Your 2015 Shuster Award Nominees

The Joe Shuster Awards, a program that focuses on a broad range of cartooning expressions from Canadian comicsmakers, has announced its most recent slate of nominees.

To qualify, creators "must be Canadian citizens -- living at home or abroad, or a recognized as a permanent resident of Canada and been living in Canada for at least three years."

Final winners will be selected by a jury and announced this Fall at an as yet unnamed location.

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Webcomics Creator

* Sophie Bedard -- Glorieux printemps
* BOUM -- Boumeries
* Nicole Chartrand -- Fey Winds
* Michael DeForge -- Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero
* Canaan Grall -- Max Overacts
* Kate Leth -- Little Ghost
* Tara Tallan -- Galaxion
* Ty Templeton -- Bun Toons

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Writer

* Ed Brisson -- 24, X-Files/TMNT (IDW), The Field, Sheltered (Image), Robocop: Beta, Robocop: Last Stand, Sons of Anarchy (Boom!)
* Brenden Fletcher -- Gotham Academy (with Becky Cloonan), Batgirl (with Cameron Stewart) (DC)
* Alexandre Fontaine-Rousseau -- Les cousines vampires (Pow Pow)
* Jeff Lemire -- Animal Man, Green Arrow, New 52: Future's End, Teen Titans: Earth One (DC) The Valiant (with Matt Kindt) (Valiant)
* Ryan North -- Adventure Time, Midas Touch (Boom!), Original Sins (Marvel)
* Yves Pelletier -- Le pouvoir de l'amour (La Pastèque)
* Mariko Tamaki -- This One Summer (Groundwood Books)
* Kurtis Wiebe -- Peter Panzerfaust, Rat Queens (Image)

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Cover Artist

* Darwyn Cooke
* Mike Del Mundo
* Karl Kerschl
* Ken Lashley
* Francis Manapul
* Francois Miville-Deschenes
* Julie Rocheleau
* Cameron Stewart

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Artist

* Adrian Alphona -- Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
* Nick Bradshaw -- Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers (Marvel)
* Leonard Kirk -- Fantastic Four (Marvel)
* Mikael -- Promise Tome Two: L'Homme souffrance (Glénat BD)
* Julie Rocheleau -- La colère de Fantomas Two: Tout l'or de Paris (Dargaud)
* Jillian Tamaki -- This One Summer (Groundwood Books)
* Chip Zdarsky -- Sex Criminals (Image)

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Cartoonist

* Blonk -- 23h72 (Pow Pow)
* Nina Bunjevac -- Fatherland (Jonathan Cape)
* Emily Carroll -- Through the Woods (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
* Michael Cho -- Shoplifter (Pantheon)
* Meags Fitzgerald -- Photobooth: A Biography (Conundrum Press)
* Jesse Jacobs -- Safari Honeymoon (Koyama Press)
* Bryan Lee O'Malley -- Seconds: A Graphic Novel (Ballantine)
* Richard Suicide -- Chroniques du centre-sud (Pow Pow)

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The Dragon Award (Comics for Kids)

* Agent Jean Tomes 6 Et 7 (Presses Aventure) -- Alex A.
* Three Thieves Books 4 And 5 (Kids Can Press) -- Scott Chantler
* A Cat Named Tim And Other Stories (Koyama Press) -- John Martz
* Midas Flesh (Boom!) -- Ryan North
* Maddy Kettle: The Adventure Of The Thimblewitch (Top Shelf) -- Eric Orchard
* Ariane Et Nicolas Tome 8 (Vents d'Ouest /Premières Lignes) -- Paul Roux
* This One Summer (Groundwood Books) -- Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki

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Gene Day Award (Self-Publishers)

* "Nominees for the Gene Day Award will be announced in early July 2015 along with the date and location of the award ceremony."

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Harry Kremer Award (Retailers)

* Amazing Stories (Saskatoon, SK)
* Another Dimension (Calgary, AB)
* The Comic Hunter (Moncton, NC)
* Comic Readers (Regina, SK)
* Conspiracy Comics (Burlington, ON)
* Expert Comics (Montreal, QC)
* Galaxy Comics And Collectibles (Winnipeg, MB)
* Imaginaire (Quebec City, QC)
* Paradise Comics (Toronto, ON)
* Stadium Comics (Brampton, ON)

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The T.M. Maple Award

* Michael Hirsh (1948-) And Patrick Loubert (1947-)
* Robert Charpentier (1960-2014)

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Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame

* Doris Slater (1918-1964)
* James Waley

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I believe those last two are recipients rather than nominees, and of course the Gene Day Award is listed as forthcoming. To read more about the various award sponsors and the awards themselves, go to that initial link.

Congratulations to all winners and nominees.

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