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Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival (DCAF) Date: 19/08/2012 Time: 11:00 am – 05:00 pm Location: Alderney Landing 2 Ochterloney St. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 3Z3 http://www.facebook.com/events/189821017815999 The free one-day event gives locals a chance to shop, meet cartoonists and rare comic dealers, and have portfolios reviewed by artists like Steve McNiven, Mike Holmes, Faith Erin Hicks,… Read More Happenings: New Events launch in Dartmouth (8/19) and Edmonton (10/20-21)

08/16/201208/16/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Late July Update

Things may have slowed down considerably here on the site lately, as running a store as well as the awards, parts of the country’s largest comic-con and a day job have really taken a toll on my time. I had never expected to own a comic shop, but The Comic Book Lounge + Gallery has… Read More Late July Update

07/19/201207/19/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards – 2012 Winners Announced.

SAN DIEGO – At-Con International (Comic-Con) last evening, the winners of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2012 were announced. The nominees were chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges and the winners were selected by a balloting process open to industry professionals. Canadians were well represented in many categories but the big winners in… Read More Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards – 2012 Winners Announced.

07/14/201207/14/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Darwyn Cooke wins two Eisner Awards for Parker: The Martini Edition (Updated)

Best Short Story “The Seventh,” by Darwyn Cooke, in Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition (IDW) UPDATED! Best Graphic Album – Reprint Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition, by Darwyn Cooke (IDW)

07/14/201207/14/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Guelph, ON’s THE DRAGON wins the Will Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award!

Congratulations Jenn, Rob, Amy, Tyler and the rest of the crew at the Dragon for a well-deserved win at the Eisner Awards tonight!

07/14/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand by Ramon Perez wins THREE Eisner Awards (Updated)

Finishing up as the big book of the year! Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team Best Publication Design Best Graphic Album

07/14/201207/14/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

San Diego Comic Con well under way

For the first time in 9 years I decided to stay home, but Associate Director Robert Haines and Publisher Liaison Allison Covey are currently in sunny San Diego for the annual Mecca for comics. As usual, a number of Canadian creators are down as well, so we’ll be keeping an eye out for any special… Read More San Diego Comic Con well under way

07/12/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

XERIC GRANTS and HARVEY AWARD NOMINATIONS announced this week.

The Xeric Foundation has announced the 17 recipients for the comic book self-publishing section. This is the final year for the Xeric grant. Some past recipients have included Jeff Lemire and Ethan Rilly. This year’s winners include some Canadians, specifically ELAINE M. WILL (the Gene Day-nominated cartoonist of Look Straight Ahead) and SHIH-MU DINO PAI… Read More XERIC GRANTS and HARVEY AWARD NOMINATIONS announced this week.

07/05/201207/05/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Congratulations to the 2012 Eisner Spirit of Retailing Finalists – 2 Canadian stores featured

Yesterday the finalists for the 2012 Spirit of Retailing Award were announced – Canadian stores THE DRAGON (one of the sponsors of these awards) and HAPPY HARBOR (a Harry Kremer Retailer Award recipient) have made the finalists list. The list will be narrowed down further before the presentation ceremony, which takes place on the Friday… Read More Congratulations to the 2012 Eisner Spirit of Retailing Finalists – 2 Canadian stores featured

07/03/201207/04/2012 Kevin A. Boyd1 Comment

Cerebus Kickstarter Project

Launched a short time ago, the Cerebus High Society Kickstarter Campaign has evolved into a campaign to create full-fledged audio and visual digital editions of the Cerebus graphic novel series. At the time of writing, the campaign has nearly 700 backers and pledges of upwards of $37K, but needs to reach $200K in order to… Read More Cerebus Kickstarter Project

06/11/201206/11/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Dave Sim’s glamourpuss to be collected — on DVD

The collected glamourpuss – Volume One (Issues 1-25). The first collection of Dave Sim’s Joe Shuster Award-winning glamourpuss will be a DVD collecting PDFs of every page of issues 1-25 including all variant covers as well as hi-resolution digital scans of the original artwork of every page before lettering. This release may be followed by… Read More Dave Sim’s glamourpuss to be collected — on DVD

06/06/201206/06/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Four major book releases featuring the work of Canadian creators scheduled for next Wednesday. June 6th.

THE LOXLEYS AND THE WAR OF 1812 from Renegade Arts Entertainment. Written by Alan Grant, pencils and inks by Claude St. Aubin, colours by Lovern Kindzierski, edited by Alexander Finbow, letters by Todd Klein. Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 with this 175 page, beautifully colored, hardback graphic novel features a 101… Read More Four major book releases featuring the work of Canadian creators scheduled for next Wednesday. June 6th.

05/31/201205/31/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Happenings: 1st ever Festival BD de Montreal this weekend – June 1-3, 2012

At the first Festival BD de Montreal at L’Espace La Fontaine, come talk comics with a wide variety of authors, community members and our ambassador and a fan of comics, Stéphane Archambault! The FBDM is a place to meet and exchange ideas with professional cartoonists. It aims to discover the diversity of the 9th art… Read More Happenings: 1st ever Festival BD de Montreal this weekend – June 1-3, 2012

05/30/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Jeff Lemire lands an Eagle

Congratulations to Jeff Lemire, who won the Best Newcomer at the Eagle Awards, presented earlier today at the MCM Expo in London. Also announced at the ceremony — the Eagle Awards name is being retired after this year in favour of the “MCM Expo Awards”. No other Canadian creators were nominated in 2012. No Canadians… Read More Jeff Lemire lands an Eagle

05/25/201205/25/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Happenings: New Vancouver Comic Arts Festival seeks to celebrate independent cartoonists

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Vancouver Festival seeks to celebrate independent cartoonists May 21, 2012 Vancouver, B.C. — Independent cartoonists and artists from around North America will be gathering in Yaletown this week as local organizers host the inaugural Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (VanCAF), a first-of-its kind gathering that hopes to become one of the major… Read More Happenings: New Vancouver Comic Arts Festival seeks to celebrate independent cartoonists

05/22/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Happenings: Sketches for Pledges 2012: Thursday, May 17th in Toronto

05/15/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

LES NOMINÉS AUX PRIX JOE SHUSTER 2012

LES NOMINÉS AUX PRIX JOE SHUSTER 2012 Pour diffusion immédiate La cérémonie de remise des 8e prix annuels des auteurs canadiens de bandes dessinées se tiendra le 15 septembre 2012 au Montreal Comic Con.

05/09/201205/22/2012 Kevin A. Boyd3 Comments

From the floor of TCAF – a look at some of the 2012 JSA Nominees

Andrew Walsh and Allison Covey were at TCAF this weekend representing the Joe Shuster Awards and Andrew snapped some photos of a few of the 2012 Nominees who were in attendance for the blog:

05/09/201205/09/2012 Kevin A. Boyd

Honourable Mentions 2012

The thing about awards are that you can only have so many finalists, so we would like to make note of the following creators who made it to the second round of discussions but did not make the short lists for these catagories. ARTIST/ARTIST TEAM Dale Eaglesham (Alpha Flight) Patrick Boutin-Gagne (La Bete du Lac:… Read More Honourable Mentions 2012

05/09/201205/09/2012 Kevin A. Boyd1 Comment

The 2012 Outstanding Webcomics Creator or Creative Team / Créateur ou Créateurs Exceptionnel de Bandes Dessinées Web 2012

Jayd Ait-Kaci The Fox Sister Sfeer Theory Emily Carroll Comics 2011 – Anu-Anulan and Yir’s Daughter, Dream Journal Mar 30th, Margot’s Room, The Prince and The Sea Tony Cliff Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant Kate Craig Heart of Ice Iris and Zviane L’ostie d’chat – Le blog de Jasmin et Jean-Seb Drazen Kozjan The… Read More The 2012 Outstanding Webcomics Creator or Creative Team / Créateur ou Créateurs Exceptionnel de Bandes Dessinées Web 2012

05/09/201205/09/2012 Kevin A. Boyd4 Comments