Publisher’s Weekly has a story on the upcoming IDW series Kill Shakespeare. Created by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery with art by Andy Belanger, a veteran of DC Comics, Devil’s Due and other comics publishers, Kill Shakespeare started out as a brainstorm idea for a videogame and then a film before the two creators… Read More Canadians out to “Kill Shakespeare”
Over at Comic Book Resources, Jeffrey Renaud interviews Canadian artist and JSA Outstanding Artist and Webcomics Creator nominee Karl Kerschl about his contribution to DC’s Wednesday Comics.
The location for the awards ceremony has been finalized, the 5th annual Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards will be presented on Saturday, September 26th at University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue in Toronto, Ontario.More details to come, but plans include a pre-ceremony PREVIEW of the Visions: Wolverine artwork and a… Read More Joe Shuster Awards ceremony location – U of T’s Innis Town Hall
After a grueling day of travel, I’m slowly getting things back to normal after the five-day San Diego gauntlet. I’m afraid that since I was booth-bound for the majority of the show I wasn’t able to gather up much intel (and the stuff that I did is not my place to announce), but I did… Read More Back from San Diego
Tomorrow morning I leave for San Diego. This will be my 6th visit to SDCCI over the past 7 years. While we don’t have a booth at this event, I will be representing the Joe Shuster Awards at the event wherever I go, but mostly at the booth of one of our sponsors – CGC… Read More SDCCI: The Joe Shuster Awards
Tumor – The Comic is the latest collaboration between writer Joshua Fialkov and Canadian artist Noel Tuazon. A website has been launched with scripts, a trailer and a newsblog. The graphic novel collection will be published by Archaia Press but for now the comic can be read online. About Tumor – The Comic Frank Armstrong… Read More Tumor – The Comic
UPDATED: IDW SIGNING SCHEDULE IDW – BOOTH 1705 – has released their signing schedule, below: Wednesday Darwyn Cooke signing, 5 – 7.30 pm Thursday Tony Lee (Doctor Who) signing, 11-12 noon IDW 10th Anniversary panel, 11-12 noon, Room 10 Ben Templesmith and Chris Ryall (Groom Lake) signing, 12 noon – 1 pm Robert Atkins signing… Read More SDCCI: Darwyn Cooke at IDW, exclusive version of The Hunter (Updated)
Cameron Stewart Artist of Seaguy, Catwoman & the Apocalypstix will be appearing at the Splash Page Comic Art Booth (#4400) throughout the weekend when not signing at the Oni Press booth (detailed in another news item) or at the DC/Vertigo booth (Thurs 4-5, Sat 11-12). Commissions will start Thursday & will be $40 for small… Read More SDCCI: Cameron Stewart at Splash Page Art Booth
Oni Press is pleased to announce the following signings at their booth #1833. Canucks are in RED Thurs 10:00 – 11:20 Hope Larson Brian Hurtt Cullen Bunn 11:30 – 12:50 Chuck BB Rick Spears Phil Gelatt Rick Lacy Chris Schweizer 1:00 – 2:20 Robbi Rodriguez John Layman Cameron Stewart Ray Fawkes 3:00 – 4:00 ONI… Read More SDCCI: Oni Press – Stewart, Fawkes, O’Malley
D&Q (booth #1529) have announced their signing schedule. Chris Oliveros, Tom Devlin, Jessica Campbell and Alison Naturale will be personing the booth with Seth, Jason Lutes, and R. Sikoryak signing. (No mention of the Beguiling’s Peter Berkimoe, but he usually attends the con and brings original art at the D+Q booth). Chris Butcher has noted… Read More SDCCI: Drawn & Quarterly
Pop Culture Zoo has a pre-San Diego interview with Vancouver artist Camilla D’Errico (Burn). Camilla will be at N11 in the Small Press area, but she’ll also be keeping busy at the Image booth (daily at 4 pm), and at the Hi-Fructose booth (3pm on Thursday). Taking part in a panel with singer Amanda Palmer,… Read More SDCCI: Camilla D’Errico
CEREBUS: ALTA SOCIETA’ (HIGH SOCIETY) di Dave Sim 16,5×24, bross., 512 pag., b/n Prezzo indicativo: Euro 30,00 ISBN: 978-88-96197-17-2 Traduzione: Francesco Matteuzzi Details HERE and HERE
While there are no prominent Canadians featured, there are a few Incredibles exclusives (featuring the art of Marcio Takara). Boom! Studios is located at Booth #2543 July 15th, 2009 – Los Angeles — BOOM! Studios revealed today that Comic-Con ‘09 exclusive limited edition hardcover collections of their red hot series THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK,… Read More SDCCI: Boom! Studios
Arcana SDCC Signing Times! BOOTH 2415 Arcana will once again be at the San Diego Comic Con with a spacious 20′x20′ of signings, giveaways and premieres at Booth 2415. Our signing schedule is as follows: Thursday 9:30AM to 7PM 9-30AM to 11:30AM The Fro – Chris Harden Noon to 2PM Daddy’s Little Girl – Mark… Read More SDCCI: Arcana Comics (formerly Arcana Studio)
Bleeding Cool has a preview of the 9th issue of Dave Sim’s Glamourpuss, which features a cover by comics legend Gene Colan.
Press release: It’s official! McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane will be at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The McFarlane Companies has expanded its presence at the con by teaming up with key retailers and partners. We plan to have exclusive action figures, comics, artist signings, giveaways, panels, a first look at upcoming figure lines and… Read More SDCCI: Todd McFarlane
Hero Initiative heads to San Diego to Celebrate Comic-Con’s 40th year! Highlights include parties with Stan Lee, Jim Lee, Darwyn Cooke, and the premiere release of Hero Comics Note that the Hero Initiative booth is located right next to the CGC booth. Los Angeles, CA (July 14, 2009) – Hero Initiative travels to the 40th… Read More SDCCI: Hero Initiative activities include Cooke, Bachalo, Andrews, Lashley and more!
ELECTROPOLIS Dean Motter (W/A) On sale Dec 2 FC, 152 pages $14.95 TPB, 6″ x 9″ Menlo Park is a reprogrammed janitor robot working as a private eye on the neon streets of Electra City, a town designed to generate and conduct massive amounts of electricity. Sixteen years after the apparent suicide of his human… Read More Dark Horse to collect Motter’s Electropolis in December 2009
Press Release Comic-Con International (Comic-Con), the largest comic book and popular arts event in the United States, has announced its list of nominees for the prestigious Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award (The Eisner Spirit Award). This year organizers are happy to note that Baby Tattoo, publishers of books for kids and adults, is… Read More Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award nominates 3 Canadian stores
Look for the following Canadian Exhibitors in 2009: Arcana Comics 2415 Blind Ferret Entertainment 1435 Bobby Chiu G06 Drawn and Quarterly 1529 Kei Acedera G07 Udon Entertainment 5112 Vancouver Film School 618
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 