2009 Russ Manning Award nominees announced
Via PR, the nominees for this year's Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, to be presented at this year's Eisner Awards ceremony:
The 2009 nominees are:
Gregory...
2009 Doug Wright Award Winners
Saturday night, the Doug Wright Awards, honoring the best in Canadian comics, were given out and the winners are:
Best Book: Skim, by Jillian &...
Eagle Awards and more British comics stuff
Frankly, we haven't been in the loop on British comics gossip, so we have no idea why this year's Bristol Comic Expo has been...
Steve Breen wins 2009 Pulitzer
Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune won this year's Pulitzer Prize for cartooning. As others have pointed out, the Pulitzer Prize winners...
2009 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize winners
The 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize winners have been announced, and for the first time...there was a tie! Fumi Yoshinaga's Ōoku: The Inner Chamber,...
Stumptown Trophy Award nominees announced
The Annual Stumptown festival is this weekend and the nominees for the Trophy Awards, recognizing standout new works from exhibiting creators have just been...
Do the Eisner Awards ignore manga?
Noah Berlatsky sums up similar thoughts by David Welsh and Simon Jones on the dearth of manga titles and creators among the...
Eisner reax
Yesterday's Eisner Award nominees announcement set off the usual round of commentary and reactions. For ourselves, we thought it was a wide-ranging list...
2009 Eisner Award nominees
They're up! More commentary in a bit, although we are pleased to see the judges decided to REDUCE the number of categories this year!
The...
Joe Shuster Award nominees announced
The 2009 Joe Shuster Award nominees, presented to the best in Canadian comics, have been announced. It's a long list, so see them all...
First ever Nickelodeon Comics Awards winners announced
Wimpy Kid unsurprisingly won two of the inaugural Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards, but Naruto got beaten by Pokémon. The winners:
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