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2004 Shuster Awards Nominees and Winners
(Winners in bold and marked with *)
Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist
- Darwyn Cooke, for DC: The New Frontier (DC Comics) *
- Kagan McLeod, for Infinite Kung Fu (Great Lakes Ninja Brotherhood)
- Bryan Lee O'Malley, for Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Oni Press)
- Seth, for Palooka-Ville #17 (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Dave Sim, for Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer
- Sara "Samm" Barnes, for Doctor Spectrum (Marvel MAX) * (tie)
- Ian Boothby, for Simpsons Comics (Bongo)
- Darwyn Cooke, for "Date Knight" from Solo #1 (DC Comics)
- Ty Templeton, for Batman Adventures (DC Comics) * (tie)
- J. Torres, for Love As A Foreign Language (Oni Press)
- J. Torres, for Teen Titans Go! (DC Comics)
Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Artist
- Kaare Andrews, for Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One (Marvel) *
- David Finch, for Avengers #500-503/New Avengers #1 (Marvel)
- Tom Grummett, for Teen Titans #7-9, 13-15 (DC Comics)
- Pia Guerra, for Y, The Last Man (DC/Vertigo)
- Stuart Immonen, for Superman: Secret Identity (DC Comics)
- Cary Nord, for Conan (Dark Horse)
Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Publisher
- Aardvark-Vanaheim (publisher of Cerebus)
- Arcana Studio (publisher of Kade, Ezra, Ant & More!) *
- Drawn & Quarterly (publisher of Louis Riel, Palooka-Ville, Dogs and Water, Way to Go and More!)
- Dreamwave (publisher of Transformers comics, Devil May Cry)
- I Box Publishing (publisher of Thieves & Kings)
Outstanding Canadian Achievement
- Chester Brown (author of Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography), for
bringing attention to Canadian history, as well as for raising
cultural awareness of the graphic novel.
- Suley Fattah, for the Drawing The Line anthology of strips by
numberous comic creators, which has raised over $10,000 for cancer
research at the Princess Margaret Hospital and the Hospital for Sick
Children.
- Little Sisters Book Store, in Vancouver, for fighting against censorship in the form of Canadian Customs' prohibiting the importation of adult materials, including adult comic books.
- Dave Sim & 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. *
- Word on the Street festivals, for using their event programming,
particularly in Vancouver and Toronto, to help raise awareness of
graphic novels by Canadian creators.
Outstanding Canadian Achievement
- Harry Kremer, proprietor of Now and Then Books
Hall of Fame
- Joe Shuster *
- Les Barker (a.k.a. Leo Bachle) *
- Adrian Dingle *
- Hal Foster *
- Ed Furness *
- Rand Holmes *
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