Tag: Awards
2016 Dwayne McDuffie Award nominees announced
And they are
Andre The Giant: Closer to Heaven by Brandon Easton and Denis Medri (IDW Publishing)
Fresh Romance, edited by Janelle Asselin (Rosy Press)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder and Natacha...
Four French women cartoonists turn down knighthoods to protest poor treatment
by Xavier Lancel
In a never-ending whirlpool of controversy, Fleur Pellerin, french minister of Culture, released a list of people who will received a medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of Arts...
Angoulême controversy just won’t stop, as the jury issues an apology and Franck Bondoux...
The controversy over the "faux Fauves" at Saturday's awards ceremony at the Angoulême comics festival just won't die down, and festival director Frank Bondous has been revealed as even more of a Sepp Blatter-like...
Angoulême Festival manages to get even worse by humiliating cartoonists with “Faux Fauves”
Angoulême has really jumped the shark this year. Not content with showing a medieval level knowledge of art and comics history by claiming that there were no significant women in the history of comics,...
GLAAD Nominees honor Wicked & Divine, Harley Quinn and more
Awards season is underway! And GLAAD has announced its annual media award nominees to "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and...
So now Claire Wendling doesn’t want the Angoulëme Grand Prix either
So after a few solid weeks of controversy and outcry, the finalists for this year's FIBD Grand Prix were announced: Alan Moore, Hermann Huppen and Claire Wendling. If case you missed all the...
Grand Prix nominees: Alan Moore, Hermann and Claire Wendling
The final nominees for this year's Angouleme Grand Prix have been announced and they are Hermann, Alan Moore & Claire Wendling
The 2016 McDuffie Awards get flooded with submissions
One of the most rewarding things I did all last year was participate as a judge for the first ever McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics; not only was I exposed to a lot of great comics material I had never seen before, but I worked with a fine panel of judges and it was a genuine joy to get more attention for the eventual winner–Nilah McGruder's MFK.
Happily, I'll be part of the final selection committee for this year's awards, with the winner to be announced at the Long Beach Comic Expo on Saturday February 20, in room S5 from 2:30pm - 3:30pm.
YALSA reading list spotlights comics for reluctant readers
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) has released one of their annual reading lists, 2016 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, which represents:
The Quick Picks list, presented annually at the ALA Midwinter Meeting suggests...
ALA: ‘Rollergirl’ is a Newbery honor book, three other graphic novels honored
Victoria Jamieson's Rollergirl, a graphic novel about a girls dream of becoming a roller girl star, was named a Newbury honor book, this morning, one of several honors awarded to graphic novels. The awards...
After briefly adding six women, Angoulême fest throws open Grand Prix voting
I'd been waiting to write this up as things have been changing so fast but after a very brief period this morning where the list of Grand Prix nominees was posted with the 30...
Cybils Awards announce 2015 graphic novel finalists
The Cybils, a literary award presented by children's and young adult book cloggers have announced their 2015 finalists, and the graphic novel picks. And they are:
Baba Yaga’s Assistant
Courtney Crumrin Volume 7: Tales of a...
