Congratulations to Shuster Award Winners
The winners of the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards (for work published in 2007) were announced in a ceremony Saturday evening in the lovely city of Toronto. Here are your winners…!
OUTSTANDING CANADIAN COMIC BOOK WRITER
- Cecil Castellucci for The P.L.A.I.N. Janes (DC/Minx)
OUTSTANDING CANADIAN COMIC BOOK ARTIST
- Dale Eaglesham for Justice Society of America #2-4, 6-7, 9-11 (DC Comics)
OUTSTANDING CANADIAN COMIC BOOK CARTOONIST (WRITER/ARTIST)
- Jeff Lemire for Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From The Farm, Essex County Vol. 2: Ghost Stories (Top Shelf)
OUTSTANDING COVER BY A CANADIAN COMIC BOOK ARTIST
- Steve Skroce for Doc Frankenstein #6 (Burleyman)
OUTSTANDING CANADIAN COMIC BOOK COLOURIST
- Dave McCaig for Nextwave, Agents of H.A.T.E. #12, New Avengers #27-35, Fallen Son – The Death of Captain America #1: Wolverine, Marvel Comics Presents #1-4, Wolverine #50, Avengers Classic #7 (Marvel Comics) DC Infinite Halloween Special #1 (DC Comics), The Other Side #4-5 (DC/Vertigo) Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jensen #1 (ONI Press)
OUTSTANDING CANADIAN COMIC BOOK &/OR GRAPHIC NOVEL PUBLISHER
- Drawn & Quarterly
OUTSTANDING CANADIAN WEBCOMICS CREATOR / CREATIVE TEAM
- Ryan Sohmer and Lar De Souza for Least I Can Do http://www.leasticoulddo.com and Looking for Group http://www.lfgcomic.com
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT BY A CANADIAN RELATED TO COMIC BOOKS
David Watkins for using comic books as a teaching tool
CANADIAN COMIC BOOK CREATOR HALL OF FAME
Stan Berneche
John Byrne
Pierre Fournier
Edwin R. “Ted” McCall
FAVOURITE CANADIAN COMIC BOOK CREATOR - ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
Faith Erin Hicks - Zombies Calling
FAVOURITE CANADIAN COMIC BOOK CREATOR - FRENCH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
Philippe Girard aka phlppgrrd - Danger Public
FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL (NON-CANADIAN) COMIC BOOK CREATOR
Ed Brubaker - Captain America, Criminal, Immortal Iron Fist, Uncanny X-Men
HARRY KREMER OUTSTANDING CANADIAN COMIC BOOK RETAILER
Big B Comics - Hamilton, Ontario
Congratulations to all of the winners, and particularly my friends Cecil Castelucci, Faith Erin Hicks, and Jeff Lemire.
- Chris
June 16th, 2008 | by Chris
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June 16th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Thank you Chris! As I said in my blog acceptance speech, I couldn’t have done it without the support of the Canadian comics community as a whole, so big hugs for everyone!
June 16th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Thanks from me as well!
I’m really glad that colourists were included this year, and it’s an honor to have been chosen as the inaugural winner in that category.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
It was a pleasure to be involved and an honour to be inducted. Thank you very much. Beavers Up!