Candida Rifkind
@crifkind.bsky.social
Professor of comic books & Canadian Literature at University of Winnipeg. Writing about refugee & migrant comics, architectural imagination in comics, Canadian auto/bio.
Show me your quick getaway vehicle
August 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Show me your quick getaway vehicle
Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness” - Ep. 3 of the podcast I did with co-author @drdomdavies.bsky.social is up!
www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...
www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Can Refugee Comics Effect Political Change? Discussing Comics Journalism and “Refugeeness” - Ep. 3 of the podcast I did with co-author @drdomdavies.bsky.social is up!
www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...
www.choice360.org/podcasts/epi...
A few days in Gent for the Jazz Fest and as we walk around will be thinking about the phenomenonal @baloji.bsky.social set last night & especially when they said this: "half this beautiful city of Gent was built on the blood of the Congo"🇨🇩🇧🇪
July 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A few days in Gent for the Jazz Fest and as we walk around will be thinking about the phenomenonal @baloji.bsky.social set last night & especially when they said this: "half this beautiful city of Gent was built on the blood of the Congo"🇨🇩🇧🇪
Eszter Szep talking about this super interesting collection of cultural and language preservation comics
July 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Eszter Szep talking about this super interesting collection of cultural and language preservation comics
Wonderful keynote by Eszter Szep on the potential of comics as events, not products, to create community in the capitalocene #igncc2025
July 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Wonderful keynote by Eszter Szep on the potential of comics as events, not products, to create community in the capitalocene #igncc2025
Fantastic research by Maggie Gray on 1960s-90s UK feminist Cartoon Theatre & radical performances of Beryl & The Perils #igncc2025
July 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fantastic research by Maggie Gray on 1960s-90s UK feminist Cartoon Theatre & radical performances of Beryl & The Perils #igncc2025
Woohoo it's a @torontocomics.bsky.social kick-off panel on Canadian Comics in Dangerous Times with an all-star cast: Cole Pauls, Guy Delisle @faitherinhicks.bsky.social @sanyaanwar.bsky.social @librarylandia.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Woohoo it's a @torontocomics.bsky.social kick-off panel on Canadian Comics in Dangerous Times with an all-star cast: Cole Pauls, Guy Delisle @faitherinhicks.bsky.social @sanyaanwar.bsky.social @librarylandia.bsky.social
Wow wow wow fantastic presentation on MA work by Sara Mizannojehdei, who is doing local comics journalism about NDG Park in Montreal. Drawing memories, interviews, research, own experiences. Can't wait to see where this goes!! www.mizigner.com @comicsscholars.ca #Congress #comicsjournalism
June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Wow wow wow fantastic presentation on MA work by Sara Mizannojehdei, who is doing local comics journalism about NDG Park in Montreal. Drawing memories, interviews, research, own experiences. Can't wait to see where this goes!! www.mizigner.com @comicsscholars.ca #Congress #comicsjournalism
See you soon Toronto! @comicsscholars.ca #congress
June 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
See you soon Toronto! @comicsscholars.ca #congress
One week from today I'll be giving the keynote at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics in Toronto! Join us 3:30-5:00pm Thurs, June 4th, rm SJA 455E at George Brown College - first 30 people get a copy of my zine! @comicsscholars.ca @wlupress.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One week from today I'll be giving the keynote at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics in Toronto! Join us 3:30-5:00pm Thurs, June 4th, rm SJA 455E at George Brown College - first 30 people get a copy of my zine! @comicsscholars.ca @wlupress.bsky.social
The 2025 Eisner Awards nominees list is out and um excuse me but 4/5 of the graphic memoir artists are Canadian! I would like to have a moment of national pride because our auto/bio comics artists & small presses @conundrumpress.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social deserve all the love
May 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The 2025 Eisner Awards nominees list is out and um excuse me but 4/5 of the graphic memoir artists are Canadian! I would like to have a moment of national pride because our auto/bio comics artists & small presses @conundrumpress.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social deserve all the love
Diversifying the lawn with clover is really paying off
May 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Diversifying the lawn with clover is really paying off
It's finally in print! Got my author copies of Graphic Refuge: Visuality & Mobility in Refugee Comics today (Pepper loves the packaging. Pub date June 10 but can pre-order now www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap...
@wlupress.bsky.social @drdomdavies.bsky.social @cssc
@wlupress.bsky.social @drdomdavies.bsky.social @cssc
May 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It's finally in print! Got my author copies of Graphic Refuge: Visuality & Mobility in Refugee Comics today (Pepper loves the packaging. Pub date June 10 but can pre-order now www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap...
@wlupress.bsky.social @drdomdavies.bsky.social @cssc
@wlupress.bsky.social @drdomdavies.bsky.social @cssc
I guess when @aircanada.bsky.social puts you in "Preferred Seating" they mean a seat someone replaced with one they got off Temu and stuck down with some double sided tape
April 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I guess when @aircanada.bsky.social puts you in "Preferred Seating" they mean a seat someone replaced with one they got off Temu and stuck down with some double sided tape
Tbh the only news feed I can watch these days is from our bird feeder #purplefinch
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Tbh the only news feed I can watch these days is from our bird feeder #purplefinch
Exciting mail day! Can't wait to read smart people writing about comics in contexts of environmental and political systems of power @mbumatay.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Exciting mail day! Can't wait to read smart people writing about comics in contexts of environmental and political systems of power @mbumatay.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
"It's been a hella hard week so why don't I bake us a nice chocolate cake for a treat"
February 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"It's been a hella hard week so why don't I bake us a nice chocolate cake for a treat"
It was Winnipeg warm today so this one basked in the sun and was so cute I nearly forgot she woke me up at 4am by puking onto my pillow
February 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It was Winnipeg warm today so this one basked in the sun and was so cute I nearly forgot she woke me up at 4am by puking onto my pillow
I regret ever spending money on cat enrichment when the recycling bin was right there the whole time
February 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I regret ever spending money on cat enrichment when the recycling bin was right there the whole time
Another Canadian art puzzle done! "Several Found Things (Numbers, Letters, Shapes)" (1000 pieces) by Micah Lexer, published by Parkside Puzzles. Best listening = this week's Desert Island Discs with Nick Cave & @laurenlaverne.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Another Canadian art puzzle done! "Several Found Things (Numbers, Letters, Shapes)" (1000 pieces) by Micah Lexer, published by Parkside Puzzles. Best listening = this week's Desert Island Discs with Nick Cave & @laurenlaverne.bsky.social
Just got my first puzzle from this independent Toronto company and tbh they had me at their logo, but then I saw their commitment to artists includes 5% royalties, upfront advances, creative freedom, flexible deadlines & full attribution
goodfortunepuzzleco.com
goodfortunepuzzleco.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just got my first puzzle from this independent Toronto company and tbh they had me at their logo, but then I saw their commitment to artists includes 5% royalties, upfront advances, creative freedom, flexible deadlines & full attribution
goodfortunepuzzleco.com
goodfortunepuzzleco.com
Save the date Winnipeg!!
January 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Save the date Winnipeg!!
Mochi can't believe this whole giant catnip perogy is just for her (it isn't) @fionaodlum.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mochi can't believe this whole giant catnip perogy is just for her (it isn't) @fionaodlum.bsky.social
Spent most of today prepping to teach Langston Hughes poetry to first year students tomorrow and I have a feeling they are going to be very here for thi
January 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Spent most of today prepping to teach Langston Hughes poetry to first year students tomorrow and I have a feeling they are going to be very here for thi