GLAAD Nominees honor Wicked & Divine, Harley Quinn and more
Awards season is underway! And GLAAD has announced its annual media award nominees to "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive...
So now Claire Wendling doesn’t want the Angoulëme Grand Prix either
So after a few solid weeks of controversy and outcry, the finalists for this year's FIBD Grand Prix were announced: Alan Moore, Hermann...
Grand Prix nominees: Alan Moore, Hermann and Claire Wendling
The final nominees for this year's Angouleme Grand Prix have been announced and they are Hermann, Alan Moore & Claire Wendling
The 2016 McDuffie Awards get flooded with submissions
One of the most rewarding things I did all last year was participate as a judge for the first ever McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics; not only was I exposed to a lot of great comics material I had never seen before, but I worked with a fine panel of judges and it was a genuine joy to get more attention for the eventual winner–Nilah McGruder's MFK.
Happily, I'll be part of the final selection committee for this year's awards, with the winner to be announced at the Long Beach Comic Expo on Saturday February 20, in room S5 from 2:30pm - 3:30pm.
YALSA reading list spotlights comics for reluctant readers
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) has released one of their annual reading lists, 2016 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, which represents:
The...
Announcing the Comics Industry Person of the Year for 2015: Noelle Stevenson
The votes are in! And after an exceptionally close race, for the second year in a row a prominent YA graphic novelist has taken Person of the Year.
ALA: ‘Rollergirl’ is a Newbery honor book, three other graphic novels honored
Victoria Jamieson's Rollergirl, a graphic novel about a girls dream of becoming a roller girl star, was named a Newbury honor book, this morning,...
After briefly adding six women, Angoulême fest throws open Grand Prix voting
I'd been waiting to write this up as things have been changing so fast but after a very brief period this morning where the...
Cybils Awards announce 2015 graphic novel finalists
The Cybils, a literary award presented by children's and young adult book cloggers have announced their 2015 finalists, and the graphic novel picks. And...
Alors! Florence Cestac says Franck Bondoux is “un crétin total.”
Whooooo-ah! This whole Angoulême-gate thing got out of hand FAST. In just 24 hours it went from an angry petition to the world's best cartoonists rejecting their nominations to front page news to the festival sulkily added Marjane Satrapi and Posy Simmonds to their list, even though no one would vote for them, and a whirlwind of hot takes.
Sattouf, Clowes, Burns, Davodeau and Sfar and even MIlo Manara withdraw from Grand Prix...
As reported yesterday, there has been international consternation over the 016 list of nominees for the Grand Prix, the lifetime achievement awards for cartoonists...
Call for boycott of Angoulême’s Grand Prix nominees after list includes only men
The long list for the 2016 Grand Prix at Angoulême was announced today—this is a kind of lifetime achivemenet award, and arguably the greatest honor...
