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Angoulême wrap up: Jean-Claude Denis wins Gran Prix; Jim Woodring wins Special Jury Prize
Last week's Angoulême festival extravaganza wrapped up with the presentation of the Grand Prix to Jean-Claude Denis, whose career goes back to the 70s but is perhaps best known in France for Luc Leroi. The Grand Prix is presented for a lifetime body of work -- Denis is [read more]
Lucey and Dirks selected for 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame
This year's Eisner nominating panel has made their choices for automatic inclusion in the Hall of Fame: Rudolph Dirks, who pioneered the newspaper comic strip with The Katzenjammer Kids, and Harry Lucey, a long time Archie artist credited with co-creating the characters.
In addition, the judges selected 14 [read more]
Oscar noms: 11 for HUGO, zero for Tintin; complete list
The nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards are in, and HUGO led the way with 11 noms, including best picture, director and screenplay. Based on Brian Selznick's illustrated children's novel, if you squint a bit it qualifies as a "graphic novel" movie.
The animated films list is a bit of [read more]
They Love Us!: American Library Association 2012 Youth Media Awards
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The 2012 edition of the American Libraries Midwinter Conference concludes tomorrow in Dallas. At each mid-winter conference in January, the ALA announces Youth Media Awards, as well as other “year’s best” list for various books and media. Selected by librarians behind closed doors, these awards bring [read more]
23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards comics nominations anounced
The 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Award Nominees are out, including five in the comics category which exemplify positive media portrayals of GLBT characters: [read more]
Tran and Rea win Society of Illustrators medals
The Society of Illustrators, an august institution long devoted to the now-vanishing artform of magazine illustration, has in recent years presented medals in the Sequential category for comics-type stuff. this year's winners include a gold medal for GB Tran's VIETNAMERICA and a silver medal for [read more]
Announcing the Comics Industry People of the Year: Kate Beaton and Dan DiDio/Jim Lee
Last year the Beat inaugurated the Person of the Year award. In an industry where changing the status quo isn't always greeted with joy, this is our way of recognizing the people who either move the needle and shake things up or exemplify a level of excellence that others can [read more]
Awards wrap-up: TINTIN wins Golden Globe; Green Lantern wins People’s Choice
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN triumphed in the Best Animated Feature category at the Golden Globes last night -- a surprising loss for Pixar, but then their entry this year, Cars 2, wasn't really in the same league as their other recent masterpieces. Director Steven Spielberg seemed happy to win -- [read more]
NCS snnounced first Reuben Award for webcomics
National Cartoonist's Society president Tom Richmond announces a major, inevitable evolution of the comics strip with a new webcomics division for the Reuben Awards. The Reubens have traditionally honored the best in comic strips and illustration -- two artforms now mostly associated with Madmen era martinis and horn rim [read more]
Seuling, Schwartz among ComicsPRO Industry Appreciation Award nominees
ComicsPRO, the retailer advocacy group, has announced the 2012 nominees for their third annual Appreciation Awards, which honors pioneers in the direct market: [read more]
AWARDS: Nominations now open for 2012 Eagle Awards
NOTE FROM EDITOR: Major Spoilers is on the nominations list of Favorite Comics Related Website. We’ll leave it to you to do the voting. Press Release Do you want to boost the profile of your favourite comic of 2011? Would … Continue reading... [read more]
Must read: Best American Comics 2011 Notable list now online
Best American Comics series editors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel have just posted the Notable Comics of 2011 list, those comics that did not make the contents of this year's Alison Bechdel-edited book, but are still worthy of notice. The listing includes covers, links and more information: [read more]
Clowes and Beaton make Time’s Top 10 Fiction list
Time is rolling out its top 10 lists and two graphic books made the 'Top 10 Fiction Books list: THE DEATH RAY by Daniel Clowes and HARK! A VAGRANT by Kate Beaton, both published by Drawn & Quarterly. (To see the individual listings you'll need to go through the [read more]
2012 Eisner Judges named
Once again there are six judges this year: Brigid Alverson, Calum Johnston, Jesse Karp, Larry Marder, Ben Saunders and Mary Sturhann. Congrats to all these fine judges -- you will get to read lots of comics! [read more]
Isabel Greenberg wins the 2011 Graphic Short Story Prize
Isabel Greenberg's "Love in a Very Cold Climate" -- the story of lovers repelled by polar magnetism -- has won the 2011 Graphic Short Story prize given out by the Observer/Comica/Vintage Books.
London-Based Greenberg has contributed previously to Nobrow and Solipsistic Pop. The story is part of [read more]
Frankfurt Comic-Con 2011
While 105,000 people converged upon the New York Comic Con last week, some 150,000 booksellers, publishers, and bibiophiles packed the halls at the Frankfurt Book Fair, held October 12-16. [read more]
The Shel Dorf Awards — all the winners
Here's the complete list of the winners, which were presented Saturday night at the Detroit Fanfare convention. The Shel Dorf Awards are presented to recognize "the comic industries best and brightest talents" and voted on by fans. The award recognize the contributions of Dorf, the co-founder of the San [read more]
The Beat wins Shelf Dorf Award for Best Comics Blogger!
The Shel Dorf awards were given out this weekend at the Detroit Fanfare con, and while the complete winner list has not been posted anywhere we could find, we know we won for Best Comics Blogger! Woot! The competition was tough and to have prevailed is really humbling and gratifying. [read more]
Seth wins Harbourfront Festival Prize; tours
Another cartoonist has won a prestigious prize, this time Seth winning the Harbourfront Festival Prize for his body of work. [read more]
2011 Ignatz Awards winners
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Last night the Ignatz Award were presented by host Dustin Harbin at the 2w011 SPX. The awards are chosen by attendeed. The winners are:
Outstanding Mini Comic
* Ben Died of a Train, Box Brown
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
* I Will Bite You, Joseph Lambert
Outstanding Online Comic
* Hark! [read more]