HISTORY OF COMICS PRESENTATION Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM They’ve been vilified as a waste of paper and condemned as corrupting the young. Educators and parents have been cursing their existence for generations. Yet the comics/graphic novels medium is alive, thriving, and has become such a mainstay in popular culture that… Read More Happenings: All Ages History of Comics
As Canadians know, Canada is a massive country, not just east-west, but also north-south. To our American friends, you need to think of a provice as you would a state. For your sake, I’m using miles below instead of kilometres. 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers. Central Canada (sometimes the Central provinces) is a region consisting… Read More Some Geographical Perspective for Americans on Canadian Locations
Peter DeCourcy of Comic Book Daily caught up with Kevin this afternoon to ask him some questions about this morning’s announcement that the 7th Annual Joe Shuster Awards Ceremony will be held in Calgary in June 2011. Will we be seeing a gradual attempt to move the Joe Shuster Awards around the country? Kevin Boyd:… Read More Interviews: Kevin Boyd on the decision to hold the ceremony in Calgary in 2011
7th Annual Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards will be presented on Saturday, June 18th, 2011 at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo November 1, 2010 — From coast to coast, Canada is home to many of the comic book industry’s top talents, and the JOE SHUSTER AWARDS are a way of recognizing and celebrating their… Read More JOE SHUSTER AWARDS GO WEST IN 2011
Categories and winners of Joe Shuster Awards are as follows (links are to Wikipedia entries). Please note: – From 2005-2007 the award winners were selected by online vote. In 2009 the Association decided to reduce the online vote categories to three in 2008, eventually scrapping the fan vote components completely in 2009 in favour of… Read More A look back at 6 years of Joe Shuster Award winning Canadian creators, retailers and publishers 2005-2010
Multiple Canadian Comic Book Artist award nominee (and 2008 Joe Shuster Award winner!) Dale Eaglesham has revamped his website. Take a look at the new http://www.daleeaglesham.com when you get a chance.
This past weekend was the fifth New York Comic Con. I’ve attended this event every year since the first one back in 2006. Needless to say it was quite possibly one of the biggest shows of the calendar year and there were a lot of people there. Not quite sure how many, but everyone was… Read More Home, sweet home.
Be sure to tune into today’s broadcast of Comic Culture on 93.3 CFMU, every Wednesday at 12 Noon. Your hosts Walter Durajlija and Chris Owen delve into the world of comics. This week has our hosts interviewing Brimstone and the creative gang of their new Borderhounds comic. If you miss it, you can always catch… Read More Comic Culture Radio Broadcast
Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me by Sarah Leavitt September 2010 9 x 10 paper 120 pages ISBN 978-1-55111-117-9 CDN $23.95 published by Freehand Books What is the book about? What do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic… Read More Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me
First, we’d like to welcome a new member to the Executive, Andrew Walsh. Andrew is filling the role of Webcomics Award Coordinator. Some of you may have met Andrew at the webcomics panel he moderated in June at the Toronto ComiCON Fan Appreciation Event. Secondly, you’ll notice on the right that Jason has compiled a… Read More 7th Annual Joe Shuster Awards – 9/30 update
Bleeding Cool contributor Mike McLarty has posted some three pages of The Underwater Welder, Lemire’s graphic novel for Top Shelf, hopefully coming to stores in 2012.
Quill & Quire report that: The French rights to Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown have been sold to La Pastèque in Quebec. The deal was arranged by Samantha Haywood on behalf of Drawn & Quarterly.
Dave Howard of the books.Torontoist.com blog has posted an article rounding up a bunch of news items focusing on some of the comic news announcements, articles and interviews that caught his attention over the last month or so. It’s an interesting recap of the best non-mainstream superhero announcements of the last few weeks.
The things you find on the internet. A 52 page book culled together from Wikipedia entries. My first impression was shock and surprise – then curiosity as to what was written – as if this was some kind of in-depth analysis and historical information on these topics. Regrettably no such luck, it’s a book assembled… Read More What is this?
So they aren’t Canadian companies, but a lot of our creators are employed by them. Today is an interesting day as both companies have announced office changes and DC has decided to end two of their publishing lines to amalgamate them under the DC banner. Marvel’s news was an office change – they are moving… Read More Moving Day Announcement: DC and Marvel make changes
The National Cartoonists Society (or NCS) is coming to Mohawk College, and for the first time is opening it’s doors to the public. If you have ever thought to yourself, “How do I become a cartoonist? What steps do I take to get there? How did they do it?” Well, now is your chance to… Read More Happenings: National Cartoonists Society Comes to Mohawk College on September 26th!
For immediate release: Scott Pilgrim Reaches New Level of Epicness There are now over one million copies of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series in print, and that’s only counting the North American Oni Press edition. The series has also achieved international success being translated into thirteen different languages worldwide with more to come! “A… Read More 1,000,000 Scott Pilgrims
The MCC admin team has announced on Facebook that last weekend’s Montreal Comic-Con had a whopping 8300 attendees! The show would like to thank everyone who came to the the event. After a short break work will begin on the 2011 Comic-Con. The Montreal Comic-Con is owned and run by Alex La Prova and Oscar… Read More Montreal Comic-Con: 8300 attendees in 2010
I was pleasantly surprised by the Montreal Comic Con. I had high hopes because, as Kevin said, the intention this year was to try and fuse the bande-dessinee/euro scene with the anglo/american comic scene that is the staple of comic events across North America. A number of top notch Canadian creators who work in Europe… Read More A little more Montreal Comic Con
One of the things I’m thinking about in the wake of the MCC is a way in which the JSAs can better recognize important figures in Canadian comics who are NOT comic book creators. Our Hall of Fame is currently exclusive to creators, and yet there are people who did not create comics who are… Read More Recognizing Important Figures in Canadian Comics History
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