20 Facts About Canadian comics

Canadian comics refers to comics and cartooning by citizens of Canada or permanent residents of Canada regardless of residence.

Canada has two official languages, and distinct comics cultures have developed in English and French Canada.

Canadian comics run the gamut of comics forms, including editorial cartooning, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, and webcomics, and are published in newspapers, magazines, books, and online.

Canadian comics had telepathic powers and was able to ride the Northern Lights at the speed of light, turn invisible, and melt metal.

New Canadian comics were successful; Bell reached accumulated weekly sales of 100,000 by 1943.

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In November 1948, a crime Canadian comics scare hit the country when a pair of voracious comic book readers in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, shot at a random car while playing highwaymen, fatally wounding a passenger.

Some of Superior's titles found themselves in Fredric Wertham's notorious and influential diatribe on the influence Canadian comics had on juvenile delinquency, Seduction of the Innocent, published in 1954.

Prosecutions increased throughout Canada, with Superior successfully defending themselves in one, and another supposedly Canadian comics-related murder was reported in Westville, Nova Scotia.

Canadian comics would continue with the strip until 1968, while working on his own Nipper from 1949.

The new breed of underground, alternative and independent Canadian comics was aimed at a more mature audience, which ran counter to the public's perception, as well as to legal restrictions.

Canadian comics eventually left to co-found the creator-owned comics publishing collective Image Comics, where he debuted the enormously successful Spawn.

The publisher has earned a reputation for the special attention they put into book design, and has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian comics' rise in artistic prominence, and in getting Canadian comics into mainstream book stores in both Canada and the US.

Quebec Canadian comics have alternately flourished and languished, seeing several brief periods of intense activity followed by long periods of inundation with foreign content.

Editorial cartoonists are common; the Association of Canadian comics Editorial Cartoonists is a professional association founded in 1988 to promote their interests.

The small press has played an important role; self-publishing is a common means of putting out Canadian comics, largely influenced by the success of Dave Sim's Cerebus.

MiniCanadian comics is another form that has remained popular since the 1980s, when Chester Brown and Julie Doucet got started by distributing self-published photocopied Canadian comics.

The miniCanadian comics scene has been spurred on by Broken Pencil, a magazine dedicated to promoting the zines.

Since 2005 the Joe Shuster Awards have been handed out by the Canadian comics Comic Book Creator Awards Association, named after the Toronto-born co-creator of Superman.

Awards are given for Best Book, Best Emerging Talent, and since 2008 the Pigskin Peters Award for non-narrative Canadian comics; Pigskin Peters was a character in Jimmy Frise's Birdseye Center.

In French, Michel Viau wrote a book on francophone Canadian comics called BDQ: Repertoire des publications de bandes dessinees au Quebec des origines a nos jours.