In January, Bleeding Cool reported on The Graphic Novel Prize, a new annual prize from the UK wing of Scholastic, the biggest comic book publisher and distributor in the US and the UK, with a monetary award for each winning graphic novel of £1,000, but also that shortlisted titles had to pay £1750 towards promotion[...]
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The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors selected the "remix" pseudo-sequel to Alan Moore and David Gibbons' comic book classic as one of 60 nominees for this year's awards (earning its nod in the Entertainment category).
The Seventh Kavalry went looking for Dr Manhattan, and they found him on Watchmen (courtesy of HBO).
The Peabody Awards recognize the[...]
By Christopher Helton
With Gen Con at the end of the month, award season for tabletop roleplaying games is in full swing Last week the ENnies were announced, to no small amount of controversy, and today the Diana Jones Award shortlist has been announced While, like with any award, the games included (or excluded) can generate controversy, but I[...]
Announced on BBC's Front Row (listen to it here), Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot has won the Costa Best Book Award for Best Biography. Another graphic novel had been noiminated for Best Novel, Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart.
Bryan Talbot tells me;
It's amazing, not just for us but[...]
Louie Falcetti, reporting for Bleeding Cool from San Diego Comic Con tells us that Mike Carey, in his Spotlight panel at the show, has just been handed this year's writer's Inkpot Award, as Geoff Darrow was for the artist's award earlier today.
He seems rather happy, don't you think?
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It's been nominated for an Eisner. Twice. The trade paperback collection is coming. Soon. I'll be buying a copy for my daughters. Both of them. And now,
The MCM London Expo is now the home of the longstanding Eagle Awards (and yes, you can vote for Bleeding Cool there)
But with Fables co-creator Mark Buckingham, Danger Academy co-creator Tony Lee and Titan Publishng senior editor Steve White, they are launching a new competition to reward and recognise new British talent.
It's all being paid[...]