Awards

Earlier this week, the L.A. Times Book Prize finalists were announced, including five in the graphic novel category: Graphic Novel/Comics Alison Bechdel / Are You My Mother?...

If you're into writers of the past and present or cartoonists of the future, here's your chance to help honor someone in either category. Both the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing -- which recognizes comics writers past and present -- and the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award -- which recognizes a new artist who is, uh, promising -- are open for nominations. Both awards and finalists are chosen by juries, but they accept nominees.

The winners of the CYBIL Awards were announced last week—Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards -- recognizing books that librarians and kids love. The winners are:

It looks like award season for comics is in full swing, and here's another prize announcement: The 2012 SPACE PRizes, given to the best...

Preliminary voting is in on this year's Eisner Award Hall of Fame and the judges have selected Mort Meskin and Spain Rodriguez for automatic inclusion.

Despite an attempt to liven things up with a more actually influential cartoonist winning the Grand Prix at Angoulême, 72 year old Dutch cartoonist...

The early award season for books is here, and earlier this week the American Library association handed out a slew of literary awards. As has been the recent trend, several graphic novels were recognized among the pictureless books:

The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies have teamed up for a new cartooning honor: The Cartoonist Studio Prizes. There are two categories—Best Graphac Novel and Best Web Comic—with 10 finalists in each category. Winners will each receive a $1,000 prize

Johanna Draper Carlson wrote to remind us that the entry deadline for the Glyph Comic Awards is January 31. The Glyph Comic Awards recognize the best comics made by, for, and about people of color. Carlson is one of the judges this year. Entry guidelines:

Retailing advocacy group ComicsPRO has announced their annual Industry Appreciation Award nominees which salute "those who have been simply the best at what they...

The 2013 GLAAD Award nominees recognizing media for outstanding images of the LGBT community have been unveiled and they are: OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK Astonishing X-Men by...

The Society of Illustrators has announced medalists in their Sequential/Series, Institutional, Uncommissioned, and Moving Image categories. SoI doesn't really give awards in comics, but the Sequential/Series category covers work that requires more than one image, so it's mostly comics.