Awards

The 2023 Doug Wright Awards winners were announced on Saturday night at TCAF.

The 2023 Glyph Comic Awards have been announced. Replete with publishers big and small, near and far sharing categories that celebrate work for and about people of color

Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Wash Day Diaries (Chronicle Books) and Alex Segura’s comics industry-inspired novel Secret Identity (Flatiron Books) won best Graphic Novel/Comics and best Mystery/Thriller categories at the 2023 LA Times Book Awards

Announcing the winners of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize in both the "Print Comics" and "Webcomics" categories.

Inductees include 11 deceased comics pioneers and 4 living creators

Over the weekend March 31 to April 2, the winners of the 2023 Comic Barcelona Awards were declared at the festival's 41st annual gathering

Last autumn, London’s Barbican Theatre hosted a sell-out run of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro; last weekend the production won six Olivier Awards. All shortly after announcing that it will return for a limited run in autumn 2023.

Every MoCCA, exhibitors have a chance to receive an Award of Excellence. Here is the list of recipients of the 2023 MoCCA Award of Excellence. 

Kate Beaton's widely acclaimed graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands emerged as the winner of radio competition Canada Reads 2023 today. 

Cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson (No One Else) is part of the 2023 cohort to receive the Whiting Award, possibly the first cartoonist to do so.

Other recipients of Hay Medals this year include poet Mererid Hopwood, author Salman Rushdie, and writer/musician Serhiy Zhadan.

With this year's awards, the "Graphic Literature" category has been renamed “Graphic Novels and Comics” and split into two linguistic categories (English and Filipino).