Angoulême Official Selection 2024 Announced
The Angoulême Official Selection 2024 is here at last! The Beat parses through all 84 books to check what has an English-language edition/translation available so you don't have to
The Goodreads Choice Awards eliminate comics category
Amazon's reader selected Goodreads Choices Award have eliminated the Children’s & Middle Grade, Poetry, and Graphic Novel categories
ACBD Critic’s Prize 2024 longlists French editions of DUCKS and THE NICE HOUSE ON...
Translations of 'Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands' and 'Nice House on the Lake' in the 15-work longlist of French Comics Critics Association's highest award
Anna Readman’s DANCING QUEEN wins Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize 2023
By unanimous decision, Anna Readman’s 'Dancing Queen' has been named the 2023 winner of Comica, Faber and The Observer newspaper’s annual Graphic Short Story Prize.
Graphic novel wins Nordic Council Literature Prize for first time
Joanna Rubin Dranger’s Swedish graphic novel 'Remember Us To Life' has received the 2023 Nordic Council Literature Prize. The most prestigious award in the Nordic region, it is the first graphic novel to ever receive the honour
Nine Antico’s MADONNAS AND WHORES wins 2023 Inrockuptibles literary prize
French cartoonist Nine Antico’s Dupuis-published graphic novel Madones et Putains [Madonnas and Whores] won the comics category of the 2023 edition of French culture magazine Les Inrockuptibles’ annual literary prize, Prix Littéraire Les Inrockuptibles.
AWARD ROUNDUP: CYBERPUNK: 2077 – BIG CITY DREAMS receives Best Comic 2023 Hugo Award
The Dark Horse-published videogame tie-in Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams won the Best Comic category at the 2023 Hugo Awards
DUCKS and THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE make Fnac-France Inter Prix de BD...
The French editions of Kate Beaton’s "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands", James Tynion IV-Álvaro Martínez Bueno's "The Nice House on the Lake" are in the running for the 2024 Fnac-France Inter Prix de BD.
Longlist for the 2023 First Graphic Novel Award announced
The longlist for the 2023 edition of Britain's First Graphic Novel Award has been announced
Bell’s THE TALK and Higa’s OKINAWA longlisted for 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Darrin Bell’s The Talk and Susumu Higa's Okinawa have been longlisted for the Non-Fiction 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, marking another year of inroads for graphic novels in prestigious literary awards
NYCC ’23: Presenting the 2023 Harvey Awards winners
Nominees in six categories for the 2023 Harvey Awards have just been announce
NYCC ’23: Claremont, Simonsons, Pérez among 2023 Harvey Awards Hall of Fame inductees
This year's class of six Hall of Fame inductees will be honored during the Harvey Awards ceremony at New York Comic Con.