The Joe Shuster Awards will have a table at the upcoming FAN EXPO CANADA in Toronto on August 28-30, 2009. Drop by and check out the 2009 Poster by Francis Manapul and Agnes Garbowska (which will debut here on the website tomorrow – August 19th). Our special JSA sponsored guest for Fan Expo Canada is… Read More Joe Shuster Awards booth at Fan Expo Canada Aug.28-30, 2009
Over at Darwyn Cooke’s Blog (but not quite), Marsha Cooke gives a great report of the Aug. 6 signing at Strange Adventures in Halifax and after party with plenty of pictures.
Canada’s Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture Sunday, November 1, 2009 1pm – 7pm The Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin) Toronto $5 will get you in the door, with a free issue of Broken Pencil. This event is easily one of the best comic events in the… Read More Happenings: Canzine 2009 announced
Aside from working on the Joe Shuster Awards, I am also the Canadian Guest Coordinator for the Comic Book Expo @ Fan Expo Canada, without a doubt the country’s largest comic book event. Now entering it’s 15th year of operation, the Fan Expo takes place on August 28-30th, 2009 in the South Building of the… Read More Happenings: Fan Expo Canada in Toronto ON, August 28-30, 2009
This weekend (August 6-9) it’s Wizard Entertainment’s annual Chicago Comic-Con (which from 1998-2008 was called Wizard World Chicago) and a few Canadian creators are slated to make an appearance including: Francis Manapul, Agnes Garbowska, Alvin Lee, Bobby Chiu, Kei Acedara, Matthew Mohammed and Richard Zajac There are also a number of Canadian actors slated to… Read More Happenings: The Chicago Comic-Con Aug. 6-9 – Canadian creators
The location for the awards ceremony has been finalized, the 5th annual Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards will be presented on Saturday, September 26th at University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue in Toronto, Ontario.More details to come, but plans include a pre-ceremony PREVIEW of the Visions: Wolverine artwork and a… Read More Joe Shuster Awards ceremony location – U of T’s Innis Town Hall
After a grueling day of travel, I’m slowly getting things back to normal after the five-day San Diego gauntlet. I’m afraid that since I was booth-bound for the majority of the show I wasn’t able to gather up much intel (and the stuff that I did is not my place to announce), but I did… Read More Back from San Diego
July 24-26, 2009 The Watcher Comics (2198 Queen St. East, Toronto) The Storm Hawks Comic Book signing will be happening at The Watcher Comics in Toronto during one of the city’s most popular events, the Beaches Jazz Festival. This is a large street festival with many side walk vendors. The Watcher Comics will be featuring… Read More Upcoming Event: Storm Hawks Comic Book Signing at The Watcher Comics
Tomorrow morning I leave for San Diego. This will be my 6th visit to SDCCI over the past 7 years. While we don’t have a booth at this event, I will be representing the Joe Shuster Awards at the event wherever I go, but mostly at the booth of one of our sponsors – CGC… Read More SDCCI: The Joe Shuster Awards
The following are a list of San Diego programming events that we could find that involve Canadian creators and publishers (Canadian actors, screenwriters and producers not included): THURSDAY, JULY 23 12:00-1:00 Spotlight on Bryan Lee O’Malley— Comic-Con special guest Bryan Lee O’Malley (winner of the Doug Wright, Joe Shuster, and Harvey Awards) talks with legendary… Read More SDCCI: Programming Canuck-Style
UPDATED: IDW SIGNING SCHEDULE IDW – BOOTH 1705 – has released their signing schedule, below: Wednesday Darwyn Cooke signing, 5 – 7.30 pm Thursday Tony Lee (Doctor Who) signing, 11-12 noon IDW 10th Anniversary panel, 11-12 noon, Room 10 Ben Templesmith and Chris Ryall (Groom Lake) signing, 12 noon – 1 pm Robert Atkins signing… Read More SDCCI: Darwyn Cooke at IDW, exclusive version of The Hunter (Updated)
Cameron Stewart Artist of Seaguy, Catwoman & the Apocalypstix will be appearing at the Splash Page Comic Art Booth (#4400) throughout the weekend when not signing at the Oni Press booth (detailed in another news item) or at the DC/Vertigo booth (Thurs 4-5, Sat 11-12). Commissions will start Thursday & will be $40 for small… Read More SDCCI: Cameron Stewart at Splash Page Art Booth
Oni Press is pleased to announce the following signings at their booth #1833. Canucks are in RED Thurs 10:00 – 11:20 Hope Larson Brian Hurtt Cullen Bunn 11:30 – 12:50 Chuck BB Rick Spears Phil Gelatt Rick Lacy Chris Schweizer 1:00 – 2:20 Robbi Rodriguez John Layman Cameron Stewart Ray Fawkes 3:00 – 4:00 ONI… Read More SDCCI: Oni Press – Stewart, Fawkes, O’Malley
D&Q (booth #1529) have announced their signing schedule. Chris Oliveros, Tom Devlin, Jessica Campbell and Alison Naturale will be personing the booth with Seth, Jason Lutes, and R. Sikoryak signing. (No mention of the Beguiling’s Peter Berkimoe, but he usually attends the con and brings original art at the D+Q booth). Chris Butcher has noted… Read More SDCCI: Drawn & Quarterly
Pop Culture Zoo has a pre-San Diego interview with Vancouver artist Camilla D’Errico (Burn). Camilla will be at N11 in the Small Press area, but she’ll also be keeping busy at the Image booth (daily at 4 pm), and at the Hi-Fructose booth (3pm on Thursday). Taking part in a panel with singer Amanda Palmer,… Read More SDCCI: Camilla D’Errico
While there are no prominent Canadians featured, there are a few Incredibles exclusives (featuring the art of Marcio Takara). Boom! Studios is located at Booth #2543 July 15th, 2009 – Los Angeles — BOOM! Studios revealed today that Comic-Con ‘09 exclusive limited edition hardcover collections of their red hot series THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK,… Read More SDCCI: Boom! Studios
Arcana SDCC Signing Times! BOOTH 2415 Arcana will once again be at the San Diego Comic Con with a spacious 20′x20′ of signings, giveaways and premieres at Booth 2415. Our signing schedule is as follows: Thursday 9:30AM to 7PM 9-30AM to 11:30AM The Fro – Chris Harden Noon to 2PM Daddy’s Little Girl – Mark… Read More SDCCI: Arcana Comics (formerly Arcana Studio)
Press release: It’s official! McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane will be at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The McFarlane Companies has expanded its presence at the con by teaming up with key retailers and partners. We plan to have exclusive action figures, comics, artist signings, giveaways, panels, a first look at upcoming figure lines and… Read More SDCCI: Todd McFarlane
Hero Initiative heads to San Diego to Celebrate Comic-Con’s 40th year! Highlights include parties with Stan Lee, Jim Lee, Darwyn Cooke, and the premiere release of Hero Comics Note that the Hero Initiative booth is located right next to the CGC booth. Los Angeles, CA (July 14, 2009) – Hero Initiative travels to the 40th… Read More SDCCI: Hero Initiative activities include Cooke, Bachalo, Andrews, Lashley and more!
Look for the following Canadian Exhibitors in 2009: Arcana Comics 2415 Blind Ferret Entertainment 1435 Bobby Chiu G06 Drawn and Quarterly 1529 Kei Acedera G07 Udon Entertainment 5112 Vancouver Film School 618
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