This year’s winner in the Joe Shuster Awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, have just been announced. You can see the whole list with bios here, and a lot more information about the colorful panoply of Canadian Comics History but the winners are below:
Writer / Scénariste
JIM ZUB – AVENGERS 1.MU, SECRET EMPIRE UNITED 1, THUNDERBOLTS 7-12, UNCANNY AVENGERS 25-28, ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE 1-3, 0, ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE 2 1-2 (w/Yusako Komiyama) (MARVEL COMICS), GLITTERBOMB: THE FAME GAME 1-4, WAYWARD 21-25 (IMAGE COMICS), DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: FROST GIANT’S FURY 3-5 (IDW) FREELANCE 1-4 (w/Andrew Wheeler) (CHAPTERHOUSE)
Cover Artist / Dessinateur Couvertures
DJIBRIL MORISSETTE-PHAN – Chapterhouse, Image Comics
Artist / Dessinateur
STUART IMMONEN – AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 25-31, 789, MARVEL LEGACY 1 (MARVEL COMICS), EMPRESS 7 (ICON/MARVEL COMICS)
Cartoonist / Auteur
JEFF LEMIRE – ROUGHNECK (GALLERY 13), ROYAL CITY 1-8 (IMAGE COMICS)
Webcomics Creator / Créateur de Bandes Dessinées Web
MENAGE A 3 – GISELE LAGACE, DAVID LUMSDON (adult content)
Gene Day Award (Self-Publishers) / Prix Gene Day (Auto-éditeurs)
Single Creator/Creative Team:
MARIE AND THE WORRYWART – JENN WOODALL (C)
(C)=Cartoonist, (A)=Artist, (W)=Writer
Anthology Format:
MOONSHOT: THE INDIGENOUS COMICS COLLECTION VOL. 2 – EDITED BY HOPE NICHOLSON (AH COMICS)
Harry Kremer Award (Retailers) / Prix Harry Kremer (Détaillants)
GOTHAM CENTRAL – MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO
The Dragon Award (Comics for Kids) / Le Prix Dragon (Bandes Dessinées pour Enfants)
Another Castle (Oni Press) by Andrew Wheeler and Paulina Ganucheau
The T.M. Maple Award / Prix T.M. Maple
2018 Recipient: MARK ASKWITH (1956-)
Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame / Temple de la renommée Créateur Canadien de Bandes Dessinées
SID BARRON (1917-2006)
JACQUES GOLDSTYN aka BORIS (1958-)
DAVID BOSWELL (1953-)
TOM GRUMMETT (1959-)
2018 sponsors include:
The Dragon
All New Comics
The Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund (CLLDF)