Awards

This year's nominees for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” have been announced by the National Cartoonists Society and they are Roz Chast, Stephen Pastis...

Alex Alice, Audrey Benjaminsen, David Palumbo, James Turner and Lisa Wood (aka Tula Lotay) are the comics finalists for the 2015s Spectrum 22, the awards given to fantasy influenced art in a number of disciplines. Justin Gerard, Virginie Ropars, Greg Ruth, Annie Stegg Gerard and Dice Tsutsumi were this year's judges, and the selected finalists for Gold or Silver medla sin eight categories. Winners will be announced at the Spectrum 22 Awards Ceremony held in conjunction with the Spectrum Fantastic Art Live event in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday, May 23th. Spectrum 22, edited by John Fleskes, will be published by Flesk Publications in November.

As announced this weekend, the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award was given out, and the winner was Nilah Magruder for her webcomic M.F.K. Disclosure: I was one of the judges for this award. And I couldn't be happier that Magruder won.

Last year the Society of Illustrators added a medal competition for comics arts, parallel to those they have long given out for illustration. And...

Graphic novels for children are on a roll these days, and that was backed up by the Children's Choice Award nominations, as reported by the CBLDF blog. Winners will be chosen by children voting online. GN nominees are noted in RED.

The finalists for the inaugural Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity Award have just been announced (disclosure: I am honored to have been one of...

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) releases a yearly list of recommended graphic novels, and this year's list is out, 79 titles...

The American Library Association announced their 2015 youth media award winners at its Midwinter Meeting in Chicago. Covering a diverse range of titles and readers, graphic novels were among the honorees! First... The big news...

The winners are in. and Riad Sattouf won the top prize for Album of the Year, for his L'Arabe du Futur (The Arab of the Future) which will be published in the US this fall by Holt. As might be expected from the title, the book deals directly with the matter of the day, and I expect it will get a lot of attention. Sattouf is well known in France for his cutting social humor, and is also a prize winning film director. Here's the rest of the winners with my rough translations of the prize names from the official site—the only American prize was Chris Ware's Building Stories for the Jury Prize.

In what is not a shock but is a break with tradition, Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira and Domu, has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 42nd annual Festival d'Angoulême which is taking place as we speak. Otomo beat out beloved Belgian cartoonist Hermann (the safe choice) and Alan Moore, who probably would have just chucked it into his garden and forgotten about.

Marjorie "Marge" Henderson Buehl, the magazine cartoonist who created Little Lulu, and Bill Woggon, creator of Katy Keane, an early example of crowd sourced...

The annual GLAAD media awards, recognizing " fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives" in the media came out yesterday, and five comics were nominated.