If I have missed any works by Canadian Comic Book Creators, please leave a comment, or send me an email at jason@joeshusterawards.com Adventure Comics #516 DC US$3.99 Colours by Blond. Back-Up Story Written by Jeff Lemire. Preview at Comic Book Resources Agents Of Atlas vs Hardcover Marvel US$24.99 Artwork by Takeshi Miyazawa and Leonard Kirk.… Read More July 14th, 2010 Releases featuring Canadian Creators
11:00-12:00 Spotlight on Jillian Tamaki— Comic-Con special guest Jillian Tamaki has taken both the illustration and comics worlds by storm. Her graphic novel Skim was a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and also was nominated for a Governor General Award and for three Eisner Awards. Her drawings can be found in the… Read More SDCCI: Saturday programming featuring Canadians
Over at Sequential, David Hains writes about the Bloor/Bathurst area and attempts to shed some light on the closing of long-lived area fixture Yesterday’s Heroes. Aside from YH, Toronto has many long-lived comic shops – the Silver Snail on Queen arrived in the mid-1970’s – spinning out of the back room of science fiction bookstore… Read More On the closing of Yesterday’s Heroes
The Whosoever Holds this Hammer blog at Comic Book Daily discusses the need for comic book retailers to strive to do better in 2010 if they want to continue to serve their community and maintain customer support. We here at the JSA’s are very pro-comic book retailers and want to support them where we can.… Read More Comic Book Daily: Don’t Support Your Local Comic Book Store?
Scott Pilgrim Vol 6 Midnight Release Party Featuring Author Bryan Lee O’Malley Monday, July 19th, 9pm-1am @The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, Toronto, Canada ALL EVENTS FREE TO ATTEND Presented by Oni Press and The Beguiling With special thanks to The Central, Rocco’s, Butler’s Pantry, Suspect Video, and Mirvish Enterprises. www.Beguiling.com http://www.onipress.com http://www.radiomaru.com TORONTO, CANADA: The… Read More Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 release party @ the Beguiling – Monday, July 19th
11:30-12:45 Eisner Spirit Award Video Viewing— The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award is the industry’s “Hall of Fame” for progressive retailers. Spirit Award facilitator and award recipient Joe Ferrara (Atlantis Fantasyworld, Santa Cruz, CA) shows the video presentations for this year’s award finalists, with discussion about each nominated retailer, the store’s display techniques,… Read More SDCCI: Friday Programming featuring Canadians
11:00-12:00 The Clockwork Girl— The Clockwork Girl is in production as a stereoscopic 3D computer generated feature film based on the comic book series published by Arcana. Producer Sean O’Reilly will talk about how CJ Entertainment financed Dreamworks Animation in 1995 and is now behind The Clockwork Girl through Luximation Animation. Alexa Vega (Spy Kids)… Read More SDCCI: Thursday Programming featuring (or about) Canadians
These are exhibitors that are specifically Canadian, there are other publishers and companies that will feature Canadian creators signing at their booths, but they are not listed here: Kei Acedera G07 Arcana Studio Inc 2415 Blind Ferret Entertainment Inc. 1435 Bobby Chiu G06 Comicage Entertainment 1343 Camilla D’Errico 4920 Drawn and Quarterly 1529 1628 (also… Read More SDCCI: The Exhibitors
Again, shocking! Only 3 Canadians in the Artists’ Alley this year: Alvin Lee, Leo Leibelman, and the star of Beast Legends Francis Manapul Alvin Lee DD-09 Leo Leibelman II-03 Francis Manapul EE-17
I often wonder how San Diego selects their special guests, but this year there are 47 listed on the website. I was kind of surprised to see only three Canucks made the elite list of official convention guests including: Kathryn Immonen Writer, Runaways, Patsy Walker: Hellcat Kathryn Immonen has written stories for both DC and… Read More SDCCI 2010 – The Canadian Special Guests
Yes, it’s almost time for SAN DIEGO COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL 2010 (July 21-25) and Canadian comic book creators and publishers, and some retailers, are gearing up for the annual trek to sunny San Diego. It’s no exception for those of us here who work at the CCBCAA. Many of us are going to San Diego… Read More Canadian Comic Book Awards Association invades America
Bryan Munn has posted the covers and titles for Joe Shuster Award winning publisher la Pastèque’s fall line-up over at Sequential. Click the link to view the covers. Titles include: * Michel Risque L’Intégrale by Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame Inductees Pierre Fournier & Réal Godbout * Jeux de Mémoire by Erik de… Read More La Pastèque’s fall 2010 publishing line-up
Care of The Source: We’re also very proud to announce that Jeff Lemire has signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics, meaning only good things for fans of his mind-bending work on Vertigo’s SWEET TOOTH and his upcoming work on the ATOM co-feature in ADVENTURE COMICS and the ongoing SUPERBOY series.We got a minute of… Read More Jeff Lemire goes DC Exclusive
Thanks to a slew of interesting new releases recently, such as: The Hipless Boy by Sully Children of the Atom by Dave Lapp Ruts & Gullies: Nine Days in Saint Petersburg by Philippe Girard and the very underrated The Undertaking by Michael J. Hind I’ve been asked by a number of Canadian retailers, ‘How do… Read More Conundrum Press – How can a Retailer order these books?
Debuting this week on History Television (check with your local cable provider for specific dates and times is Francis Manapul’s latest project — part of the Beast Seekers team of investigators for the new show BEAST LEGENDS. Robert Pincombe covers the story on Comic Canuck Beast Legends investigates and creates incredible creatures: Unidentified Mysterious Animals…… Read More Francis Manapul jumps to television with Beast Legends
If I have missed any works by Canadian Comic Book Creators, please leave a comment, or send me an email at jason@joeshusterawards.com Brightest Day #5 DC US$2.99 Cover by David Finch. Brightest Day: The Atom Special #1 DC US$2.99 Written by Jeff Lemire. Cover Colours by Brad Anderson. Preview at DC Universe: The Source Ender… Read More July 7th, 2010 Releases featuring Canadian Creators
Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the releases, we didn’t get the press release in our inbox but we’ve got lots of UDON love over here. 3 limited print hard cover books: UDON’s Art of Capcom 2; Limited to 500 at the show. . The Art of Darksiders; Limited to 500 copies. Joe Madureira will… Read More UDON to premiere 3 books at SDCC
The Retailer Links have been updated this past week. Added: New photos, hours of operation, Facebook pages A few new stores were added, and, sadly, a few were removed. British Columbia New stores added: Sakura Media, Burnaby Iwase Books, Richmond Book-Off, Vancouver Pulpfiction Books West, Vancouver Closed stores: Gotham Collectibles, Burnaby (who just opened, are… Read More Updated: Retailer Links
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