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Fabler Blog Update for the week of February 16th

Hey Fabler friends, guess what’s on the menu for this post?

If you guessed an entree of more savoury Formspring goodness, pat yourself on the back, grab some utensils, and pull up a chair.

Oh, but I kid. Please, contain your raucous laughter so we can move on to topics of substance. So this week I thought we’d take a look at some of the content our fabulous users have updated to The Fabler. If the term fabulous is too effeminate or grandiose for some, you could substitute ‘creatively talented but rough around the edges’. Sort of like Jeff Bridges.

Commenting on the 2011 Joe Shuster Award Nominees

The Joe Shuster Awards are presented annually to talented comic artists and writers from the Northern Wastes we affectionately refer to as ‘Canada’. Named after some artist guy who co-created a superhero or something, they celebrate outstanding achievements by Canadians in the fields of comic books, graphic novels, and webcomics. As of yesterday, the official nominees for the 2011 Shuster Awards have been published online at the Joe Shuster Awards home page. Take a gander for yourself if you’d like, but I’ll break it down for you anyway.

Profiling Evan Munday of Quarter-Life Crisis

In a world… where only the 25 year olds have survived… Two men… unite against warring gangs to set things right. This is the premise behind Evan Munday’s self-published graphic novel, Quarter-Life Crisis (only without the cheese, and with good art). I chatted with him about his plans to turn QLC into an ongoing series, and we also happened to discuss an ongoing illustrative project he’s working on featuring super-villain erotica. That’s super-villain as in Dr. Doom & the Joker, not your standard Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn fare.

Profiling Jesse Jacobs of Blue Winter, Shapes in the Snow and One Million Mouths

The Fabler Blog talks to Jesse Jacobs, recent winner of the Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing for his minicomic, Blue Winter, Shapes in the Snow.

An independent self-publisher in the truest sense of the term, Jesse has also gained some recognition for his comic strip One Million Mouths, which up until a few mouths ago was a recurring feature in Halifax newspaper the Coast.

Jesse talks about winning the award, drawing Richie Rich as a kid, and shares some details about his latest as-of-yet-unnamed minicomic.