Toronto store the Beguiling is hosting the following tomorrow night (April 7), with manager Chris Butcher leading the discussion Graphically Speaking: Webcomics! Featuring Kate Beaton, Willow Dawson, Emily Horne, Brian Mclachlan, & Ryan North Tuesday, April 7th, 2009, 6:30pm – 8:30pm @ North York Central Library TOTALLY FREE As you might be aware, The Beguiling… Read More Happenings: Graphically Speaking: Webcomics!
If I have missed any works by Canadian Comic Book Creators, please leave a comment, or send me an email at jason@joeshusterawards.com Agents Of Atlas #2 (2nd Printing) – Marvel US$2.99 Cover by Chris Bachalo. All New Savage She-Hulk #1 – Marvel US$3.99 Inks by Terry Pallot. Black Panther #2 (2nd Printing) – Marvel US$2.99… Read More April 8th, 2009 Releases featuring Canadian Creators
Source: Ramón K. Pérez’s Cranial Percolations and The Seattle Times Ramón Pérez (Kukuburi, Resistance) will be illustrating Green River Killer: A Detective Story, a 120-page graphic novel based on the Green River killer, which will be published by Dark Horse Comics and is scheduled for an early 2010 release. Green River Killer: A Detective Story… Read More Ramón K. Perez illustrating Green River Killer: A Detective Story
The Joe Shuster Awards are based on Canadian citizenship and/or residency. Year in and year out we do our very best to expand our knowledge and resources related to talent. If we have missed your work, or we don’t have you listed in our Canadian Creators list, it’s not meant to be a snub. We… Read More Reminders!
While the announcements have just started to filter out to the traditional comics press sites (aside from first to the punch Wrights organizer Bryan Munn’s analysis over at Sequential) the social networking sites are driving a ton of people over to look at the nominees list including many of the honoured creators! The Twitter, Facebook… Read More Twitter, Facebook and Livejournal spread the news! Plus, a correction on the nominees list.
UPDATE: MAY 6, 2009: The awards presentation date has been moved to the weekend of September 26-27, 2009. Watch the site for details as they become available. Preface: It’s important to reflect as you review this list that in most cases COMICS ARE A COLLABORATIVE MEDIUM, and that while these awards are handed out along… Read More Nominations for the 2009 Joe Shuster Awards
Source: Comic Book Resources Aaron Williams (ps238, Full Frontal Nerdity) is interviewed over at Comic Book Resources, about the new Wildstorm series that he will be writing, featuring artwork by Calgary artist, Fiona Staples (Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor). You can preview some pages over at Comic Book Resources. Here is a excerpt from… Read More “North 40” with artwork by Fiona Staples
Although this has been a quiet news week so far… take anything you learn today with a big grain of salt. Above – Cerebus & Jaka were just told that the news item they read online was a prank. From the cover of Cerebus the Aardvark #75 by Dave Sim and Gerhard Nominees will be… Read More Happy April Fool’s Day
If I have missed any works by Canadian Comic Book Creators, please leave a comment, or send me an email at jason@joeshusterawards.com Angel: Blood And Trenches #2 – IDW US$3.99 Written, Artwork, and Covers by John Byrne. Preview at Comics Continuum. Astonishing Tales #3 – Marvel US$3.99 Artwork and Colours by Fiona Staples. Inks by… Read More April 1st, 2009 Releases featuring Canadian Creators
Source: The Pulse Earlier this week, Jennifer M. Contino of The Pulse, conducted an interview with 2006 Joe Shuster Award Winner, J. Torres. The interview also reveals that J. Torres will re-team with J. Bone for an upcoming issue of Batman: The Brave and the Bold (the two are the team behind, Alison Dare, Little… Read More J. Torres interviewed at The Pulse
Montreal-born comic book artist Bernard Chang (Wonder Woman) takes a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk with the Lafayette Journal & Courier.
Source: Comic Book Resources Hamilton, Ontario-born, Joe Infurnari will be providing the artwork for the “Tales from the Great War” back-up story, written by Mark Waid, starting with issue #3 of Jersey Gods (which will see release on Wednesday April 1st, 2009, published by Image Comics). Mark Waid conducts an interviews with Joe Infurnari, over… Read More Joe Infurnari interviewed by Mark Waid @ CBR
Source: Comics212 Chris Butcher has announced the full line-up for Comics Festival! 2009 This book is released every two years (to coincide with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival) on Free Comic Book Day. FCBD takes place this year on Saturday May 2nd, 2009. TCAF takes place the following weekend on May 9th and 10th, 2009.… Read More Comics Festival! 2009 Line-Up
L’univers de Paul Du 3 au 29 avril prochain, à la bibliothèque Saint-Jean-Baptiste à Québec, se tiendra une exposition sur l’univers de Paul de Michel Rabagliati. À ne pas manquer! Bibliothèque Saint-Jean-Baptiste Galerie du Faubourg 755, rue Saint-Jean Québec
Comic Book Resources catches up with Canadian webcomics cartoonist Kate Beaton over her contribution to this month’s MySpace Dark Horse Presents. To visit the site directly, visit MySpace Dark Horse Presents.
Publisher’s Weekly ran an article yesterday about Canadian OEL manga creator Svetlana Chmakova, whose most recent work, Nightschool, debuts this spring. This is the first volume in a series, which will be published by Yen Press. The series will also be serialized in the hefty manga magazine Yen Plus.
Source: G4TV.com and Newsarama. Marvel revealed through the “Fresh Ink“ segment of G4TV’s Attack of the Show, that the new Runaways creative team will be Kathryn Immonen (Patsy Walker: Hellcat) as writer, Sara Pichelli (NYX: No Way Home) as the artist, and David Lafuente (upcoming Ultimate Comics Spider-Man artist) will provide the covers. For the… Read More Kathryn Immonen named new Runaways writer
Courtesy of the Winnipeg Sun, here’s a link to video clip featuring Winnipeg colourist Chris Chuckry. UPDATED: A follow-up article Artist’s pride: Spider-Man with Obama was published in the March 25 Winnipeg Sun. Writer Paul Turenne reports: Chuckry has been colouring comic books for nearly 20 years, but ranks the Obama cover among his crowning… Read More Local artist brings colour to comic books: Winnipeg’s Chris Chuckry
The English Nominating Committee has finalized their selections for the following categories: Artist, Cartoonist, Colourist and Writer. The French Nominating Committee will be submitting their selections early this week to round off the ballot. The Executive Committee is currently finalizing the Publisher, Webcomics and Cover Art nominees. The Press Release with the finalized ballot for… Read More Nominating Update
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