Actor, director, and screenwriter Jay Baruchel (This is the End, How to Train Your Dragon, Goon: Last of the Enforcers) has joined the team of Chapterhouse Publishing, the Toronto-based graphica house behind Captain Canuck. Founded in 2015, the company is the ... Read More »
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It was a year of firsts at this year's Doug Wright Awards, with all three winners being honoured by the Wrights for the first time. Toronto author Rebecca Roher won the Doug Wright Award for best ... Read More »
May 15, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
The Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association has announced the nominees for this year's Joe Shuster Awards, recognizing Canadian comic creators both working in the country and abroad. Writers including Kathryn Immonen, Brendan Fletcher, Jeff Lemire, Ryan ... Read More »
September 6, 2016 | Filed under: Awards
Darwyn Cooke, the artist and writer who made a name for himself in mainstream comics with a retro style and a belief that more comics should be aimed at the children's audience the industry had ... Read More »
May 14, 2016 | Filed under: People
Nominees for the 2016 Doug Wright Awards were announced on April 21, with many established names featured alongside several up-and-comers. Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly dominated the best book award category, with five of the six ... Read More »
April 21, 2016 | Filed under: Book news
Margaret Atwood has signed a three-book deal with Oregon-based publisher Dark Horse to write a series of graphic novels. Atwood's comic story will focus on the character Angel Catbird, a part-human, part-cat, part-owl superhero, and will ... Read More »
This month, DC Comics will launch Dark Knight III: The Master Race, the third entry in author-artist Frank Miller’s subversive take on Batman, the popular crime-fighting superhero. To promote the eight-part saga, DC will release ... Read More »
November 23, 2015 | Filed under: Book news
In November, Montreal French-language comics publisher Pow Pow Press initiated a Kickstarter campaign to fund the translation of its books to English. The crowdfunding campaign was a success, and the resulting first four titles will ... Read More »
May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news
Canadian comics get a second chance The mid- to late 1970s brought a wave of nostalgia to comics, and with it, Canada’s Silver Age. These comics, consistent in their production values with most mainstream (i.e., ... Read More »
April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture, People, Writing life
The nominees for the 11th annual Doug Wright Awards, recognizing the best Canadian comic books and cartooning from the previous year, have been revealed. A jury comprising cartoonist and teacher Fiona Smyth, Taddle Creek publisher ... Read More »
April 8, 2015 | Filed under: Awards