Joe Shuster Awards
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The Joe Shuster Awards ("the Shusters") are given for achievement in comic books by Canadians. The full name is the Joe Shuster Awards for Canadian Comic Book Creators. The Shusters were created in 2005 by the Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association (James Waley, Chief Coordinator; Kevin A. Boyd, Associate Coordinator) and are named in honour of Joe Shuster (1914-1992), the Canadian-born co-creator of Superman.
The Joe Shuster Awards are nominated by a committee made up of industry journalists and fans from across Canada. The top five (sometimes six) nominees in each category are placed on a ballot. The ballot is open to a national public vote (restricted to Canadian citizens and residents) from which the winners are chosen.
A second nominating committee consisting of Canadian comic book historians select additions for the Hall of Fame.
Finally, a third committee of journalists, publishers, and creators select the Harry Kremer Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Retailer from nominations submitted by fans, staff, customers and/or professionals.
In 2007, the Joe Shuster Awards will have its first two awards open to all voters, regardless of their location: International Voters Choice: Favourite Canadian Comic Book Creator (English Language) and Favourite Canadian Comic Book Creator (French Language)
To date, the awards have been presented in late April at the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon in Toronto, Canada. In 2007, they will be presented June 9 on the weekend of the Paradise Convention.
Categories and winners of Shuster Awards are as follows:
[edit] Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Achievement
- 2005 Dave Sim and Gerhard for completing Cerebus in 2004. Begun in 1977, this 300-issue series is a milestone in comic book publishing and is the longest running creator-owned comic book series.
- 2006 Category on hiatus.
[edit] Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Artist
- 2005 Kaare Andrews for Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One (published by Marvel Comics)
- 2006 Pia Guerra for Y - The Last Man (published by DC Comics/Vertigo) and a story in Spider-Man Unlimited #10 (published by Marvel Comics}
- 2007 Voting starts March 2007.
[edit] Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist)
- 2005 Darwyn Cooke for DC: The New Frontier (published by DC Comics)
- 2006 Bryan Lee O'Malley for Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2 (published by Oni Press)
- 2007 Voting starts in March 2007.
[edit] Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Publisher
- 2005 Arcana Studio
- 2006 Drawn & Quarterly
- 2007 Voting starts in March 2007
[edit] Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer
- 2005 (tie) Samm Barnes for Doctor Spectrum (published by Marvel Comics)
- 2005 (tie) Ty Templeton for The Batman Adventures (published by DC Comics)
- 2006 J. Torres for Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and Teen Titans Go! (published by DC Comics), and Love As A Foreign Language (published by Oni Press)
- 2007 Voting starts in March 2007.
[edit] Outstanding Canadian Web Comics Creator
- 2007 Voting starts in March 2007.
[edit] Outstanding International (Non-Canadian) Comic Book Creator
- 2006 Brian K. Vaughan for Runaways (published by Marvel Comics), Ex Machina, and [[Y - The Last Man]] (published by DC Comics/Vertigo)
- 2007 Voting starts in March 2007.
[edit] Harry Kremer Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Retailer Recognition Award
- 2005 Harry Kremer, Now & Then Books (Kitchener, Ontario)
- 2006 Calum Johnston, Strange Adventures (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- 2007 Nominations period January - April 2007
[edit] International Voters Choice - Favourite Canadian Comic Book Creator (English Language)
- 2007 Voting starts in March 2007.
[edit] International Voters Choice - Favourite Canadian Comic Book Creator (French Language)
- 2007 Voting starts in March 2007.
[edit] Hall of Fame Inductees
- 2005 Joe Shuster (1914-1992)
- 2005 Leo Bachle (a.k.a. Les Barker)(1926-2003)
- 2005 Adrian Dingle (1911-1974)
- 2005 Hal Foster (1892-1982)
- 2005 Ed Furness (1911-2005)
- 2005 Rand Holmes (1942-2002)
- 2006 Jon St. Ables (1912-1999)
- 2006 Owen McCarron (1929-2005)
- 2006 Win Mortimer (1919-1998)
- 2006 Dave Sim (1956-)
- 2007 To be announced
- 2007 To be announced
- 2007 To be announced
- 2007 To be announced
