Megacon (Orlando, Florida) – February 27-March 1 Features Canadian creator guest: Darwyn Cooke. Canadian resident Steve McNiven also appears. WonderCon (San Francisco, CA) – February 27-March 1 Features Canadian guests: Kei Acedera, Bobby Chiu, Bob the Angry Flower, Travis Charest, Camilla D’Errico, Miriam Libicki (Real Gone Girl Studios). CCBCAA Executive Director Kevin A. Boyd can… Read More Upcoming Convention Appearances: Feb. 27 – Mar. 26
Despite the ups and downs of the currency exchange rates between the US and Canadian dollars, the issue of what price a store sells comics at has always been decided upon by store managers and owners based on (a) customer loyalty and (b) what the competition is doing. Some stores offer a blanket discount on… Read More Comic Book Bin discusses comics pricing with Canada’s Competition Bureau
As we are nearing the end of February, here is a status update on the progress of the 2009 Joe Shuster Awards: Gene Day Award for Canadian creators who self-publishing their work was announced on February 23, 2009. Call for submissions now open and ends on May 18, 2009. Submissions can be mailed in or… Read More State of the Awards update – end of Feb. 2009
In the just for fun department: Not Canadian by any stretch of the imagination, the Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons continues to be a sales juggernaut — all in anticipation of the March 6 release of Zack Snyder’s motion picture adaptation. Snyder, Gibbons, and some actors from the film will be… Read More Just for fun: Canada’s Watchmen movie gears up for March 6th release.
The Joe Shuster Awards will be setting up presentation booths at a few spring 2009 events, the first of which was announced today — we will be at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo on April 25-26. The Expo was launched in 2006 and has been growing ever since. We hope to run some interviews… Read More Happenings: the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo
New award for 2009! The Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing “Gene Day really showed me that success in a creative field is a matter of hard work and productivity and persistence.” (Cerebus creator and self-publisher Dave Sim) The Gene Day Award for Self-Publishing honours Canadian comic book creators who self-published their work during the… Read More New for 2009! The Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing
Since 1999, the Promo 9e Art organisation has been presenting the annual Prix Bédélys. The awards celebrate the best comics published in french over the previous year. There are four categories: Bédélys Québec (the best French comics published in Quebec) Bédélys d’Or (the best French comics published from around the world) Bédélys Jeunesse (the best… Read More Prix Bédélys: Nominees Announced
Courtesy of Comic Book Resources: An interview with Ryan Sohmer, one half of the duo that won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Webcomics Creative Team in 2008. Ryan and Lar De Souza produce the webcomics “Looking for Group” and “Least I Can Do”, which have also been collected in print. From CBR: Ryan Sohmer… Read More Interviews: Ryan Sohmer
In October 2008, Jeffery Klaehn conducted a Comic Book Retailer Panel Discussion. Participants included retailers from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Panel Participants: – Jim Hanley is a partner in two comic book stores that carry his name – ‘Jim Hanley’s Universe: Where Art and Literature Meet’ operates stores in Staten Island,… Read More Comic Book Retailer Panel Discussion
Newsarama interviews Stuart and Kathryn Immonen about their current projects, including their recent collection of webcomics Never as Bad as You Think and the upcoming Moving Pictures.
Courtesy of Comic Book Resources More details about HAUNT were released at the New York Comic Con, including details on the creative team. Written by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, with layouts by longtime “Spawn” artist Greg Capullo, pencils by “Invincible” penciler Ryan Ottley and digital inks and covers by Todd McFarlane. Artist Ryan Ottley… Read More McFarlane & Kirkman’s HAUNT – an update
Coming this summer from Top Shelf – THE COMPLETE ESSEX COUNTY – a512-Page Omnibus Edition of the award winning trilogy by Jeff Lemire, with over 40 pages of previously unpublished material. Available in softcover and limited edition hardcover. Here’s the cover to the softcover collection, the book’s design is by Matt Kindt:
Courtesy of Comic Book Resources More love for O’Malley and Scott Pilgrim — this time over at CBR – an interview they conducted at the New York Comic Con.
Courtesy of Newsarama Darwyn Cooke, Jimmy Palmiotti and Brandon Peterson have done the cover for DC/Wildstorm’s Resistance trade paperback. In more Darwyn news, it seems that Darwyn has a new blog under the direction of Calum Johnston, owner of Halifax’s Stranger Adventures. Darwyn Cooke is slated to appear on February 26-28 at Orlando, Florida’s MEGACON. Here’s a… Read More Darwyn Cooke joins the Resistance, gets new blog (sort of), designs a poster for MegaCon
Last week at the New York Comic Con it was announced that Dale Eaglesham was now under exclusive contract with Marvel Comics and would be illustrating the Fantastic Four title (starting next fall). Now you can get the scoop directly from 2008 Artist of the Year Dale Eaglesham on his website/blog as he discusses why… Read More Blogosphere: Dale Eaglesham on his move to Marvel.
Megacon (Orlando, Florida) – February 27-March 1 Features Canadian creator guest: Darwyn Cooke. Canadian resident Steve McNiven also appears. WonderCon (San Francisco, CA) – February 27-March 1 Features Canadian guests: Kei Acedera, Bobby Chiu, Bob the Angry Flower, Travis Charest, Camilla D’Errico.
Over at the Graphic Novel Reporter site, Jeffery Klaehn interviews Dean Motter about his comics career: Dean Motter is best known for his award-winning book and album cover designs but is perhaps most famous as the creator of the ’80s comic book sensation Mister X. He also wrote and illustrated The Prisoner graphic novel Shattered… Read More Dean Motter: A Career Introspective interview
Courtesy of the The Community Press Under the guidance of illustrator Martha Newbigging and teacher Carl Des Granges, the Grade 5/6 class at Bayside Public School (in Bayside, Ontario) have assembled a 60-page comic book entitled Fabulous Fantasies. Each of the 28 students created 2 pages of comics for the compilation.
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 