Captain Canuck Art Contest!

Captain Canuck Art Contest!

Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Canadian comic book hero Captain Canuck and win prizes that total up to $500.00. Make the jump to see how to enter.

Scoop
By CBMcontributor - Jul 15, 2010 06:07 AM EST
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Source: Contest Page

Hello!

I was told by a friend you regularly run art contests (or let people know about them) and I was really hoping I could get your support for this important cause.

Captain Canuck, Canada's iconic superhero, is celebrating his 35th year in comics! This marks an enormous achievement in comic history, and creator Richard Comely and artists George Freeman and Jean-Claude Aubin were recently presented with the Joe Shuster HALL OF FAME Award for their work in Canadian Comics.

I am celebrating this by running a Captain Canuck art contest over on the deviantART website! There are over $500 in cash and prizes to be won for all entries received before the deadline.

The end result of this contest is hopefully an art book dedicated and honoring Captain Canuck and his 35th Anniversary. Richard Comely (the creator) is a good friend of mine, and his family are well aware and approve my attempts to do so in his honor.

To date, I have received over 40 entries from all across the globe! Entries not only from Canada, but from the US, Mexico, Chile, Indonesia, Ireland, United Kingdom, the Philippines, and many more!

I am hoping you'd be willing to write a little article about Captain Canuck and direct people to my page in order to make this event a success.

Check out my page, read my journals, and let me know! I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you for your time! Any more details you may need I would be happy to provide.

Chris Chettle
chettle@retrorocketcomics.com
Owner of Retro Rocket Comics and Toys


Links
* * * * *

My deviantART space:
http://theambushbug.deviantart.com

Original contest journal:
http://theambushbug.deviantart.com/journal/32282681/

Contest Entries:
http://theambushbug.deviantart.com/gallery/#Captain-Canuck-ART-CONTEST-ENTRIES

About The Author:
CBMcontributor
Member Since 12/2/2008
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Shaman
Shaman - 7/15/2010, 7:09 AM
Normally i'm not a contest hog but being Canadian, I might just get in on that ;)
ThunderCougarFalconBird
ThunderCougarFalconBird - 7/15/2010, 7:40 AM
Don't hate me but I know sweet F.A. about this guy! But I have been hoping for another reason to see if there's still any lead* in the old pencil.

*pencils never actually had lead in them.
Shaman
Shaman - 7/15/2010, 8:37 AM
Even Canadians such as myself know sweet F.A. about this guy. Other than knowing that he has comics about himself, i've never read them. So i'll be wikiwikiwa-ing this dude ;)
valeriesghost
valeriesghost - 7/15/2010, 9:07 AM
i'm with you two, i know zip about this character, but that could also free us up to be more creative with him. Good luck guys
Pyche
Pyche - 7/15/2010, 9:13 AM
Sweet.

I met the brothers who worked on the recent 5 issue reboot of him when i was in college. I'll give this a go!
InstigatorGIRL
InstigatorGIRL - 7/15/2010, 9:33 AM
LOL. I wanna try my hand at a fanart contest I use to draw pretty good for my digital animation class in High School. Not as good as Shaman or the others on here but not bad. Maybe I'll give it a go.
ThunderCougarFalconBird
ThunderCougarFalconBird - 7/15/2010, 9:39 AM
valeriesghost - A group of people taking an iconic, established character they personally know nothing about and taking creative liberties for nothing but personal gain, no doubt ending in a product insulting to the original and all who know him? We could call ourselves FOX!
Shaman
Shaman - 7/15/2010, 9:56 AM
Ron- ROFLMAO!!!! Touché ;)

Igirl- You should definitely give it a shot! Fanart contests are fun even if we don't win :))
DDD
DDD - 7/15/2010, 10:13 AM
Well, I used to have some issues of Captain Canuck
but in all my moving about I can't figure out where
the hell they went!

Ima gonna have to do that wikiwakiwookiethingi that
Shaman was talkin' about! lol

I live here north of Seattle near the Canadian
border and in one of my excursions to B.C., Canada,
when I was way younger, I spied this comic
in a convenience store. Then I was hooked. But I
can't remember details about the Cap! Damm fading
memory! Drat!

Ron@ I would never call myself "FOX" even if that was
my name! I'd be too ashamed to show my face!
DAMM THEIR FUXED-UP HIDES!!!


Shaman
Shaman - 7/15/2010, 10:34 AM
Well guys, the wikiwakiwookiethingamajiggy didn't give much info. Through all the little runs he's had, there's been three different guys to be him. And only the first one had super strength given by aliens.

I think i'm a put one of my "spins" on it. Might post it up here when i'm done ;)
HelaGood
HelaGood - 7/15/2010, 10:37 AM
here's my submission...

Shaman
Shaman - 7/15/2010, 11:00 AM
Hela- AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!! Oh snap! Now i'm hungry for some Kraft Dinnah!!! Let's look for treasah :P
HelaGood
HelaGood - 7/15/2010, 11:09 AM
@Shaman i fahted!!!
ThunderCougarFalconBird
ThunderCougarFalconBird - 7/15/2010, 11:21 AM
HelaGood - shut your [frick]ing face uncle [frick]er!
valeriesghost
valeriesghost - 7/15/2010, 11:42 AM
@Ron hahaha

and wiki doesn't even list this cats powers, lame.
DDD
DDD - 7/15/2010, 12:03 PM
Dangnabbit Shaman@ I was hoping Wiki would have
everything I need......NOT!!!!
Crap! Now Ima gonna have to go search for Cap'n
Canuk info! Damm Wikiwaki!

I know what I'm gonna do! I'm gonna hunt for Leee@'s
fancast of Captain Canuk! Damm, he had a lot of info
on there!
Shaman
Shaman - 7/15/2010, 12:07 PM
HelaGood- Actually, that looked like it was the Governator talking LOL :P

KidZombie- Yeah, his name is oceans away from epicness.

DDD- He probably took it all from wikiwaki.
HelaGood
HelaGood - 7/15/2010, 12:18 PM
@Shaman LOL very true!

@KidZombie "Get ready for some chocolate pain, bitch."
ThunderCougarFalconBird
ThunderCougarFalconBird - 7/15/2010, 12:35 PM
This guy isn't even listed on the marvel universe web page! Lame!
Eviltwin
Eviltwin - 7/15/2010, 12:49 PM
@ Hela. That's awesome, hahahaha. Love it.

Being Canadian, I feel kinda bad I don't know much about this character. I have seen it around though.
I know more of Guardian than anything.

HelaGood
HelaGood - 7/15/2010, 12:50 PM
@Ron thats because they dont list uncle [frick]ers on that page.
HelaGood
HelaGood - 7/15/2010, 12:53 PM
@Eviltwin me too... i love alpha flight!
Eviltwin
Eviltwin - 7/15/2010, 1:00 PM
@Hela
Oh ya! The original John Byrne run on AF was great. I think it got too messed with during the 90's though. Is there even a version of AF anymore?
HelaGood
HelaGood - 7/15/2010, 2:14 PM
@Eviltwin not sure... they lost me as well in the 90's...

AF would make a cool movie though...
TheAmbushBug
TheAmbushBug - 7/15/2010, 2:23 PM
Hey everyone!

This is Chris Chettle here, the guy behind the 35th ANNIVERSARY of CAPTAIN CANUCK CONTEST over on deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com) I figured I'd answer some questions that appear to be arising.

You can find more about CAPTAIN CANUCK at the following locations:

The OFFICIAL website:
http://www.captaincanuck.com

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS about Captain Canuck:
http://theambushbug.deviantart.com/journal/33238466/

The CONTEST INFORMATION page on DeviantART
http://theambushbug.deviantart.com/journal/32282681/

THE REFERENCE GALLERY on DeviantART
http://http://theambushbug.deviantart.com/gallery/#Captain-Canuck-References

Please take the time to check out the references above and if you have any questions PLEASE post them here or send me a note on DeviantART


For the record, you won't find any info about CAPTAIN CANUCK on the Marvel Pages because he isn't owned by Marvel Comics.

In fact, Marvel long ago tried to purchase Captain Canuck from Richard Comely, and when he said no, they turned around and had John Byrne and Chris Clairemont create GUARDIAN to lead their new Canadian supergroup ALPHA FLIGHT instead.

As well, I appreciate entries being left here, but I can only consider entries for members of DeviantART.com, so please take the time to register there if you haven't already.

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JayTopStix
JayTopStix - 7/15/2010, 3:25 PM
Captain Canuck LMAO
Eviltwin
Eviltwin - 7/15/2010, 3:36 PM
@Hela

I think AF would make a good movie too, not so sure American audiences would think so. The CBM comunity would be up for it I'm sure.
valeriesghost
valeriesghost - 7/15/2010, 4:58 PM
why did i think this article asked us to redisgn Captain Canuck? thats the only reason i drew that. oh well.
jallanr
jallanr - 7/15/2010, 5:37 PM
i am totally doin this!!!!!

woo hoo!
ghostpudding
ghostpudding - 7/15/2010, 6:50 PM
starting my pencils already
ROMACK
ROMACK - 7/16/2010, 2:28 PM
I'm a terrible artist so I won't defile Canadas 2nd greatest hero. Guardian is THE MAN!
TheAmbushBug
TheAmbushBug - 7/26/2010, 3:26 PM
Hopefully we will see some more entries... We've already got 62 so far, but I'd like to see at least 100 before the contest closes!
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