Canadian comic book creator news for May 24, 2025

Here’s the latest news about Canadian comic book creators for Saturday, May 24, 2025

MCAF announces 26th Bédélys Awards
A the 14th edition of the Montreal Comics Arts Festival, the 26th Bédélys Awards were announced. The awards celebration the most outstanding comic books published or distributed in Quebec in 2024. The winners include:

• Momm by Catherin (Pow Pow) won the Bédélys Québec Award.

• La bibliothèque enchantée T.1 : Le livre aspirateur by Jocelyn Boisvert and Enzo (Éditions Michel Quintin) won the Bédélys Youth Québec Award.

• Je ne suis pas un accident by Lucile Bernard won the Bédélys Independent Francophone Award.

• I, THE PEOPLE by Natacha Novem won the Bédélys Independent Anglophone Award.

• Quand la nuit tombe – Lisou by Marion Achard and Toni Galmès (Delcourt) won the Bédélys Youth Award.

• Impénétrable by Alix Garin (Le Lombard) won the Bédélys International Award.
  
  Congratulations to all. Read more at https://www.fbdm-mcaf.ca/en/univers-bd/babillard/bedelys-en/winners-of-the-26th-bedelys-awards-and-opening-of-the-14th-montreal-comic-arts-festival/

Maurice Vellekoop gets summer exhibit at RAID
In an Instagram post, Maurice Vellekoop announced that the RAID Gallery will be hosting a summer exhibition of original illustrations of the Eisner-award nominated graphic novel I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together. The exhibit will run from June 4 to August 5. Read more at https://www.instagram.com/p/DJuM35YxFpq/

Nick Klie in the spotlight with self-published comic book series
Castanet Kamloops interview comic book creator and High Octane Comics manager Nick Klie about his new self-published comic book series Life The Necropolis. In the article, Nick speaks to the third issue of his comic book series and about his artistic influences. Read more at https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloops/550251/Kamloops-comic-book-artist-credits-local-support-after-publishing-third-story

Faith Erin Hicks joins New York Public Library author series
Comic Book Club Live announced that Faith Erin Hicks will participate in the Skybound’s series of talks at the New York Public Library author series. Faith will present online and discuss her award-winning and New York Times bestselling comics including the limited series Universal Monsters: The Mummy. Read more at https://comicbookclublive.com/2025/05/20/skybound-new-york-public-library-author-series/

Cole Pauls in the spotlight in Dawson City
Yukon News wrote about Cole Pauls presenting his graphic novel work at the Dawson Community Library. The article reveals Cole’s presentation as he spoke about his background, his graphic novels and most specifically his newest book We See Stars Only at Night. Read more at https://www.yukon-news.com/arts/cole-pauls-champions-indigenous-themes-in-his-art-during-dawson-city-presentation-8005496

Kate Beaton to discuss Ducks at Toronto Comic Arts Festival
On its LinkedIn feed, Toronto Comic Arts Festival announced that Kate Beaton will participate in an interview about her award-winning graphic novel Ducks: Two years in the Oil Sands. The post indicated the discussion will occur on June 5 at 7 pm the Library Lecture Hall (LIB-72) of the Toronto Metropolitan University. Read more at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/toronto-comic-arts-festival_ducks-is-heading-to-toronto-for-one-night-activity-7330998759390097409-U9mQ/

Ryan North returns from woods with news about The Thing
On his Bluesky feed, Ryan North announced a new project with Ed McGuinness entitled The Thing vs. The Marvel Universe. Ryan wrote that the 50-page one-shot, featuring ‘serious clobbering’ will be available to readers in August. Read more here https://bsky.app/profile/ryannorth.ca/post/3lpu5jb3dgk27

Chip Zdarsky says print will save digital comics
During a video interview with Comic Industry Insiders, Chip Zdarsky spoke about the significance of print media and evolution of comics journalism (see this site for more comics journalism). Along with other industry experts, Chip spoke about the challenges facing digital comics. Watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHd5g4vo-hY

Johnnie Christmas and Swim Team win another award
On his Instagram feed, Johnnie Christmas posted that the graphic novel Swim Team is the 2024-2025 Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Award winner. in the post, Johnnie thanked the 24,000 students in grades 6 to 8 who voted Swim Team as their favourite book out of the 82,663 books in the process. Read more at https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ5KJVrSxUx/

Stuart Immonen in the spotlight for Secret Identity
DC.com posted a restrospective of Superman: Secret Identity featuring the artwork of Stuart Immonen and written by Kurt Busiek. The write up calls Stuart’s illustrations ‘the best of his career’ and something to tide you over until the new ‘Superman’ movie appears in theatres. Read more at https://www.dc.com/blog/2025/05/23/superman-secret-identity-puts-clark-kent-first

And in case you missed them, check out these interviews:

Derek Laufman chats about his latest graphic novel Crimson Fall: The Shore Tower and more

Adam de Souza chats about his graphic novel The Gulf from Tundra Books.

Melanie La Roche chats about preparing comic book creators and attendees for Montreal Comic Arts Festival 2025.