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CarnivorousReyn

@carnivorousreyn.bsky.social

Perfect time to have a #captaincanuck resurgence
#canadiancomics #canadiancomicbooks
Created by cartoonist #RonLeishman & artist/writer #RichardComely
#canadasky #comicbooks #iamcanadian #trunpwars

February 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM

Wordburglar

@wordburglar.bsky.social

See ya at Toronto Comicon this weekend! #torontocomicon #fanexpocanada #canadiancomicbooks

March 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM

Aaron Navrady

@rustypincers.bsky.social

Erik's such a champion for indie / Canadian comics (and comics in general) ... thanks for your patience and glad you can finally finish the series! #canadiancomicbooks

Erik Missio @erikmissio.bsky.social · May 10

Great mail day! Canadian cartoonist @rustypincers.bsky.social brings his 10-part comic series to a close. The Cold Fire is gorgeous and a meticulous look into a point and place of history I don’t know nothing about. (Alt text of one of the pics has the summary.)

thecoldfire.com

Me holding a comic book, showing the viewer the back copy. (My Havanese dog is in the background.) anyway, here’s the text with apologies for the all caps:

AS THE SUN RISES ON THE 11TH CENTURY, THE WESTERN AGGRESSION OF THE CRUSADES IS TURNING INWARD UPON ITSELF.

GASPARD DE SEC, A BATTLE-HARDENED NORMAN CRUSADER, AND HIS BRETON
UNDERSTUDY JULIEN
ARE RECRUITED TO A SPECIAL COMPANY WHO MUST
APPREHEND A SPLINTER
GROUP OF FUGITIVE HERETICS AS THEY FLEE THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND ATTEMPT TO CROSS TRE FROZEN ALPS.

AS THE KNIGHTS GET CLOSER TO SEIZING THEIR QUARRY, A MYSTERIOUS SWORDSMAN BRINGS CALAMITY TO THEIR TASK, AND, IN THE AFTERMATH,
GASPARD AND JULIEN ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE VIRTUE OF BOTH THEIR MISSION AND THEIR MASTERS.

SUCH SEEDS OY DOUBT THREATEN TO IMPERIL NOT ONLY THEIR CHARGE TO PROTECT THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, BUT GASPARD'S TENUOUS VOCATION AS A KNIGHT.

THE COLD FIRE EXPLORES
THE CONTRADICTIONS EMBODIED IN THESE HOLY WARRIORS - A READY MIXTURE OF DEVOTION TO GOD, KIN AND SWORD.

THE PROTAGONISTS END UP PAINFULLY ENTANGLED
IN THIS CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES AS THEY SPEARHEAD THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH’s WAR AGAINST HERESY.

Cover of The Cold afire, chapter 10, “Facing the Wolf.” I’m holding the comic in front of its packaging. It’s by cartoonist Aaron Navrady and self-published by Sarsaparillo. Ten wonderfully designed and assembled comics that will hopefully be one big graphic novel so more people can discover it.

A spread of Aaron Navrady’s The Cold Fire. The dude uses snow the way Mike Mignola uses the night. This is a compliment of a high order

More pages from Navrady’s The Cold Fire. Lots of dialogue, but it still works.

May 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM

At Bay Press

@atbaypress.bsky.social

Two of our graphic novels: Curb Angels Vol. 2 by Nyala Ali and illustrated by Lisa Mendis, and Zeroed Out by @jimmunroe.net and illustrated by @inkskratch.com were featured in this CBC Book's article here: buff.ly/qtQ9DEB

#canadiancomicbooks #canadianindiepublisher #atbaypress

July 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM

At Bay Press

@atbaypress.bsky.social

At Bay Press will be at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival at booth D31 with Starkie Mak!

#mcaf #mcaf2025 #mcaf25 #fbdmcaf2025 #montrealcomicartsfestival #atbaypress #canadiancomics #canadiancomicbooks #canadiangraphicnovels #montrealevents #thingstodoinmontreal #montrealbookevents #bookevents

May 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Wordburglar

@wordburglar.bsky.social

Find me at FAN EXPO Artist Alley BOOTH 028 all wknd TORONTO! +PLUS+ catch me rhyming FRI at LEE'S PALACE 8PM w/ CYBERTRONIC SPREE & DRAGON SOUNDS and SAT at REC ROOM 730pm for COMICS XPLOSION! #fanexpo #fanexpocanada #canadianhiphop #canadiancomicbooks #wordburglsr

August 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM

CarnivorousReyn

@carnivorousreyn.bsky.social

#CaptainCanuck
#Canadiancomicbooks #superhero
Created by #RonLeishman & #RichardComely
First appeared in Captain Canuck #1 (July 1975). The series was the first successful Canadian comic book since the collapse of the nation's comic book industry following World War II. #canadasky #comicbooks

March 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM

Tanner and Casey

@tannerandcasey.bsky.social

Something is out for preorder! Guess what it is? 🥳

www.tannerandcasey.com/shop

#comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #webcomic #indiecomic #indiecomics #indiecomicbooks #indiecomicbook #Canadian #Canadiancomics #canadiancomicbook #canadiancomicbooks #funny #hilarious #goofy #fun

March 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM

At Bay Press

@atbaypress.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Jim Muroe and @inkskratch.com‬ will be at the TCAF at table 220A Saturday and Sunday. Come say hi and get a signed copy of their new graphic novel Zeroed Out!

#tcaf #tcaf2025 #comicfestival #artfestival #graphicnovel #comicbooks #canadaingraphicnovels #canadiancomicbooks #atbaypress

June 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM

CarnivorousReyn

@carnivorousreyn.bsky.social

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
#jayodjick #news #kaboom #comics #canadasky #comicbooks #canadiancomicbooks #indigenous #superhero #graphicnovel #art

Indigenous superheroes take on colonialism and saving the planet in new graphic novel | CBC News

In an upcoming graphic novel by Jay Odjick illustrated by KC Oster, a network of Indigenous superhero operatives battle colonialism, threats to the environment and reclaim stolen Indigenous artifacts ...

www.cbc.ca

July 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Katamakii

@katamakii.bsky.social

Captain Canuck: CANADAS FIRST SUPER HERO!

Signed By Richard Comely - the Co-Creator of Captain Canuck himself!

#CanadianComics #CanadianComicBook
#CanadianComicBooks
#ComicBooks
#ComicBook
#IndependentComics
#IndependentComic

A single issue of Captain Canuck. First Canada Day Edition 2014. Signed By the Co-Creator of Captain Canuck, Ricard Comely.

Fun-Fact: Captain Canuck is Canada's first super hero!

November 18, 2024 at 4:34 AM

At Bay Press

@atbaypress.bsky.social

The Montreal Comic Arts Festival was a blast! Thank you to everyone who stopped by At Bay Press' booth to see us, Starkie Mak and Bernard Mulaire!

#mcaf2025 #fbdmcaf2025 #montrealcomicartsfestival #atbaypress #canadiancomicbooks #canadiangraphicnovels #canadianpublisher #canadiansmallpress

May 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Aaron Navrady

@rustypincers.bsky.social

Feels great to have finally finished the whole series! See you alls at FBDM & Panel One comics fests! #canadiancomicbooks thecoldfire.com / fbdm-mcaf.ca / panelone.ca