Cartooners winning awards: Jean, Cho
James Jean has won the Best Artist award at the World Fantasy Con. You can see the complete list of winners and nominees here.
Lifetime Achievement:
John Crowley
Stephen Fabian
Novel: Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore...
16 animated films eligible for Oscar
The list of animated films eligible for the Best Animated Film Oscar has been released, and 16 films are potential nominees:
The list includes lots of movies with talking critters: Disney's "The Wild," DreamWorks Animation's...
2007 Glyph Awards call for submissions
Held for the first time this year, the 2007 Glyph Awards, honoring the best in black comic books and creators, have announced the judges for the 2007 competition and an industry-wide call for...
Iranian cartoonist wins Serbian award
Comics bring the world together:
An Iranian cartoonist won the second award of the Belgrade "Golden Smile" Cartoon competition in Serbia.The Iranian cartoonist, Shahrokh Heydari stood second in the 5th biannual cartoon exhibition of Serbia...
2006 Ignatz Award Winners
It was a little hard reporting, as we were also MCing, but thanks to Douglas Wolk, here are the winners. Congrats to all!
Outstanding Artist
Tony Millionaire, Billy Hazelnuts (Fantagraphics Books)
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Black Hole by...
Gene Yang reax
Via SFGATe, Gene Yang's reaction to AMERICAN BORN CHINESE's historic National Book Award nomination:
"I'm in shock," said Yang, who missed the call from his agent about the news Tuesday night because he was...
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE nabs NBA nom
Wow. Gene Yang's AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, published by First Second, has scored a National Book Award nomination in the YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE category. These awards are extremely prestigious -- a win for Yang would...
Meanwhile, on the East Coast…the Quills
Our Scream Awards viewing was interrupted by attending a real live event, the Quill Awards, honoring the best in books via voting by the reading public. To say it was slightly more erudite than...
Scream Awards air
We caught only a few moments of this, due to pressing sleep-related matters, but managed to see the Best Comic Book Award with winner Robert Kirkman accepting for MARVEL ZOMBIES. It was a bit...
Something to scream at
Comic Book Resources has red carpet photos of comics personalities and other slebs from the Scream Awards, many shot at an ungodly close range. CELEBRITIES ARE NOT MEANT TO BE SEEN CLOSE UP! I...
Miller, Phillips, ZOMBIES win Scream Awards
Spike TV's inaugural SCREAM AWARDS, honoring all that is boyish, violent and gory in entertainment were handed out this weekend, although the show won't air until Tuesday night. You can see all of the...
Miller to be feted at Scream Awards
Comic Book Resources has the press release from Spike's Scream Awards, "which celebrates Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Comic books." The event will be taped on October 7th and then doubtless air endlessly between...
