"Tower of Treasure" Wins Shuster Award

The 7th Annual Joe Shuster Awards, which recognize Canadian comic book creators, were held this past Saturday in Calgary. And I'm happy to report that Tower of Treasure was the recipient of the award for Best Comic for Kids.

As you may recall, I was competing against myself (among others), with Two Generals being nominated in the same category (which raised some eyebrows, given its content). Between the two, I'm glad the winner was the one that's an actual kids' book. Tower of Treasure has also had to live in the shadow of the well-publicized Two Generals since the latter was released, so the award was a nice accolade for a book that I'm as proud of as any of my others, but that doesn't always get as much attention.

Thank you again to the organizers and jury of the Joe Shuster Awards for this honour, and congratulations to the other winners. I can finally take the word "nominee" out of my bio and add the word "winner"!