Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Jeff Lemire, Michael DeForge win 2013 Joe Shuster Awards

The 2013 Joe Shuster Awards have been announced.

Jeff Lemire and Michael DeForge are among the winners of the prizes honouring the best in Canadian comics.



Michael DeForge's 'Ant Comic'


Michael DeForge's 'Ant Comic'




DeForge took the 'Webcomics Creator' prize for Ant Comic after dominating the Ignatz Award nominations earlier in August.


Lemire received the 'Cartoonist' award for his work on Sweet Tooth and Top Shelf's The Underwater Welder.


Jane, le renard & moi's Isabelle Arsenault was named best artist while her writing partner Fanny Britt was also honoured.


The 2013 Joe Shuster Awards were presented at Toronto Fan Expo.


Read the full list of winners below:


Artist

Isabelle Arsenault: Jane, le renard & moi (La Pastèque)/Jane, The Fox and Me (Groundwood Books)


Cartoonist

Jeff Lemire: Sweet Tooth #29-40 (DC Comics), The Underwater Welder (Top Shelf)


Cover artist

Mike Del Mundo: A+X #2B, Amazing Spider-Man #678-679, 683B, Incredible Hulk #4B, Ka by Cirque de Soleil #1, Marvel Zombies Destroy! #1-5, Max Payne 3 #3, New Avengers #24B, Scarlet Spider #1B, 4B, Uncanny X-Men #17, Untold Tales of Punisher Max #5, Venom #16-17, 20, 22B, Wolverine #314-317, X-Men Legacy #1-2 (Marvel)


Writer

Fanny Britt: Jane, le renard & moi (La Pastèque)/Jane, The Fox and Me (Groundwood Books)


Webcomics creator

Michael DeForge: Ant Comic


The Dragon Award (Comics for Kids)

Cat's Cradle Volume 1: The Golden Twine (Kids Can Press): Jo Rioux


Gene Day Award (Self-Publishers)

Cory McCallum, Matthew Daley: The Pig Sleep: A Mr. Monitor Case


Harry Kremer Award (Retailers)

Heroes in London, Ontario


Canadian Comic Book Creators Hall of Fame

Vernon Miller (1912-1974)

Murray Karn (1924-)

Arn Saba (Katherine Collins) (1947-)








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