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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 *