Shusters Update

Congratulations...Dave Sim!
Just a quick note to update you on the result of your voting for Drawing The line in the Shuster Awards: Dave Sim, who is also in our book, received the "Outstanding Canadian Achievement" Shuster Award for 25 years of work on one comic book - "Cerebus"!

We were chatting to Dave about his well-deserved award and he said that he went through a range of emotions from "I hope I get it" to "My friends Chet and Suley deserve it, too!". Funnily enough, in the car driving up to Julie's show in Brampton, Julie and I said almost the same thing!! All the nominees had such strong and varied reasons for being included in this category. It was such a huge surprise to have been nominated with such an illustrious group; especially since never, ever did it occur to me that this project would be up for any award. We got nominated because it touched and inspired people, even those who don't read comics. The project is like one of those quilts that interweaves and engenders such inspiration and gives hope. Our quilt is just made from paper and ink instead of cloth.

What I realised this weekend, was how amazing this whole project was in my life! It was a birthday gift that started it all. In turn that became the cover to my 'quilt' and thanks to Moebius' back cover dealing with those 'little presents maintaining the balance in life', a perpituity was born. [Literally a moebius strip!]

For me those little presents are there every time someone is touched and 'lit up' by the project and every time someone feels able enough to divulge a little personal story about a 'brush' with cancer. I love those stories and I thank the lucky stars that I'm deemed worthy to hear them. Thanks so much for sharing. It is an honour and a privilege.

Please pass our appreciation and thanks on to your friends and family who supported us and voted for us, because without them we couldn't have got this far.

A very special thank you must also be made at this time to Peter, Irene, Kevin and Doug from Paradise Comics for being so generous and without whom we would never have got here.

Well, now we're looking forward to selling out of this edition and creating A NEW BOOK! Many new artists have shown interest these last few days. I hope we can make it as great as the first.

Cheers and all the best,
Suley