The Ottawa Arts Council announced on Nov. 23 the ten recipients of their ActivArts Community Micro-Grants. The grants are designed to respond to a specific need, such as purchasing supplies for a project, launching a zine, or developing a theatre piece.
Last month an awful thing happened: Ottawa’s popular Mirror Comics closed its doors and shut down. Beginning in 2010, artist-writer Dominic Bercier and web guru Allan Isfan founded Mirror Comics to a fair amount of fandom, and hit its stride in 2012 when they released copies of their work at Ottawa Comiccon and noticed people loved what […]
The creation of comic books is not something that many people would associate with Ottawa – unless, of course, you include the cartoonish behaviour that regularly occurs on Parliament Hill. If you peer a littler closer, however, you will be pleasantly surprised to discover that Canada’s capital city is booming with local artists. In fact, the […]
