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
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
Here I go, shilling for one of my other jobs… but there are a LOT of Canadian creators scheduled to appear at the August 27-29 show – as you can see here. Anyway, Fan Expo Canada tickets are going on sale July 1. I think that means at 12:01 tonight. It did last year. Weekend… Read More Happenings: Fan Expo Canada 2010 tickets on sale July 1st
This is a new one. I’d never heard of it before until – oh, about two minutes before I started to write this post… It says that it is also a comics show, but I don’t see much on their site that would confirm that. It seems very Anime and Cosplay focused. It seems that… Read More Happenings: Con Bravo! (Oakville, ON) July 3-4
Sunday, July 4th, 2010 11am to 5pm Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street, Vancouver, BC Special Guests: •Marcus To (Red Robin, Heroes) •Ken Boesem (The Village) •Ed Brisson (Acts of Violence, Murder Book) •Kelly Everaert (Jungle Tales, Trilogy of Terror) •Andrew Salmon (Sherlock Holmes, Secret Agent X) •Robin Thompson (Champions of Hell, Hemp Island) •Wai Khan… Read More Happenings: Vancouver Comicon July 4th
A group of artists are getting together to draw sketches to help raise funds for Sick Kids Hospital, on behalf of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Artists that will be appearing are: Agnes Garbowska (Girl Comics#1 -Marvel Comics), Francis Manapul (The Flash -DC Comics), Daniel Wong ( McHozer Studios), and from Spent Pencil Studios:… Read More Happenings: Sketches for Pledges (Toronto) on July 6th
For 35 years, Hal Foster created epic adventure and romantic fantasy in his legendary Sunday strip, Prince Valiant. Realistic in its visual execution and noble in its subject, depicting a time in which the fabled warriors of history and legends fought together for the greater good, it remains one of the great masterpieces of the… Read More PRINCE VALIANT by Hal Foster HC Vol.2 1939-1940 out this week from Fantagraphics
Tom Spurgeon interviews Ian Boothby.
Although they did announce that they would be doing this last year, Toronto Comic Arts Festival director and Beguiling store manager Christopher Butcher announced yesterday that TCAF is indeed an annual event. I guess that they wanted to see how things went this year before cementing to another annual event. Well, it appears that things… Read More TCAF reaffirms that it is an annual show.
Ty Templeton is a Canadian creator that needs no introduction… yet here he is getting one! Ty has been a force in comics for almost three decades. He’s also a comic book guru instructing the next generation of comics creators on how to look at what the medium has to offer. On June 5th, Ty… Read More 2010 Outstanding Cartoonist – Michel Rabagliati
Duane Murray is a Toronto-based writer, director and actor. As an actor he has accumulated over 45 produced credits. As a writer/director Duane has produced 4 nationally released films as well as acting as story consulted on several wide-release studio features. Duane is currently in development with Telefilm on his next feature film project, and… Read More 2010 Outstanding Webcomic Creator – Karl Kerschl
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 