Coming in Only Two Weeks: Major North #1

Well, that was fast! Or it felt like it from a fan's perspective, anyway!

Major North was first mentioned here in mid-January as a result of stumbling into a sketch of the character on my Twitter timeline, as shared by Sam Noir. Noir explained at the time that North was his (and artist Christopher Yao's) contribution to the second volume of Toronto Comics, which was released in May.

Turned out that there was more in the works involving this character than was immediately obvious. Roughly a month after Toronto Comics's release, the Major gets a solo book.

June 20th: Major North #0... debuting tomorrow at Kids Read Comics in Ann Arbor, Michigan! In two weeks it will make it's Canadian debut at Montreal Comic Con. That is some awesome cover by Christopher Yao.

Indeed! For updates on Major North, float on over to the character's Facebook page.

Coming in Epic Canadiana, V2: Sgt. Sawchuck And The Red Surge!

The information below was shared by Nelson da Rocha on the Canadian Superheroes Facebook group on the weekend and, with permission, I am quite pleased to share it here too!

Here are a couple of pages for a CANADIANA Vol. 2. story I wrote about a loveable fascist Mountie and his boss/sidekick.  

The story is called SGT. SAWCHUCK and the RED SURGE. Story by me, pencils by Alex Greychuck (fantastic artist whose work can be seen in Toronto Comics Vol. 1 & 2), and inks and lettering by Stephany Lein who did art for my first story in Toronto Comics Vol. 1 and does the art for Daniel Reynolds' story, Redevelopment and Reunion for Volume 2 out in May this year.

All right, so let's break that down a bit...

The mention of Canadiana is in reference to the Cloudscape Comics anthology. I loved the first book and was pretty happy to come across a preview of the second.

Alex Greychuck's work can be found here. While going over his portfolio I was pleasantly surprised to come across the pinup of 8-Ball from Heroes of The North copied below, but there's plenty more to see so float on over and have a look.

There are a number of superhero stories in the second volume of Toronto Comics Anthology, and we'll have a closer look at those as we get near the book's release date.  But in the meantime here's a page from the Major North story (Sam Noir and Christopher Yao) included therein. A Major North sketch page was displayed here in late January. That image is followed by a pin up of Sgt. Sawchuck.

Many thanks to Nelson for providing/clarifying the information and material.

Coming Soon: Major North

The sketch below was shared by Sam Noir on Twitter on January 13th.

The art is by Christopher Yao. Some of Christopher's work was posted here before; he's been involved with the designs for several Heroes of The North characters, such as Yellow Knife below, for an example.

So what's the story here? I contacted Sam to ask for permission to post the sketch. He was kind enough to respond quickly (and in the affirmative, obviously) but also to make me aware that the character will soon be included in the second volume of Toronto Comics Anthology.

As you can see from the Toronto Comics Anthology website, the first volume was released last year and is available in both print and digital format. The second will be released, appropriately enough, at the Toronto Comics Art Festival on May 9th and 10th.

As for Major North's story? This is the teaser:

Toronto has been transformed into a fascist state... six strangers are imprisoned. Only one is a superhero.

Right on. Let's see what Major North brings to the table.