WHAT: Visitors from across Ontario and around the world have the opportunity to experience the very best of pop culture first-hand at the upcoming 16th Annual Fan Expo Canada™.. The return of the country’s largest combined event which includes The Comic Book Expo, CNAnime, SFX Science Fiction Expo, Festival of Fear Horror Expo and GX-… Read More 2010 FAN EXPO CANADA™ FACT SHEET: COMIC BOOK EXPO (Incl. programming)
Calvin Reid at Publisher’s Weekly delves into the Kill Shakespeare phenom. Kill Shakespeare is a six issue mini-series by writers Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery, with art by Andy Belanger. The trade paperback collecting the mini-series is planned for November 2010. In related news, McCreery and Del Col will be moderating a panel at… Read More Killing Shakespeare for Fun & Profit
I ask in response to a conversation I’m engaged in with Sequential Spiltink’s (and the Doug Wright Awards’) Bryan Munn over the Canadian-ness of books created by Canadians living in the USA – specifically Hal Foster – but also Cecil Castellucci, Bryan Lee O’Malley and musician Neil Young (re: the graphic novel Neil Young’s Greendale).… Read More Canadian – where to draw the line?
Isn’t this just lovely?
So it’s tough to ignore Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series this month as we are currently caught in the “eye of the hurricane” between the release of the 6th volume of the popular series (Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour) and the release of the Edgar Wright directed movie (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) on August… Read More Scott Pilgrim mania enters the “eye of the hurricane”
Robert, Allison, Tyrone and I are all gradually arriving home again after an eventful week in a surprisingly mild (temperature-wise) San Diego. We decided not to run updates from the show floor, so instead we will be catching up this week on all of the announcements and our thoughts on the biggest comics related event… Read More Back home!
Last night, the 2010 Eisner Awards took place in San Diego, California. Here are the Winning Canadian Creators: Best Humor Publication – Scott Pilgrim Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni) Best Digital Comic – Sin Titulo, by Cameron Stewart – http://www.sintitulocomic.com Best Anthology – Popgun vol. 3, edited by… Read More Eisner Awards – Winning Canadian Creators
‘Fearless’ Fred can be heard on 102.1 the Edge, Monday-Friday from 2pm-7pm (Toronto Radio Station, 102.1 FM). When you’re not listening to him on the radio during those days, and between that time, you can read some of the comics he has written, at BigSexyComics.com. – Helos is written by ‘Fearless’ Fred Kennedy, with artwork… Read More ‘Fearless’ Fred’s Big Sexy Comics *Updated*
Joseph Nathan Day (b.2/7/1958-d.7/12/2010) passed away yesterday at the age of 52. Joe was the brother of the late Gene Day (1951-1982 – Hall of Fame inductee and namesake for the Gene Day Award for Outstanding Canadian Self-Publishing) and the brother of artists Dan and David Day. Our thoughts and prayers go to the Day… Read More Our condolences…
The Whosoever Holds this Hammer blog at Comic Book Daily discusses the need for comic book retailers to strive to do better in 2010 if they want to continue to serve their community and maintain customer support. We here at the JSA’s are very pro-comic book retailers and want to support them where we can.… Read More Comic Book Daily: Don’t Support Your Local Comic Book Store?
Yes, it’s almost time for SAN DIEGO COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL 2010 (July 21-25) and Canadian comic book creators and publishers, and some retailers, are gearing up for the annual trek to sunny San Diego. It’s no exception for those of us here who work at the CCBCAA. Many of us are going to San Diego… Read More Canadian Comic Book Awards Association invades America
Care of The Source: We’re also very proud to announce that Jeff Lemire has signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics, meaning only good things for fans of his mind-bending work on Vertigo’s SWEET TOOTH and his upcoming work on the ATOM co-feature in ADVENTURE COMICS and the ongoing SUPERBOY series.We got a minute of… Read More Jeff Lemire goes DC Exclusive
Debuting this week on History Television (check with your local cable provider for specific dates and times is Francis Manapul’s latest project — part of the Beast Seekers team of investigators for the new show BEAST LEGENDS. Robert Pincombe covers the story on Comic Canuck Beast Legends investigates and creates incredible creatures: Unidentified Mysterious Animals…… Read More Francis Manapul jumps to television with Beast Legends
Bleeding Cool has the scoop on the releases, we didn’t get the press release in our inbox but we’ve got lots of UDON love over here. 3 limited print hard cover books: UDON’s Art of Capcom 2; Limited to 500 at the show. . The Art of Darksiders; Limited to 500 copies. Joe Madureira will… Read More UDON to premiere 3 books at SDCC
The newest volume of the excellent anthology Flight is currently available for preview. A number of Canuck creators have been involved with this series; the creators involved in this volume: Kean Soo and Jellaby: Guardian Angel Dermot Walshe and TT Challenge Michel Gagné and the magical The Saga of Rex: The Harvest All three of… Read More Flight 7 preview is online
A call to all you self-publishers out there. The Great Canadian Lit Hunt now includes comics! ___________________________________ The 14th annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt has begun. For 14 years now This Magazine has surveyed this vast country for the best and brightest in Canadian new fiction and poetry and this year, just to keep things… Read More Comics eligible for the ‘Great Canadian Lit Hunt’
Ty Templeton is a Canadian creator that needs no introduction… yet here he is getting one! Ty has been a force in comics for almost three decades. He’s also a comic book guru instructing the next generation of comics creators on how to look at what the medium has to offer. On June 5th, Ty… Read More 2010 Outstanding Cartoonist – Michel Rabagliati
Duane Murray is a Toronto-based writer, director and actor. As an actor he has accumulated over 45 produced credits. As a writer/director Duane has produced 4 nationally released films as well as acting as story consulted on several wide-release studio features. Duane is currently in development with Telefilm on his next feature film project, and… Read More 2010 Outstanding Webcomic Creator – Karl Kerschl
Robin Fisher participated in both the Story and Art juries this year, and she returned later in the evening to present the Outstanding Writer Award. Robin Fisher has been living, eating, sleeping and breathing comics for the past 10 years. She’s worked in comic book stores, she’s written for The Comics Journal, she’s attended comic… Read More 2010 Outstanding Writer – Maryse Dubuc
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 