Please note: we do this for the purpose of transparency.

Currently underway is the nomination process for the annual Joe Shuster Awards. The 20 members of the nominating committees (there are 2) have tabled their initial selections.

We have two concurrent committees one for English language releases, and another for French. Ultimately we aim to have 7 nominees for each of these four categories – 5 English and 2 French. In the case of a tie, we may advance an additional nominee, increasing the final number of nominees in that category to no more than 8.

Results Round 1 – Having Received 2 or more nominations – therefore advancing to Round Two. Please note: this is not the final nominations list, the final nominations will come from within this list.

ENGLISH

The following creators were selected by more than one member of the 16 member English Language Nominating Committee and therefore advance to Round 2 (the overall rankings where all are considered by every member). Any creator appearing on 8 or more of the the NomCom short lists automatically bypasses Round 2 and is on the final ballot (but we won’t be sharing who they were until the final press release).

ARTIST – 18 advance for five spots
Bachalo
Bone
Bradshaw
Eaglesham
Fabok
Fowler
Hicks
Holmes
Immonen
Kirk
Nord
Paquette
Perez
Rossmo
Roy
Staples
To
Walsh

COVER ARTIST – 16 advance for five spots
Andrasofszky
Andrews
Bachalo
Bradshaw
Cooke
Del Mundo
Finch
Graham
Immonen
Jenkins
Lashley
Manapul
Paquette
Staples
Stokoe
Walsh

CARTOONIST – 14 advance for five spots
Bachalo
Bunjevic
Carroll
Chantler
Cooke
DeForge
Fawkes
Graham
Lemire
Manapul
Rilly
Rossmo
Stokoe
Tin Can Forest

WRITER – 11 advance for five spots
Brisson
Brouillettes
Cooke
Immonen
Kennedy
Lemire
North
Templeton
Torres
Wiebe
Zubkavich

FRENCH

The following creators were selected by more than one member of the 4 member French Language Nominating Committee and therefore advance to Round 2 (the overall rankings where all are considered by every member). Any creator appearing on 3 or more of the the NomCom short lists automatically bypasses Round 2 and is on the final ballot (but we won’t be sharing who they were until the final press release).

ARTIST – 2 advance for two spots
The nominees have been selected.

COVER ARTIST – 2 advance for two spots
The Nominees have been selected

CARTOONIST – 4 advance for two spots
Bédard
Bérubé
Castrée
Falardeau

WRITER – 3 advance for two spots
Britt
Desharnais
Fontaine-Rousseau

And that is where we stand. The French NomCom has finalized their selections for the ballot, while we are still in the midst of finalizing the selections from the English Language NomCom.

Watch for the final list in May.