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Dave Howard hosts the evening, makes sure the supplies are there and available, is the liason between the jam and the venue, edits the jam book (so blame him if you piece is not there!), does website content, and is the publicity contact when needed. He writes freelance reviews about comics and has been publshed in The Comics Journal, Quill and Quire, Broken Pencil, as well as Exclaim! Magazine. He's also publshed and edited local comics anthology zine Don't Touch Me Independent Comics for many years. His website is www.davehoward.ca. Dave lives with his wife Theresa Vaz and daughter Leah in downtown Toronto.
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Printing: Alan Bunce and NELVANA
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Alan Bunce and NELVANA generously print up the 50 copies of the jam book each month so that they may be free to participants. Alan is an accomplished story-board artist who has worked on hundreds of animation projects over the years, including directing the first Babar the Elelphant movie for NELVANA. His first self-published one-shot comic ZZZ won instant critical acclaim as well as the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award for 2000. NELVANA is an award-winning animation studio based here in Toronto which has produced hundreds of well-known TV shows, specials and movies.
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Music DJ: MOUTH
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MOUTH (aka Dan Lovranski, aka Dan Brody) spins the CDs for the evening. He is a freelance writer, commentator and musician having reviewed billions upon billions of CDs for Chart Magazine since its inception; hosted a weekly all-night radio show for six years called Dr. Mouth's Medicine Cabinet for U of T's CIUT 89.5 FM; is a wrestling commentator, writer and broadcaster for www.liveaudiowrestling.com and MOJO AM 640; and is the front man for the world's only true punk wrestling rock band Bruiser Brody, named after the famed wrestler.
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Web Hosting: Tom King
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Tom King began generously hosting the Toronto Comic Jam website in 1999, created the first site, and designed the frameset for the current site. He laboriously scanned over 20 of the jam books that they may be available in PDF format for the web, and created over 20 slide-show Trailers for the books, choosing a favourite jam page and showing it panel by panel. At about 4 hours scanning per book (at least), that's over 800 hours for the books alone, since 1999. Tom also created the animated shorts The Truth About Ruth and The Anarchist as well as the bizzare short film called Drinking Dolls depicting a collection of 20th Century novelty drinking toys. Tom also worked on the original animated Heavy Metal movie, and currently works as a computer programmer.
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