Toronto artist Nick Postic’s eerie and photorealistic style is reminiscent of the work of artists such as Bill Sienkiewicz, Tommy Lee Edwards, John Paul Leon and Alex Maleev. His work has appeared on titles such as the Underworld movie adaptation (for IDW), Nothingface (for Digital Webbing), Nightwolf: The Price (for Devil’s Due Publishing), The Impaler… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Nick Postic
J. Bone is a Toronto based illustrator and comic book artist. Past credits include Allison Dare: Little Miss Adventures, Jingle Belle, Mutant Texas, Mr. Gum, Gotham Girls, Solar Stella, Madman Adentures, Bad Girls and many others. With Darwyn Cooke he has worked on: Justice League: The New Frontier Special, The Spirit, Batman/Spirit, Witchblade Animated, Spider-Man’s… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by J. Bone & Darwyn Cooke
Nominating: All nominating committees are currently making their selection choices for the 2010 Joe Shuster Awards. The nominees for the following awards are expected to be announced in mid-March: – Artist – Cartoonist – Colourist – Cover – Achievement in Publishing – Webcomic creator / creative team – Writer It is likely that nominees for… Read More 2010 Joe Shuster Awards Status Update
Few Canadian creators have had such a long and varied career working in comics as inker Terry Pallot. His professional start came in the early 1990’s working on titles such as Planet of the Apes, Alien Nation, Man of War and Dinosaurs for Hire. During the mid-1990’s he worked on a number of different Star… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Terry Pallot
Earlier this week it was announced that Joe Shuster Award-winning artist (2005 – Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One) and cartoonist nominee (2008 – Spider-Man: Reign) and all-around nice guy Kaare Andrews will be the artist on Marvel Comics’ Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis, a five-issue Warren Ellis written mini-series that will be debuting in May 2010. Today, Newsarama’s… Read More Interviews: Kaare Andrews on his new X-Men gig and more
Kelly Tindall is a Canadian illustrator, raised in Saskatchewan and obsessed with drawing since the age of two. He threw on a parka and graduated from college, and now he works freelance on both editorial and comic book assignments. He spends his free time exploring Montréal and falling in love with his wife. Kelly’s character… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Kelly Tindall
Marvel Comics has announced the start of a new “Astonishing” line – in-continuity Marvel Universe titles designed to appeal equally to new and existing readers. The new Astonishing line launches in May with Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine by Jason Aaron (w) and Adam Kubert (a), and Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis by Warren Ellis (w) and Canada’s own Kaare… Read More May 2010: Kaare Andrews on Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis
Toronto artist Noel Tuazon submitted 9 (!) pieces for the Wolverine gallery. Noel Tuazon was born in the Philippines but has lived in Toronto, Ontario for over 30 years. His first break in comics came when his one page comic was included in Dave Sim’s “Single Page” section of Cerebus reprints back in 1989. Currently… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine(s) by Noel Tuazon
Jeff Lemire Born and raised on a farm in Essex County, Canada, Jeff Lemire’s Essex County Trilogy of graphic novels (Tales From The Farm, Ghost Stories, The Country Nurse) published by Top Shelf Productions have been nominated for multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards. In 2008 Jeff won the Joe Shuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist,… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Jeff Lemire
Steve Rolston The piece shown above is one of over 40 pieces of original artwork featuring Wolverine donated to the Joe Shuster Awards for the Visions of an Icon Art Show and Sale by Canadian artists. The pieces were exhibited twice in 2009 – at the Joe Shuster Awards Ceremony in September and at the… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Steve Rolston
2008 Joe Shuster Award-winning (Favourite Creator – French Language Publications for writing Danger Public) and 2009 nominee (2009 Cover Art for Les Ravins) cartoonist Philippe Girard’s (aka phlppgrrd) 2008 BD Les Ravins (Mécanique Générale) will be republished in English this spring from publisher Conundrum Press. Ruts & Gullies: Nine Days in Saint Petersburg Philippe Girard… Read More Phillippe Girard’s Les Ravins to be published in English by Conundrum Press
James Turner has been working as a freelance illustrator and art director for years and years, since even before there was Twitter. Over the course of his career, including an earlier life in multimedia, he has worked for a wide array of clients, including The Wall Street Journal, Elle, WIRED Magazine, IBM, BASF, The Milken… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by James Turner
The 6th in the Paul series by Francophone cartoonist Michel Rabagliati, Paul à Québec (La Pasteque) was selected as the winner of the Prix du Public Fnac-SNC this past weekend at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême in France. Congratulations Michel! Le Devoir CBC CBC (includes audio interview link with Michel Rabagliati Sequential… Read More Paul à Québec honoré à Angoulême
Eric Kim was born in 1977 and learned to love drawing under coffee tables. He has always loved drawing, and always loved comics. It would come to reason that he would eventually combine the two and create a super-ultimate-love that would rock the heavens. After high school, Eric went off to attend Sheridan College. Graduating… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Eric Kim
Leonard Kirk is an American born comic book artist who lives in Ontario, Canada. He has worked on such properties as Supergirl, JSA, Star Trek, Batman, and Witchblade. Currently Kirk is exclusively signed for Marvel Comics. Kirk first broke into the comics field pencilling issue #5 of the Malibu Comics title Dinosaurs for Hire and… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Leonard Kirk
Troy Little was born March 7, 1973 in (or on more accurately) Prince Edward Island, Canada. He graduated from the Sheridan College Interpretive Illustration program in 1994 then returned home to P.E.I. to work crappy jobs and live with his folks. A dark time indeed, but he did meet his future wife Carol then, so… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine meets Angora Napkin by Troy Little
“DC Comics Voted Publisher of the Year by Comic Book Retailers; Batman and Robin #1, Blackest Night #1 Lauded as Best Comics of 2009” “Comic Book Retailers Honor Industry’s Bestsellers with 2009 Diamond Gem Awards” (BALTIMORE, MD) — (January 29, 2009) — Diamond Comic Distributors is proud to announce the winners of the 2009 Diamond… Read More Diamond announces the 2009 Gem Award Winners: The Hunter selected best original graphic novel
Vaneta Rogers talks to 2009’s Outstanding Artist winner David Finch. Finch was also named as a headlining guest for the upcoming CHICAGO COMIC AND ENTERTAINMENT EXPO (C2E2) in April.
ComicsPRO Announces Nominees for Industry Appreciation Award Retailer Group Seeks to Honor Efforts to Improve Comics Specialty Market The direct market remains the way most comic-book stories get from creator to fan. ComicsPRO, the largest organization of direct-market retailers, wants to honor those people who stand in that gap and help smooth that process. From… Read More Dave Sim nominated for a ComicsPro Industry Appreciation Award
Kill Shakespeare #1 Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col (writers) Andy Belanger (art) • Kagan McLeod, Andy Belanger (covers) What Fables does for fairy tales, Kill Shakespeare does with the greatest writer of all time. This dark take on the Bard pits his greatest heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Othello Falstaff) against his most menacing villains (Richard III, Lady… Read More IDW Publishing tries to “Kill Shakespeare” in April 2010
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 