Awards

MTV and Jolly Rancher have teamed up for some "Fandom of the Year" awards, for the third time, although I guess I missed the first...

  The 2016 Harvey nominations have just been announced, and as in past years, Valiant was the overwhelming favorite of the voting block with some...

By Eva Rinaldi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/evarinaldiphotography/14413533001/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33412380 In an email about Comic-Con HQ's activities at this year's SDCC, this little nugget was revealed:...

Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward was announced as the winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics at last weekend's Ann Arbor Comic Arts...

The winners of the 2015 Bill Finger award have been announced and they are Elliot S! Maggin and Richard E. Hughes. The award is presented annually to two writers, one living, one dead, in order to recognize writers who have not previously received proper recognition for their work. The award is named after Bill Finger, the ghost writer for the early Batman stories who invented much of the Caped Crusader's mythos.

The wave of promising young female cartoonists that we've all been seeing change the face of comics got a bit of an endorsement with the release of this year's nominees for the Russ Manning the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award. The Manning Award, as it's commonly know, is presented every year at the San Diego Comic-Con as part of the Eisner Awards to "a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics." The 2016 nominees are:

The 2016 Glyph Comics Awards Winners were announced at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Creators show on Saturday and Brotherman, won Best...

Jamie Coville has, as always, recorded the best of the panels from TCAF, including a shocking number in which I participated. YOU can hear...

Yesterday Deadline got a hot tip that Comic-Con International (which puts on SDCC) and Lionsgate -- already thick as thieves over Comic-Con HQ...

The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has presented the 2015 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to Sheridan College animation major Tex Minos, who has a...

More awards! The Ignatz awards, presented at the Small Press Expo to outstanding indie comics, are now accepting submissions, with a June 7th deadline....

Ch3gLQRWsAEkqbk.jpg Voting for the Harvey Award nominations ends tonight at midnight, PDT. To be clear that 11:59 PM PDT. The nominating ballot ca be found...