RECAP: Game Awards 2017
After a long evening packed with debuts, awards, and surprises, there's plenty to recap from the Game Awards. The evening began with the ceremony's...
2018 Angoulême Festival Official Selection prize nominees announced
The 2018 Angoulême comics festival will be held January 25-28 next year, and today the official selections for the big prize were announced. The...
NO SPANDEX SATURDAY: It’s Time to Cast Your Vote in This Year’s Game Awards
Let's look at the top categories in 2017's The Game Awards and pick a few winners.
PW kicks off Best Books season with five picks
As is tradition, Publishers Weekly has kicked off the end-of-year Best Books lists (which I contributed to as the PW Graphic Novels Review Editor)....
NYCC ’17: Darwyn Cooke and Hiro Mashima to be feted at Harvey Awards reception
As we've mentioned here a few times, the Harvey Awards are on hold this year while they transition from being held at Baltmore Comic-Con...
A Year of Free Comics: Pop music, race and Ignatz Promising New Talent Bianca...
This year's Most Promising New Talent - at least as far as the Ignatz Awards are concerned - is Bianca Xunise, a Chicago-based cartoonist...
McDuffie Award add judges de Guzman, Igle and Kendall – submissions open
The 2018 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics are now OPEN, and the selection panel has added three people: Jennifer de Guzman, Jamal Igle and...
2017 Joe Shuster Award winners include Lemire, Cho, and Paquette
The annual Joe Shuster Award winners, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were announced over the weekend, in conjunction with Fan Expo Canada I'm...
2017 Ignatz Nominations include a new category; three noms for Ferris
The 2017 Ignatz Award nominations have just been announced, and this years honorees are a solid mix of mainstream (March Book 3), indie (My Favorite Thing is Monsters) and micro-press/self-published (Carolyn Nowak, Sabin Cauldron). I draw no wider implications from the list except that comics 2017 artistically speaking are strong. Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters - kind of the To Kill a Mockingbird of comics at this point - lead with three noms including Outstanding Artist, GN and Story.
Jeff Smith Wins 2017 Sparky Award
Every year, Cartoon Art Museum gives out the Sparky Award to a cartoon artist who embodies the talent, innovation and humanity of Charles M. Schulz....
The 2017 Hugo Awards: No Dogs Allowed.
Before we get into it… Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda, was awarded the 2017 Hugo Award for Best...
Harvey Awards on hold until 2018 but there’ll be a reception at NYCC
Last October it was officially announced that The Harvey Awards would be leaving Baltimore Comic Con. While their future home was never confirmed, The...
