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British Animation Awards nominees announced

1. March 2010

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Valerie Taylor was kind enough to let me know that the final nominees for this year’s BAA -- British Animation Awards -- in both the juried and the public voted Children’s Choice categories, have just been announced today and national treasure Aardman Animation is leading the field with no less than four noms in the [...]

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Sarah McIntyre wins book prize

10. February 2010

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A delighted and excited sounding Sarah McIntyre tells us that she’s won the Picture Book Award while attending the first ever Children’s Book Festival at Bishop’s Stortford for Morris the Mankiest Monster, which she collaborated with bestselling kid’s author Giles Andreae on.From Sarah’s blog it seems that kids from a number of local schools got [...]

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British Animation Awards – exercise your choice

8. February 2010

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Valerie from the British Animation Awards (BAA – hence the sheep logo they use), kindly updates me to events relating to the 2010 BAA. The BAA happens every two years in the UK and again in the run up to the announcement of the winners in April the public will get their chance to view [...]

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SFX Weekender – awards and news of Gaiman writing for Who (at last!)

8. February 2010

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The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]

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Annies announced, British Animation Awards to follow

7. February 2010

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We really are in awards season right now and the latest this weekend were the Annies, the gongs given out to the year’s best animation works in many categories from Best Animated Feature to Best Animated Short to categories that celebrate the individual technical feats that create those animations, such as Best Animated Effects. There [...]

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Baru takes Grand Prix at Angoulême

31. January 2010

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Tom at The Comics Reporter announces that Hervé Baruléa – better known as Baru – has won the highly prestigious Grand Prix at the annual Angoulême comics festival in France, meaning he will be the president at next year’s festival. Tom also has a run down of other awards to emerge from what’s pretty much [...]

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BSFA shortlist

25. January 2010

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The shortlist of nominees for this year’s BSFA Awards – along with the Arthur C Clarke Awards one of the pre-eminent awards for science fiction literature in the UK – have just been announced. The nominees for best novel are China Mieville  – The City and the City, Stephen Baxter – Ark, Adam Roberts – [...]

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Doctor Who wins at the National TV Awards

21. January 2010

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Last night the multi-award winning Doctor Who and outgoing Doc David Tennant scored yet again at the National TV Awards in London, with the series taking the best drama gong for the fifth year in a row, with Tennant picking up the oustanding drama performance award. And I know its not connected to SF&F (although [...]

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Kate Brown wins Arts Foundation graphic novel prize

20. January 2010

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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 [...]

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Ken Sprague Fund International Political Cartoon Competition 2010

20. January 2010

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The Ken Sprague Fund, set up in memory of the late cartoonist and campaigner for human rights and staunch supporter of socialism, has its political cartoon competition open for entries, with the 2010 competition being on the theme “Money makes the world go round: globalisation, financial meltdown, fair trade and economic justice”. The closing date [...]

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Missing in 2009 – The Eagle Awards – UPDATED

30. December 2009

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Hmmm. Andy Luke posed a question via e-mail a while ago that I’ve only just gotten around to looking at. Whatever happened to the Eagle Awards? For those that don’t know, The Eagle Awards are the premier UK comic awards, handed out annually. Or at least they were. The last time they were actually awarded was [...]

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Peter Brookes wins Political Cartoonist of the Year

14. December 2009

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(Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth lampooned for crucial equipment shortages,  by and (c) Peter Brookes) I missed this but luckily Bloghorn didn’t – The Times’ Peter Brookes took the Political Cartoonist of the Year award at the end of last week (his second PCY win, according to the accompanying Times article), with colleague Morten Morland taking the [...]

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Annie awards nominations

2. December 2009

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The nominations for the 37th annual Annie Awards, one of the highlights of the awards in the animation world, have been announced. It will be no surprise to anyone that the Best Animated Feature category is dominated by major works -- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ( Sony Pictures Animation),  Coraline ( [...]

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Coraline wins at the Children’s BAFTAs

30. November 2009

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On his journal Neil Gaiman notes that the rather lovely animated version of his younger reader’s novel Coraline has won the feature film category at the Children’s BAFTA awards. Lost and Found won the animation category, while the wonderful Bernard Cribbins, soon to return to our screens in the final David Tennant Doctor Who episodes [...]

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Cartoon Art Trust Awards

19. November 2009

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The 15th annual Cartoon Art Trust Awards were given out this week in London’s Mall Galleries, reports Bloghorn. The occasion also marked the 21st birthday of the Cartoon Art Trust, the body behind the Cartoon Museum. (Climate Talks by and (c) Morten Morland who won the Political Cartoon Award, cheekily pinched from Bloghorn’s article) The award winners [...]

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