Sequential Magazine Awards Winners 2023

It’s finally time to announce the winners for our 2023 Sequential Magazine Awards sponsored by Strange Adventures Comics & Curiosities in Halifax NS, Dartmouth NS & Fredericton NB. The Sequential Magazine Awards, originating in 2017, are fan voted awards organized by Sequential Magazine to allow Canadian comic fans to show their appreciation for their favourite local indie comics and creators as…

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The 25th Bédélys Award Nominees!

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The 2024 Doug Wright Awards nominees

It’s coming up on festival season in Canada, and with that comics awards too! The DWA have announced their nominees for the 2024 Doug Wright Awards. Selected from 200 entries by Canadian authors and artists, submitted from dozens of publishers and self-published authors published in the 2023 calendar year. The short list and winners were chosen by a panel of three judges for each…

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Sequential Magazine Awards 2023 Voting and Nominees Revealed!

It’s finally time to announce the nominees for our 2023 Sequential Magazine Awards sponsored by Strange Adventures Comics & Curiosities in Halifax NS, Dartmouth NS & Fredericton NB. The Sequential Magazine Awards, originating in 2017, are fan voted awards organized by Sequential Magazine to allow Canadian comic fans to show their appreciation for their favourite local indie comics and creators as…

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Announcing Sequential Magazine Issue 15 and Bonus Best of Issues 1-10

See the covers and announcement for Sequential Magazine issue 15's special double feature!

This Canada Day we reflect on what we love about our country and I love our comic book making community. Everyone I’ve met has been so kind and amazingly talented. I started Sequential Magazine because I didn’t have a place to go learn about what books were even out there. So I made one to do my part to share all of the awesome comics being made. I couldn’t have done it without all of our…

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MCAF/FBDM 2023 Recap: Comics in the Sun

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Salgood Sam and Sequential Magazine at MCAF May 26-28

Sequential Blog founder Salgood Sam and Sequential Magazine founder Brendan Montgomery will be exhibiting at our home base of Montreal’s show the Montreal Comic Arts Festival. MCAF’s mission is to be a leading platform for the comic arts in Quebec and beyond, to broaden public knowledge of and engagement with the comic arts, and to promote cultural exchanges and interactions between creators,…

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VANCAF 2023 Information

VANCAF 2023 coming soon May 20/21 featuring Jeff Lemire, Ho Che Anderson, Cole Pauls. Details inside

May 20 – 21 from 10am – 5pm Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2W3 Celebrate the talent and creator-owned spirit in comics and graphic novel publishing at one of the largest comic book festivals in Canada! The Vancouver Comic Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre in Yaletown on May 20 and 21 will be THE place to…

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The 2023 Doug Wright Award Winners!

The 2023 Doug Wright Award Winners are....🥁🥁🥁

The full live stream from this evening’s awards, it starts 23 min into the video at the time of this post. In tandem with day two of The Toronto Comics Art Festive, The Doug Wright Awards were handed out at a live event. The show presents four awards and added a new inductee the Giant of the North Hall of Fame. The live feed of the events are imbedded here up top, but the coles notes are as…

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Sequential Magazine TCAF Preview

Sequential Magazine Issue 14 debuting at #TCAF2023 ! Get event info and tips!

This weekend on April 29/30 Sequential Magazine will be exhibiting for the first time at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival at the Toronto Reference Library. After attending as a fan for many years it’s so wonderful to be on the other side of the table for once and have something to share and contribute. I’ve moderated panels a couple years as well which is a great part of the show. The beauty of…

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Crowdfundr celebrates Independent Canadian artists with spotlight on the True North!

This follows up our post of their earlier press here: Vancouver-based platform Crowdfundr has launched its Canadian Creators crowdfunding Spotlight. The stated goal is bringing more awareness to the wealth of talent that exists within Canada’s art scene, which is kind of our thing too, for comics at least! So happy to point out their efforts. We should mention our Magazine editor and publisher…

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The C-List! : Awards Festivals and Kickstarter season is underway!

Hey folks, it’s been a while and it’s kind of crazy out there so here’s some postive mainly, can-con comics news! Lets take a whirl wind tour of what’s been going on this week. The poster for the 2023 Doug Wright Awards, by Jay Stephens! This incarnation of our venerable C-List is going to be a weekly Friday summery of things we’ve shared from Canadian creators, publishers and retailers on our…

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Prairie Comics Festival Welcomes 3 Canadian Comics Headliner Guests

Prairie Comics Festival, a non profit Winnipeg-based organization known for its annual artist market and year round educational comics programming, announced its three headliner guests for the 2023 Festival

Prairie Comics Festival, a non profitWinnipeg-based organization known for its annual artist market and yearround educational comics programming, announced its three headlinerguests for the 2023 Festival, taking place September 23 to 24 at theWest End Cultural Centre. They have also curated the finalized roster ofexhibitors, the largest contingent in the event’s history. In 2023, Prairie Comics…

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Nominees of the 19th Doug Wright Awards announced!

nominees for the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards!

Here they are—the nominees for the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards! This time around Conan Tobias tells us a record 200 entries by Canadian authors and artists were submitted from dozens of publishers and self-published authors. Creators with multiple nominations include Jonathan Dyck, Guojing, Cory Silverberg, and Fiona Smyth. Publishers of multiple nominees include Conundrum, Drawn & Quarterly,…

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Sequential Magazine Awards 2022 Winners!

Sequential Magazine Awards 2022 Winners!

The Sequential Magazine Awards, originating in 2017, are fan voted awards organized by Sequential Magazine to allow Canadian comic fans to show their appreciation for their favourite local indie comics and creators as well as discover more great Canadian made comics. While there are already other Canadian comics awards we wanted to create something different and not fully judged. In December we…

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Sequential Magazine Issue 13 Released & Print Copies Drop

New issue 13 of Sequential magazine now available plus print copies taking pre-orders for 2022 issues

Download Now! It’s time for our final issue of the year! The unlucky issue 13 features Jay Stephens and his horror comic Dwellings! It’s not an only horror themed issue but there’s also Haley Boros’ contribution to Fantastic Freights and Troy Little’s Cthulu Rick and Morty crossover. Besides that there’s still plenty of variety for all readers! Thanks to Jay for drawing this unique cover…

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Sequential Magazine Awards 2022 Nominations Now Open for Creator Self Nomination

Sequential Magazine Awards 2022 Nominations Now Open for Creator Self Nomination

Creators Submit Nomination The 2022 process for the Sequential Magazine Awards begins now! Creators can submit themselves and their work for consideration at the form linked in the button above. Then our magazine contributors will select their favourites to be our official nominees. Then in February fans will have the final vote on the nominees to determine the winners. The participation of fans…

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