Awards

The Indie Game Awards rescinded Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Game of the Year and Debut Game honors for releasing with gen AI assets.

In this edition - Posy Simmonds receives a French honour, Milo Manara gets an honorary degree, Red Harvest gets shortlisted for the 2026 Kobzar Book Award, and - despite no Angoulême on the horizon - award season is still in effect in France as several comics awards dropped their winners and finalists.

French critics assocation ACBD has picked Romain Bertrand and Jean Dytar's Les Sentiers d’Anahuac [tr. ‘The Paths of Anahuac’] as the recipient of its highest annual award, the Grand Prix de la Critique 2026

The Prix France Info has announced its ten finalists. Running since 1994, the award is a fascinating glimpse at documentary, non-fiction, and news-based fiction comics produced in France

French graphic novelist and auteur Christophe Chabouté has been awarded the 2025 Landernau Prize for his latest book

In France, the Association of French Comics Critics and Journalists (ACBD) announced wordless 3D graphic novel Jean Jambe et le mystère des profondeurs, by Matthias Picard, the winner of their annual Prix Jeunesse kids prize. The ACBD also narrowed down its contenders for their signature award, the Grand Prix de la Crtitique

Designed give a career boost to animation writers, as well as help get more autistic characters in kids pop culture

The 2025 Ringo Awards were presented this weekend, with The Pedestrian taking home two.

One of the recipients of the prestigious Persons of Cultural Merit award for her contribution to manga is Keiko Takemiya.

Masako Nozawa, best known as Goku in "Dragon Ball," is the first voice actor to receive Japan's Persons of Cultural Merit recognition.

In this Award Roundup we go through the LICAFs before checking out the happenings further afield

Mutts creator, cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, was inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame at New York Comic Con 2025.