Since a few people have asked “wasn’t there already a Day Award”? The answer is yes, there was. In 2002, Comic-book writer-artist-publisher Dave Sim and his collaborator, Gerhard, in memory of Sim’s late mentor and self-publishing pioneer Gene Day (née Howard Eugene Day) established the Howard E. Day Prize for outstanding achievement in self-publishing. The… Read More Gene Day Award Follow-Up
It’s interesting to return home after a convention and reorient myself with the business of the day and just what has been going on with the comics world and the Canadian comics scene while I’ve been away. At WonderCon I was talking with representatives of the American comics scene (comics creators, publishers, collectors and fans)… Read More Back from Wondercon…
Those of us that were at the NYCC this past weekend are now home again, and we’ll be getting things back on track here over the next few days. Needless to say it was a busy weekend for everyone who was there. One organizer indicated that there was as much as a 25,000 person jump… Read More Back from NYCC
Beguiling manager Chris Butcher presents his thoughts on the Diamond threshold changes on his blog. Chris rightly pointed out in an earlier posting that under the new thresholds, the first Scott Pilgrim volume would probably not have met the requirements. Thankfully it did, and Scott Pilgrim has gone on to be a successful graphic novel… Read More The Beguiling’s Chris Butcher discusses the new Diamond thresholds
Spider-Man Comic Book Starring Barack Obama Sells Out In 20 Mins. In T.O. Courtesy of CityTV News Before I run the quote from CityTV — some background: Reports are coming in from all over the US that people were lining up at their local comic shop this morning to be among the first to get… Read More Looks like Canadians also went ga-ga for Obama Amazing Spider-Man comic.
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 