Awards

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.

Well, this is a shock. The script by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman for Guardians of the Galaxy has been nominated for the very...

The comics news website Broken Frontier has announced the winners of its annual awards, as chosen by readers and industry professionals. Image Comics was a winner, as you might expect, but female creators won in 5 of the 13 categories, suggesting that the arrival of talented and noteworthy women in comics is a thing that is here and now and not some hoped for future event. The winners are as follows:

PW's annual Graphic Novel critics poll, which I oversee, is out. This One Summer was the winner, which is hard to argue with. There's also a list of books of the year selected by the graphic novel reviewers. It's a small group, but they usually get it right. I thought it would be fun to look up past winners. The very first one isn't online, but it's a pretty strong list overall, and clicking the links will immediately take you back to whatever people were talking about in comics that year:

Trying to keep up with all the end of year Best of lists for comics? Graphic Policy has you covered. . They're not only...

The jury for next year's MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence -- a prize for cartoonists has been announced and it's stellar:  Charles Burns, Annie...

The nominees in the four juried categories of the FIBD 42 have been announced, 35 "Official Selections", 12 in the "comics for young readers" category, 10 in the "best reprint" category and 5 in the "mystery novel" aka Polar category (all descriptions are my own.) "Polar" which you see so often in various listing at Angoulême, as best I can make out, tarnslates as a "light mystery" or thriller category....kind of the popular genre in Franco-Belgian comics, as opposed to say, superheroes. If I'm wrong, please someone correct me.

Last year the Society of Illustrators inaugurated a comics art competition similar to the one for illustrators they've been running for many years. (Disclosure: I was...