The nomination process for the 2013 British Comic Awards is now open and you can suggest your favourite titles for consideration by the Awards Committee here on the BCA web site. The Committee welcomes input and suggestions from anyone and… Read More ›
The shortlist for the 2013 Stan Lee Excelsior Awards has been announced and includes two British titles – Strontium Dog : The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha and Classical Comics’ Sweeney Todd – alongside several overeseas projects. Created by… Read More ›
Mary Talbot‘s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes has won the biography section in the 2012 Costa Book Awards. Drawn by husband Bryan Talbot, the award has delighted the couple, who The Guardian reports have known about their win for some… Read More ›
(Updated): Two graphic novels – Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot and Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart – feature in the short list for this year’s Costa Book Awards – considered one of… Read More ›
(Updated 19/11/12): The winners of the first British Comic Awards were announced at Thought Bubble last night. If you were at the Awards Ceremony, I hope you were pleased by the results. This was the first year of the BCAs… Read More ›
The nominees for this year’s (and first) British Comic Awards have been announced. The awards are intended as the definitive guide to what the very best in UK comics, focusing on great British comic work in five categories: Best Comic,… Read More ›
Congratulations are in order to SciFi Art Now cover artist John Picacio and artist Lee Moyer for their much-deserved 2012 Chelsey Award wins, given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year for excellence in genre art…. Read More ›
The full results of the Stan Lee Excelsior Award 2012 can now be revealed! This award for graphic novels is fully endorsed by The Stan Lee Foundation and the School Library Association. Seventy seven UK schools took part this year… Read More ›
The “little comic that could” No More Heroes picked up the award for Best Comic at the SICBA (Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards) event held at Glasgow Comic Con over the weekend. The four-issue mini-series about the suspicious death of… Read More ›
News today (via The Emperor and the Forbidden Planet Blog) of the launch of the British Comic Awards website. The British Comic Awards is described as a brand new initiative to annually celebrate the very best in British comics. The… Read More ›
Congratulations to Grant Morrison, who has been awarded an MBE, recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List (pdf) “for services to film and literature”. The annual list was published this weekend and saw just three authors – crime writer Susan… Read More ›
Lancaster-based game designers Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton have won the award for Best Role-Playing Game at this year’s UK Games Expo in Birmingham, for their table-top steampunk role-playing game, Abney Park’s Airship Pirates. Based on the songs of Seattle-based… Read More ›
Congratulations to Bryan Talbot this morning, for winning the prestgious Prix SNCF prize for the French edition of his ace graphic novel Grandville Mon Amour. Bryan won the Prix SNCF for best graphic novel at a ceremony at the Gare… Read More ›
“People often say ‘Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet’ and this is one of those times,” announced Eagle Awards chair Cassandra Conroy. Referring to an announcement made by MCM Expo’s Bryan Cooney at the conclusion of 2012 Eagle… Read More ›
Comic-Con International have announced that Blank Slate’s Nelson has been nominated for the Best Anthology honour in the 2012 edition of the the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Created by a team of 54 of the UK’s most prominent comic… Read More ›
The Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con have just released the official Nomination Ballot for this year’s Harvey Awards. Named in honour of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey… Read More ›
Continuing Panel Borders month of shows about about non practitioners’ love of comics, Alex Fitch talks to Lord Baker of Dorking about his contributions as lender and patron of The Cartoon Museum to their latest exhibition ‘Her Maj: Sixty years… Read More ›
As many readers here may already know, ace artist Eddie Campbell has been nominated to receive the Angouleme Festival’s Essential Prize at this year’s festival for his “Alec” work. To celebrate, new digital publisher Panel Nine is selling Eddie Campbell’s Dapper… Read More ›
The nomination round for the Eagle Awards 2012 is now open. Introducec in 1976, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes, they have been featured on the covers of leading US and… Read More ›
After months of deliberation, tears and tribulations (and a lot of reading), eight books have been selected and the Shortlist for the 2012 Stan Lee Excelsior Award have now been revealed. The titles include just one British title – the… Read More ›