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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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Science fiction series win at TV Choice Awards

7. September 2010

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(Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in Doctor Who, (c) BBC) In among the usual soap opera and ‘talent’ shows (I may be using the word talent quite wrongly, I suspect) there were big wins for telefantasy at the TV Quick Awards, with TV SF scooping two of the major categories. Doctor Who, returned refreshed with [...]

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Hugo winners

6. September 2010

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The annual Hugos Awards, one of the leading gongs for all things science fiction, were announced at the weekend from the Land Down Under. Unusually the best novel category was a draw this year, being split between Paolo Bacigalupi for The Windup Girl and China Mieville for The City & The City. I’ve never read [...]

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Harvey Awards shortlist

12. July 2010

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Yes, it’s that time (already? where is the year going?), the shortlist for the prestigious Harvey Awards has been announced and by the four colour gods of print David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp has done exceptionally well in the nominations stakes – not a surprise to anyone who read our annual Best of the Year guest [...]

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Max and Moritz Award winners

29. June 2010

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For some reason we totally missed reading about this year’s winners of the prestigious Max and Moritz award, pretty much the major comics lit award in Germany, announced at the highly respected Erlangen festival. Fortunately Kenny noticed that the good folks at the Goethe Institut did cover it – Nicolas Mahler won best German-language draughtsman, [...]

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Gaiman wins Carnegie Award..

25. June 2010

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Congratulations to Neil Gaiman, freshly announced winner of the 2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal for The Graveyard Book. Video of the award and Gaiman’s acceptance speech is here. The Carnegie Medal is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals to the writer of “an outstanding book for children“. It’s pretty much the premier award [...]

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The Comica/Observer/Cape Graphic Short Fiction prize 2010

14. June 2010

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This year’s Comics/Observer/Jonathan Cape graphic short fiction prize is open for entries, with this year’s judges including Audrey Niffenegger, David Hughes, Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin, Suzanne Dean and Paul Gravett. First prize is £1000 and publication of the winning four page comics short in the Observer (so a good chance to show of both your [...]

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