In case you didn’t catch the link on the winner’s list: you can view Dave Sim’s 3-part video acceptance speech for the Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist Award on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 To support the launch of his new website Cerebus TV, Dave Sim is auctioning himself off for one –… Read More Dave Sim acceptance speech, CerebusTV fundraising information.
Jamie Coville files his report for the Collector Times website: http://www.collectortimes.com/cons1.html
Jonathan Llyr is one of the most recognizable geeks in Canada today. As host of the nationally broadcast SPACE Channel’s SPACEY AWARDS for their first five years, Jon earned the respect of Hardcore Nerds everywhere when, over the years, Richard Dean Anderson had him ‘thrown off’ the set of STARGATE SG-1 (with a bonus instruction… Read More JSA Master of Ceremonies: JONATHAN LLYR
What is Cerebus TV? According to what was sent by Dave Sim to Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool: What Cerebus TV is about: art and artists talking about art and examining that art in black and white. I enjoy reading about artists’ lives in Alter Ego but I’m always far more interested in their materials,… Read More What is “Cerebus TV”?
The following linked articles were all written by Randy Shore for the Vancouver Sun and published last Friday, September 11: The Prince of Darkness meets Hello Kitty: The surreal, renaissance world of Camilla d’Errico The Many Worlds of Camilla d’Errico Works by Camilla d’Errico Gallery: Selected Works by Camilla d’Errico
Comic Book Daily is a new site which launched earlier this month that features comic news stories, creator interviews, market reports and observations and a whole lot more. Contributors include: Pete DeCourcy is the Editor In Chief of ComicBookDaily.com and Manager of Blue Beetle Comics in Barrie, Ontario. David Diep is the News Editor for… Read More Comic Book Daily launched
Comic Geek Speak interviews Francis Manapul Comic Geek Speak interview Fan Expo Canada’s Tiziano DeSantis (lots of swearing – not work friendly) Digital Kontent’s Fan Expo pre-show with me (Kevin Boyd).
Last Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article about Hal Foster and Prince Valiant, and the current state of the long-running newspaper strip. Prince Valiant may be a mere newspaper comic-strip character, but in his heyday, he commanded such popularity that the (fictional) birth of his first son, Arn, on Aug. 30, 1947, made the… Read More A Valiant last stand…
In yesterday’s Toronto Star, writer Raju Mudhar gives out his “Fandom FAQs” about next weekend’s Fan Expo Canada, accompanied by this stellar drawing from Expo guest Darwyn Cooke. The above illustration, done for the Toronto Star, is actually cropped – the full image appeared in the August 23 edition of the Toronto Star. Befriend a… Read More Darwyn Cooke’s Fan Expo ’09 illo for the Star’s “Fandom FAQs”
The Toronto Star’s Garnet Fraser profiles 2008 Webcomics winner and 2009 Nominees Lar De Souza and Ryan Sohmer (Least I Can Do), and makes special note of some of this year’s other nominees including Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Karl Kerschl (The Abominable Charles Christopher).
First printing sold out after two weeks Second printing available in September San Diego, CA (August 10, 2009) – After just two weeks on the market, Darwyn Cooke’s exceedingly popular graphic adaptation The Hunter has sold out from the distributor. IDW is pleased to announce that the second printing will be in stores in September,… Read More IDW to Reprint Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter
Publisher’s Weekly has a story on the upcoming IDW series Kill Shakespeare. Created by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery with art by Andy Belanger, a veteran of DC Comics, Devil’s Due and other comics publishers, Kill Shakespeare started out as a brainstorm idea for a videogame and then a film before the two creators… Read More Canadians out to “Kill Shakespeare”
Reports are all over the interweb that Vancouver actor Ryan Reynolds (currently starring in the Proposal with Sandra Bullock) has been cast as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern in the 2010 Warner Bros./DC Comics film. This will be Reynolds’ 3rd comic book film – having starred in Blade III and X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Deadpool. Reynolds’ wife… Read More Canadian actor selected to play Green Lantern
Quebec Superior Court and US Bankruptcy Court have approved the reorganization of Quebecor World and the company should emerge from bankruptcy in one month. More information available at ICv2. Meanwhile the stock ticker shows IQW trading at $0.025, way down from it’s 52 week high of $0.28. To think this stock was trading at over… Read More Quebecor to emerge from bankruptcy
“Canadian Whites” are the name given to a type of comic book produced by Canadian publishers during World War II when there was an embargo on all external publications – including the popular American comic books. The covers of the Canadian Whites were mostly full colour, but unlike American comic books the interiors were printed… Read More Canadian Golden Age Comics Online
On June 8th, popular writer Neil Gaiman will be doing a reading/signing in Toronto. The media seems to have picked up on a thread that Toronto comic shops are directly responsible for Gaiman’s Hogtown successes. Last time there was love for (former Silver Snail manager) Mark Askwith… and this time… From CTV (The Canadian Press)….… Read More Toronto visit by Neil Gaiman results in plugs for Toronto comic stores
Generally, we try not to link to reviews here at the JSA blog, we try to keep you up-to-date on the news and goings-on in the Canadian comics community as best we can. If we did link to reviews, we’d just be page after page of links to comics reviews, often with multiple reviews of… Read More Comic Book Bin reviews Canadian comics and cartoons
This Sunday, May 31st, Robin Fisher and her Montreal based radio show Onomatopoeia is interviewing Shannon Gerard. You can listen via streaming through CJLO Concordia University. Shannon Gerard is well known for her fantastic comic/zine/readable-art-pieces, such Boobs & Dinks; Early Detection Kits. Shannon is the artist on Sword of My Mouth and is also working… Read More Why aren’t you listening?
Newsarama debuted a trailer for Jeff Lemire’s upcoming graphic novel from DC/Vertigo “The Nobody” today. Check it out.
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