Tag Archive | "Awards"

Vote in the Broken Frontier Awards

Tuesday, December 20, 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

Monday, December 19, 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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More news from the ACBD

Monday, December 19, 2011

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From the shortlist for the 2012 edition of its annual award, the French ACBD (the Association of Comics Critics and Journalists) has given the prize (the Grand Prix De la Critique) to the graphic novel, Polina, by Bastien Vivès.  Earlier this year, the book was also awarded the Libraries Prize in France. We wrote about [...]

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Stan Lee Excelsior Award shortlist announced

Wednesday, December 7, 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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Expocomic announces 2011 winners

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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At the Expocomic festival in Madrid, Spain, the winners of the 2011 awards were announced last week.   The lifetime achievement award went to Esteban Maroto, who is probably best known for his work for various Warren Publications magazines, such as Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella.  He is also credited with the design of Red Sonja’s [...]

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Call for entries: 13th International Festival of aphorism & caricature Strumica

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Caricaturque has news of a call for entries from cartoonist for the 13th International Festival of aphorism & caricature in Strumica next year. There are two categories to enter, Aphorism and Caricature, and the them is Carnival-Erotica, with Gold, Silver and Bronze awards up for grabs; final date for any entries is January 16th 2012, [...]

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Best of the year, a la Francaise

Thursday, November 24, 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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Graphic Short Story Prize 2011

Monday, November 7, 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

Friday, November 4, 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

Wednesday, November 2, 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

Wednesday, November 2, 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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Northern Sequential Art Competition 2011 – last few days to enter

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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The deadline for this year’s Northern Sequential Art Competition (part of the wonderful Thought Bubble comics bash in Leeds) has been extended to Friday 4th of November, so if  you haven’t tried your luck yet then you still have a couple of days to get that work in there. And the organisers also add that [...]

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Dundee Comics Prize

Monday, October 31, 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

Thursday, October 13, 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

Thursday, October 6, 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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