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Slate Book Review have joined with the Center for Cartoon Studies to award a new comics prize, entitled the Cartoonist Studio Prizes. The award has two categories: best graphic novel and best webcomic, for which both shortlists are selected by a combination of New Yorker art editor and Toon Books founder, Francoise Mouly, students and staff at CCS, and Slate editor Dan Kois. Winners will be announced in the March issue of the Slate Book Review and receive $1000 each. No huge surprises on the list itself- the only one I wasn’t already familiar with was The Carter Family. It’s also nice to see webcomics get some clear recognition, as one of only two categories, it reads like a statement of intent. Nominees are as follows:

Best graphic novel shortlist (2012):

Heads and Tails by Lilli Carre

Blacksad: A Silent Hell by Juanjo Guarnido and Juan Diaz Canales

Goliath by Tom Gauld

King City by Brandon Graham

By This You Shall Know Him by Jesse Jacobs

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China by Na Liu and Andres Vera Martinez

Hilda and the Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson

Buiding Stories by Chris Ware

The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz

The Carter Family: Don’t Forget this Song by Frank M Young and David Lasky

Best webcomic (2012):

Sarah and the Seed by Ryan Andrews

Lucky by Gabrielle Bell

Bouletcorp by Boulet

Untold Tales of Bigfoot by Vince Dorse

The First Word by  Patrick Farley

The Dailies by Dakota McFadzean

xkcd by Randall Munroe

Subnormality by Winston Rowntree

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki