The Joe Shuster Awards has announced that it is now
accepting 2012 self-published works by Canadian creators for consideration in
2013.
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| Dark Fantasy by Gene Day |
The Gene Day
Award for Self-Publishing honours Canadian comic book creators who
self-published their work during the previous calendar year. The award includes
a bursary of $500.
In order to
qualify, a creator must be a citizen and current resident of Canada. Anyone who
writes and illustrates a comic book of their own creation (includes creative
teams) and publishes and sells that comic independently of any other publishing
company and did not currently have said works originally distributed by a third
party distributor may submit their publication for review. (For example: If the comic was solicited and distributed by Diamond, then it is not eligible
for this category. If the comic was only dropped off at local comic shops
and/or sold them at conventions, then it is eligible.)
- Format and content is at the discretion of the creators.
- Must include new content, not reprinted material from other sources (such as webcomics).
- There are no language restrictions for this award.
All entries will
be reviewed by an independent jury. Entries will be judged individually based
on originality, literary and artistic merit, and overall presentation.
Entries should be
sent to:
GENE DAY AWARD
C/O THE COMIC
BOOK LOUNGE
587A COLLEGE
STREET
TORONTO, ON
M6G 1B2
Closing date for
submissions: May 16, 2013.
The finalists
will be announced before the Awards ceremony and the winner will be announced
at the Joe Shuster Awards ceremony in August 2013.
About Gene Day
Gene Day
(1951-1982) began his career in the Canadian alternative comix scene. In the
seventies he began his own publishing imprint, Shadow Press / House of Shadows
and put out over twenty issues of Dark Fantasy, a horror/fantasy/sci-fi digest
that featured the early writings of Joe Lansdale, Charles De Lint, John Bell and
Charles R. Saunders, among others; a short-lived comic publication, Out of the
Depths and various other one-shots, portfolios, and prints. Day drew for the
Skywald magazines Psycho and Nightmare from 1974, as well as the Canadian comic
anthology, ORB, and Mike Friedrich’s independent comics company Star Reach,
contributing to the Star Reach anthology, Image and Quack. Day did
illustrations for fantasy role-playing games and had a collection of his comic
stories, ‘Future Day’, published by Flying Buttress Press as a hardcover
graphic novel in 1979.
He was a longtime
inker on Marvel’s ‘Master of Kung Fu’ title by Mike Zeck, starting in 1976 and
later took over as full penciler on the series. He also inked on the licensed
‘Star Wars’ series, pencilled by Carmine Infantino, as well as ‘The Mighty
Thor’ and ‘Marvel Two-in-One’ featuring ‘The Thing’. From 1985 to 1986,
Renegade Press published four issues of Gene Day’s ‘Black Zeppelin’, an
anthology series primarily featuring stories and painted covers Day completed
before his death, as well new contributions by Sim, Bruce Conklin, Augustine
Funnell, and Charles Vess. More of his work appeared posthumously in Caliber
Comics’ anthology series Day Brothers Presents, which also featured the work of
Day’s artist brothers, David and Dan Day.
Dave Sim credits
Gene Day as his earliest and most influential mentor and the inspiration for
his own self-publishing efforts. Gene Day was inducted into the Canadian Comic
Book Creator Hall of Fame in 2007.
About The Joe
Shuster Awards
Established in
2004, The Joe Shuster Awards are Canada’s first national award recognizing
outstanding achievement in the creation of comic books and graphic novels and
are named after pioneering Toronto-born artist Joe Shuster who, along with
writer Jerry Siegel, created the iconic super-powered hero, Superman. The name
is used with the approval of the Estate of Joe Shuster – Michael Catron, Estate
Agent.
For more
information contact info@joeshusterawards.com
http://www.joeshusterawards.com
