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LEGENDS OF BROK: HOPE NICHOLSON BRINGS BACK BROK WINDSOR, CANADA’S GOLDEN AGE HUNK HERO [INTERVIEW]

Canada offers an impressive range of comics talents, but its comic industry has usually been overshadowed by the buying power of the U.S. market — but for one brief period in modern history. During the Second World War Canada restricted the import of non-essential items — and that included comic books. For much of the 1940s, Canadians could only read Canadian comics. The era has become known as the Canadian Golden Age.

Hope Nicholson was a researcher on a documentary about the characters created during this era, Lost Heroes. Fascinated by the subject, Nicholson and her partner Rachel Richey launched a project to restore and republish the stories of one of the first comic superheroines, Adrian Dingle’s Nelvana of the Northern Lights. With that book now in print, Nicholson has launched a Kickstarter to revive another lost Canadian hero; the square-jawed action man Brok Windsor.

The creation of writer and artist Jon Stables, Brok is a dashing figure in a quirky bare-shouldered leotard, who stumbles on a lost world and fights giant rats and horned lions with the help of his cliche native sidekick Torgon and his gal pal Starra. Brok’s adventures were serialized in Better Comics, published by Maple Leaf Publishing out of Vancouver between 1944 and 1946.

Nicholson is raising money for a Brok Windsor reprint through Kickstarter, with PDFs of the book available at the $10 donation level and print copies available for donations of $30 or more (plus shipping for those outside of Canada). Other rewards include the original art for Brok Windsor pin-ups by artists including Scott Chantler, Carla Speed McNeil, Yanick Paquette, Megan Kearney, Leonard Kirk, J. Bone, and Ray Fawkes — or print versions of these pin-ups.

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