Virginia Library Association launches Graphic Novel Diversity Awards
If there was a tidal wave that swept over the comics world in 2015 it was diversity. Great strides were made, though more needs to be done. And here here's an award to recognize come of what's going on, under the auspices of the Virginia Library Association. Publishers take note; more info here.
2016 Eisner Judges announced: Doherty, Foingeroth, Grazulis, Poole, Powell and Tilley
The judges for the 2016 Eisner Awards have been announced and they are a sterling panel as usual. These six individuals will meet in...
The McDuffie Award for Diversity In Comics submissions are open until Dec. 31
The McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics was established last year to recognize comics work that promotes the spirit of diversity. (I was honored...
Broken Frontier Awards 2015 Nominations are released
Broken Frontier, a long running site about comics, put out nominations for its comics awards last week. The nominees were chosen by the...
Best of 2015: ‘Here’ is a New York Times notable book; Horn Book choices
And Who's on first. Never realized there were so many jokes to be made with Richard McGuire's masterful graphic novel Here. It's the only...
More Best Graphic Novel lists for 2015: do we know the book of the...
And the year end parade continues, and I'm sensing something of a move for Noelle Stevenson's Nimona to be the book of the year....
Nimona did not win a National Book Award
Last night the National Book Awards (the Oscars for books) were presented, and Noelle Stevenson's Nimona, only the fourth graphic novel to get an NBA nomination, lost out to Neal Shusterman's Challenger Deep. Comic enthusiast Ta-Nehisi Coates did win in non fiction for Between the World and Me, however.
British Comics Awards Winners:
Although we've never been lucky enough to attend, the British Comics Awards seem to give the Ignatzs and Doug Wright awards a run for...
Amazon editors pick Sandman Overture as Best Graphic Novel of 2015
The roll-out of best of lists continues, with Amazon's editors picking Sandman Overture as the year's top graphic novel. The rest of the...
What the Goodreads Readers Choice Best Comics semi-finalists tell us about ourselves
These are only semifinalists, but you can add the Goodreads Choice Awards to the beginning of the end of year comics best lists. They only show the semi finalists as pictures but as far as I can make out it is:
PW announces Best Graphic Novels of 2015
It begins! The end of year race to the best of list is underway, kicked off, as is tradition, by Publishers Weekly. Disclosure: I...
2015 Joe Shuster Wards winners: O’Malley, Tamaki, Doris Slater win
The 2015 Joe Shuster Awards were presented on the 18th at the first Forest City Comic Con in London, ON. All the winners are below,...
