Happy to announce the venue for the 2016 awards ceremony: the Forest City Comicon in London, ON. This will be the 2nd year we have presented at this event.

Yesterday Brasco Entertainment, who also put on the Red Deer (Alberta) Comic & Entertainment Expo announced the following: It is with great regret that we must inform you that the 2016 Vancouver Comic & Entertianment Expo, Aug 5-7 will not be going forward. If you have any questions, please contact us at: info@brascoexhibitions.com There has… Read More August’s Vancouver Comic & Entertainment Expo cancelled

It is with a heavy heart that I report that Canadian cartoonist Darwyn Cooke has passed, less than a day after the world learned that he was battling aggressive cancer and had been moved to palliative care. Social media was flooded Friday with condolences and appreciations for the man and his art. The Joe Shuster Awards,… Read More Darwyn Cooke (May 13, 1962- May 14, 2016)

This is always a big weekend for us here at JSA central as it is the weekend of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival as well as the Ottawa Comic Con. My mission this weekend is to pass along a number of Joe Shuster Award plaques and trophies to previous winners who are visiting Toronto this… Read More TCAF and Ottawa Comic Con this weekend

Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity. The exhibition features reproductions of art by Canadian comic book artists such as Jeff Lemire, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Darwyn Cooke, and John Byrne. See some of your favourite superheroes from the Marvel and DC universes drawn by Canadians, along with some of Canada’s… Read More Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity Exhibition May 12-Sept 14 2016

We don’t usually draw attention to politics here at the JSA blog, but we thought we’d take a few moments to congratulate our new prime minister, sworn in yesterday at a ceremony in Ottawa.

Winners of 2015 Ignatz Awards Announced In order to give honor to people that have outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, the Ignatz Awards are awarded at SPX (Small Press Expo), held on September 19 and 20, 2015 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel and Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Female creators swept the awards… Read More Canadians Tamaki and Carroll win 2015 Ignatz Awards

The 2015 Joe Shuster Awards are brought to your courtesy of Happy Harbor Comics of Edmonton, AB.For a list of nominees please click here. For a list of nominees for the Gene Day Award please click here. The 11th annual ceremony presentation of the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards will take place on… Read More Joe Shuster Awards Ceremony – Sunday, October 18 in London, ON at the Forest City ComiCon

Here are your 2015 nominees for self-published comics from 2014: DUST-SHIP GLORY #1 and #2 by Elaine M. Will and Andreas Schroeder EVIL #3 by James Edward Clark THE PITIFUL HUMAN LIZARD #1 and #2 by Jason Loo TORONTO COMICS ANTHOLOGY Vol. 1 by Various TREADWELL by Dominic Bercier (Mirror Comics) ULTIMATE POWER DUO PRESENTS… Read More 2015 Gene Day Award Nominees

Last night in San Diego the Eisner Awards were handed out and as usual many Canadians took the top spots, this year in particular Canadian women dominated in many categories including Best Short Story, Best Continuing Series, Best Graphic Albums (new and reprint) and Best Penciller/Inker. So congratulations to Emily Carroll, Fiona Staples, Mariko and… Read More Canadians win big at last night’s Eisners: Tamakis, Carroll, Staples Cooke, D+Q

We did announce the nominations on June 6th at the Niagara Falls Comic Con, however we have yet to relay that information here on our site, to our media partners and on social media. Why? The nominees were finalized in some cases the morning of June 6th, so we could read off the list of nominees,… Read More What’s going on? Where are the nominations?

One bit of pigeon-holing I will always argue against is that the Joe Shuster Awards are mainstream (i.e. superhero) comics awards and it’s a shame that we were identified in that manner in the one book out there on Canadian comics, I think we prove — year after year after year — that we are… Read More Director’s Remarks before the Announcement of the 2015 Nominees