Finalists announced for 8th Annual DWAYNE McDUFFIE AWARD FOR DIVERSITY IN COMICS
The winner will be announced in a virtual ceremony next week
Eisner Awards Hall of Fame evolves with separate event and judging panel in 2024
Following a successful experiment in 2023, the Eisner Awards will officially become two ceremonies in 2024 as the Hall of Fame spins off with its own dedicated judging panel.
Legendary voice director Andrea Romano inducted into Children’s & Family Emmys’ inaugural Silver Circle
Eight-time Emmy Award winner Andrea Romano further cemented her reputation as the greatest voiceover director in animation!
Alexander Taylor’s coming-of-age queer thriller BONE BROTH named winner of the 2023 First Graphic...
Alexander Taylor's coming-of-age queer thriller 'Bone Broth' was named the 2023 winner of the First Graphic Novel Award at a December 11 ceremony in London's Piccadilly Waterstones bookstore. It will see publication sometime around 2025
THE SKY’S THE LIMIT snaps up French Critics Grand Prize 2024
Antonio Altarriba and Sergio García Sánchez’ graphic novel 'Le ciel dans la tête' [tr. ‘The Sky’s The Limit’] was announced the winner of the ACBD Grand Critics Prize 2024 this week
James Gunn named PETA’S Person of the Year
"There are the hands that made us, and then there are the hands that guide their hands."
MADEMOISELLE SOPHIE takes home ACBD Critics’ Kids Prize 2023
Vincent Zabus and Hippolyte’s graphic novel 'Mademoiselle Sophie' has been chosen by French-language critics association ACBD for its Critics Kids Prize
A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING becomes second graphic novel to win National Book Award
Dan Santat’s 'A First Time for Everything' has received a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, becoming only the second graphic novel to win an NBA
Angoulême Official Selection 2024 Announced
The Angoulême Official Selection 2024 is here at last! The Beat parses through all 84 books to check what has an English-language edition/translation available so you don't have to
The Goodreads Choice Awards eliminate comics category
Amazon's reader selected Goodreads Choices Award have eliminated the Children’s & Middle Grade, Poetry, and Graphic Novel categories
ACBD Critic’s Prize 2024 longlists French editions of DUCKS and THE NICE HOUSE ON...
Translations of 'Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands' and 'Nice House on the Lake' in the 15-work longlist of French Comics Critics Association's highest award
Anna Readman’s DANCING QUEEN wins Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize 2023
By unanimous decision, Anna Readman’s 'Dancing Queen' has been named the 2023 winner of Comica, Faber and The Observer newspaper’s annual Graphic Short Story Prize.
