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– The winners of this year’s Doug Wright Awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were announced at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF). Kate Beaton’s memoir “Ducks” won the award for best book, while Jonathan Dyck won the Nipper (the award for emerging talent) for religious drama “Shelterbelts,” and Ivana Filipovich was awarded the Pigskin Peters (the award for best small-press book) for Balkan-themed anthology “Where Have You Been?”
The Egghead, the prize for best kids’ book, went to Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s sex education release “You Know, Sex,” while the late Henriette Valium, who passed away in 2021, aged 62, was inducted into the Giants of the North (the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame.) You can read the full list of the year’s nominees here, and watch Saturday’s two-hour ceremony here.
– BOOM! Studios put out a press release for the “Creed” comic book starting on June 28. The four-part series, written by LaToya Morgan (“Dark Blood“) and Jai Jamison (Superman & Lois) from a story by Michael B. Jordan, with art by Wilton Santos (“Break Out“), takes place ten years after Creed III, and sees Adonis training his daughter, Amara, to become the family’s next champion fighter. It marks the first comic from either the Creed or Rocky franchises, and will start roughly three months after the release of Creed III, which was directed by lead actor Michael B. Jordan, and featured deaf actress Mila Davis-Kent as Amara.
– Image announced “This Ends Tonight,” a three-part action series by writers Gerry Duggan, Kelvin Mao and Robert Windom (“Seven Sons“) with artist Jae Lee and colorist June Chung (both of whom also worked with Mao and Windom on “Seven Sons.”) The comic follows two sisters fighting their way across Las Vegas “in a savage race to save their lives.” The first issue will be released on July 26.
– Via The Hollywood Reporter, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has taken over as writer on Marvel Studios’ Blade movie. The project reunites him with lead actor Mahershala Ali, who starred in True Detective‘s third season. The reboot, directed by Yann Demange, and co-starring Mia Goth and Delroy Lindo, will begin filming later this month for a September 6, 2024 release.
– Pantheon Books will release “The Complete Persepolis” in hardcover for the first time, to mark the 20th anniversary of the comic’s English-language release. “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up during the Iranian Revolution, which became the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, was originally released in French from 2000 to 2003, and in English in two volumes from 2003 to 2004. The new edition will retail for $35 on August 1.
– Via ComicBook.com, new publisher Chaos Quill Comics unveiled “Crestar & The Knight,” a superhero comedy created by filmmaker Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad and comedian Abdallah Jasim with writer Paul Allor and artist Garrie Gastonny. The book, starting this July, follows a pair of mismatched heroes from Detroit: the psychotic South Asian vigilante Crestar, and the Arab superhuman Ali/Knight Stallion. It is based on a trailer pitch Ahmad directed last year.
– Last but not least, DC and Marvel revealed the contents of this year’s Pride specials: “DC Pride 2023” will include an introduction by Phil Jimenez, a preview of Nicole Maines and Rye Hickman’s upcoming graphic novel “Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story,” and a tribute to the late Rachel Pollack by Neil Gaiman, Tom Peyer, Jadzia Axelrod, and more. “Marvel’s Voices: Pride” (Vol. 3) #1, meanwhile, will have an introduction by actress Mary Chieffo (Star Trek: Discovery), and a story by Marieke Nijkamp and Pablo Collar starring Gwenpool (whose asexuality was confirmed in last week’s “Love Unlimited: Gwenpool” #47.) Head to the links for all of the announced stories and creative teams.
