explains what it's like to be failed over and over again in school and then overcoming that to go to university. The graphic novel she releases now helped her accept her own personal style and embrace who she is as a cartoonist. Ken began his career working for Marvel as an inker right out of school, but it wasn't the dream he thought it would be. He talks about having to carve his own path through the comics industry as a military brat. He went to Sheridan College and learned art fundamentals and basically started again to unlearn bad habits and learn good habits. He eventually would go on to win the Governor General's medal for his work in sequential art and draw books like Iron Man and Astro Boy. He talks about his journey toward authorship and away from being a cog in a wheel. His latest project War Bears happened thanks to an article he illustrated written by Margaret Atwood that takes place during the golden age of Canadian comics -- The Canadian Whites. The article was published to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday and War Bears is its continuation – a further exploration of the story. He talks about what it was like to work with Margaret Atwood and the creation of Oursonette – a fiction hero of the Canadian Whites period. The two Steacys pack a great one-two punch as you listen to them react to each other's work as Joan explores her own history and Ken explores Canadian comics history both real and fictional. This episode is sponsored by <a href="www.hairyt.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hairy Tarantula</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/joansteacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@joansteacy</a> <a href="http://joansteacy.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joan's blog</a> <a href="https://www.conundrumpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conundrum Press</a> <a href="http://www.tcj.com/i-did-it-the-other-way-around-an-interview-with-joan-steacy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Comics Journal interviews Joan</a> <a href="http://camosun.ca/learn/programs/comics-graphic-novels/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Comics Program that Ken and Joan teach at Camosun College</a> <a href="https://www.cloudscapecomics.com/2019/08/12/drainers-web-comic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joan and Ken's son Alex's forthcoming webcomic Drainers</a> <a href="https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3002-486/War-Bears-HC " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy War Bears</a> <a href="https://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/aurora-borealice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Aurora Borealice</a> Sponsor <a href="www.hairyt.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hairy Tarantula</a>

Ken and Joan Steacy