Looks like the nominating falls a little more in line this year with the critically honoured and nominated works from other annual awards, including the JSA’s. While not as well known or as prestigious as the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (which will be presented on July 23rd), the Harvey Kurtzmann Awards have been around… Read More Harvey Award nominees announced
11:00-12:00 Marvel: The Women of Marvel— One of the most talked-about panels from last year is back! Forget Storm and She-Hulk; meet the real Ms. Marvels of the comic world! Join women from every discipline in the creative process at Marvel to hear what it’s like working as a woman in comics today and how… Read More SDCCI: Sunday programming featuring Canadians
11:00-12:00 Spotlight on Jillian Tamaki— Comic-Con special guest Jillian Tamaki has taken both the illustration and comics worlds by storm. Her graphic novel Skim was a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and also was nominated for a Governor General Award and for three Eisner Awards. Her drawings can be found in the… Read More SDCCI: Saturday programming featuring Canadians
11:30-12:45 Eisner Spirit Award Video Viewing— The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award is the industry’s “Hall of Fame” for progressive retailers. Spirit Award facilitator and award recipient Joe Ferrara (Atlantis Fantasyworld, Santa Cruz, CA) shows the video presentations for this year’s award finalists, with discussion about each nominated retailer, the store’s display techniques,… Read More SDCCI: Friday Programming featuring Canadians
11:00-12:00 The Clockwork Girl— The Clockwork Girl is in production as a stereoscopic 3D computer generated feature film based on the comic book series published by Arcana. Producer Sean O’Reilly will talk about how CJ Entertainment financed Dreamworks Animation in 1995 and is now behind The Clockwork Girl through Luximation Animation. Alexa Vega (Spy Kids)… Read More SDCCI: Thursday Programming featuring (or about) Canadians
These are exhibitors that are specifically Canadian, there are other publishers and companies that will feature Canadian creators signing at their booths, but they are not listed here: Kei Acedera G07 Arcana Studio Inc 2415 Blind Ferret Entertainment Inc. 1435 Bobby Chiu G06 Comicage Entertainment 1343 Camilla D’Errico 4920 Drawn and Quarterly 1529 1628 (also… Read More SDCCI: The Exhibitors
Again, shocking! Only 3 Canadians in the Artists’ Alley this year: Alvin Lee, Leo Leibelman, and the star of Beast Legends Francis Manapul Alvin Lee DD-09 Leo Leibelman II-03 Francis Manapul EE-17
I often wonder how San Diego selects their special guests, but this year there are 47 listed on the website. I was kind of surprised to see only three Canucks made the elite list of official convention guests including: Kathryn Immonen Writer, Runaways, Patsy Walker: Hellcat Kathryn Immonen has written stories for both DC and… Read More SDCCI 2010 – The Canadian Special Guests
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
Here I go, shilling for one of my other jobs… but there are a LOT of Canadian creators scheduled to appear at the August 27-29 show – as you can see here. Anyway, Fan Expo Canada tickets are going on sale July 1. I think that means at 12:01 tonight. It did last year. Weekend… Read More Happenings: Fan Expo Canada 2010 tickets on sale July 1st
This is a new one. I’d never heard of it before until – oh, about two minutes before I started to write this post… It says that it is also a comics show, but I don’t see much on their site that would confirm that. It seems very Anime and Cosplay focused. It seems that… Read More Happenings: Con Bravo! (Oakville, ON) July 3-4
Sunday, July 4th, 2010 11am to 5pm Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street, Vancouver, BC Special Guests: •Marcus To (Red Robin, Heroes) •Ken Boesem (The Village) •Ed Brisson (Acts of Violence, Murder Book) •Kelly Everaert (Jungle Tales, Trilogy of Terror) •Andrew Salmon (Sherlock Holmes, Secret Agent X) •Robin Thompson (Champions of Hell, Hemp Island) •Wai Khan… Read More Happenings: Vancouver Comicon July 4th
A group of artists are getting together to draw sketches to help raise funds for Sick Kids Hospital, on behalf of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Artists that will be appearing are: Agnes Garbowska (Girl Comics#1 -Marvel Comics), Francis Manapul (The Flash -DC Comics), Daniel Wong ( McHozer Studios), and from Spent Pencil Studios:… Read More Happenings: Sketches for Pledges (Toronto) on July 6th
The Toronto Comic Jam runs this Tuesday, June 29th 9 p.m. till Midnight Cameron House, 408 Queen St. W., Queen-Spadina, backroom. Paper provided. Bring your own pens.
Although they did announce that they would be doing this last year, Toronto Comic Arts Festival director and Beguiling store manager Christopher Butcher announced yesterday that TCAF is indeed an annual event. I guess that they wanted to see how things went this year before cementing to another annual event. Well, it appears that things… Read More TCAF reaffirms that it is an annual show.
Trio Magnus presents ‘As YES as it gets’ Jun 24 – Jul 22, 2010 @ Resistor Gallery As all Torontonians know, the G20 Summit will turn the city into a miserable tangle of concrete, chain-link and pepper spray. The one bright spot? The opening of As Yes As It Gets, a new, eye-popping show from… Read More Happenings – Trio Magnus Art Show – Thursday, June 24, 2010
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 conventions all along the West Coast and interviewed many comic creators as the host of The Onamatopoeia Show which runs every Sunday afternoon from 3-4… Read More 2010 Outstanding Colourist – Nathan Fairbairn
From Facebook: Yanick Paquette et Michel Lacombe en dédicace à La Gallery Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010 Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm Location: La Gallery Street: 4109 Rue St-Denis City/Town: Montreal, QC View Map Description Yanick Paquette et Michel Lacombe en dédicace à La Gallery pour la parution de Batman, The return of Bruce Wayne #03… Read More Happenings: Paquette & Lacombe at Montreal’s La Gallery June 26
La Gallery 4109, Rue St-Denis Montreal, Qc Exposition & vente de Planches Originales Comics, BD Franco-belge, Québécoise, Manga, Art Contemporain On June 11th La Gallery hosted a special signing of “Le Crépuscule des Dieux” tome 4 with artist Djief & colourist Olivier Héban (Djief is in a red shirt, Olivier in blue). Some original artwork… Read More La Gallery Montreal: Le Crépuscule des Dieux” tome 4 signing
THE TORONTO SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR AT THE GREAT HALL ON QUEEN WEST, JUNE 19, 2010 Because the Toronto Reference Library is having construction work done, the event will be held at the Great Hall at 1087 Queen Street West. DATE: Saturday, June 19. (Readers and performers, TBA) TIME: 11 am-5 pm (presses should be… Read More Happenings: Toronto Small Press Book Fair June 19, 2010
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 