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Books: The Clarke Award, a report by our wandering man of letters, James Bacon

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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In the middle of last week the most prestigious awards ceremony celebrating one of our hugely rich strands of literary heritage, British science fiction, took place, mixing discussion of real science, speculation by scientists of The Shape of Things To Come and the crossover between fiction and real science, as well as the awards themselves. [...]

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Comics: the 9th Art Award at the Edinburgh Book Fest

Thursday, May 2, 2013

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I’ve already blogged a bit about how the Edinburgh International Book Festival – the world’s biggest literary fest – is planning to hugely up their comics related events this August. I’ve been hearing more bits and pieces from various folk which is making me more convinced this year’s Festival is going to be a corker [...]

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Books: Chris Beckett wins the Arthur C Clarke Award

Thursday, May 2, 2013

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Last night in the historic environs of the Royal Society in London the annual Arthur C Clarke Awards, the most prestigious of the UK’s literary science fiction awards, were held. Against stiff competition which included some of the real heavyweights of the genre such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken MacLeod, the judges decided to [...]

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Comics UK: Eisner Awards Nominations….

Sunday, April 28, 2013

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The Eisner Award nominations were announced a little while ago, meant to say something when these were announced, but what can I say… time eh? A couple of interesting things about the awards first. It’s going to be interesting to see just how dominant the triple unstoppable forces of comics that are Brubaker and Phillips’ [...]

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Books: the Arthur C Clarke Award nominees

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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The final six shortlisted nominees for the UK’s most prestigious science fiction literature award, the Arthur C Clarke Awards, have been announced: Nod by Adrian Barnes (Bluemoose) Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus) Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann) The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (Headline) Intrusion by Ken MacLeod (Orbit) 2312 by Kim Stanley [...]

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British Comic Awards…. Get your nominations in now!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

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As you may or may not know, the British Comic Awards return for a second year to Thought Bubble in November. The new BCA Committee has been assembled, the judging panel will be announced a little later in the year. I’m on the committee (Richard) as is fellow FPI Blog writer Zainab. The BCA works [...]

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British Comic Awards 2013 – Committee announced…

Monday, March 18, 2013

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The British Comic Awards Committee for 2013 has been announced over at the BCA website. This year we have a committee of 10 plus award founder Adam Cadwell as chairman. We think we’ve got a great range of skills and interests on the committee, meaning we should be able to cover every aspect of British [...]

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Awards: Manga Jiman winners announced

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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The nice folk at the Embassy of Japan in London kindly dropped us a line to let us know they have posted up the results of their annual Manga Jiman comics award, which, now in its sixth year, has become one of the fixtures on the UK comics calendar. This year the winning entry was [...]

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From our continental correspondent – All’s well for Ever Meulen

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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2013 has started pretty well for Flemish illustrator, cartoonist and overall graphical genius Ever Meulen. Earlier this month, he was honoured with the Henry Van de Velde Award for his career.  The award, is presented by Design Flanders, the Flemish government agency promoting Flemish design, and aims at celebrating exceptional design professionals and companies active [...]

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Slate team up with CCS for new comics prize

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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Slate Book Review have joined with the Center for Cartoon Studies to award a new comics prize, entitled the Cartoonist Studio Prizes. The award has two categories: best graphic novel and best webcomic, for which both shortlists are selected by a combination of New Yorker art editor and Toon Books founder, Francoise Mouly, students and [...]

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