During the month of September, Brad Meltzer's Siegel and Shuster Society will be auctioning items to raise money in order to repair and refurbish the childhood home of Jerry Siegel.

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6/15/2008 - Winners of the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards were announced at a public ceremony on June 14th in Toronto with Master of Ceremonies Rick Green (Prisoners of Gravity, The Frantics). The awards were the final event at the Sequential Art Symposium held in the auditorium of the Toronto Public Library’s Lillian H. Smith branch on College Street.

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Toronto, Canada --- April 10, 2008. Canada's first national award recognizing outstanding achievements by Canadian creators in the creation and publication of comic books and graphic novels returns in 2008 for it’s fourth year: the JOE SHUSTER CANADIAN COMIC BOOK CREATOR AWARDS, named after pioneering Toronto-born artist Joe Shuster who, along with writer Jerry Siegel, created the iconic super-powered hero, Superman.

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The judge in the recent Superman court ruling has ordered all parties to attempt to negotiate a settlement:

Accordingly, the Court hereby ORDERS the parties to devote the next sixty (60) days to engaging in a good faith effort to settle their dispute in the Superman and Superboy litigation before the JAMS Mediator. At the conclusion of this period, on June 1, 2008, the parties are to file a joint report, outlining the efforts that they have taken in furtherance of settlement and the results of those efforts.

Jeff Trexler at Newsarama has boiled down the settlement issues for all us non lawyers:

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According to the New York Times, the heirs of Jerome Siegel have been awarded a share of the U.S. copyright to Superman by a federal judge.

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