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EXTRACTION! : comix
reportage
edited
by Frédéric Dubois, Marc
Tessier & David Widgington
featuring
comix artists: Joe
Ollmann, Phil Angers, Ruth Tait & Stanley Wany. With reportages
by Dawn Paley, Petr Cizek, Sophie Toupin & Tamara Herman. With
added artwork: front cover by Alain
Reno, back cover and inside chapter intro images by Jeff
Lemire & inside cover and spot images by Carlos
Santos. With a foreword by David Widgington, an introduction
by Frédéric Dubois and an epilogue by Marc
Tessier.
128
pages
ISBN
978-0-9782474-1-6 2
See
individual chapter details by clicking
here: GOLD mining in Guatemala,
BAUXITE mining in India,
URANIUM exploration in Québec,
OIL SANDS extraction in Alberta.
media
coverage
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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"I've
always thought mining is the perfect idea for a graphic treatment,
and in my fantasies I've even wanted to do a comic about mining
myself."
---
Joe
Sacco ---
For
media coverage, click here
links
about mining, comix journalism, etc.
press
release / communiqué
winner
of the 2008 Expozine
Alternative Press Award for best English language book |
MEDIA
COVERAGE:
media
type |
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media
name |
date |
language |
blog |
review |
The
Comics Reporter (scroll down half way) |
Mar 15 |
[en] |
blog |
mention |
"A
comic way to sepnd the weekend." by Jack Caldwell on Infomine. |
Mar 7 |
[en] |
cultural
monthly |
review |
"Comics,
Overseeing the Extraction" by Laura Trethewey in Exclaim!@# |
March |
[en] |
magazine |
review |
"Les
Reporters sortent le crayon" by Karen Bastien in Terra
Economica |
Feb 28 |
[fr] |
cultural
weekly |
review |
Hour,
"Shortcomings and long views" by Isa Tousignant (scroll
down) |
Feb 21 |
[en] |
newsweekly |
review |
Montréal
Campus, No. 11, COVER
STORY "La bédé reportage, Bulles
d’informations" by Marc-André Sabourin |
Feb 13 |
[fr] |
news bi-weekly |
review |
Journal
Alternatives, vol 14, No. 5 |
Jan 31 |
[fr] |
radio |
interview
 |
Word of
Mouth CKLN 88.1 Toronto |
Jan 23 |
[en] |
monthly
magazine |
article |
"Behind
the rise of investigative cartooning" by Brad Mackay THIS
Magazine |
Jan 2008 |
[en] |
blog |
review |
CentPapiers
média libre |
Dec 27 |
[fr] |
radio |
review
|
Amandla
- CKUT 90,3 fm |
Dec 19 |
[en] |
news daily |
review
|
The
Globe and Mail - Books |
Dec 15 |
[en] |
radio |
interview
|
Macadam
Tribus, Radio-Canada |
Dec 14 |
[fr] |
net news |
review |
The
Tyee's Guide to Book Giving |
Dec 14 |
[en] |
radio |
|
Le
monde selon Mathieu (Radio-Canada, Hull) |
Dec
13 |
[fr] |
cultural
weekly |
|
Médias
de Steve Proulx (Voir) |
Dec
13 |
[fr] |
blog |
|
Ca
manque à ma culture (Télé- Québec) |
Dec
12 |
[fr] |
radio |
interview
|
4 à
6, CIBL 101,5 fm |
Dec 11 |
[fr] |
blog |
|
Branchez-vous
INFO |
Dec
7 |
[fr] |
blog |
|
Ryerson
Review of Journalism |
Dec
6 |
[en] |
blog |
|
Comiquero |
Dec
6 |
[sp] |
radio |
|
Tuesday
Morning After - CKUT 90.3 fm |
Dec.
4 |
[en] |
radio |
|
Café
- CKUT 90.3 fm |
Nov
30 |
[en] |
blog |
|
The
Comics Reporter |
Nov
30 |
[en] |
cultural
weekly |
|
Montréal
Mirror |
Nov
29 |
[en] |
radio |
|
Lendemain de la veille - CKUT 90.3 fm |
Nov
29 |
[fr] |
blog |
|
Sequential |
Oct
9, 2007 |
[en] |
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Take
4 journalists. Send
them on assignment to each investigate a mining project by a Canadian
company in 4 extractive sectors:
GOLD. BAUXITE.
URANIUM. OIL.
Have the reportages converted into scripts destined for graphic
interpretation. Give the scripts to 4
award-winning comix artists to illustrate and EXTRACTION!
is the result
Comix
journalism will never be the same!
links
about mining, comix journalism, etc.
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Taking
the heart from the land
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here to download full chapter in .pdf (9.7 Mb)
reportage
by Dawn Paley

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Dawn
Paley is a writer and organizer who grew up in the
woods in Ruskin, ‘British Columbia,’ where her
family settled on unceded Coast Salish territory. Her work
is oriented towards popular education and social
justice. Lately, she has been focusing on Canadian mining
companies in the Americas, a topic which is likely to keep
her busy for the next several decades. |
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to see full page
click
here for French translation in .pdf (12.2 Mb)
comix
by Joe Ollmann

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Joe
Ollmann
is a cartoonist who lives in Montréal. He is the author
of three books: Chewing
on Tinfoil, The Big Book of Wag! and This
Will All End in Tears, all ostensibly ‘funny
books’ but mostly consisting of bug-eyed, bucktoothed
characters enacting various depressing aspects of the misanthropic
author’s world view. Former catholic, former communist,
former angry young man, he hopes to start composting again
soon. He has just won the
2007 Doug Wright Award for
Canadian Cartooning in the best book category for This
Will All End in Tears and his intolerable arrogance
has increased accordingly. |
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The
world's unluckiest people
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here to download full chapter in .pdf (9.5 Mb)
reportage
by Tamara Herman

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Tamara
Herman
is a community organizer who has been active for over ten
years in groups and collectives fighting for justice, dignity
and self-determination. Her work as a community media journalist
has led her to Mali, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia, covering
issues ranging from migration to militarization. In 2005,
she traveled to Kashipur, India to report on local resistance
to an Alcan-backed bauxite mine. Tamara is currently working
on a Master’s degree at the University of Victoria and
is presently active with the Alcan’t
in India collective and the Canada Out of Afghanistan
Campaign. |
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to see full page comix
by Stanley Wany

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Stanley
Wany
is a writer, artist and publisher. With a business partner,
he ran Void Comics from 1995 to 1997. In 2005, he returned
to school to complete a BA degree in visual arts and bande
dessinée at Université du Québec en Outaouais.
He recently went back to publishing with a new magazine of
comix called TRIP.
Stanley was part of the delegation from Québec at the
Angoulême
comics festival in France in 2007. |
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Highway
of the atom
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here to download full chapter in .pdf (6.8 Mb)
reportage
by Sophie Toupin

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Sophie
Toupin
is a social justice/media activist and volunteer at CKUT 90.3
FM. For three years, she worked for the International Secretariat
of the World Association of Community Radiobroadcasters (AMARC)
mostly coordinating and organizing live international broadcasts
from the four corners of the world. It’s through her
Master’s degree in International Development at Aalborg
University in Denmark, that she discovered the ‘power’
of community radio. Every time she hit the road, whether by
bus, bike, pirogue, rickshaw, taxi-brousse or on foot, she
makes sure she visits the local community radio station. |
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to see full page comix
by Ruth Tait

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Ruth
Tait
studied Fine Art and Graphic Design in England and then Illustration
and Design at OCA(D) and Animation at Sheridan. She worked
briefly at Nelvana as a storyboard revision artist; then became
a freelance illustrator and designer, specializing as a storyboard
artist for film and TV. She currently works part-time as an
administrator at Propeller
Gallery, an artist-run gallery in Toronto. The rest of
her time is spent running her sole-proprietor illustration/web/graphic
design business. Ruth is also an independent comic book creator
and was recently awarded an Ontario Arts Council Writer’s
Reserve grant to continue the work on her graphic novel. |
View
National Film Board of Canada's Uranium
(1990) by Magnus Isacsson. |

From
the bottom of the pit
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here to download full chapter in .pdf (6.8 Mb)
reportage
by Petr Cizek

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Petr
Cizek
is an independent environmental consultant, who lived in the
Northwest Territories for over a dozen years, working primarily
with First Nations and environmental organisations. He
is currently working on a PhD at the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver. Petr specializes in the application
of geographic information systems, remote sensing, and 3D
visualisation to mapping of aboriginal wildlife harvesting/
cultural sites and modelling the cumulative impacts of mega-projects
such as oil/gas fields, pipelines, mines, and hydro-electric
dams. |
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comix by Phil Angers

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Phil
Angers
(aka Alain Gosselin & Al+Flag) is an illustrator who likes
to draw in a realist style with a predilection for politics
and the fantastik. With Marc Tessier, Angers
created allegorical comics like those in Mac
Tin Tac. In L’enfance du cyclope, he presented
a chapter from The Oaken Door. In this saga, Angers showcases
three different visual approaches to tackle three different
time periods featuring the same character; the art recalling
etchings made on wood or metal. He has always shown an interest
in depicting the cracks in the fabric of society. He hopes
to finish The Oaken Door in the coming years. This work will
be his longest graphic novel yet. |
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General
Mining Issues :
June
11, 2007 - À
quel prix? (Le Téléjournal); TSX
to launch global mining index --- May 28,
2007 - Central
American Countries Protest Canadian Government's Role in Mining
--- May 26, 2007 - Earth
audit: We are using up minerals at an alarming rate. How long
before they run out? --- May 24, 2007 - The
late Glen Davis was no ordinary philanthropist --- May
2007 - Rights & Democracy Initiative on Human
Rights Impact Assessment --- April 29, 2007
- CIM
REPORTER : Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
conference and exhibition, Montreal (pdf) --- Exploration
minière : Québec atteint de nouveaux sommets en
2006! ---
About
Comix Journalism :
-- BD
Reporters au Centre Pompidou --- BD
reporters --- The
Case for Comics Journalism --- Comics
at War --- Joe
Sacco --- Talking
with Joe Sacco --- Joe
Sacco: Presentation from the 2002 UF Comics Conference ---
La
Bande Dessinée dans la cour des grands reporters ---
Reportage
d'images / Images du reportage --- Midnight
Ramblings with a Comics Journalist: An Interview with Joe Sacco
--- Declarations
of Oruro Gathering on Environmental Justice and Mining in Latin
America --- Drawn
In, David Collier on Comics Journalism ---
About
Mining :
--- Dirty
Business, Dirty Practices: How the Federal Gov. Supports Canadian
Mining, Oil and Gas companies Abroad (English)
(français)
--- APEC Ministers
Responsible for Mining --- Business
& Human rights Resource Centre (Mining) --- Extractive
Industry Transparency Initiative --- Above-Ground
Risk Country Ratings for Mining --- Argentina
Province Bans Open-Pit Mining --- Corporate
Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in
Developing Countries -- Canadian
Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum --- Canadian
Mining Companies Helping Themselves to Others’ Wealth
--- Dirty
Waters: Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Overseas (pdf)
--- Mining Philanthropy
(pdf) --- Canadian Mining Map
(pdf) --- Stakeholder
Engagement: A Good Practice Handbook for Companies Doing Business
in Emerging Markets (2.59mb.pdf) --- Mining
Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities --- The
Mining Industry's Track Record on the Environment --- To
Have and Have Not: Resource Governance in the 21st Century
--- Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire (CSRwire)
--- Global
InfoMine ---
International Cyanide Management Code for the Mining Industry
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