The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

The SelfMadeHero Twitter is reporting that Kate Brown, whose work has appeared in their Manga Shakespeare range and to a wider, non comics audience in the Guardian, has won the Arts Foundation graphic novel prize; the judges were Paul Gravett, Pat Mills and Posey Simmonds. The Foundation has been giving out awards worth a great deal to various artistic categories over the last 18 years or so and the graphic novel prize is worth a cool £10, 000. According to SelfMadeHero’s Twitter Kate will be interviewed about her win at the post-awards ceremony. Well done, Kate and kudos also to the Arts Foundation for being so positive about highlighting and supporting the comics medium. Kate’s Spider Moon graphic novel will be one of the first wave of (very welcome) titles from David Fickling books to emerge from the DFC comic this spring, so its looking like a pretty damned good 2010 already for Kate!

(frames from Spider Moon in the now defunct DFC comic, soon to be collected in graphic album form, by and (c) Kate Brown)