IDW has posted a 20-page preview of the upcoming Darwyn Cooke adaptation of RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE HUNTER on their website. On sale in July 144 pages ∙ US$24.99 Diamond order code number: MAY090880 AVAILABLE AT FINE COMIC BOOK RETAILERS
Last Friday, Comic Book Resources posted an interview that I (Kevin) did with CBR report Jeffrey Renaud. One of the many other jobs that I do (aside from the JSAs, my day job as a cancer researcher and the shows in the US I attend working for CGC) is coordinating the Canadian guests as well… Read More Talkin’ Fan Expo with Comic Book Resources.
Top Shelf productions has put an extensive 41-page preview of the collected edition up on their site HERE, including Darwyn Cooke’s introduction. Jeff Lemire was selected by the JSA jury as last year’s Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist for Volumes 1 and 2 of the Essex County Trilogy, and has been nominated this year in… Read More More on Jeff Lemire’s Collected Essex County
OTTAWA COMIC-CON – Ottawa Civic Centre 1015 Bank Street Sunday, May 31, 2009 MONTREAL COMIC-CON – Place Bonaventure, 800 rue de la Gauchetière Ouest Sunday, June 7, 2009 Guests include: DAVE ROSS (Angel artist) POP CULTURE COLLECTIBLES FAIR – Croatian Cultural Centre, 3250 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC. Sunday, June 13, 2009
Tucker Stone interviews Canadian webcomics darling Kate Beaton for Comixology.
Over at his blog, Francis Manapul has detailed the steps taken in the creation of the central Superman image for this year’s Joe Shuster Awards poster. The final poster will be a collaboration between Francis and Agnes Garbowska.
ANIME NORTH -Toronto Congress Center, 650 Dixon Road, and at the Doubletree International Plaza Hotel, 655 Dixon Rd. (directly across the street). May 22-24, 2009 (Friday-Sunday) Featuring: 1 Steve Horton 2 Tara Tallan 3 Camilla D’errico 4 Heroes Of The World 5 Benoît Cécyre 6 Les Major 7 Ben Dunn 8 Svetlana Chmakova OTTAWA COMIC-CON… Read More Upcoming Conventions in Canada: May 22-June 18, 2009
My CCBCAA associate Robert Haines posted an article yesterday re: the distribution of Sword of My Mouth, the follow-up series to the well-received graphic novel Therefore Repent, and I echo his sentiments — it’s an interesting solution to some of the problems the industry is facing during what I continue to call a “transition period”.… Read More Format Wars: Distribution and Marketing in the Digital Era II
Newsarama debuted a trailer for Jeff Lemire’s upcoming graphic novel from DC/Vertigo “The Nobody” today. Check it out.
Jamie Trecker talked with North 40’s Fiona Staples for Newsarama: Canadian artist Fiona Staples is a relative newcomer to comics: “I didn’t start reading them until high school,” admits the abashed Alberta native. But, over the past two years Staples has burst into the comics world in a big way, parlaying a stint on a… Read More Travelling on North 40: Newsarama talks to Fiona Staples
Fresh off his work on Ultimate Spider-Man, Canadian artist Stuart Immonen once again teams with writer Brian Michael Bendis on the New Avengers, starting with July 2009’s issue #55 . The covers to 55 and 56 are previewed below:
So, here’s where we currently stand with the 2009 Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards: – Waiting for the green light to announce the 4 Hall of Fame inductees. – Comics for Kids nomcom finally received the additional books they were waiting to review, so they should be coming to a final list soon.… Read More Status Update: May 19, 2009
Red 5 Comics’ Paul Ens writes: If you picked up copies of this year’s Free Comic Book Day issue by Red 5 Comics, you likely saw our preview of a new series we are very excited about called “We Kill Monsters“. You may also have noticed that the first 40-page-special issue of “We Kill Monsters”… Read More Red 5 previews We Kill Monsters #1
Vancouver Comicon Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street, Vancouver, BC May 24, 2009 Special Guests: Douglas Wheatley (Star Wars: Dark Times) Steve Rolston (Emiko Superstar, The Escapists, Degrassi: Extra Credit) Dave McCaig (Star Wars: Dark Times, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk) Joseph Gilland (animator; author of Elemental Magic) Jesse Davidge (Mathemagick and Mystiphysics) Kelly Everaert (Jungle Tales,… Read More Upcoming Conventions in Canada: May 15-June 11, 2009
http://www.beach-studios.com/store/shop_files/StormHawkscover_sm.jpg May 07, 2009 (Toronto, Canada) – (The Storm Hawks are coming to a comic store near you! Starting this summer DMF Comics and Beach Creative Studios will be launching the first issue in a line of Storm Hawks full color graphic novels. The series will kick off with a Special Edition Comic Book premiering… Read More Storm Hawks are coming!
Globe & Mail writer Jamie Adams profiled Seth in an article published just prior to TCAF.
Graphic NY’s Christopher Irving talks to artist Joe Infurnari Hailing from Canada, Infurnari came to New York after Grad School to pursue a career in the fine arts. With a painting background, Infurnari fell into comics in 2004 through a friend, and a character that merged two genres: cavemen and robots. “I’d been living in… Read More Daring to be Different with Joe Infurnari
Newsarama has posted some pages from the upcoming Darkness/Pitt crossover, the first issue of which is slated for release on August 26th.
Newsarama talks to James Turner about Warlord of Io and the situation with Diamond.
As usual, the CCBCAA Executive attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and loved it. Many thanks to: – Chris Butcher, our Festival contact, for getting us a table at the Festival – the four artists that signed and sketched at our booth: Agnes Garbowska, Marcio Takara, Alina Urusov and Kelly Tindall. – the many people… Read More TCAF 2009 has come and gone.
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 
