The Newsarama blog carries a link to an LA Times article on the National Book Awards in the US. Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese, which sparked a debate about eligibility recently, came in second, although Gene can carry his head high at being the first graphic novel to be nominated. As Newsarama notes though, the LA Times seem pretty enamoured with his work, regardless of it coming second or first (yes, that is a bad pun, sorry) before pointing readers to the First Second publisher’s blog where Mark Siegel comments on the awards. Regardless of where you stand on the eligibility issue, it has to be good to see the medium getting such good coverage and respect and for such a new publisher in the field it must be a real boost.
Fri, Nov 17, 2006
Awards