SPIKE TV has announced the nominees for their annual Scream Awards — which will be presented on October 19th. Darwyn Cooke has been nominated in all three of the Comic Book categories. Follow the link to see the categories and vote for your favourite comics. movies, tv shows, etc. The full list of nominees are:… Read More Darwyn Cooke and The Hunter nominated for 3 Scream Awards
At the pretty much Canadian-free Baltimore show this last weekend, the Harvey awards were handed out and two Canadians won awards: DARWYN COOKE and BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY each took home a Harvey for their 2009 publications. BEST CARTOONIST — Darwyn Cooke, “RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE HUNTER”, IDW SPECIAL AWARD FOR HUMOR IN COMICS — Bryan… Read More Cooke and O’Malley win Harveys.
Thanks to Jamie Coville for recording this. For Jamie’s San Diego pictures: http://picasaweb.google.ca/comichistory/2010SanDiego http://picasaweb.google.ca/comichistory/2010EisnerAwards Jamie also recorded 12 panels and the Eisner Awards ceremony. Direct link to audio can be found here: http://www.thecomicbooks.com/audio.html#2010SanDiego Of interest to this blog is: http://www.TheComicbooks.com/Audio/10-07-22-SD-SiegelandShuster.mp3 Comic Arts Conference: New Fun About Siegel and Shuster (1:20:09, 73.3mb) Moderated by Comic Book… Read More SDCCI: New Fun About Siegel and Shuster Panel Audio
Robert, Allison, Tyrone and I are all gradually arriving home again after an eventful week in a surprisingly mild (temperature-wise) San Diego. We decided not to run updates from the show floor, so instead we will be catching up this week on all of the announcements and our thoughts on the biggest comics related event… Read More Back home!
Last night, the 2010 Eisner Awards took place in San Diego, California. Here are the Winning Canadian Creators: Best Humor Publication – Scott Pilgrim Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni) Best Digital Comic – Sin Titulo, by Cameron Stewart – http://www.sintitulocomic.com Best Anthology – Popgun vol. 3, edited by… Read More Eisner Awards – Winning Canadian Creators
The nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, presented annually to a store that represents the following retailing principles: Support of a wide variety of innovative material: Providing opportunities for creators’ material to reach buyers; stocking a diverse inventory. Knowledge: Working to stay informed on retailing as well as on the… Read More Eisner Spirit of Retailing short list announced – 2 Canadian stores nominated
Happening this weekend at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North in Richmond Hill is an event which is not a Comic Con but might be of some interest to you: Polaris 24 (formerly known as Toronto Trek). On the Saturday evening in the Grand York Ballroom of the hotel is the presentation of the Constellation Awards… Read More Happenings: Polaris 24 – July 16-18
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
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 