The Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards will once again be presented at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue in Toronto, Ontario. The 6th Annual JSA ceremony will take place on the evening of Saturday, June 5, 2010.
Comeau and Horne create “A Softer World” One of the most curious and most original webcomics around is “A Softer World.” The comics are funny and strange, dark and touching, featuring zombies and cute babies and death and obscenities. The format of the comic has remained essentially the same for more than five hundred strips;… Read More CBR interviews the creators of “A Softer World”
Rene Engström has wrapped up her webcomic Anders Loves Maria. After working on the series nearly three and a half years, Engström concluded this wonderful, compelling strip with an ending she wrote three years ago. Clearly Engström new how she wanted to finish, it was just a matter of winding and weaving her tale of… Read More Webcomics: Anders Loves Maria comes to an end
A Softer World: Second Best Isn’t So Bad by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau. 244 pages, all-colour. For extras, there are a bunch of the original, super-crappy photocopied ASWs that Joey & Emily made at the all-night Kinkos in 2002 — with commentary! That section’s called Pretty Good for a First Try, you should get… Read More Something to do – Montreal: December 14, 7pm – 10pm – A Softer World book launch
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Last night in London, Bleeding Cool’s Rich Johnston chaired a TX panel with Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez at the ComiCA Festival (aka the London International Comic Arts Festival. The guys talked about their superhero work, mostly for DC Comics, coupled with an innate disatisfaction with the superhero form, whatever manner it takes… Read More Transmission X meets Bleeding Cool at ComiCA in London
In one of the most surprising announcements of the week, Montreal based Ryan Sohmer and Acton based Lar DeSouza,creators of Least I Could Do and Looking For Group, announced the creation of a new and ongoing scholarship program to assist webcomic creators in achieving their dreams! ______________________ Never does a day pass when Lar and… Read More Blind Ferret to offer scholarships
Canadian webcomic creator selected as the Kim Yale Award winner for “Best New Talent” of 2009 Kate Beaton, recipient of Friends of Lulu’s 2009 “Best New Talent” award, is the Canadian creator of the historical & literary webcomic Hark, A Vagrant. Renowned for a sharp wit that alternates between the erudite and the whimsical, Hark,… Read More Kate Beaton wins 2009 Lulu Award
Jamie Coville files his report for the Collector Times website: http://www.collectortimes.com/cons1.html
Robert Pincombe, previously a member of the JSA Hall of Fame selection committee and a presenter of the Hall of Fame Award for George Menendez Rae, as well as a presentation to the family of 2008 inductee Ted McCall , provides an interesting commentary on the Saturday evening ceremony as well as a lot of… Read More JSA Reports: Robert Pincombe
Click here to download a full audio recording of the Awards ceremony, courtesy of Jamie Coville. Announced at a packed ceremony held at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, the 2009 Joe Shuster Award winners are: Artist/Dessinateur David Finch – Ultimatum #1-2 (Marvel Comics) Cartoonist/Créateur Dave Sim – Glamourpuss #1-4, Judenhaas (Aardvark-Vanaheim) View Dave… Read More Your 2009 Joe Shuster Award winners! (updated with more video links)
Since we added the category Outstanding Canadian Webcomic Creator / Creative team in 2007 the number of webcomics has increased dramatically, as has the quality of material being offered on the web by Canadian creators. Aside from the Webcomics award, the Joe Shuster Award Categories are designed around original works published in print. It has… Read More Future discussion: Webcomics and the JSAs.
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”?
Three New Ongoing Series Added To TX Toronto, Canada: Critically-acclaimed webcomics collective TX Comics is proud to welcome three brand new creator-owned series officially debut today on Wednesday, September 9th 2009: Aardehn by Eric Vedder, Streta by Eric Kim and ButterNutSquash by Rob Coughler and Ramón Pérez! These new series join an already star-studded lineup… Read More 9*9*09 is now… information on the new TX webcomics launched today.
TX Comics is proud to welcome three brand new creator-owned series officially debuting on Wednesday, September 9th 2009 at 09:09am.
Jim Munroe and Shannon Gerard have released the second issue of Sword of My Mouth — but this one is only available to online subscribers. Here’s the good news: This is not like when you missed the latest issue of Blackest Night and had no idea what was going on. Sword of My Mouth is… Read More Sword of My Mouth #2 – online release
Over at the Newsarama blog, Cameron Stewart talks about his Transmission X webcomic Sin Titulo And over at his own Illustration Blog, Cameron previews the Apocalipstix story that will be appearing in Liberty Comics.
Newsarama talks to Andy Belanger about his new webcomic for Zuda: Andy B.’s Bottle of Awesome.
Over at Rich Johnston’s Bleeding Cool website, AV has provided a free download of Dave Sim’s first three issues of Glamourpuss. Nominated for a 2009 Joe Shuster Award for Best Cartoonist for issues 1-4 and Judenhass, Dave Sim‘s Glamourpuss is a chronicle of the artist’s journey through the world of photorealist cartoon strips (and the… Read More Read Glamourpuss 1-3 for free…
Bottle of Awesome, a new webcomic by Andy Belanger, debuted yesterday on Zuda Comics. Andy B. is also known for his other webcomic that is part of Transmission X, Raising Hell. Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources has posted an interview with Andy B. about the release of Bottle of Awesome. JK: So what exactly… Read More Bottle of Awesome by Andy B. on Zuda Comics
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