Silver Snail – Behind the Curtain

Snail Trail!

Posted by Conor McCreery, August 24, 2012 – 12:36 pm

Last weekend, on Saturday August 18th, Toronto’s oldest comic shop – The Silver Snail – moved house.
Sorta.
The Snail has been on the cusp of moving for several months as their old digs on 367 Queen West has been sold to be developed as condos (surprise, surprise). But because of slower than expected rennovations at their [...]

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All Over Toronto This Weekend

Posted by Anthony Del Col, May 5, 2011 – 10:46 am

After last weekend’s appearance in Boston, we will be making a number of appearances in Toronto this weekend (May 7th and 8th).
Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, an initiative in which most comic book stores in North America distribute free copies of various books to anyone coming into the store. We will be at the [...]

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The finalists have been chosen

Posted by Conor McCreery, March 23, 2011 – 11:24 am

By now I hope most of you have heard of the cover contest we are running for issue #11. Since Anthony and I are newbies to the world of comics we wanted to give someone else a chance to break in.
So we opened up a cover-design contest across North America and the entries flowed in. [...]

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Kill Shakespeare wants you to get your first break in comics!

Posted by Conor McCreery, February 20, 2011 – 5:03 pm

Anthony and I are often a little humbled by how friendly the comic world has been to us – two neophytes.
Whether it’s the incomparable Arvid Nelson giving us story tips, the brilliant Mike Carey, John Layman or Bryan Glass writing us great blurbs or Ty Templeton and Darwyn Cooke serving as mentors we have constantly [...]