Source: Ramón K. Pérez’s Cranial Percolations and The Seattle Times Ramón Pérez (Kukuburi, Resistance) will be illustrating Green River Killer: A Detective Story, a 120-page graphic novel based on the Green River killer, which will be published by Dark Horse Comics and is scheduled for an early 2010 release. Green River Killer: A Detective Story… Read More Ramón K. Perez illustrating Green River Killer: A Detective Story
The Joe Shuster Awards are based on Canadian citizenship and/or residency. Year in and year out we do our very best to expand our knowledge and resources related to talent. If we have missed your work, or we don’t have you listed in our Canadian Creators list, it’s not meant to be a snub. We… Read More Reminders!
While the announcements have just started to filter out to the traditional comics press sites (aside from first to the punch Wrights organizer Bryan Munn’s analysis over at Sequential) the social networking sites are driving a ton of people over to look at the nominees list including many of the honoured creators! The Twitter, Facebook… Read More Twitter, Facebook and Livejournal spread the news! Plus, a correction on the nominees list.
UPDATE: MAY 6, 2009: The awards presentation date has been moved to the weekend of September 26-27, 2009. Watch the site for details as they become available. Preface: It’s important to reflect as you review this list that in most cases COMICS ARE A COLLABORATIVE MEDIUM, and that while these awards are handed out along… Read More Nominations for the 2009 Joe Shuster Awards
Although this has been a quiet news week so far… take anything you learn today with a big grain of salt. Above – Cerebus & Jaka were just told that the news item they read online was a prank. From the cover of Cerebus the Aardvark #75 by Dave Sim and Gerhard Nominees will be… Read More Happy April Fool’s Day
The English Nominating Committee has finalized their selections for the following categories: Artist, Cartoonist, Colourist and Writer. The French Nominating Committee will be submitting their selections early this week to round off the ballot. The Executive Committee is currently finalizing the Publisher, Webcomics and Cover Art nominees. The Press Release with the finalized ballot for… Read More Nominating Update
“Hulk Vs.” DVD cover artwork by Canadian artist and JSA Winner (Outstanding Artist 2005 for Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One) and Nominee (Outstanding Cartoonist 2008 for Spider-Man: Reign) KAARE ANDREWS.
The “About Us” page has been updated, mostly with information related to this year’s awards committees. The page can be found here.
… 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.
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
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
Source: Newsarama: MegaCon ’09 Day 3 Report: Dan DiDio, Amanda Conner, More “[Darwyn] Cooke, who said that he was thoroughly enjoying the show and will keep coming back so long as MegaCon will have him, admitted that there won’t be much coming out from him in the next few months, but in July, fans will… Read More Canadian Comic Book Creators News from MegaCon
Here I am again, experiencing both WonderCon and MegaCon, through the magical world of the Internet, Newsarama, and Comic Book Resources. I’ll be linking up news related to Canadian Comic Book Creators here. Source: Newsarama: WonderCon ’09 – IDW Panel “Captain Canuck – IDW will collect the original series by Richard [Comely] and George Freeman,… Read More Canadian Comic Book Creators News from WonderCon – Part 1
It’s been a long process, but will continue to be a work-in-progress. The Links to Canadian Creators page has been updated with the initial list I’ve been working with. I am well aware that there are probably hundreds of names that are missing from that list. So if you know someone, or are someone, that… Read More Links to Canadian Creators (Updated)
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
Courtesy of Comic Book Resources: An interview with Troy Little about his January 2009 comic release Angora Napkin, and his work on a soon-to-air animated version. He also discusses Chiaroscuro, collected by IDW. From CBR: The roots of “Angora Napkin” stemmed from an idea for a wacky retro cartoon, so it was only natural… Read More Interviews: Troy Little
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
The central nominating committees for 2008 publications are still at work narrowing down their selections for the first round of selections. The Hall of Fame Selection Committee (Henry Mietkiewicz, John Adcock, John Bell, John MacMillan and Michel Viau) have finalized their choices for this year’s inductees into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame.… Read More JSA Update Feb. 11
The third and final day at New York Comic Con, and the news featuring Canadian Comic Book Creators coming from the Big Apple. Source: Newsarama – NYCC ’09 – Dale Eaglesham on His Marvel Exclusive “Marvel announced at New York Comic Con that artist Dale Eaglesham is making the move to Marvel as the latest… Read More Canadian Comic Book Creators News from New York Comic Con – Day 3
Continuing with what I had posted earlier, here are some of news coming out of New York Comic Con today. Expect this to update throughout the day, so keep checking back to see the news related to Canadian Comic Book Creators. Source: Newsarama – NYCC ’09 – IDW – Dr Who Monthly and More “A… Read More Canadian Comic Book Creators News from New York Comic Con – Day 2
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 