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First Fictions & First Graphic Novel Prize this weekend

20. January 2012

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This weekend sees the First Fictions literary festival at the University of Sussex, in conjunction with the publishers Myriad Editions (home to graphic novel works like Woodrow Phoenix’s Rumble Strip and Darryl Cunningham’s upcoming Science Tales). The festival will also see the announcement of the winner of the First Graphic Novel Competition; as we mentioned [...]

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Philip K Dick shortlist announced

20. January 2012

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The British Fantasy Society notes that the shortlist is out for the nominees for the prestigious Philip K Dick award for science fiction. Actually it’s been up for a few days, I think, but I seem to have missed it somehow. Those in the running this year are: The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett [...]

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Eagle Awards 2012 – Nominations Open

7. January 2012

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The annual Eagle Awards have just announced that the nominations for the 2012 Awards (comics published in 2011) are now open at The Eagle Awards website. As usual, nominations are open until 1st February, when the top five nominations in each category will be moved to the voting process, starting 15th February. The 2012 Eagle [...]

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Vote in the Broken Frontier Awards

20. December 2011

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Top geek site Broken Frontier has the voting now open for their annual awards – you can go there and cast your votes up until December 23rd, with the winners being announced on January 10th. And I can’t help but notice in the Best Publisher and Best Original Graphic Novel categories our very own Blank [...]

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First Graphic Novel Competition shortlist announced

19. December 2011

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Bryan Talbot alerts us to the announcement of the shortlist for the first ever First Graphic Novel Competition, organised by Myriad Editions (publisher of, among others, Woodrow Phoenix’s Rumblestrip, Nicola Streeten’s Billy, Me & You and Darryl Cunningham’s upcoming Science Tales). Seven contenders have been chosen for the final shortlist from a list of seventy [...]

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Stan Lee Excelsior Award shortlist announced

7. December 2011

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Paul Register kindly drops us a line to let us know that the shortlist has been announced for the second Stan Lee Excelsior Award. As you may recall the first such award took place earlier this year, organised by Paul (with Stan the Man’s blessing to use his name) and involved a large number of [...]

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Best of the year, a la Francaise

24. November 2011

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The French take their comics very seriously.  Every year the 65 members of the Association of Comics Journalists (or ACBD) select a number of books from the deluge that typically appears between November 1st and October 31st.  This list is then trimmed down to a shortlist, which contains a mere 15 books, which are “comics, [...]

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Teapot Therapy

8. November 2011

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We do like a good cuppa, that’s what other nations say about the Brits, and actually as national stereotyping goes it is fairly accurate, we do indeed like a good brew (and preferably a biccy to dunk as well, please) and it is an almost universal British response to almost any situation, be it welcome [...]

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Graphic Short Story Prize 2011

7. November 2011

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Nearly missed this, but the Observer announced the winner of this year’s Cape/Comics/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize yesterday. This fifth year of the prize pulled in over 200 entrants and the standard was apparently very high, I’m pleased to hear, meaning the judges – David Nicholls, Bryan Talbot, Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin, Paul Gravett and [...]

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Gallery up for Northern Sequential Art Competition entrants

4. November 2011

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The Thought Bubble folks have posted up a gallery of the entrants for this year’s Northern Sequential Art Competition. I rather like that we can all have a glimpse of some of the entries – usually most of us don’t see the works entered into comics competitions until after the winners are announced, and not [...]

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Irish Comic News Awards 2011 Winners

2. November 2011

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I missed this earlier in the week, but the Irish Comic News site posted the winners of their 2011 awards up: Best Self Published Irish Artist (includes pencilers, inkers, colourists) Alan Nolan Best Self Published Irish Writer Mike Lynch Best Mainstream Published Irish Artist (includes pencilers, inkers, colourists) Nick Roche Best Mainstream Published Irish Writer [...]

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Olivier Cadic decorated

2. November 2011

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Olivier Cadic, who has created a lot of happy readers and friends here by publishing translated French language comics works into English with Cinebook, was recently honoured, being inducted by the French ambassador to the United Kingdom into the Chevalier dans l’Ordre national du Mérite for both official duties and for bringing French culture to [...]

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Dundee Comics Prize

31. October 2011

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The first Dundee Comic Prize was given out over the weekend at the Dundee Comics Day; Graphic Scotland‘s twitter tells us the big winner was Belle’s Magic Mobile, but sadly they didn’t catch the name of the artist. Luckily I managed to get in touch with Doctor Chris Murray at the University of Dundee and [...]

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Irish Comic News Awards – voting opens

13. October 2011

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Voting is now open for the 2011 Irish Comic News Awards, with categories ranging over several areas, including best Irish creator in mainstream comics, best self published Irish work (and the small press scene in Ireland seems to be coming along very nicely right now, I’m pleased to say), best webcomic and best Irish comic [...]

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Krill Tro Thargo

6. October 2011

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British comics institution 2000 AD has announced a new award for loyal readers – - regular readers are already known as Squaxx dek Thargo, or ‘friends of Tharg, the alien editor of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. The next level up is the coveted Krill Tro Thargo, which will be awarded to those fans who have [...]

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