#CanadianComic Resurgence

http://thesheridansun.ca/canadian-superheroes-return/

 Canada is seeing a resurgence of superheroes both old and new. With the help of Kickstarter, comic books like True Patriot, which is a anthology of new Canadian superheroes, and Nelvana, from 1940 comic books, are coming back to life. Kickstarter is website where people put their projects like films or inventions and ask people to help fund their idea. It is interesting to see people pay to help create new ideas or pay to bring back parts of Canadian culture. For another Canadian superhero regaining popularity. watch the Captain Canuck web series.



The #CanadianComics Golden Age

http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/remembering-lost-heroes

The Canadian Golden Age of Comics, as it is now known, came about thanks to government intervention. In December 1940, the feds, responding to a trade deficit with the U.S., introduced the War Exchange Conservation Act, restricting imports of non-essential goods, including fiction magazines and comics, which had become ubiquitous after the 1938 introduction of Superman, drawn by Toronto-born Joe Shuster, and Batman the following year. 

 hello Canada Jack, Commander Steel, Johnny Canuck and Nelvana of the Northern Lights! These characters thrived for a few years, but after the war ended, the borders reopened to the likes of DC and Timely, as Marvel was then known. This and the waning popularity of superheroes led to our national defenders hanging up their costumes, largely to be relegated to the dustbin of history. 

They're Reprinting #Nelvana !!!

They are reprinting the original Nelvana Comic from 1940!! This excerpt was taken from the Nelvana FB page

We will be reprinting the original 1940s Nelvana of the Northern Lights comic books, aka Canada's first super-heroine (and one of the world's first!)
Next month, we will begin crowd funding to raise funds to capture, restore, print, and distribute the comics.