Cataclysmic Comics Backpack

James Waley was in the first Canadian cartooning program at Sheridan College in the early 1970s. He went on to found ORB magazine in 1974 which featured The Northern Light. James also became involved in organizing Comic Cons in southern Ontario and a gallery show featuring comic book creators and their work beyond comics. James is currently working on a book on 'Captain George' Henderson and a handful of exciting new projects.

Mark Innes has been a seminal, one-man independent comic publishing engine in Hamilton for three decades. He is the man behind Blind Bat press and a central contributor to comics culture in the city and beyond.

Rob Walton is a Toronto comic book artist, animator, and storyboard artist whose work includes Pork Knight, Bloodlines, Grendel Tales, and the Eisner Award-winning Ragmop. He is currently dealing with a Hot Stuff fetish.

Ron Kasman has been part of putting together some of the first Canadian Comic Cons.  He has worked in comics as a penciller, inker, writer, colourist, and as a letterer. Ron has also served as a secondary school art teacher for more than three decades before retiring. Since the turn of the century he has produced three well-received graphic novels and is currently working on his fourth. Find out what picks Ron puts into his backpack.

In this episode, storyboard artist, cartoonist, and comic collector Ron Hobbs picks his five comics for the Apocalypse.

"Comics for the Apocalypse" asks individuals from the comics community to pick five comics and/or graphic novels that they could put in a knapsack to keep their comic spirits up during a journey through an apocalyptic landscape. Our first guest is Walter Durajlija owner of Big-B Comics in Hamilton, Ontario and main force behind the Comic Book Daily website.