The first third of Therefore Repent! — 60 pages — is now available for your browsing pleasure. And not only is it free to read, it’s also free to use: we’re licencing the jpg versions of these as remixable under this Creative Commons licence. So, if you’ve ever wondered what’d it’d be like to be the writer of a comic book and work with as talented an artist as Salgood Sam, now you can. Open a page up in photoshop or Gimp and replace my words with more interesting ones. Colour the pictures. Use the images as graphics for your non-commercial projects. Send the results to us and we’ll put ‘em up on the site: even better, we’ll send the three most inspiring remixes a free book.

I’ll be doing a Therefore Repent! launch in Vancouver on Friday, Sept. 28th with the creators of True Loves (Jason Turner & Manien Bothma), Jobgoblin (Brian Fukushima), and Hatesong (Fred Grisholm). It’s at Lucky’s Comics, 7-10pm, Free. Then I’m back in Toronto on the 30th for Word on the Street — I’ll be signing books at my table in Fringe Beat between doing a presentation called Be Your Own Boss In The World Of Publishing and a panel with Willow Dawson and Ray Fawkes called “I Have A Great Idea For A Story, But I Need An Artist!” Come say hi!

The Vancouver International Digital Festival, with the intriguing catchline of “reminiscing about the future,” is hosting the Canadian premiere of Infest Wisely at Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour, 4pm, $10) on Sunday, September 23rd. I’ll be presenting it and also participating in a Vidfest panel on Monday called “The Wisdom of Crowds: Web 2.0 Democracy or Mob Mentality?” that should be pretty spirited: I already know I completely disagree with one of the panelists.

I’ve also just confirmed that there’ll be a free sneak preview screening as well in Montreal on Friday, Sept 21 8-11pm in Dare-Dare, a gallery situated in a park with no name. Myself and Craig will be there to present it and there’ll also be vids by two other excellent community moviemaking projects, The Assembly and VideoHymn. Click through to see Rickie’s sweet bilingual trippple films flyer. Update: Warren Frey did a videoblog interview of me in Vancouver.

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