In early October, Little Island Comics, in Toronto, Canada, welcomed kids, parents and kids comics enthusiasts for their grand opening. It was a two-day celebration with appearances from Fiona Smyth (The Never Weres), Claudia Davila (Luz Sees the Light), Clayton Hanmer (C-TON’s Super Amazing Year of Crazy Comics), Jeremy Tankard (Boo Hoo Bird), Kean Soo (Jellaby) and Tory Woollcott (Mirror Mind). As the first comic book and graphic novel store specifically aimed at children, there was much to celebrate.
I met up with the store’s manager, Andrew Woodrow-Butcher for a guided tour of the store and asked him a few pointed questions about how Little Island came about, what the store hopes to offer and what the future holds for North America’s first children’s graphic novel shop.
A tour around Little Island
Questions for Little Island’s manager in a bow tie
More of Little Island Comics
If you’re in Toronto, I urge you to stop by Little Island Comics – their staff is friendly, knowledgeable and they offer an astounding variety of kids comics and graphic novels sure to send children’s librarians and graphic novel aficionados into a kid-charged tizzy.
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Wonderful interviews, thank you. From a teacher’s point of view this seems to be a great resource and opportunity for purposeful reading, writing and art work for developing students of many ages.