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This year's nominees for the GLAAD Awards, which " recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives" go to the usual array of mainstream direct market titles. Astonishing X-Men by Marjorie Liu Marvel Batwoman by W Haden Blackman, J.H[...]

The Eisner Awards 2013 have opened nominations for this year's awards, to be presented at San Diego Comic Con. The tentative categories include best short story, best single issue, best continuing comic book series (at least two issues must have been published in 2012), best limited series (at least half of the series must have been[...]

What a lot of lovely comics we've had so far. Some, we knew were going to be fantastic. The new Grandville from Bryan Talbot, Chris Ware's Building

Patrick Dane writes for Bleeding Cool With memories of the London Film Festival slowly falling into the back of my mind, tonight actually provided a very welcome reminder of the amount of great films that showed. The BIFA awards took place in London, rewarding the best of British Independent Film* Here's a full list of nominees with[...]

Jae Lee will be doing similar (with their Jae Lee exclusive cover of Masks #1) on the 28th. MEDIA DISCOVER COMICS ONE MORE TIME Partly as a result of the Costa Book Awards nominating two graphic novels on their 2012 short list, the media has been discovering comic books again Apparently some of them aren't just for[...]

Bleeding Cool reported on this year's announcement and awarding of the Best Practice Awards, given to retailers by Diamond Comic Distributors Those ten categories are to be joined by a further five this year; Best Back Issue Section Best Website Best Store Logo Usage Best Customer Loyalty Program Best PREVIEWS Display The last one seems a little self serving, but then[...]

Has anyone encountered anyone trying to sell these items? STOLEN! Got back parcels of our Inkwell Awards materials following Heroes Con from the USPS and one box was empty although it had the stamp for $13.44 and had been resealed Problem is we didn't insure the box so I could only get the postage reimbursed and[...]

When Awards Administrator Jackie Estrada was asked 'why', her response was this: "The judges chose to not have the New Series and Painter categories this year because they didn't find enough contenders that reached the level of quality they were looking for," followed later with "but I'm not sure Daredevil would be eligible, since it's a[...]

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; That’s it people; the voting is over and done for! It’s pining for the fjords! You no longer have the

AwardWatch: Bleeding Cool hinted at a bit of a blowup of the Eagle Awards in our Kapow coverage two weeks ago The Awards were held last weekend (Bleeding Cool won one) but without organisers Mike Conroy and Cassandra Conroy, stalwarts of the British con scene The awards became jointly owned by MCM and the Conroys a few[...]

Where not only will we be launching the Bleeding Cool Magazine, but on Friday evening, hosting the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards. Voting closes tomorrow, and some of the categories are too close to call This is your last chance to have a say in deciding the best of something And to have it announced somewhere[...]

Packed with new material, artwork and interviews, The Martini Edition is a massive homerun, and the boys over at IDW Publishing once again set the bar a little higher. It's obvious that Cooke has put his blood, sweat, and tears into this universe over the past few years, and that kind of passion is what continues[...]

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; It’s May already? Time certainly does fly when you’re discussing good comics, but passes by more slowly when

Last year, the PRISM Awards gave their honour for the best portrayal of substance abuse or mental health issues in a comic book to Cry For Justice: Rise Of Arsenal. Which was basically the equivalent of giving the Best Comic For Kids award to Crossed. This year, the award ceremony honoured a less controversial choice, Rob William's[...]

  Countdown To The Eisners by Cameron Hatheway This week is all about the little rascals! The categories I’ll be taking a look at are Best Publication for

As usual with the awards, there were some surprises and some snubs all around Hell, an entire category was snubbed completely this year! With the winners being announced July 13th at Comic-Con International, this gives me enough time to share with you every week my picks of what I feel should win in each category. Keep[...]

Other nominated comic books were Avengers: The Children's Crusade, Secret Six, Veronica Presents: Kevin Keller and X-Factor. This is a second win for writer/artist JH Williams III, who won two years ago with Greg Rucka for Detective Comics featuring the same character. The GLAAD Awards, now in their 23rd year, celebrate the portrayal of LGBT issues in[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors has again awarded the winners of their Diamond Gem Awards for 2011 And DC Comics have wiped the board, with their name on eleven of the twenty-one awards.  Though now they are listed as DC Entertainment rather than DC Comics. DC has again won for Best Publisher, an award they have won for[...]

I know, I know, how provincial, a US-based website goes and puts the US comic creator who won the jury prize at Angoulême in the headline. Guilty as

Oh look, a comic book award that Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press has a shot at actually winning. The Third Annual Horror Comic Awards, voting open until the end of the year Here are the nominees Oh look I accidentally listed the Avatar nominees in bold red. Writer of the Year Mike Mignola on Hellboy Joe Hill on Locke[...]

Here are the judges for next years Eisner Awards, to be held at the San Diego Comic Con! In Western-traditional reading order, they are… Brigid Alverson, comics journalist and reviewer After earning an MFA in printmaking, Brigid worked as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter She started MangaBlog to keep track of her[...]

I am a particular fan of The Gutters, a weekly comics industry satirical online strip. But even I was surprised to see it nominated so many times in the Harvey Awards nomination list, just released. It has been nominated for: Best Colorist Ed Ryzowski, Gutters. Best Online Comics Work Gutters, Lar Desouza, Ed Ryzowski and Ryan Sohmer. Best New Series Gutters, Lar[...]

VP Marketing & Industry Relations for PRISM took me through the criteria. There are three scoring criteria for the PRISM Awards, each rated on a 10 point scale Our reviewers include PhDs and MDs in the field of the PRISM issues. 1 Accuracy related to the PRISM issues of substance use[...]

Here are the nominees, see you all at San Diego Comic Con for the awards! Best Short Story "Bart on the Fourth of July," by Peter Kuper, in Bart Simpson #54 (Bongo) "Batman, in Trick for the Scarecrow," by Billy Tucci, in DCU Halloween Special 2010 (DC) "Cinderella," by Nick Spencer and Rodin Esquejo, in Fractured Fables (Silverline Books/Image) "Hamburgers[...]

It has been alleged that the C2E2 Bleeding Cool Awards 2011 were broadcast on a cable station somewhere in the USA We are trying to track this down Until then, here are a few short videos the capture a small part of that quite bizarre evening… Film Of 2011 That If It's Shit We Will Die[...]

On Saturday at 5.30pm at C2E2, we'll be holding the inaugural Bleeding Cool C2E2 Awards The first major comics awards of the year and definitely the silliest, with some of the greats in comics and webcomics presenting the awards on the night And probably no one actually turning up to claim theirs… But with thousands of[...]

The Bleeding Cool Awards at C2E2 seem to be shaping up nicely With tens of thousands of votes flooding in, we can now announce a few of those presenting prizes at the first major comics awards of year And definitely the silliest. They currently include Ben Templesmith, Nick Spencer, Jamal Igle, Charles Brownstein, Tim Seeley, Dirk[...]

Warren Ellis, Ben Templesmith and Stadium Comics of Bromption, Ohio have joined the nominees of the Bleeding Cool Awards, to be held on the Saturday evening during Chicago comic convention, C2E2 The first two on the Twitterer Of The Year nomination list, the latter on the Comic Shop Least Likely To Be Mistaken For The[...]

San Diego has the Eisner Awards Baltimore Comic Con has the Harveys SPX has the Ignatz Well, C2E2 has its own comic book awards, the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards To be voted on by your good selves The choices have been made by a selection of judges who wish to remain secret, but there's space[...]