Tag Archive | "Awards"

The Webcomics List Awards

Monday, November 15, 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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Frankfurt Book Award for My Mommy

Saturday, October 9, 2010

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My Mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill from Fanfare/ Ponent Mon, already three times a bridesmaid in the Eisner Awards, has finally made it to the altar and on Friday 8th October was awarded the prestigious German Youth Literature Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Congratulations to all involved, much deserved for [...]

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Leeds Graphic Novel Awards

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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The sparkly Thought Bubble crew alert us to the upcoming new Leeds Graphic Novel Awards, which is aimed at comics for younger readers. Nominations include evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson for Beasts of Burden, Dave Shelton for Good Dog, Bad Dog, Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank for Mezolith, Charlie Higson and Kev Walker for Silverfin, [...]

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British Fantasy Awards winners

Monday, September 20, 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

Friday, September 17, 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

Monday, September 13, 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

Thursday, September 9, 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

Tuesday, September 7, 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

Monday, September 6, 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

Monday, July 12, 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

Tuesday, June 29, 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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The Eagle Awards Initiative

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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On the back of the shortlist nominees for the Eagle Awards being announced Barry Renshaw, a well known face in the Brit comics community, formally announced a project that a number of us have been hearing snippets about recently, the Eagle Awards Initiative: “The Eagle Awards committee is to offer untried talent a chance to [...]

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Vote for Change You Can Believe In!

Monday, May 24, 2010

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The final shortlist of nominees for the Eagle Awards, the main British comics gongs, are now online, awaiting your perusal and your vote. And ‘for your consideration’ as they say in Tinsel Town, cast your eyes down to Favourite Comics Related Website and among the fine sites jostling for your attention and vote is our [...]

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China Mieville at the Arthur C Clarke Awards

Friday, April 30, 2010

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Macmillan has posted a good quality video of the quite brilliant China Mieville’s acceptance speech after winning this week at the UK’s most prestigious literary prize for good science fiction writing, the Arthur C Clarke Awards for his novel The City and the City. I love China’s work -- if you haven’t read it you [...]

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Arthur C Clarke Award winner announced

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Cheryl Morgan got the news out pretty darn quickly via Twitter that the winner of the most prestigious prize in the UK for science fiction literature, the Arthur C Clarke Award, has gone to China Mieville for The City and the City. From what Cheryl reports the post awards party bash is now in full [...]

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