Best Short Story “The Seventh,” by Darwyn Cooke, in Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition (IDW) UPDATED! Best Graphic Album – Reprint Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition, by Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
For the first time in 9 years I decided to stay home, but Associate Director Robert Haines and Publisher Liaison Allison Covey are currently in sunny San Diego for the annual Mecca for comics. As usual, a number of Canadian creators are down as well, so we’ll be keeping an eye out for any special… Read More San Diego Comic Con well under way
Andrew Walsh and Allison Covey were at TCAF this weekend representing the Joe Shuster Awards and Andrew snapped some photos of a few of the 2012 Nominees who were in attendance for the blog:
The thing about awards are that you can only have so many finalists, so we would like to make note of the following creators who made it to the second round of discussions but did not make the short lists for these catagories. ARTIST/ARTIST TEAM Dale Eaglesham (Alpha Flight) Patrick Boutin-Gagne (La Bete du Lac:… Read More Honourable Mentions 2012
Artist / Dessinateur Chris Bachalo Age of X: Alpha 1, Avengers 13, 15, Wolverine and the X-Men 1-3, X-Men 7-10 (Marvel Comics) Marc Delafontaine Les Nombrils T.5: Un Couple D’enfer (Delcourt) Stuart Immonen Fear Itself 1-7, “Queen, King, Off-Suit“/X-Men: To Serve and Protect 4 (Marvel Comics), “Say You’re Dead“/Outlaw Territory Vol.2 (Image) Fred Jourdain Le… Read More Full list of 2012 Nominees / La liste complète des nominés 2012
Jayd Ait-Kaci The Fox Sister Sfeer Theory Emily Carroll Comics 2011 – Anu-Anulan and Yir’s Daughter, Dream Journal Mar 30th, Margot’s Room, The Prince and The Sea Tony Cliff Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant Kate Craig Heart of Ice Iris and Zviane L’ostie d’chat – Le blog de Jasmin et Jean-Seb Drazen Kozjan The… Read More The 2012 Outstanding Webcomics Creator or Creative Team / Créateur ou Créateurs Exceptionnel de Bandes Dessinées Web 2012
Chris Bachalo Age of X: Alpha 1 Avengers 13, 15 Wolverine and the X-Men 1-3 X-Men 7-10 (Marvel Comics) Marc Delafontaine Les Nombrils T.5: Un couple d’enfer (Delcourt) Stuart Immonen Fear Itself 1-7 “Queen, King, Off-Suit“/X-Men: To Serve and Protect 4 (Marvel Comics) “Say You’re Dead“/Outlaw Territory Vol.2 (Image Comics) Fred Jourdain Le Dragon Bleu… Read More The 2012 Outstanding Artist Nominees / Les Nominés pour Dessinateur Exceptionnel 2012
Kalman Andrasofszky X-23 5-19 X-Men: Earth’s Mutant Heroes 1 (Marvel Comics) Stan Lee’s Soldier Zero 6-10 (Boom!) Kaare Andrews Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis 5 Ultimate Comics Hawkeye 1-4 Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 156, 1-5 Ultimate Comics X-Men 1-5 Ultimate Comics Ultimates 1-5 (Marvel Comics) Fred Jourdain Le Dragon Bleu / The Blue Dragon (Éditions Alto/Ex Machina/House of… Read More 2012 Outstanding Comic Book Cover Artist / Dessinateur Couvertures Exceptionnel de Bandes Dessinées 2012
Anthony Del Col & Connor McCreery Kill Shakespeare 9-12 (IDW) Francis Desharnais Motel Galactic (Pow Pow) Maryse Dubuc & Marc Delafontaine Les Nombrils T.5: Un couple d’enfer (Dupuis) Kathryn Immonen Avengers: Origins – Thor 1 Captain America and the First Thirteen 1 Wolverine and Jubilee 1-4 “Queen, King, Off-Suit“/X-Men: To Serve and Protect 4 (Marvel… Read More The 2012 Outstanding Writer Nominees / Les Nominés pour Écrivain Exceptionnel 2012
Chester Brown Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being A John (Drawn+Quarterly) Darwyn Cooke “The Seventh“/Parker: The Martini Edition “Betty Saves the Day“/Rocketeer Adventures 2 (IDW) Guy Delisle Chroniques de Jerusalem (Delcourt) Ray Fawkes One Soul Possessions Book Two (Oni Press) Francois Lapierre Chroniques Sauvages (Glenat Quebec) Jeff Lemire Sweet Tooth 17-25 (DC… Read More The 2012 Outstanding Cartoonist Nominees / Les Nominés pour Créateur Exceptionnel 2012
The 8th Annual Awards will be presented at the MONTREAL COMICCON Palais des congrès de Montréal / Montreal Convention Centre 1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle Montréal, QC H2Z 1H5 SAT. SEPT. 15th @ 7:30 PM in Room/Salon 511AB Press release / Communiqué de presse Full list of 2012 Nominees / La liste complète des nominés 2012 Pre-Nomination… Read More The 2012 Joe Shuster Awards / Les Prix Joe Shuster 2012
The Dragon Award for Comics for Kids recognizes the works which capture the attention and fascination of young readers, and help to create a passion for life-long reading. Works considered for this award are comic books and graphic novels by Canadian creators that are targetted at readers 14 and under. Nominees were selected from the… Read More The 2012 Dragon Award Nominees – Comics for Kids / Les Nominés pour le 2012 Prix Dragon – Bandes Dessinées pour Enfants
Success can be a good thing, too much success can be a nightmare in the convention circuit if the convention cannot handle the demand and the Fire Marshall has to step in and shut the event down. While we are seeing an explosion of interest in comic book conventions here in Canada lately, that growing… Read More The Curse of Overcrowded Cons in Canada Strikes
Canadian artist Cary Nord’s X-O Manowar #1, which arrives in comic stores next Wednesday, May 2nd, has reportedly over 42,000 pre-orders through the direct market, making it the best debut book by a new publisher in over a decade (since Canadian publisher Dreamwave’s Transformers relaunch, in fact). The relaunch of Valiant Comics is being watched… Read More X-O Manowar #1 and Saga #1 – Two impressive debuts by Canadian artists
In about 2 weeks time we’ll be announcing the final list of nominees for the 2012 awards. 2012 will see the presentation of 5 Joe Shuster Awards (down from 7 in 2011): – Artist/Artist Team – Cartoonist – Cover Artist – Webcomics Creator/Creative Team – Writer/Writing Team and 3 Specialty Awards – The Dragon Award… Read More In anticipation of the May 9th Nominations announcement: final wrap-up report
Live announcement: Saturday, May 5th* at 10 pm following “On the Couch with Ty Templeton” at the Comic Book Lounge + Gallery, 587A College Street in Toronto, capping off a day of FCBD signings and activities. “On the Couch” is scheduled to begin at 8PM and will be followed by an Industry Night social event.… Read More Joe Shuster Award Nominations will be announced in early May
CARY NORD Signs As VALIANT’s First Exclusive Creator Valiant is proud to announce that Eisner Award-winning artist Cary Nord has signed on to become the publisher’s first exclusive creator. Nord will be making his Valiant Comics debut alongside New York Times best-selling author Robert Venditti in X-O Manowar #1 — a landmark 40-page issue that… Read More Cary Nord goes Exclusive with Valiant
25e FESTIVAL DE LA BANDE DESSINÉE FRANCOPHONE DE QUÉBEC LES FINALISTES DES BÉDÉIS CAUSA ENFIN DÉVOILÉS À l’aube de sa 25e présentation, le Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec (FBDFQ), qui se déroule du 11 au 15 avril prochain, a dévoilé ce lundi les finalistes de ses prix Bédéis Causa 2012. Cherchant à… Read More LES FINALISTES DES BÉDÉIS CAUSA ENFIN DÉVOILÉS / FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE PRIX BÉDÉIS CAUSA
For Immediate Release The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund are pleased to announce that the Crown has withdrawn all criminal charges in R. v. Matheson, the case previously described as the “Brandon X case,” which involved a comic book reader who faced criminal charges in Canada relating to… Read More Criminal Charges Dropped In Canada Customs Manga Case
Not much to add other than it was great to see many creators and fans in one space. Attendance was better than anticipated, especially on Saturday. I think that this was a wise move on the part of the company – instead of having a one day February comic show, a 2-day March anime show… Read More ComiCon post-mortem
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 