Tag: Awards

Whooooo-ah! This whole Angoulême-gate thing got out of hand FAST. In just 24 hours it went from an angry petition to the world's best cartoonists rejecting their nominations to front page news to the festival sulkily added Marjane Satrapi and Posy Simmonds to their list, even though no one would vote for them, and a whirlwind of hot takes.

As reported yesterday, there has been international consternation over the 016 list of nominees for the Grand Prix, the lifetime achievement awards for cartoonists presented each year at the FIBD in Angoulême. While it...

The long list for the 2016 Grand Prix at Angoulême was announced today—this is a kind of lifetime achivemenet award, and arguably the greatest honor a cartoonist can receive. It's also been the center of much...

Gene Luen Yang has racked up a lot of honors for his work—first graphic novel to be shortlisted for a National Book Award (for American Born Chinese), first cartoonist to be shortlisted TWICE (second...

If there was a tidal wave that swept over the comics world in 2015 it was diversity. Great strides were made, though more needs to be done. And here here's an award to recognize come of what's going on, under the auspices of the Virginia Library Association. Publishers take note; more info here.

The judges for the 2016 Eisner Awards have been announced and they are a sterling panel as usual. These six individuals will meet in April of 2016 to read thousands of comics and sift...

The McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics was established last year to recognize comics work that promotes the spirit of diversity. (I was honored to be on the inaugural judging panel.) Submissions for the...

Broken Frontier, a long running site about comics, put out nominations for its comics awards last week. The nominees were chosen by the staff of the site, and they reflect a very broad...

A big year for Pixar, and a new category is added

And Who's on first. Never realized there were so many jokes to be made with Richard McGuire's masterful graphic novel Here. It's the only gn to make the New York Times list of 100...

And the year end parade continues, and I'm sensing something of a move for Noelle Stevenson's Nimona to be the book of the year. At any rate, it's on a lot of lists. But...

Last night the National Book Awards (the Oscars for books) were presented, and Noelle Stevenson's Nimona, only the fourth graphic novel to get an NBA nomination, lost out to Neal Shusterman's Challenger Deep. Comic enthusiast Ta-Nehisi Coates did win in non fiction for Between the World and Me, however.