To celebrate the first publication of Joe Shuster's groundbreaking co-creation, Superman, we thought it would be appropriate for us to organize an exhibit of artwork by Canadian comic book artists to salute this historic anniversary. With this in mind, we're contacting over a hundred different and diverse creators all across Canada and the world with a request for their individual take on this renowned character to be shown in our Visions of an Icon art exhibit on June 14th (which we hope to follow up with a publication of these works and a longer exhibition of the works at another venue --- both of which are in the planning and negotiations stage now).

We've tried to keep the artwork specs quite basic to maintain a consistency of picture size for the exhibit so what we're looking for is an image on a page of standard comic art paper (11" X 17" --- either one of those preprinted pages or 2 ply paper cut to that size) with a central 10" X 15" illo of Superman in pencil, ink or in colour -- your choice. The sky's the limit as to how an artist may decide to approach this artwork but as this is a tribute to Canadian-born co-creator Joe Shuster and to the 70th anniversary of this celebrated character our only request is that the illustration be in the spirit of that sentiment.

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