This Hawkman and The Atom drawing is being auctioned off as part of a fundraiser for The Doug Wright Awards! (details below)


The Doug Wright Awards are a non-profit organization that recognize the best in Canadian comic, past and present, at an annual ceremony held in Toronto.

To help us do this we thought it would be fun to ask some of the top cartoonists in the country to draw a piece of art inspired by the theme: Classic DC Comics characters.

The art will be on display at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) on May 8 and 9. The pieces are being auctioned off on eBay right now: shop.ebay.ca/canartsales/m.html?_nkw=& _armrs=1&_f...

Contributors include: Seth (to come! He's doing Doctor Fate!) Chester Brown, Jillian Tamaki, Jeff Lemire, Joe Ollmann, Marc Bell, Matt Forsythe, Michael Cho, Diana Tamblyn, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Kate Beaton, Tom Devlin, John Martz - and Lynn Johnston, who has donated an original "For Better or For Worse" strip!

All proceeds going to The Doug Wright Awards.

SWEET TOOTH LAUNCH PARTY TONIGHT!

Tonight is the night of the Sweet Tooth Art Show and launch Party. If you're in the Toronto area, please come, it's free to attend!
(illustration courtesy of Noel Tuazon, one of the featured artist!)

Also SWEET TOOTH 9 is out today and SWEET TOOTH VOL.1 is available next Wednesday! Make sure you ask your comic shop or book store to get you a copy!




Featured TCAF guest and award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire will be
will be premiering the first book of his new monthly post-apocalyptic
sci-fi comic book series SWEET TOOTH: Out of the Dark Woods, at a
special event on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010—just days before TCAF! Lemire
will be reading/presenting from the new work, and be interviewed by
SPACE’s Mark Askwith.

In addition, the event will feature a display of over 50 pieces of
original artwork from SWEET TOOTH, including interpretations of Sweet
Tooth’s world and characters by renowned Toronto and international
cartoonists including Jeffrey Brown, Matt Kindt, Ray Fawkes, and Emi Lennox!

Following the evening event there will be an after-party and mixer for
comics fans and neophytes alike at O’Grady’s Pub, 171 College Street
(Just down the street from the Lillian H. Smith Library).

THE SWEET TOOTH DOLL!

In celebration of the release of SWEET TOOTH VOL.1 my wonderful wife Lesley-Anne Green made me this one of a kind SWEET TOOTH DOLL!!!!

SWEET TOOTH LAUNCH PARTY MAY 5!

Date: May 5, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Type: Party

Location: Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College Street
FREE TO ATTEND

Featured TCAF guest and award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire will be will be premiering the first book of his new monthly post-apocalyptic sci-fi comic book series Sweet Tooth: Out of the Dark Woods, at a special event on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010—just days before TCAF! Lemire will be reading/presenting from the new work, and be interviewed by SPACE’s Mark Askwith.
In addition, the event will feature a display of over 50 pieces of original artwork from Sweet Tooth, including interpretations of Sweet Tooth’s world and characters by renowned Toronto and international cartoonists including Jeffrey Brown, Matt Kindt, Ray Fawkes, and Noel Tuazon!

Following the evening event there will be an after-party and mixer for comics fans and neophytes alike at O’Grady’s Pub, 171 College Street (Just down the street from the Lillian H. Smith Library).

SWEET TOOTH 11 Now available for Pre-order.

SWEET TOOTH 11 is now available for pre-order from your local comic shop. It's the final part of "In Captivity" and I think my strongest issue yet. Can't wait for this one to come out!

Written by JEFF LEMIRE • Art and cover by JEFF LEMIRE

In the most intense issue yet of Vertigo's breakout hit, all of Jepperd's secrets are finally revealed, as the cold-blooded killer recounts the most horrendous time of his life and the vicious events that made him the man he is today. Shocking and brutal, this issue is not to be missed!
Vertigo 32pg. Color $2.99 US Mature Readers
On Sale July 7, 2010

HAWKMAN AND THE ATOM!

HERE IS MY CONTRIBUTION TO THIS YEAR'S FUNDRAISER FOR THE DOUG WRIGHT AWARDS. THE THEME IS DC COMICS CHARACTERS, AND IT WILL ALSO INCLUDE DRAWINGS BY SETH, CHESTER BROWN, JILLIAN TAMAKI AND OTHERS!

KEEP AN EYE ON THIS BLOG, OR THE DOUG WRIGHT BLOG FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE AUCTION WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN MAY.

BRIGHTEST DAY: THE ATOM SPECIAL #1
On sale JULY 7 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by JEFF LEMIRE • Art by MAHMUD ASRAR & WALDEN WONG • Cover by gary frank
Discover all-new allies, enemies and adventure as The Atom leaps from the pages of BRIGHTEST DAY into this one-shot special! Rising stars Jeff Lemire (SWEET TOOTH) and Mahmud Asrar (Avengers: The Initiative) update the Atom’s origin and kick off the tiny titan’s next major story, which continues this month in ADVENTURE COMICS #516 (see page 87). If you thought you knew Ray Palmer, then think again! The smallest hero in the DCU is about to become one of its biggest, and the excitement starts right here

ADVENTURE COMICS #516
On sale JULY 14 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US
Written by PAUL LEVITZ
Co-Feature written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by KEVIN SHARPE & WAYNE FAUCHER
Co-Feature art by MAHMUD ASRAR
Cover by SCOTT CLARK & DAVID BEATY
ADVENTURE COMICS returns to its historical numbering with this issue just in time for Paul Levitz to retell the Legion’s origins! Everything begins on a somber note reflecting on the past with “The Last Will and Testament of R.J. Brande”!
Also, this issue begins an all-new co-feature starring The Atom, which continues the story begun in this month’s BRIGHTEST DAY: THE ATOM SPECIAL #1 as Jeff Lemire (SWEET TOOTH) launches Ray Palmer into an exciting new adventure smack-dab in the middle of the DCU.