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Stan Lee Excelsior Award

3. February 2011

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Paul Register,  Learning Resource Centre Manager at Ecclesfield School in Sheffield, has been explaining to us about a new comics award which he’s been involved in setting up and, rather nicely, it is an award which is being powered not by judges drawn from industry sources but from readers in schools. More specifically some 14 [...]

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Comics for the Hugo awards: ” for your consideration”

19. January 2011

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The Hugo Awards, given out at the annual science fiction worldcon each year, are one of the major SF awards in the calendar; in the last couple of years a graphic category has been added to the awards mix alongside the books and other categories. A problem that some have identified though is that a [...]

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BSFA shortlist announced

17. January 2011

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The shortlist for the annual British Science Fiction Association awards – along with the Arthur C Clarke Awards the main literary SF award in the UK -has been announced and Torque Control has ‘em: Best Novel Paolo Bacigalupi – The Windup Girl (Orbit) Lauren Beukes – Zoo City (Angry Robot) Ken Macleod – The Restoration [...]

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William Gibson speaks

21. December 2010

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Tom Hunter (SF fan extraordinaire and organiser of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke awards) offers us up this video recording of the great Bill Gibson reading from his recent book and then having a Q&A afterwards in Foyles of London: William Gibson Q&A at Foyles Uploaded by SFLTV. – Classic TV and last night’s shows, [...]

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Martin Rowson wins political cartoonist of the year

9. December 2010

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(Martin Rowson with Steve Bell at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, pic from my Flickr) SelfMadeHero are reporting that one of their artists, the excellent Martin Rowson, (who adapted Tristram Shandy for SMH recently), has won the Political Cartoonist of the Year award from the Political Cartoon Society: “In a year in which our [...]

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Canada Reads

26. November 2010

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Some fab news from one of our favourite publishers of fine comics, Top Shelf: CBC runs a nationwide book programme called Canada Reads, in which 5 finalists go up against one another to be named the number 1 book of the year. Each book is championed by a celebrity to try and promote more interest [...]

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Short animation oscars longlist

22. November 2010

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Following the announcement of the animated feature longlist for the Oscars last week (see here), Cartoon Brew now has a list of thirty three films which are eligible for consideration for the Best Animated Short at the Oscars; the list will be winnowed down to a shortlist of ten, which will be voted on by [...]

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Animated longlist for Oscars revealed

17. November 2010

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The longlist of animated feature films which can be considered for the final shortlist nominees for the 2011 Academy Awards have been announced, with some 15 movies competing to be in the final shortlist of three flicks which will then go head to head for Oscar glory early in the New Year. The longlist consists [...]

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The Webcomics List Awards

15. November 2010

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John Freeman points us to the Webcomics List Awards which are now open for nominations for the best in, unsurprisingly, webcomics – nominations will be taken until Monday December 20th, with the winners to be announced via an illustrated online ceremony on January 31st. Categories up for grabs are Best Comic, Best Black and White [...]

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The Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize

30. September 2010

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There’s just under a week to go until the deadline for this year’s Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize, a happening which has now become a bit of an annual event among the UK comics folks. It’s been great to see this becoming more established and it is a terrific opportunity for the talent in [...]

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Selina Lock and Bryan Talbot at the British Fantasy Awards

22. September 2010

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As blogged earlier this week the annual British Fantasy Awards were announced at the weekend; now we have video to embarass the guilty parties, including this one of Selina Lock (whose Girly Comic was shorlisted for the comics award) and Bryan Talbot presenting the award for best artist; the sculpture of the award hadn’t turned [...]

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British Fantasy Awards winners

20. September 2010

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The British Fantasy Awards were announced over the weekend at Fantasycon, with Conrad Williams taking the August Derleth Fantasy Award/Best Novel for One, which I must confess I’ve not come across before. Best novella went to Sarah Pinborough for The Language of Dying (I’ve not read that one but have read Sarah’s recent novel from [...]

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Les Recontres Chaland celebrate Swarte

17. September 2010

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On October 2nd and 3rd, the third edition of the Rencontres Chaland in Nérac, France, will celebrate Dutch cartoonist, illustrator and designer Joost Swarte as the inventor of the Ligne Claire (or at least of its name).  The Rencontres are an annual event named after ligne claire and atom style barnstormer Yves Chaland, who died [...]

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Ignatz winners announced

13. September 2010

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The winners of the Ignatz Awards were announced over the weekend at the Small Press Expo and Tom at Comics Reporter has the list of winners, which included the always excellent Eddie Campbell taking Outstanding Artist for Alec the Years Have Pants Lifesize Omnibus from Top Shelf, James Sturm winning Outstanding Graphic Novel for D&Q’s [...]

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Le prix Ouest-France-Quai des Bulles shortlist

9. September 2010

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The ten nominated titles for Le prix Ouest-France-Quai des Bulles have been announced; my French isn’t the best but from the article it looks to me like the overall winner (it’s a jury panel-selected award from the looks of  it) can expect a healthy prize of 2000 Euros, plus their BD album being promoted by [...]

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