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
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
It’s been a long road to find a new home for Toronto’s oldest surviving comic book shop, but it seems they have found a destination: 329 Yonge Street (near Yonge and Dundas).
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
As of today, Toronto’s 98 branch public library system is closed. This includes places like the Lillian Smith Branch (home of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy which has a large graphic novel contingent) where we held the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards ceremony, and the Metro Toronto Reference Library, the home of… Read More Toronto’s Public Libraries Closed – Workers on Strike. But for how long? What about TCAF?
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
I’m a big fan of crowdsourced comics, and here’s a chance to help out a JSA nominee! Ed Brisson’s fantastic Murder Book series has already had two issues published, and now Volume 3 is coming out in March. You can help out for $7 and get a fresh, signed copy when it’s printed, shipping included!… Read More Help Publish Murder Book Vol. 3!
You may not have known it, but February 1 was Hourly Comic Day! This started officially last year, curated by the brilliant John Campbell, creator of Pictures For Sad Children. This year saw over 200 participants, and several Canadians joined in on the fun. The rules are simple: chronicle each hour of your day with… Read More Hourly Comic Day!
Last night’s Industry Night was fantastic. Probably one of the best attended events we’ve held so far at the TCW space. All the copies Archaia sent up of A Tale of Sand sold out in under two hours and the reaction from those seeing it for the first time was priceless.Ramon’s art is stunning in… Read More Industry Night follow-up and Prophet 21 news
For a number of readers and collectors, Dragon Lady Comics was their local comics outlet – they placed their orders and picked up their new comics and graphic novels there every week or every couple of weeks, and it was also a popular haunt for the many creators based in the area. Dragon Lady stayed… Read More The Start of an Era? As Dragon Lady Comics closes — “The Comic Book Lounge and Gallery” opens
Sorry about the lack of updates this week, so much has been going on with… well, everything this week. Between the announcement of the guest list for the March Toronto ComiCon, plans and coordination for Fan Expo Vancouver in April, the Dragon Lady closing and all of the related press coverage that has been getting,… Read More Friday the 13th Update
Two more days before Christmas, have you finished all of your Christmas shopping yet? I haven’t! I started wrapping some things this morning, so hopefully I’ll finish up all of the many little pre-Christmas errands tonight after work or early tomorrow morning before I start driving all around the GTA to various family events. *… Read More Happy Holidays
I was really surprised and honoured to see that Darwyn devoted yesterday’s Day 8 of his 12 days of Christmas auctions to assist us with our fund-raising goals for 2012.The funds from the other amazing auctions he’s prepared go to benefit the Hero Initiative, a great charity that assists veteran comics creators in need of… Read More Darwyn Cooke’s 12 Days of Christmas help the 2012 Joe Shuster Awards
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 