Pope GN grabs award nom
According to the PR, Papercutz' papal biography The Life of Pope John Paul II…In Comics has been nominated for a Ben Franklin Award. Winners will be announced at the Book Expo in June.
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Plugging Away
We've been hard at work since we touched down, when not missing the superior coffee of the continent and contemplating what kind of laptop to buy. Meanwhile we just got an advance of Beat...
Captain America Arrested with Burrito in Pants
A costume party gone wrong led to a a bad night for one Captain America, when a Palm Bay physician discovered liquor and a burrito in your tights don't mix, especially when you keep...
CATCH-UP: Wilkinson wins Thomas Nast Award
Editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson added to her award shelf with the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award for international cartooning:
Founded in 1939, the Overseas Press Club is an association of journalists working in the...
CATCH-UP: Quick step wins Mini Comics Excellence Award
Wait perhaps this is what that last photo refers to:
Quick Step has won the 2007 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics! I spent the night at the awe-inspiring Isotope Comics for the APE Aftermath...
Exciting stuff we missed
We can't believe we missed the bulging crotch scandal!:
My pal Jake said to me, “I think there are two equally creepy options - 1. Ross intentionally, on his own accord, drew a big bulge...
Harry Potter’s wild ride
The battle over who gets to build the Harry Potter theme park has been raging, and Universal was the winner, defeating Disney. However, Disney Watcher Jim Hill explains that due to J.K. Rowling's...
2007 Eisner Nominations
Running the PR as received:
After poring through the thousands of books, and comics submitted, a five-person blue-ribbon panel of judges have arrived at the 2007 nominees for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, considered...
Bienvenido
Greetings from Barcelona. We arrived here safe and sound, and have since been enjoying the fabulous architecture, strong espresso and warm weather. There have also been unanticipated "setbacks"...but we have all our limbs and...
Handelsman wins Pulitzerl
Walt Handelsman has won the 2007 Cartooning Puliztzer "For his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation." It was his second win in the category (He also won in 1997.) Ray...
RIP Brant Parker
Wow, they're going fast. 'Wizard of Id' cartoonist Brant Parker has died at age 86, Parker of course collaborated on Id with Johnny Hart who passed away last week. Parker had given up...
News and Notes
§ Whatever happened to the rest of Hill andWang's non-fiction graphic novel series, we were wondering just the other day. WEll, ICv2 answers the question:
Hill and Wang plans to release Ronald Reagan: A Graphic...
