GLAAD Awards comics noms
The 19th Annual GLAAD Awards, highlighting thew strongest portrayals of GLBT characters in all media were just announced and the comics nominees are:
Comic Book
American Virgin by Steven T. Seagle (Vertigo/DC Comics)
The Boys...
Angoulême Prize nominees
We'd been looking around for a list of this year's Angoulëme Prize nominees, but no such list seems to exist in English save this as-always excellent article by Bart Beatty commenting at the list...
And the Oscar goes to …
This year's nominees for Best Animated Feature are:
* "Persepolis"
* "Ratatouille"
* "Surf's Up"
This year's nominees for Best Animated Short Film are:
* Même les pigeons vont au paradis
* I Met the Walrus
* Madame Tutli-Putli...
Awards season kicks off for books
The midwinter American Library Association meeting is taking place in Philadelphia this week, and yesterday's session included an avalanche of award announcements. The PW link has all of them but we'll skim along...
2008 Golden Globes
Ratatouille won for Best Animated Film.
No one cared.
BTW, the WGA strike -- which killed the Golden Globes -- has entered a significant phase as the DGA -- which represents the directors -- enters...
Eisner Award Call for Entries
Awards Admin Jackie Estrada sends word on how to submit your material for the Eisners.
Eisner Awards Now Accepting Submissions for 2008
Submissions are now being accepted for consideration by the judges for the 2008 Will...
Kibbles ‘n’ bits 12/5
§ We forgot to link to the Annie Award nominations. RATATOUILLE comes in with the most noms. MOREL OREL got several TV nods.
§ Speaking of animation, Cracked magazine is still around online and...
Max wins Spanish cultural award
According to this article and Google, the Spanish Ministry of Culture has just presented their first award for comics, to Max for Bardin Superrealist. Awards have been presented in other literary and artistic categories...
Glyph Awards accepting submissions; Judges named
The Glyph AWards, which honor the best in black comics and creators, are open for submissions for 2008:
This past May, history was made at the Glyph Comics Awards (GCA) when the graphic novel Stagger...
Fall 2007 Xeric winners
Winners of the fall cartooning grants have been announced:
The creators receiving grants are as follows:
Colleen Frakes – Tragic Relief
Geoff Grogan – Look Out! Monsters
Corinne Mucha – My Alaskan Summer
Lars Martinson – Tonoharu: Part One
Jaime...
Panter wins American Book Award
Flog notes that Gary Panter's JIMBO'S INFERNO has won an American Book Award, presented each year by the Before Columbus Foundation for books of merit.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for...
Flessel gets the Sparky
This Sunday, one of the last living Golden Age cartoonists, Creig Flessel will be presented with the Sparky Award at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, 142 Throckmorton Avenue. Andrew Farrago writes:
On...
