2008 Ignatz Award winners
Outstanding Artist
Laura Park, Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream (self-published)
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Papercutter #7, edited by Greg Means and Galen Longstreth (Tugboat Press)
Outstanding Graphic Novel
Skim, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood Books)
Outstanding Story
The Thing...
Quick SPX report and Nerdlinger Award winners
Just preparing for the Ignatz awards in our room, but today looked to be a boffo day for the SPX, with a LINE of people as the show opened at 11 and reports of...
SPX call for debuts
The Small Press Expo is this weekend in Bethesda, MD!It is the first time in a while that the show will be a weekend (Sat.-Sun.) affair, so it should be interesting. We'll have a...
Harveys: The morning after
Sorry for the panic of Twitter last night! Basically, The Beat's table included Kyle Baker, Dean Haspiel, and Ben McCool, so to say there were laughs afoot would be an understatement. We were all...
2008 Harvey Award winners
Official list; winners in BOLD. ALL STAR SUPERMAN was the night's biggest winner with three, while Nicholas Gurewiitch's PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP won two.
BEST WRITER
Ed Brubaker, Captain America, Marvel Comics
Jeff Kinney, Diary of...
Official Eisner seals
Gold and silver seals are now available for, respectively, Eisner-winning and -nominated books as a means of drawing attention to worthy books. Publishers should contact Jackie Estrada for more info.
2008 Ignatz Award nominees
The nominees for this year's Ignatz Awards have just been announced and here they are -- a very, very indie list, with few of the "big" indies from FBI or D&Q represented -- but...
Scream Awards should be renamed COMIC BOOK AWARDS
Spike TV has announced the nominees for its yearly Scream Awards, which fete the best in "horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic genres" -- you know, the loud but amusing stuff. The Awards are notable...
2008 SPACE Prize finalists announced
The Day Prize, for small press comics, was ended recently when founder Dave Sim withdrew it, but there is now the SPACE Prize, with the winner selected by 2007 winners Matt and Carol Dembicki...
Nick announces Best Kids’ Graphic Novel Awards
With so much good stuff being done again, it's about time:
Nickelodeon Magazine, the leading entertainment and humor magazine for kids, has announced its first-ever “Best Kids’ Graphic Novel” Awards, taking place in spring 2009....
Wright Awards controversy
You may have noticed Hervé St-Louis kicking up a fuss in our comments section regarding the Doug Wright Awards -- the bone of contention is the fact that the Awards only honor work...
2008 Doug Wright Award winners
The Doug Wright Awards for achievements in Canadian comic book artistry were presented this weekend and the winners are:
Best Book:
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam by Ann Marie Fleming
(Riverhead Books)
Best Emerging Talent:
Essex County...