Sequential Arts Symposium & The Joe Shuster Awards - June 14, 2008 in Toronto

[Kevin Boyd]

Kalman Andrasofszky

Artist, Checkmate (covers), upcoming NYX

 

Kalman will be appearing in the Signing Room tomorrow during the day.

[Kevin Boyd]

It's tomorrow...!

 

 

[Kevin Boyd]

SPECIAL COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVEL EVENT TODAY - JUNE 14th -

 

A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN COMICS & THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF SUPERMAN'S FIRST COMIC BOOK APPEARANCE!

 

LILLIAN H. SMITH LIBRARY - AUDITORIUM (Lower Level)

239 COLLEGE ST. (East of Spadina Ave.)

 

ADMISSION: FREE

 

THIS 3-IN-1 EVENT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS & TIMES:

 

10AM - 5PM - A signing room featuring 20-25 comics creators over the day including:

 

Kalman Andrasofszky, Andy B., John Bell, Stan Berneche, J. Bone, Cecil Castellucci, Scott Chantler, Michael Cho, Darwyn Cooke, Lar De Souza, Dale Eaglesham, Ray Fawkes, Pierre Fournier, Agnes Garbowska, Tom Grummett, Jeff Lemire, Francis Manapul, Ramon Perez, Paul Rivoche. Dave Ross, Cameron Stewart, Marcio Takara, Ty Templeton, David Watkins, Howard Wong... and more!

 

10AM - 4PM - An original art exhibit featuring over 40 new images of Superman by Canadian Artists entitled VISIONS OF AN ICON

 

11AM - 5PM - 6 Panel Discussions including:

 

11 am --- Comics & Kids: Teaching with Sequential Art

12 noon --- Sequential Art on the Internet: Webcomics

1 pm --- Writing for Sequential Art

2 pm --- Darwyn Cooke's Next Frontier

3 pm --- Superman @ 70: 7 decades of superheroes & comics

4 pm --- John Bell's Invaders From The North: Canadians and Comics

 

5PM - 7PM - Dinner Break

 

7PM - Reserved Seating opens

 

7:30PM - General Seating opens

 

8:00PM - Presentation of the 4th Annual Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards with Master of Ceremonies Rick Green

 

www.joeshusterawards.com

 

 

 

[Kevin Boyd]

Joe Shuster Awards were presented on Saturday night. The results have been posted in Comics General:

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2446477&page=0#Post2446477

[Kevin Boyd]

My wrap-up and thank yous can be found here:

 

http://kev-the-mev.livejournal.com/101536.html

[Jason Truong]

Just finished mine:

 

http://jtruong.blogspot.com/2008/06/sequential-art-symposium-joe-shuster_16.html

 

Contains two slideshows, featuring the Visions of an Icon gallery (or at least, part of it).

[Detroit MIke]

great stuff!

[Jason Truong]

TODD MCFARLANE'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE VISIONS OF AN ICON ART EXHIBIT ARRIVED TODAY.

 

To share with you all:

 

[Kevin Boyd]

The Visions of an Icon artwork has almost completely been scanned, here's the link to the CAF gallery:

 

http://comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=63385

 

Artwork will be auctioned off, starting in August.