David Okum is an artist and teacher from Waterloo, Ontario. He has been exhibiting and publishing artwork since 1984. David continues to produce, publish and exhibit his work regularly. In addition, he creates commissioned artwork as well as graphic design work for individuals and organizations. This year, David sat on the Joe Shuster Awards jury… Read More 2010 Outstanding Artist – Stuart Immonen
The Comics for Kids Award is sponsored by Guelph, ON comic shop The Dragon, which is owned by Jennifer Stewart. Jennifer presented the award at the Joe Shuster Awards ceremony in Toronto on June 5, 2010. Jennifer is also a teacher of Latin and Drama at the Linden School in the heart of Toronto. Underwhelmed… Read More 2010 Comics for Kids Award Winner – Nightschool: The Weirn Books Vols.1-2 by Svetlana Chmakova
When considering what makes an Outstanding Comic Book Publisher the nominating committee looks at things such as: quality and diversity of material published, production values, artistic quality, as well as originality of the material. We are fortunate here in Canada, as evidenced by the five nominated publishers, to have an industry that supports the creative… Read More Outstanding Publisher 2010: Montreal’s La Pastèque
Gene Day (1951-1982) began his career in the Canadian alternative comix scene, working with and encouraging a new generation of Canadian comic creators create their own comics. In the seventies he began his own publishing imprint, Shadow Press / House of Shadows and put out over twenty issues of Dark Fantasy, a horror/fantasy/sci-fi digest that… Read More 2010 Gene Day Award winner – Ethan Rilly for Pope Hats No.1
Jury member DUANE MURRAY presented the award for Outstanding cover: Being asked to look at a bunch of covers and choosing the most “outstanding” one is no easy feat. Getting together with a group of people to agree on that could is even harder, as seeing a cover and reacting to it is such a… Read More 2010 Outstanding Cover Art: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke
Pictures from the events can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.ca/comichistory/TorontoComicConAnd6thAnnualJoeShusterAwardsJune56th2010# As he does every year, Jamie Coville has posted a full audio recording of the Joe Shuster Awards ceremony. The recording can be found here: http://www.thecomicbooks.com/Audio/10-06-05-6thJoeShusterAwards.mp3 (1:57:47, 107mb) Introduction by the Master of Ceremonies Jonathan Llyr, assisted by Sarrah Young Hall of Fame induction for Serge… Read More Joe Shuster Awards & Toronto ComiCON audio by Jamie Coville
Aside from some mailings of plaques, some updates to this site, adding pictures from the event and our annual wrap meeting we have completed the 6th Annual Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards. I really want to say thanks to everyone’s efforts over the past seven months – this was definitely a year to… Read More 6th Annual Awards wrap-up and thanks
Tonight, at a ceremony presided over by Master of Ceremonies Jonathan Llyr, the 6th Annual Joe Shuster Awards were handed out to a packed room at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall. The results: Artist/Dessinateur * Stuart Immonen – Ultimate Spider-Man 130-133, New Avengers 55-60, Fantastic Four 569 (Marvel), The CBLDF Presents Liberty Comics… Read More The Joe Shuster Awards – 2010 Winners
Thanks to the following publishers, companies and individuals for their assistance with getting review materials to the 2010 Juries: PUBLISHERS Boom! Studios Casterman Drawn & Quarterly Douglas & McIntyre Glénat Québec Image Comics New Reliable Press Oni Press La Pastèque STORES Allnewcomics.com The Beguiling (Toronto, ON) ABC Books (Toronto, ON) BMV (Toronto, ON) Chapters/Indigo Comic… Read More Special Thanks – Publishers, Stores and More
JOE SHUSTER AWARDS CELEBRATE THE 35th ANNIVERSARY OF CAPTAIN CANUCK Final Nominees Announced for Gene Day Award, HALL OF FAME Inductees Named Toronto, Canada — May 26, 2010. Since it was established in 2004, the Joe Shuster Award has been Canada’s national awards program for recognizing the outstanding achievements of Canadian comic book creators, publishers… Read More Gene Day Award nominees, Hall of Fame inductees Announced
Canadian comics power couple Kathryn and Stuart Immonen were recently interviewed by the Torontoist’s Dave Howard. Kathryn is a nominee this year in the Outstanding Writer category, and Stuart is a nominee in the Outstanding Artist category.
I’ve been a regular fan of the Marvel Masterworks Resource Page — it’s a great site for information on upcoming collected editions. It was a pleasant surprise to see they posted an new interview with JEFF LEMIRE to celebrate the trade paperback releases of SWEET TOOTH VOL.1 and THE NOBODY.
The Annual UK Comics Industry Awards – The Eagle Awards announced their 2010 Nominees for work published in 2009. Favourite Newcomer Writer Al Ewing Jonathan Hickman Kathryn Immonen Kieron Gillen Mike Lynch Favourite Newcomer Artist David Lafuente Declan Shalvey Jamie McKelvie John Cullen Matt Timson Favourite Writer Alan Moore Geoff Johns John Wagner Tony Lee… Read More Congratulations to Eagle Award nominees! Cooke, O’Malley, Immonens, Stewart
The eight nominated covers feature a number of different styles – from borderline abstract to photo-realistic – and are a nice cross-section of Canadian creators. From Vancouver we have Kaare Andrews and Igor Kordey, from Quebec Paul Bordeleau and Marc Delafontaine (also nominated for Outstanding Artist this year), Toronto native and currently living in Halifax… Read More A look at the covers nominated for Outstanding Cover Art by a Canadian Artist
Our five person jury for the categories of Outstanding Cartoonist, Outstanding Writer and Outstanding Webcomics Creator/Creative Team, what we affectionately referred to as the ‘Story’ Jury consists of: – author, educator and cultural historian Dr. BART BEATTY – managing editor of the Comic Book Bin PATRICK BÉRUBÉ – lecturer and blogger ERIC BOUCHARD – radio… Read More Jury #2 – Cartoonist, Webcomics, Writer
Our five person jury for the categories of Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Colourist and Outstanding Cover Art by a Canadian Artist, what we affectionately referred to as the ‘Art’ Jury consists of: -author and historian BLAKE BELL – store manager AMY CHOP – radio personality ROBIN FISHER – writer, actor and director DUANE MURRAY – teacher… Read More Jury #1 – Artist, Colourist, Cover Art
Darwyn Cooke returns in October 2010 with the follow-up to the 2009 release Richard Stark’s Parker – The Hunter. Newsarama, courtesy of Diamond, has a 6-page preview (of pages taken from the Man with the Getaway Face chapter) of RICHARD STARK’S PARKER – THE OUTFIT.
As we are nearing the projected publication date for the final volume of the Scott Pilgrim series and the highly-anticipated movie based on the books, as well as a video game — Comic Book Resources checked in with Bryan Lee O’Malley about all things Scott Pilgrim.
THIS IS THE 777th ARTICLE POSTED ON THIS SITE SINCE DEC 2008! We’re down to the final hours before the closing of the last 10 original art pieces for this year’s Wolverine auctions, including pieces by DAVE SIM, TOM GRUMMETT, MICHAEL CHERKAS, TERRY MOORE and more! 10 are original art pieces. There are some remaining… Read More Joe Shuster Award Wolverine auctions end TONIGHT
Jeff Lemire, along with artist Pier Gallo, will be launching a SUPERBOY ongoing series later this year, debuting the series in a backup feature in August’s ACTION COMICS #892. “I am really excited to be taking over the adventures of Conner Kent/Superboy in a new monthly series! The book will combine many of the classic… Read More Jeff Lemire to write Superboy ongoing for DC Comics
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 