Thanks, Bristol!
While the Eagle award winners still haven't been put online, more informal awards called the 2008 Golden Champagne Glass Awardshave been announced. They were presented at some kind of drunken bar fest during...
Friends of Lulu Awards — NOMINATE
As mentioned here before, nominations for the 2008 Lulu Awards are open. Anyone can nominate. These are the categories:
The Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame nominees must have published work, whether self-published, company-published, or Web-published....
World Awards: Tezuka announced, Eagles MIA — UPDATE
§ 12th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Winners have been revealed:
Masayuki Ishikawa won the 2-million-yen (about US$20,000) Manga Grand Prize for his Moyashimon medical comedy manga. The manga follows a college student who discovers that...
Lulu Noms OPEN
The Friends of Lulu Blog reports that nominations for the 2008 Friends of Lulu Awards are open and ANYONE can nominate:
Lulu Awards: Nominations are open!You don’t have to be a member to nominate!You...
Gloeckner wins Guggenheim
Cartoonist and art teacher Phoebe Gloeckner has won a Guggenheim Fwllowship. The Fllowships are prosented to advanced professionals in a variety of creative and scientific fields to enable them to work on projects with...
2008 Eisner Award Nominations
They're out! Labelled "the most diverse yet" we're just looking at the list andthey are definiely very indie friendly while not entirely ignoring the superheroes here and there with nominations for everything from Urasawa...
Joe Shuster Award nominees
The nominees for the 2008 Joe Shuster Awards have just been announced.
Nominees were selected by a two round voting process. Now that the list of nominees has been finalized, the nominated creators will...
Friends of Lulu Awards move to MoCCA
With the San Diego con news cycle increasingly taken over by mega movie marketing events it was perhaps inevitable that a few events would migrate to other venues -- one such is now the...
Award watch: Michael Ramirez wins Pulitzer Prize
Michael Ramirez of Investors Business Daily has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning:
Awarded to Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily for his provocative cartoons that rely on originality, humor and detailed artistry.Also...
Awards Watch: Diamond Gem Awards
Kevin Melrose has the rundown of this year's Diamond Gem Awards:
Comic Book Publisher of the Year Over 5%DC ComicsComic Book Publisher of the Year Under 5%IDW PublishingNew Publisher of the YearRed 5 Comics
Dark Horse,...
Awards watch: Eagle Award nominees announced
The nominations for the 2008 Eagle Awards are up. We received no and can find no pr for the nominees, but at a glance a variety of American and European action-adventures genres and...
Maisie Kukoc award voting opens
Via the email:
The Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration rewards a self-publisher of small-press, hand-made comics (sometimes called "mini-comics"), on the basis of merit and financial need. The 2008 Kukoc will be awarded at...
