It’s finally time to announce the nominees for our 2023 Sequential Magazine Awards sponsored by Strange Adventures Comics & Curiosities in Halifax NS, Dartmouth NS & Fredericton NB. The Sequential Magazine Awards, originating in 2017, are fan voted awards organized by Sequential Magazine to allow Canadian comic fans to show their appreciation for their favourite local indie comics and creators as well as discover more great Canadian made comics. Below are the names of this year’s nominees for comics published in 2021 and some information about them (listed in alphabetical order). Please read as much as possible to make your fair selection. These nominees were chosen by our magazine team based off of creator’s submissions. The winners are decided entirely by public vote so share your support for your favorite creators to help their chance of winning. Click the button below to go to the voting poll when you are ready. Voting ends at midnight March 31st. One vote per person please and a google account is required to enforce this.

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Best Comic Book

Feeder #1

Feeder is the story of Lee Kidd, once a world-famous action movie star in the 1980s, his life has spiraled out of control and he’s ended up a bottom-feeder, a scumbag, a killer for hire. A new job presents Kidd with a chance to be the hero he played in so many movies, but will he take it?

Mark Bertolini (writer)

Darryl Knickrehm (artist, colorist, letterer)

Sumerian Comics (publisher)

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Stay Cool

Ellie has been wanting to investigate the shady operations of the Dolos Corporation as long as she can remember. The day that her wish is granted becomes the worst day of her life as her colleagues and friends begin spontaneously bursting into flames around her.
Before she’d stop at nothing to prove it. Now she’s not worried about justice.
She wants revenge.

Adriano Ariganello (Writer, Letter)
Rafael Chrestani (Artist, Character Designer, Cover)
Brian Azcurra (Variant Cover)
Mattia Monaco (Variant Cover)
Richard A. Morgan (Variant Cover)
Riccardo Faccini (Cover Colourist)

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ALICE #1

ALICE #1 is the first of a 4 issue series.Captain Alice Carroll, USAF scientist is finally bringing her lifelong endeavor to existence. Project Looking Glass is meant to change the world forever but when it doesn’t go as planned Alice’s world is changed in ways she never expected. She finds herself in an alternate reality not too different from her own. Except for the fact that it’s a technocratic empire ruled by the Red Queen and her Hart Foundation. Now Alice must team up with an underground resistance to defeat the Queen and find her way home.

Writer: Matt Ringel

Artist: Marika Cresta

Colourer: Fahriza Kamaputra

Letterer: Toben Racicot

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Xanthus #1

An alien energy being, Xanthus, fuses its essence with a despairing man named Sean Preston and together they attempt to return joy to the world. Reflective and hopeful. If you liked Superman, you’ll love Xanthus!

Michael McAdam (writer, letterer)

Mark Marvida (artist)

Marvin Marvida (colourer)

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Peregrines: Hunter’s Moon

A standalone tale, Peregrines: Hunter’s Moon finds the team playing a deadly game of cat and mouse deep in the mountains of British Columbia. But who is the hunter and who is the prey?

Chris Sanagan (writer)

Jason Lapidus (artist)

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Total Party Killer

No one told Verity the Adventuring Intern that her first quest would be this bloody. Prematurely promoted after her predecessor’s untimely demise, Verity is perpetually surrounded by mayhem, mutilation, and murder. Her cruel companions, lead by the infamous Captain Bastion, offer little sympathy to the fledgling adventurer. Tasked with hunting the primordial dragon Gridda, Verity has to ask herself one simple question – how badly does she really want this job?

by David Yu

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Seeds of Spring #5 We’ll Never Be Alone

A despondent Mandy joins Naguset’s family on a fishing trip in Newfoundland; along the way, they visit an aunt who catches them up on the local turmoil around fishing rights. Meanwhile, Peter grows a beard and travels by train to Siberia, witnessing domestic violence and political corruption along the way. His first assignment is to investigate prisons and recommend reforms, but officials—and a shipwreck—stand in his way. In this innovative serial graphic novel, Naguset, a modern Canadian Mi’kmaq teenager, exchanges books and mix tapes with her pen pal, Chris.

Chris Coquard (writer)

Sacha Ravenda (artist)

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Bullet Adventures issues 2-4

Bullet Adventures is an ongoing superhero series that teams up the Silver Age speedster with his granddaughter in the present day. Lainie Choi has followed in her grandfather’s fleet footsteps and he shows her the ropes, but she has just as much to teach Bullet about the modern age.

Jordan Alsaqa & Randy Stone (writers)

Nicolas Carrizo (artist)

Francesca Cittarelli (colourist)

Lucas Gattoni (letterer).

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Best Graphic Novel

Our War, Vol. 2

Set in a not-too-distant and all-too-possible future, OUR WAR tells the story of what measures ordinary people will take to maintain a semblance of normality in chaotic times. It begs the questions: how would we fair when increasing uncertainty breeds unrelenting fear? When the thin veil of civility is replaced by the ravenous desire for survival? Through financial collapse, political polarization, widespread violence, and the abandonment of law and order, OUR WAR explores what happens when the ordinary and mundane is replaced by the vicious and unpredictable.

Writer: Luke Henderson

Artist/Colourer/Letterer: Michael Derrah

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The Laundrymen, Book 1

The Laundrymen is an ongoing comic series about two mercenary monster hunters who operate out of a laundromat. Book One collects the first three issues of the series and follows Bryan and Wade as they travel to Wade’s hometown to investigate a mysterious murder. This series is perfect for fans of GHOSTBUSTERS, X-FILES, and SUPERNATURAL!

Lyndon Radchenka (writer/letterer)

Steven Kaul (artist)

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Illümon: Seven Rays of the Sun, Book 1

ILLÜMON: Seven Rays of the Sun is a grounded, emotional love-letter to all of the great monster-catching games we’ve grown up with. This first book is an 80-page graphic novel painted in watercolour and ink, and it kicks off the series with a question: how do you say goodbye to your best friend?

Shawn Daley – Writer / Artist / Letterer / Design

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Murgatroyd & Nepenthe, Book 1

Follow Murgatroyd, an overwhelmed everyman, and Nepenthe, a mysterious oracle, as they traverse the Hinterlands of the imagination and meet many bizarre beings along the way. Murgatroyd & Nepenthe is inspired by a love of classic cartoons and comic strips, and a fascination with random processes like the cut-up technique, Eno and Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, and Noah Wall’s Grotesque Tables II. The result is a cohesive narrative, but one that’s constantly twisting and turning in surprising, comical, and uncanny directions. 

D. S. Barrick – cartoonist (writer, artist, colourer, letterer)

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The Spirit of Denendeh, Vol. 2, As I Enfold You in Petals

Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather’s ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing him, Benny is uneasy about how he’ll be remembered. Can he find a way to make amends?

Richard Van Camp, writer.

Scott B. Henderson artist,

Donovan Yaciuk colourist,

Nickolej Villiger letters,

Irene Velentzas editor

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STRINGER

Tournament tennis. A racquet stringer turned small-time drug dealer gets in over his head transporting a gym bag of cocaine across Europe. Carrying a half million in narcotics puts him on the radar of every dangerous man on the continent. Whoops.

Patrick Kindlon-writer

Paul Tucker-artist

Wallace Ryan-hand letterer

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Secrets of Jarrow

Mordecai Crow is a young drifter in search of his lost roots, wandering a landscape devastated by climate change where people have forgotten most of their civilization’s technology. He stumbles into Jarrow Firewall, an ancient fortress where the inhabitants struggle to preserve the history of a lost world. But other secrets lie behind Jarrow’s walls and Mordecai becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy that he needs to solve.

Secrets of Jarrow is the first book in the Mordecai Crow trilogy chronicling the hero’s search for his lost past. Books 2 and 3 are scheduled to be released in May 2024 and 2025.

Bill Slavin – Writer, Artist, Colourer Letterer

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Skull Cat and the Curious Castle, Book 1

It’s Scully Catterson’s first day as the new garden-keeper at a spooky castle…
But when everyone goes missing, is he brave enough to become a hero?

Even though the castle is an eerie place, full of dark secrets, Scully is excited to start his new job and prove himself to be a great gardener. But wait a minute… what happened to all his co-workers?

Norman Shurtliff – author, artist, creator

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Best Graphic Novel Anthology

The 99

THE 99 is a 104-page, full-color collection of 99 web cartoonists contributing their best / favorite comics strips. In addition to the comics, the book contains a brief (humorous) biographical section about each artist, a foreword, and an afterword. For this edition, Tommy Siegel (The New Yorker) will be writing the foreword.

David Daneman – Editor

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Cover of Darkness: Origins

Classic Horror meets Fantasy in this anthology collecting 10 gruesome tales, featuring the twisted and reimagined beginnings of Vampires, Mary Frankenstein, Bloody Mary, the Invisible Woman, The Phantom of the Opera, the Minotaur, Medusa, Viking Werewolves, and Ninjas vs Kaiju!

  • George Michail – Writer
  • Chris Cam – Writer
  • Andy Belanger – Artist
  • GMB Chomichuk – Artist
  • John Delaney – Artist
  • Nat Jones – Artist
  • Vinz El Tabanas – Artist
  • Ty Peterson – Artist
  • Colin Turnbull – Artist
  • Rags Morales – Artist
  • Joshua Werner – Artist
  • MJ Hiblen – Artist
  • Hailey Renee – Colourer
  • Nikki Powers – Letterer

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Best Webcomic

Yokoka’s Quest

For as far as she can remember, Yokoka’s lived in the same old boring forest. It’s not that she’s lonely- she has a lot of siblings to play with- but she has dreams, a desire for adventure! What would happen, if she walked without stopping? How far could she go? What would she see?

Eyes filled with curiosity and excitement, she goes out into the unknown, a land filled with ferocious beasts and elemental magic, discovering things existing even beyond the limits of her imagination. What’s on the other side of the journey? We’ll just have to see when we get there!

Chris Hyacinth Rivers (everything)

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The Constant Star

Jea never imagined that skipping chores to wile away the days listening to her grandmother Oba’s crazy stories would be rewarded. But when her life is shattered by an unbelievable catastrophe, Jea realises that Oba has been preparing her for something all along: surviving the end of the world.

Lucas Green (co-creator, illustrator)

Steve Moody (co-creator, writer)

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Ghost Junk Sickness

Trigger Elliot is a bounty hunter who travels around the galaxy with his not-so-fully-licensed-and-technically-illegal-hunting-partner Vahn Gavotte. They’re lousy at what they do and often resort to petty tactics just to get a bounty, this is their life. Trigger and Vahn’s routine changes when a ambiguous huge bounty surfaces; an alleged bounty hunter killer named the ‘ghost’ with frightening abilities and an unknown motive. When Trigger’s past catches up with him, there begins a strain on his and Vahns hunting dynamic, forcing them to become further involved in chasing the elusive and unpredictable ghost.

Kristen Lee and Laura Lee (studioCARTRIDGE)

Co-creators (both do all jobs)

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Augustine Volume 1

Volume 1 contains the first chapter of AUGUSTINE. The story opens with our intrepid troupe of rapscallions attempting to stop a wild boar from destroying a nearby town… only for such a plan to fall apart, pissing off its local landlord in the process.
How is the group going to make up for this mess… especially with bounties involved. Turns out they’re in much deeper water than they originally thought.

Winter Jay Kiakas — Writing, thumbnails, inks, editor
Tas Mukanik — writing, pencils, colourist

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Rising Sand

Erj is a world kept alight by a sun that has orbited faithfully since recorded memory—but now, that faith is faltering.

As the world slips ever deeper into despair, a contingent of outsiders, driven by little more than a desire to survive, will do what they can to illustrate that all things mustn’t come to an end.

At least not today.

Ty Dunitz (Writer, Inker, Colourist, Letterer);

Jenn Lee (Penciller)

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Grisild & Phebus

Grisild is a princess traveling to the land of the dead to seek revenge on Lord Moros, the vampire who bit her. She is accompanied in her quest by Phebus, a prince transformed into a horse by an evil witch and who needs the kiss of a real princess to become human again. Grisild has sworn to kiss Phoebus once Moros is dead, but as she gets closer to the vampire, his power over her grows stronger, as does her desire for revenge.

Felix Sintes, writer and illustrator

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Favourite Writer

D.A. Stewart (he/him)

A graduate of the Film & TV Production program at Humber College in Toronto, D.A. Stewart got his start in professional writing with the first issue of Prince Edward Island’s arts and entertainment monthly, “The Buzz”. Since then, he’s written for publications and websites both in Canada and internationally. In the early 2000s, D.A.’s movie review comic strip, “And Yet I Blame Hollywood”, was adapted and animated for national broadcast on CBC-TV, with each two-minute episode written by Stewart. A copywriter at Graphcom, a web and advertising house in PEI, D.A. has created, edited and contributed to the multi-author short horror story collection “Fear from a Small Place”, and has written and published a solo collection of short horror fiction entitled “Monster Man”. “Dark Sanctuary”, co-created with artist Sandy Carruthers, is his first foray into writing for serial comics.

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George Michail (he/him)

George Michail is a writer/ director hailing from Kelowna, BC. Currently, George has multiple creator-owned series on the go and is attending conventions promoting his books.

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Luke H (he/him)

Luke is a writer, musician, and educator from Toronto. In addition to co-founding the Credible Threat Press publishing collective, he has also authored various works including Our War, War Bats, This Could be Everywhere: An Analysis of Radical Politics in American Hardcore Punk: 1980-1986, and the upcoming anthology series Beast Junkies.

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Mark Bertolini (he/him)

Mark Bertolini is a Toronto-based writer of comic books and graphic novels. His first published original graphic novel was the post-apocalyptic tale Long Gone in 2012. He has created and written other titles such the super-smart thriller Knowledge; the grindhouse/sci-fi mashup Scum of the Earth, the superhuman crime caper Bastard’s Waltz, and most recently, the pulp-style anthology The Hand of Glory. Mark has also contributed many short stories to such anthologies as Caliber Presents; the mind-bending Imaginary Drugs; and the New York Times Bestselling FUBAR series.

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Matt McGrath (he/him)

Matt McGrath is a writer from Toronto. He is the co-creator of the indie horror comedy series, ID-10t error,. His short comic work has appeared in Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures published by Renegade Arts Entertainment, Gravely Unusual, Strange Romance Volume 3, A Soul Divided/Caged in Flesh, and Called Into Being. Matt works as a content writer specializing in educational marketing and also co-founded the theatre company, Bygone Theatre. He lives with his partner, their two human children, and their three fur children (a dog and two cats).

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Matt Ringel (he/him)

Matt Ringel is a Canadian writer from the Ottawa area. He has written the series FALLEN which is published by Red 5 Comics, ALICE and is currently working on his horror project Long Dark Winter. When Matt isn’t writing, he’s spending time with his family, watching movies or playing D&D.

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Michael McAdam (he/him)

Michael McAdam is a Canadian author, actor, comedian, voice-over artist and virally famous flight attendant who is never happy doing just one thing. He is the father of two grown children and his own inner child is much more “outer” than inner! He lives in Airdrie, Alberta with his comic book collection and arcade machine.

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Shawn Richison (he/him)

Barrie based cartoonist on DRIVE, A TRIP TO RUNDBERG, AGAINST THE WALL and most recently FISK: the S.U.B.S.T.I.T.U.T.E..

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Favourite Artist

Erick Reyes (he/him)

My name is Erick Reyes (he/him), I am a Toronto-based Illustrator, I write and draw my own comic book stories, and I love game illustrations. I enjoy drawing humor and serious kinds of stories. I am inspired by many amazing
graphic books like the Hellboy comics, and One Piece Manga. And Also game arts of Metal Gear Solid.

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Lucas Green (he/him)

Lucas is an animator and illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. He is the co-creator of the webcomic The Constant Star, and illustrated the award-winning graphic novel King Warrior. His work in film and TV includes concept design and animation for the SyFy series Vagrant Queen and Astrid and Lilly Save the World, as well as the upcoming Tubi Original feature Slay. He also teaches animation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. When he isn’t tied down to a drawing desk, Lucas can be found wandering the foggy mountains of the Pacific Northwest with his dog, Kuiper.

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Michael Derrah (he/him)

Directors Guild of Canada award winning Storyboard & Design Artist DGC | CAA
Comic Maker at Credible Threat Press

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Paul Tucker (he/him)

Paul is a St. John’s, Newfoundland-based comic creator and art director. First published in 2004, his notable works have included: the critically acclaimed TET for IDW Publishing, the award-winning HOLLOW HEART from Vault Comics and the cult hit NOBODY IS IN CONTROL from Black Mask Studios. June 2023 saw the publication of STRINGER, a hardback crime story set on the 1983 tennis circuit. He is the co-founder of the decade-long-running Breakdown Comic Jam, which takes place monthly in St. John’s. He has also split his time working in advertising since 2007.

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Ronn Sutton

RONN SUTTON has drawn hundreds of full length and short story comics since the early 1970s. He has drawn horror, adventure, detective, sci-fi, humor, and romance comics as well as having worked in magazine illustration, newspaper strips and animation. Best known for having penciled nearly 50 issues of “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”, as well as drawing graphic novel “Lucifers Sword MC: Life and Death in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club” written by Hells Angel Phil Coss. Since 2017 he was drawn weekly online comic strips for Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, beginning with 150 episodes of “The Man-Eater “, followed by 155 episodes (so far…) of “Carson of Venus. He often collaborates with his partner, writer Janet L. Hetherington. On April 2nd 2022 he was inducted into the Joe Shuster Awards Hall of Fame.

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Sandy Carruthers (he/him)

Sandy Carruthers is a Canadian artist who owns Sandstone Comics since 2018. He is best known for his past comic book work in Men in Black for Malibu Graphics, but currently publishes both his own and other Maritime creators work. His most recent work was Dark Sanctuary: a 4 part series written by D.A. Stewart, that wrapped up in 2023. Sandy lives in Prince Edward Island, Canada with his wife Holly and three cats.

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Steph Dumais (he/him)

Steph Dumais is a Montreal based illustrator. He has done work for Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics series and collaborated with authors such as Douglas Rushkoff. He is the creator of the Zombie Commandos From Hell! horror comics series, for which he has also produced a card game and music compilation soundtracks. He is the publisher at Bloody Gore Comix, specialized in international horror comix. He has recently illustrated a biography for the band Gorguts for a metal comics anthology at Éditions Sawin, a horror comic with Fangoria writer Mike Wasion called Slaughtered Kingdom and is currently working on the third issue of his cyberpunk series Renegade XL900.

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Wallace Ryan (he/him)

Wallace Ryan was born and raised in St. John’s. With his friend, Gerry Porter, they created Newfoundland’s first comic book, “Zeitgeist” in the late 70’s. Mr. Ryan went to the Ontario College of Art and ended his program at the College’s Off Campus Studio in New York City.

He returned to St. John’s where, along with Fox Lidstone, he formed Island Comics and produced the comic, “TOXIC!” in the early 90’s and eventually even owned his own comic book shop. He has taught drawing, comic books and cartooning at Memorial University and the Anna Templeton Center for over 30 years.

He is known in local comic circles as the “Godfather of Newfoundland Comics”.

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Favourite Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)

David Yu (he/him)

David Yu is a cartoonist, concept artist, and writer.
Before making his comics debut with TOTAL PARTY KILLER from Scout Comics, David began his career in children’s animation on shows like SHIMMER AND SHINE and GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE. He has also worked on mobile games such as KIM KARDASHIAN: HOLLYWOOD. Most recently, David is a concept artist for Youtooz, a toy company. He has designed collectibles for such properties as THE BOYS, SQUID GAME, MINECRAFT, and much more.
David lives in Toronto with his wife and their dog, Moomin.

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Felix Sintes (he/him)

Felix Sintes was trained at the Emile Cohl school in Lyon, France. He published his first graphic novel, “La Princesse et le Jongleur” (Mosquito editions) in 2011 and has been living and working in Montréal since 2017. His drawing style is a blend of European, American and Japanese influences, and his stories often take place in fairy tales inspired universes.

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Jeff Martin (he/him)

Jeff Martin is an award-winning cartoonist from Edmonton, Alberta. Since beginning his cartooning career in 2005 at the University of Alberta’s Gateway newspaper, he has lent his illustration and writing talents to projects for such varied clients as Simon & Schuster, Games Workshop, HeavyMetal.com, shock-rock icons GWAR, and Alberta publisher Renegade Arts Entertainment. Jeff is also one of the most prolific self-publishers in Canadian comics, having released 11 entirely self-produced graphic novels . Three of his books have been finalists for the Gene Day Award, recognizing the best self-published comics in Canada, and he was named Edmonton’s Best Graphic Novelist by Vue Magazine in 2018.

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Kate Phillips (she/they)

Kate Phillips is an illustrator and comic artist in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Her first comic, High Tide, was featured in Sequential Magazine and Pipe Dream Comics, and since then she’s been exploring digital and traditional comic making to tell fiction and non-fiction stories through a Queer, East Coast lens. Though her characters are often expressive and playful, Kate enjoys pushing at the border where silly intersects serious. She is interested in making the mundane into the uncanny, or narratives where the resolution may be left to interpretation. Kate’s most recent comic, The Usual, is inspired by her time as a barista pouring lattes and daydreaming.

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Krispy (she/her)

Kingston ON based freelance artist, Kristen Lee focuses on illustration, design, and inking. Her works surround the technical aspects of nature and machinery as she designs environmental pieces for conceptual art as well as excels in inking. Kristen has graduated from the St. Lawrence College Fine Arts program while pursuing her current career as a webcomic writer and illustrator of Ghost Junk Sickness and Lunar Blight, who she is a co-author with Laura Lee.

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Sharon “Shiro” Gauthier (they/them)

Grown organically without pesticides in Gaspé, Québec, they’ve been drawing since the tender age of 3 years and two days old and show no signs of stopping!
Lover of comics, reading AND creating, They’ve done colours and Illustrations for various Canadian comics such as Auric of the Great White North and Auroraman; they also have their own webcomics residing on Tapas, Webtoon and Global Comix (Check the linktree~!)

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Shawn Daley (he/him)

Shawn Daley is a cartoonist and chiptunist from Toronto, and has spent the last decade self-publishing comics while writing music for independent game developers. His work includes Illümon, Better Place, TerraQuill, The Bridgebuilder’s Creed, Samurai Grandpa and OGRE, and he’s contributed to TMNT, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and a number of other published titles. It’s not unusual to see him trading art for boxes of cereal at conventions.

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Ty Dunitz (he/him)

Hey, I’m Ty! Writer, illustrator and colourist for comics and games—I primarily create the webcomic Rising Sand with Jenn Lee.

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Favourite Colourist

Donovan Yaciuk (he/him)

Donovan has worked as a comic colourist and writer for over 25 years, with work published by Marvel, DC and Dark Horse comics. Donovan is a founding member of the independent collective of Canadian comic book creators known as the Canadian Comic Book Alliance. In addition to self-publishing his own series, Spacepig Hamadeus, Donovan has made colour contributions to other great independent Canadian comics, including Auric of the Great White North, Lucha Mystery, Jack Grimm: Harbinger of Death, Canadian Sentinel, The Adventures of Auroraman, Blackthorne, and Canadian Corps.

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Kate Phillips (she/they)

Kate Phillips is an illustrator and comic artist in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Her first comic, High Tide, was featured in Sequential Magazine and Pipe Dream Comics, and since then she’s been exploring digital and traditional comic making to tell fiction and non-fiction stories through a Queer, East Coast lens. Though her characters are often expressive and playful, Kate enjoys pushing at the border where silly intersects serious. She is interested in making the mundane into the uncanny, or narratives where the resolution may be left to interpretation. Kate’s most recent comic, The Usual, is inspired by her time as a barista pouring lattes and daydreaming.

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Lucas Green (he/him)

Lucas is an animator and illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. He is the co-creator of the webcomic The Constant Star, and illustrated the award-winning graphic novel King Warrior. His work in film and TV includes concept design and animation for the SyFy series Vagrant Queen and Astrid and Lilly Save the World, as well as the upcoming Tubi Original feature Slay. He also teaches animation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. When he isn’t tied down to a drawing desk, Lucas can be found wandering the foggy mountains of the Pacific Northwest with his dog, Kuiper.

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Michael Derrah (he/him)

Directors Guild of Canada award winning Storyboard & Design Artist DGC | CAA
Comic Maker at Credible Threat Press

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Shawn Daley (he/him)

Shawn Daley is a cartoonist and chiptunist from Toronto, and has spent the last decade self-publishing comics while writing music for independent game developers. His work includes Illümon, Better Place, TerraQuill, The Bridgebuilder’s Creed, Samurai Grandpa and OGRE, and he’s contributed to TMNT, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and a number of other published titles. It’s not unusual to see him trading art for boxes of cereal at conventions.

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Ty Dunitz (he/him)

Hey, I’m Ty! Writer, illustrator and colourist for comics and games—I primarily create the webcomic Rising Sand with Jenn Lee.

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Favourite Letterer

Adriano Ariganello (he/him)

Adriano Ariganello is a writer and letterer from Etobicoke, Ontario. He has been writing for over two decades, exploring various genres and formats. Through Pesto Comics, he has successfully crowdfunded campaigns including Unlimited Udo and, the Sequential Magazine Award Nominated, Stay Cool. His upcoming projects include Crazy Latte Thing Called Love on Kickstarter and Il Pescatore within The City We Chose anthology by TO Comix. When he’s not writing or reading comics, you can find him strapping on skates for hockey year-round – like any good Canadian.

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D. S. Barrick (he/him)

D. S. Barrick is a London, Ontario-based cartoonist and the creator of Murgatroyd & Nepenthe, Skulsi Thatcher, and The Day I Wrote Watermelon. Barrick also pencils and inks Lucky Unlucky (written and created by Scott MacDougall and painted by Erin Elston) and co-hosts the podcast Pair of Jokers with Scott MacDougall and David Perks.

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Lyndon Radchenka (he/him)

Lyndon Radchenka is a writer, award-winning letterer, and (sometimes, but not-right-now) lawyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. You may have read his words, seen his letters, or watched him act.
He’s written Infinite Universe, What Will Not Last, The Laundrymen, and There Was Another Life. As a comics letterer, Lyndon has put his name to too many projects to list, but you may have seen his work in The Eye Collector, alongside Jonathan Ball and G.M.B. Chomichuk. In 2020 he won the Sequential Magazine Award for “Favourite Letterer.”
In his free time, Lyndon enjoys not having free time.

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Michael McAdam (he/him)

Michael McAdam is a Canadian author, actor, comedian, voice-over artist and virally famous flight attendant who is never happy doing just one thing. He is the father of two grown children and his own inner child is much more “outer” than inner! He lives in Airdrie, Alberta with his comic book collection and arcade machine.

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Rick Joseph (he/him)

Rick Joseph is an indie comic book letterer, graphic/web designer, and hobbyist artist from Ottawa, Ontario. Over the years, he has collaborated with numerous talented indie creators and small publishers, lettering everything from children’s books to superhero stories to sci-fi/fantasy comics. He has a great love for comic art, design, typography, and is a self-proclaimed font nerd!

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Shawn Richison (he/him)

Barrie based cartoonist on DRIVE, A TRIP TO RUNDBERG, AGAINST THE WALL and most recently FISK: the S.U.B.S.T.I.T.U.T.E..

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