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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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British Comic Awards 2013 – Nominations OPEN

Saturday, February 23, 2013

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Nominations are now open for the 2nd annual British Comic Awards, celebrating the very best in this wonderful world of British Comics that we have the pleasure of writing about every day. You can find all the details you need at the BCA website, but just a quick reminder about the awards and how they [...]

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Comics: Women at the British Comic Awards

Friday, November 30, 2012

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I have been thinking a lot about women, comics and sexism in the past few months, working out thoughts, ideas and gearing up to write something. This was not how I intended my first piece on the issue to be. Earlier in the week, the Forbidden Planet International blog carried a short interview with comics [...]

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Comics: the British Comics Awards – on film!

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Okay, on video rather than film if you want to be pedantic, but you get the meaning. Anne Holiday recorded them and has posted up a short video of it all online, a nice way for those of us who couldn’t be at the first Brit Comics Awards to see a bit of the ceremony: [...]

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British Comic Awards: Hall Of Fame Recipient 2012 – Raymond Briggs

Monday, November 26, 2012

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(Photograph by Jonathan Brady from thetimes.co.uk.) Over at the British Comic Awards website, Adam Cadwell has posted a heartfelt tribute to the very first Hall of Fame recipient Raymond Briggs. Well worth a read over at the BCA website, but I’ll end with Adam’s closing words, as they sum it up perfectly, an award for a true [...]

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British Comic Awards 2012 – The Ceremony

Sunday, November 25, 2012

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(Adam Cadwell opens the British Comic Awards) Saturday night, 17th November 2012. The first annual British Comic Awards, held in the Bury Theatre at the Armouries Hall at the Leeds Thought Bubble Festival and hosted by the man responsible for the whole thing; Adam Cadwell. The committee was there, the judges were there, the nominees were [...]

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Comics: The British Comics Awards – THE RESULTS ARE HERE

Saturday, November 17, 2012

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Tonight, at Leeds Thought Bubble Convention, the first ever British Comic Awards were handed out. I shall tell you all about the fun behind the awards at a later date, but right now the important things…. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, it gives me great, great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2012 [...]

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This weekend…. Thought Bubble and the first British Comic Awards…

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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Right, this weekend has rather sneaked up on me. But all this week there are events, and this weekend we have the annual Thought Bubble comic convention, two days of comic stuff over two venues in Leeds. Essentially it’s a damn fine convention. You should go. There’s lots on…. Oh, one other thing. There’s a [...]

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British Comic Awards – Judges Announced

Monday, October 22, 2012

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The British Comic Awards; designed to be the definitive guide to what the very best in UK comics right here and right now, simple, streamlined, and focusing on great British comic work in just 5 categories; Best Comic, Best Book, Emerging Talent, Hall Of Fame, and Young People’s Comic Award. The nominations for Best Comic, Best [...]

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