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The Eagleman Stag

14. May 2012

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A couple of years back I flagged up a trailer for a very unusual and visually fascinating monochromatic animation by Mikey Please, The Eagleman Stag, which was attracting some positive buzz at various film festivals. It went on to glory at the BAFTAs and also scored another gong this spring with the recent British Animation [...]

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Jane Rogers wins Arthur C Clarke Award

3. May 2012

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The UK’s most prestigious literary award for science fiction writing, the Arthur C Clarke Award, was announced last night and among a shortlist that boasted some true heavyweights of the Brit-Lit SF world’s talent, including China Mieville and Charlie Stross, the winner was a relative unknown, Jane Rogers, with the Testament of Jessie Lamb, published [...]

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Max and Moritz prize

2. May 2012

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The shortlist for this year’s Max und Moritz prize, the pre-eminent German language comics award, has been announced, with some twenty five titles contending for the gongs: Alois Nebel by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99 (Translation: Eva Profousová. Verlag Voland & Quist) Alte Meister by Nicolas Mahler, adapted from Thomas Bernhard (Suhrkamp Verlag) Annas Paradies [...]

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Graphic Narratives on Medicine

26. April 2012

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Thom Ferrier points us towards this article on a recent Graphic Medicine narrative contest organised by the Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities. The leading three entries by youngsters are all online as PDFs to read; the winning entry, bagging $250, was Junior Aaron Andzelik’s The Other side (below), with Joe Hengoed’s My Dark [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Eurocomics at the Eisners

11. April 2012

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Traditionally the Eisner awards are pretty much a US only affair, inasmuch that a “Best US Edition of International Material” (and a similar one for Asian comics) was thought up to celebrate the wealth of comics beyond the American borders.  Still, this year a good few Eurocomics managed getting nominated for an award in the [...]

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Hugo nominations & BSFA Winners

10. April 2012

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The shortlist nominees for the prestigious science fiction and fantasy Hugo Awards have been announced, taking in novels, short stories, film, television and comics tales from the SF&F genre. Let’s have a look at the main longform prose contenders, which includes China Miéville’s fascinating Embassytown and Mira Grant’s excellent Deadline: Best Novel Among Others by [...]

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Nelson and the Eisner’s – Hurrying, Hurrying…

5. April 2012

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As you may know by now, our book Nelson has been nominated for an Eisner in the best anthology category (see here). It’s widely held that the Eisners are comics equivalent of the Oscars. I’m pleased for Blank Slate and for editors Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix who, along with more than fifty top British [...]

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Eisner nominees announced

5. April 2012

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Late last night this year’s nominees for the prestigious Eisner awards were announced across the Pond. Marvel’s Daredevil tops the list of noms with no less than six in its direction, the graphic novel Tale of Sand, based on an unproduced screenplay y the late, great (and still much missed) Jim Henson grabbed an impressive [...]

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The Arthur C Clarke Award

29. March 2012

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Yes, it is spring and that means more award shortlist appearing alongside the blossoming plants. In UK science fiction circles the most prestigious has to be the annual Arthur C Clarke Awards, which have recently posted up their final six shortlist nominees who will contend for this year’s gong: Greg Bear, Hull Zero Three (Gollancz) [...]

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British Animation Awards

19. March 2012

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Every two years the BAA – British Animation Awards – comes around; we’ve already mentioned the 2012 nominees on here before but I’m afraid I missed the actual ceremony announcing the winners at the end of last week. One of the nice things I have liked about the previous BAA shortlists has been the fact [...]

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LA Times Book Awards

22. February 2012

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The LA Times Book Prize shortlists have been announced and for the third year they include a category for graphic novels, with several intersting titles contending for the top gong this year: I Will Bite You! And Other Stories, Joseph Lambert (Secret Acres) Celluloid, Dave McKean (Fantagraphics) Finder: Voice, Carla Speed McNeil (Dark Horse) Congress [...]

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Nebula Awards shortlist

21. February 2012

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organisation has announced the shortlist for the 2011 Nebula Awards; the contenders for this prestigious SF&F award this year are: Novel Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press) Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books) God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books) [...]

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Manga Jiman 2011 winners

13. February 2012

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The Embassy of Japan in the UK has once more held it’s now almost traditional Manga Jiman competition (always great to see anyone encouraging new comics talent) and the winners were announced recently. The top prize (which includes a flight to Japan) went to Elena Vitagliano for her The Deep Needs Train, garnering much praise [...]

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Manga Jiman competition and exhibition

2. February 2012

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The Embassy of Japan and partners have again organised the now traditional annual Manga Jiman competition for new manga comics talent in the UK. The award ceremony is due to be held this Friday in the Japanese Embassy in London, where the final selection will be made. Competing for the top prize (a return trip [...]

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First Graphic Novel winner announced

22. January 2012

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As part of the First Fictions literary festival at the University of Sussex this weekend Myriad Editions (publishers of Rumble Strip among others good graphic works) had the First Graphic Novel competition. As we mentioned previously on the blog the nominees had been willowed down to a final shortlist of seven candidates, all of such [...]

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