Tag Archive | "Awards"

The Tartan Bucket

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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Down the Tubes reports that this year’s Dundee Comics Day, now part of the Dundee Literary Festival at Dundee University, will include a competition to create a new character and short story (up to two pages) aimed at a younger reading audience (comparable to the readership of the Beano). The competition is in conjunction with [...]

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Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist

Friday, March 4, 2011

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The judges have been busy and the formidable task of winnowing down the 54 eligible science fiction novels (from some 22 different publishers and imprints) for this year’s Arthur C Clarke award – no easy task, there were some quite brilliant writers, established and new, among those (see here). The judging panel consisted of Jon [...]

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Arthur C Clarke Award ‘longlist’

Monday, February 28, 2011

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Torque Control has up the list of the eligible novels for this year’s prestigious Arthur C Clarke awards; it isn’t really a longlist as such, but for simplicity’s sake it seems easier to refer to it that way. The final shortlist of nominees for the UK top literary science fiction award will be announced this [...]

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Annie Awards

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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I missed this over the weekend, but the annual Annie Awards for animation took place in LA with awards spread over some 25 categories. Big winner of the night wasn’t Pixar, surprisingly, but DreamWorks with How To Train Your Dragon, which took the coveted Best Animated Feature gong (could that be an indicator of possible [...]

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Eagle Award and Stan Lee Awards Open…..

Saturday, February 5, 2011

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The Eagle Awards have been Britain’s main comic awards for the better part of the last 30 plus years. And although occasionally there’s been the odd (how shall we say it…..) dubious result and various allegations of vote manipulation, they’ve consistently shown a great range of winners, from the UK and the US. This year, [...]

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Stan Lee Excelsior Award

Thursday, February 3, 2011

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Paul Register,  Learning Resource Centre Manager at Ecclesfield School in Sheffield, has been explaining to us about a new comics award which he’s been involved in setting up and, rather nicely, it is an award which is being powered not by judges drawn from industry sources but from readers in schools. More specifically some 14 [...]

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Comics for the Hugo awards: ” for your consideration”

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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The Hugo Awards, given out at the annual science fiction worldcon each year, are one of the major SF awards in the calendar; in the last couple of years a graphic category has been added to the awards mix alongside the books and other categories. A problem that some have identified though is that a [...]

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BSFA shortlist announced

Monday, January 17, 2011

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The shortlist for the annual British Science Fiction Association awards – along with the Arthur C Clarke Awards the main literary SF award in the UK -has been announced and Torque Control has ‘em: Best Novel Paolo Bacigalupi – The Windup Girl (Orbit) Lauren Beukes – Zoo City (Angry Robot) Ken Macleod – The Restoration [...]

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Martin Rowson wins political cartoonist of the year

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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(Martin Rowson with Steve Bell at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, pic from my Flickr) SelfMadeHero are reporting that one of their artists, the excellent Martin Rowson, (who adapted Tristram Shandy for SMH recently), has won the Political Cartoonist of the Year award from the Political Cartoon Society: “In a year in which our [...]

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Canada Reads

Friday, November 26, 2010

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Some fab news from one of our favourite publishers of fine comics, Top Shelf: CBC runs a nationwide book programme called Canada Reads, in which 5 finalists go up against one another to be named the number 1 book of the year. Each book is championed by a celebrity to try and promote more interest [...]

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Short animation oscars longlist

Monday, November 22, 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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Trese wins at the National Book Awards

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Great news for Filipino comics creators Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo: their well-received graphic novel Trese has won at the National Book Awards. Budjette notes that they had been nominated back in the 2008 NBA and didn’t win, despite being the only finalist for the graphic novel category (an odd state of affairs explained here). [...]

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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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