THIS WEEKEND! Vancouver Comicon (Vancouver, BC) – March 15 Features Canadian Guests: David Boswell (Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman), Robin Bougie (Cinema Sewer), Kelly Everaert (Jungle Tales, Trilogy of Terror), Forg (Birth of Jazz), Miriam Libicki (Jobnik), Mike Myhre (Space Jet Comics), Andrew Salmon (Secret Agent X), Robin Thompson (Champions of Hell, Hemp Island), Verne… Read More Upcoming Conventions – March 13-April 9, 2009
Courtesy of Dave Sim and members of the Cerebus Yahoo group – Jeff S and Margaret (Cerebusfangirl) here is a mockup of what may end up being the Variant cover of Cerebus Archives #2. The cover appears to be another zombie variant of an existing Cerebus cover – in this case Cerebus the Aardvark #2… Read More Cerebus Archives #2 Zombie / Obama Variant cover preview
… just keep in mind that it’s not really a great day to go camping up at the lake.Above: Andy B. artwork from Friday the 13th: The Abuser and the Abused (2008) For more on Andy B. visit his website. His webcomic Raising Hell appears regularly on the Transmission X site.
Courtesy of the Globe & Mail’s Campus Edition (a la the Comics Reporter), this article contains a very cursory look at some comics-related programs at three Canadian universities (in Newfoundland, Alberta and British Columbia). According to Vancouver English professor Marni Stanley, The University of Calgary’s Dr. Bart Beatty is “probably the most important comics person… Read More Education: Teaching Comics With a Straight Face
Source: The Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER – Advances in digital effects have thrown open the gates for comic book stories and graphic novels to be rendered in film like never before. Standing just inside the gates is a handful of Vancouver companies that are delivering on that promise. With the film based on Alan Moore’s graphic… Read More Media: Vancouver’s special effects companies make comic book worlds come to life…
According to Comic Book Resources’ look at the Diamond sales charts for comic book sales in January 2009: CANADIAN COMPANIES & MARKET SHARE Ranked at #15 is UDON Entertainment UDON sold 8.353 copies of Street Fighter Legends: Chun-Li #1 (which placed #170 in Diamond’s top 300 comics sold) to the direct market at a cover… Read More Publishing: Canadian publishers nearly absent in the direct market in 01/2009
Courtesy of the Fort Frances Times. According to the article, the Fort Frances Museum (in Fort Frances, Ontario) has decided to spotlight local artist Kari-Ann Anderson in combination with a previous exhibit: Comic Books: A History. “Comics & Fantasy: Featuring the Art of Kari-Ann Anderson” is the new exhibit on the main floor of the… Read More Fort Frances Museum Prepares Comics & Fantasy Art Exhibit
From the No Media Kings Blog introduction: One of the coolest thing about the comics world is that it doesn’t dismiss self-publishers the way the lit world does. Maybe because it’s a less pretentious field, or a newer one, or that drawing talent is more quickly discerned at a glance. Certainly it helps that one… Read More stef lenk’s self-publishing primer
Is anyone else sick of these Watchmen question headlines? Well I came up with one more, so you can burn me in effigy. Here’s a shot of the Silver Snail’s elaborate window display promoting the arrival of the Watchmen movie. Toronto’s Silver Snail has always been very pro-Watchmen. When he was in Toronto last November… Read More Who Uses the Watchmen?
X-Men Forever #1, written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by Canadian artist and past JSA Artist nominee Tom Grummett is set to debut in June 2009. Here’s a first look at Tom’s cover to #1:
The French and English Language Works Nomination Committees are hard at work reviewing comics and graphic novels for the following four awards: WRITER, ARTIST, COLOURIST and CARTOONIST. Yesterday, Round One of the nominating process for the 7-member English language committee was completed, the results tabulated and divided into three groups for each category: 1. Receiving… Read More Nominations update
Courtesy of Comic Book Resources: In the CBR exclusive interview, Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti, writers of DC’s ongoing Jonah Hex series are interviewed about plans leading up to issue #50 and beyond — including their thoughts on the Jonah Hex movie. CBR: Speaking of artists, what can we expect from Darwyn Cooke when the… Read More Darwyn Cooke to illustrate double-sized Jonah Hex #50
Pictured above is an image by Kaare Andrews that was used as the cover art for the 2005 Paradise Toronto Comicon program booklet. It celebrates the launch of the Joe Shuster Awards and it features a number of characters that have Canadian ties: SUPERMAN (upper centre) Created by Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born Joe Shuster. The… Read More Just for fun: Canadian heroes
For the National Post – Canucks Barry Hertz & Steve Murray — with input from Mark Askwith — tell the cartoon history of how the much-hyped and finally released Watchmen movie made it to the big screen. Hurm. Follow link above to see a bigger and readable version.
Since a few people have asked “wasn’t there already a Day Award”? The answer is yes, there was. In 2002, Comic-book writer-artist-publisher Dave Sim and his collaborator, Gerhard, in memory of Sim’s late mentor and self-publishing pioneer Gene Day (née Howard Eugene Day) established the Howard E. Day Prize for outstanding achievement in self-publishing. The… Read More Gene Day Award Follow-Up
Comic Book Resources staff writer Shaun Manning talks to Captain Canuck creator Richard Comely and IDW editor Scott Dunbier about the upcoming Captain Canuck reprint project. Comely attributes Captain Canuck’s particular place in comics history to the fact that in 1975, his book was the only full-color self-published book distributed to the mass market. But… Read More Richard Comely and IDW’s Scott Dunbier on the Captain Canuck reprint volumes
News from Quebec BD Publisher la Pastèque 2009: Sur Les Rails (Please note: the original release is as is – in French. Rather than do a direct translation we’ve summarized the basic news beneath each item) Déjà le 1er mars et pas encore de nouveautés! Les choses vont néanmoins rondement depuis le début de l’année:… Read More la Pastèque: 2009 Sur les Rails / On Track in 2009
Udon has announced via their blog that they have completed their call for fan entries for the upcoming Darkstalkers Tribute Book. We just woke up and sorted the last batch of entries from last night and you guys did not disappoint. After deleting multiple entries that were the exact same, here’s the grand total… (drumroll… Read More UDON: Darkstalkers Tribute Edition Fan Entries DONE!
Courtesy of Sun Media’s Kevin Williamson, The Orillia Packet & Times The news this week seems to continue to centre around the impending release of the Watchmen movie. Here’s an article with a slightly Canadian twist. As we pointed out earlier, the film is very Canadian – having been shot mostly in and around Vancouver,… Read More In the Press: Role was a Tight Fight
It’s interesting to return home after a convention and reorient myself with the business of the day and just what has been going on with the comics world and the Canadian comics scene while I’ve been away. At WonderCon I was talking with representatives of the American comics scene (comics creators, publishers, collectors and fans)… Read More Back from Wondercon…
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 