Awards

We can't all be winners, folks —we can't even all be nominees. The Eisner Awards nomination always ignite a debate wth one saide or another feeling snubbed and dissed, because the choices are particularly dependent on each year's jury—its makeup can skew this way or that. The 2013 edition skewed towards....well, if you really look at the list it didn't so much skew towards anything as skewing AWAY from superhero comics. But even there, Marvel's Hawkeye TIED with Chris Ware's epochal Building Stories for second most nominations -- I wouldn't exactly call that a superhero snub, would you?

In a year where indie, art and literary comix dominated  Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip's Fatale led the pack with six Eisner nominations, followed by...

Adding to a pile of kudos that you will soon be able to make an actual building from, Chris Ware's great Building Stories has won the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for 2013. Heads or Tails by Lilli Carré (Fantagraphics) and The Understanding Monster—Book One by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) were the honorable mentions. The Prize is presented each year by Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to "the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident."

Judges for the 2013 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning have been announced, a group comprising cartoonists and other artists from Montreal. Nominees were...

Naked honesty: I'm too wiped out from this weekend's MoCCA Festival to write much about it. It was a blast. But here are the...

Awards season rolls on, unstoppable. The Hugos—given to the best in SF—have announced the 2013 nominees and here's the comics category: Best Graphic Story (427...

The 2013 nominees for the Glyph Awards have been announced. The awards honor the best in black-themed comics, and the winners will be announcedat the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) Friday, May 17, 2013 at The African American Museum located at 701 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

While the three nominees for THE Reuben, the top award of the year from the National Cartoonists Society, have been announced —and they are Brian Crane, Rick Kirkman and Stephan Pastis, the NCS has just announced the nominees in the divisional races. Many familiar names in many catgories, and the new spliut wbcomics division—one for long form and one for short form—makes is debut.

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning have just announced their 2013 finalists. Presented in three categories, the awards recognize the best in Canadian comics, with a uniquely local flavor.

Get those packages out today with material for consideration in the Eisner Awards. Details here. Judging will take place next month (if the usual...

The nominations for this year's British Comic Awards, held during November's Thought Bubble Convention in Leeds, have been officially opened this week. In addition,...

§ The winners of Slate's first ever Cartoonist Studio Prize have been announced: Chris Ware and Building Stories in the Best Graphic Novel of the Year category and Noelle Stevenson's Nimona for webcomics. Winners and finalists were slected by Slat'es Dan Kois selected student from CCS and guest judge Françoise Mouly.