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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 18, 2009
Voting is now open in the annual awards from Blighty’s top selling science fiction mag SFX. Actually they opened a number of days ago and I clean forgot to post a link up to it, but as they voting is open until 5th December there’s still plenty of time to consider who you will cast [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
Kevin at Robot 6 and others have been reporting on this year’s Ignatz winners which were announced over the weekend at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. The Ignatz winners (and indeed the shortlist nominees) are usually a damned fine place to pick up some recommended reading suggestions from the independent comics presses, from [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 20, 2009
There’s been a bunch of SF&F and comics awards over the last few days – the British Fantasy Society awards were given out at Fantasycon (doubtless over many drinks), with William Heaney taking the gong for Best Novel (the August Derleth Fantasy Award) for Memoirs of a Master Forger, Doctor Who took the Best Television [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 11, 2009
Good friend of the blog Alex Fitch alerts us to the fact that the Prism organisers are still encouraging creators to apply for their annual grants which are designed to help creators involved with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender comics, through both a monetary grant and doing their best to help promote the comics to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Convention Reporter kept up a stream of Tweets last night (Canada time, early hours of this morning for the UK) from the weekend’s Worldcon, one of science fiction’s major global annual events, including live updates from the prestigious Hugo Awards. This year the Hugos decided to include a specific category for Best Graphic Story, the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Over the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con this year’s Eisner Awards were announced and as well as winners from the bigger publishers like DC, Marvel and Dark Horse its good to see some of the quality Indy presses like Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics all scoring too: Best Short Story: “Murder He Wrote,” by [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
Paul Gravett kindly drops us a line to let us know that this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica competition for short graphical fiction was announced in Sunday’s Observer. This is rapidly becoming a major event in the UK comics calendar, offering not just a chance for comics creators to try their luck but to also perhaps catch [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 7, 2009
SF writer par excellence, Boing Boinger, lecturer and gentleman Cory Doctorow has won this year’s Prometheus Award, given by the Libertarian Futurist Society for science fiction which explores notions of liberty and freedom. Cory’s acclaimed Young Adult novel Little Brother, which has youngsters becoming grassroots activists in the face of governments endlessly curtailing civil liberties [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The nominees for this year’s Harvey Awards have been announced and while there are some very fine works in contention with one another it does seem to me on first glance that several titles seem to repeat in a large number of categories (not unusual of course). Good works, I should add – I’m not [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 29, 2009
The awards ceremony on the last night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday saw Indy low budget science fiction flick Moon win the coveted Michael Powell award for Best New British Feature Film, while the gorgeous Irish animated film The Secret of Kells won the Standard Life Audience (voted for by the actual [...]
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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