Source: The Toronto Star
Art teacher Dave Lapp’s graphic novel depicts truthful, comic book-style vignettes of incidents that occurred during the 12 years he’s worked at drop-in centres in at-risk communities in Toronto.
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Drop-In by David Lapp was published by Toronto’s Conundrum Press in December 2008. It is currently available at select comic shops and directly from Conundrum Press here.
Everyone here at the CCBCAA would like to wish you and your family and friends a safe and happy New Year!
As today is December 31 and is also new comic book day, the final eligible releases for the 2009 Joe Shuster Awards will be out on the stands. In the coming weeks we will be announcing on this site the eligible 2008 creators and their works for review by our Nominating Committees and they will begin the task of sorting through those releases and selecting the candidates for the ballot. The ballot will be released in early March 2009.
Baloney by Pascal Blanchet, published by Drawn & Quarterly. This is a translation of the book Balogne, published by Editions de la Pasteque in 2007.
Ojingogo by Matt Forsythe
As part of his holiday interview series, Tom Spurgeon interviews Ojingogo creator Matt Forsythe. Nominated for the Webcomics Creator Award in 2007, Ojingogo was collected in a handsome volume in 2008 by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly.
Read the interview here:
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_holiday_interview_xx_matt_forsythe/
Legion of Super-Heroes 50 by Francis Manapul
Source: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/120830-9-Creators.html
Canadian creators Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim) and Francis Manapul (Legion of Super-Heroes) have been selected by Newsarama as two of Newsarama’s “9 creators to watch in 2009″.
Receiving an honourable mention is Faith Erin Hicks (The War at Ellsmere).
Congratulations all around!
