Awards

The nominees for this year's Russ Manning Award—a sort of "most promising newcomer" for artists—have been announced and they are:

On today's list of Birthday Honours, writer Grant Morrison has been awarded an MBE for his services to Batman.

Frank Doyle—a prolific writer for Archie—and Steve Skeates, a busy comics writers of the '70s, have won the Finger Award, which honors two writers, one living, one deceased, whose contributions to the comics medium have been underappreciated. Two great choices. The awards will be presented during this year's Eisner Awards.

Every two years, the Max und Moritz Preis Gala takes place at the International Comics Salon in Erlangen, Germany. Who won? Who was nominated? And what was Marc-Oliver Frisch's involvement?

We all know (or should know!) how important Will Eisner was to the comics artform. Something an increasing number of people know is how important libraries are to getting more and more people to read comics and graphic novels. So it makes sense that a Graphic Novel Prize for Libraries would be named for Eisner.

This Monday, June 4 is the deadline for Eisner Award voting! All the info you need is in that link, while the voting link is here.

We thought the Eagle Awards were over. We were (possibly) wrong.

The 2012 'Reuben' awards were given out by the NCS (National Cartoonists Society) on Saturday night, although only one is actually called the Reuben. The full list of winners is here, but Tom Richmond, best known for his work on MAD Magazine won the top spot, otherwise known as THE REUBEN AWARD for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. Richmond is a fairly prolific blogger, and has already recorded his initial thoughts:

Who won big at the Eagle Awards this year? Well, Batman, mostly

Artist Sara Pichelli won Best Artist and Best Newcomer awards at last night's Stan Lee Awards, which are presented at the Kapow! to recognize achievements in superhero comics or something. Pichelli was on hand to accept her awards, as you can see, which is a good thing because originally there were no women in comics to go to the show. Luckily, some were found.

The Glyph Awards, presented for “the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year,” were presented last night in Philadelphia, and PRINCELESS the webcomics and ULTIMATE COMICS: SPIDER-MAN led the pack. Here's the complete list:

Cartoonist Matt Bors sent along this video of his acceptance speech for the Herblock Award, which gets into some truths about the cartoonist's life along the way.