On Sunday, November 6 at the Forest City Comic Con in London, ON, the Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association announced the winners of the 12th Annual Joe Shuster Awards and they are: Writer / Scénariste Jeff Lemire Justice League United (DC Comics) Descender, Plutona (Image), All-New Hawkeye, Extraordinary X-Men (Marvel Comics), Book of Death:… Read More The Winners of the 2016 Joe Shuster Awards
Happy to announce the venue for the 2016 awards ceremony: the Forest City Comicon in London, ON. This will be the 2nd year we have presented at this event.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY HAPPY HARBOR COMICS Comic books, like Jazz, are a North American invention that has been embraced all over the globe — and from the Platinum Age to the present day, Canadian artists, writers and cartoonists have been shaping them along the way. Canada’s national comic book award, the Joe Shuster Awards,… Read More The 2016 Joe Shuster Award Nominations / Les nominés pour le prix Joe Shuster 2016
Yesterday Brasco Entertainment, who also put on the Red Deer (Alberta) Comic & Entertainment Expo announced the following: It is with great regret that we must inform you that the 2016 Vancouver Comic & Entertianment Expo, Aug 5-7 will not be going forward. If you have any questions, please contact us at: info@brascoexhibitions.com There has… Read More August’s Vancouver Comic & Entertainment Expo cancelled
Earlier this week news broke of plans to return Canada’s longest running self-published, creator-owned comic book character back to print in new stories. Sim’s Cerebus, which ran for 300 issues from 1977 until 2004 is an tremendous achievement, one for which the cartoonist has been inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame.… Read More Dave Sim revisits Cerebus… in Hell?
It is with a heavy heart that I report that Canadian cartoonist Darwyn Cooke has passed, less than a day after the world learned that he was battling aggressive cancer and had been moved to palliative care. Social media was flooded Friday with condolences and appreciations for the man and his art. The Joe Shuster Awards,… Read More Darwyn Cooke (May 13, 1962- May 14, 2016)
This is always a big weekend for us here at JSA central as it is the weekend of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival as well as the Ottawa Comic Con. My mission this weekend is to pass along a number of Joe Shuster Award plaques and trophies to previous winners who are visiting Toronto this… Read More TCAF and Ottawa Comic Con this weekend
Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity. The exhibition features reproductions of art by Canadian comic book artists such as Jeff Lemire, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Darwyn Cooke, and John Byrne. See some of your favourite superheroes from the Marvel and DC universes drawn by Canadians, along with some of Canada’s… Read More Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity Exhibition May 12-Sept 14 2016
A special message from Chapterhouse Comics: CANADA IS CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF CANADIAN COMICS AND WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE IT. It took the Second World War, an Act of Parliament, and a bunch of out-of-work artists to kick start a Canadian comic book industry that in 2016 is marking its 75th year. Toronto Publisher, Chapterhouse Comics… Read More Canadian Comics celebrate 75th Anniversary in 2016
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 