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Tweet The winners of the 2009 Friends of Lulu Awards have been announced. Nominees were chosen by a panel, while the finalists were voted for online. Due to the various logistical problems surrounding this year’s awards, there will be no awards ceremony, but individualized awards are being sent out to the winners. And the winners [...]
TweetThe nominations for the 2009 Friends of Lulu Awards, honoring the people, projects and characters who most promoted female participation in comics have just been announced. Voting details are here. Voting is open via email until October 19th, with winners being announced in November. Kim Yale Award for Best New Talent (must have first published [...]
TweetSPX! New York Anime Fest! Chuckfest! It’s a busy week, with lots of creators on tour, and some must-attend events, whatever part of the country you live in. Check it out: Tuesday, September 22 Fairfax, VA, 3 PM – Adam Besenyodi at Fall for the Book Festival Author Adam Besenyodi will discuss his new book [...]
TweetQuiet since their first time running at MoCCA last year, the Friends of Lulu Awards are back with a new format, new awards, and a new top-notch panel of judges. Looks like they are totally back on track: The Lulu Awards are given every year to the creators who have fostered the success of women [...]
TweetHonoring the best in African-American comics (both as contributors and thematically), the nominees for this year’s Glyph Awards have been announced: Story of the Year Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist Incognegro; Mat Johnson, writer, Warren Pleece, artist Justice League of America: The Second Coming; Dwayne McDuffie, writer, Ed Benes, artist Pilot Season: Genius, Marc [...]
TweetThe nominees for this year’s Ignatz Awards have just been announced and here they are — a very, very indie list, with few of the “big” indies from FBI or D&Q represented — but a great list nonetheless. Small Press Expo (SPX) 2008 will host the twelfth annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards on Saturday [...]
Tweet§ Paul Levitz is back blogging at Newsarama, and as always many interetsing topics are touched upon, but perhaps this is of the most note for our interests: * E-mails, memos and call slips to catch up on: Random House reports opening hundreds of new accounts for DC graphic novels since taking on our book [...]
Tweet Just a quick round-up of this morning’s top MoCCA links — first of doubtless dozens and dozens. Our own blog post will have to wait until we’ve finished out official PWCW write-up. § The best event of the weekend, based on numerous reports was the Lynda Barry talk on Friday, which we’re totally bummed [...]
TweetHere are your 2008 FoL awards winners, as announced last night at MoCCA at a ceremny MC’d by Emily Flake: Kim Yale Award: Martina Fugazzotto (senior designer, gURL.com); Woman of Distinction: Shelly Bond (group editor, Vertigo; editor, MINX line); Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame: Nell Brinkley (early 20th century cartoonist); Lulu of the Year: Marjane [...]
TweetNews flash from MoCCA for today, Sunday’s show; MoCCA volunteers hope to have FANS for the 7th floor. With temperatures in New York City soaring to nearly 100 degrees, everyone was glowing at the first day of the MoCCA Art Festival. The crowd was large and enthusiastic, standing in line for Lynda Barry, Adrian Tomine, [...]
Tweet 2008 Lulu Awards! Taking place 8:30 – 10:00 p.m. at the Musuem of Comic and Cartoon Art (594 Broadway Suite 401, between Prince and Houston) More here
TweetWow we are so slammed by everything going on we haven’t even had time to assemble a MoCCA Party Poop guide, although there is plenty of it! So we’ll just steal from Daily Cross Hatch. Hit the link for your social guide: We know it’s tough to find things to do in a quiet city [...]
Tweet The 2008 Friends of Lulu Award Nominations have just been announced. (Above image by Hope Larson.) Kim Yale Award: MARTINA FUGAZZOTTO (senior designer, gURL.com) KIKI JONES (gURL Comix artist) JULIA WERTZ (The Fart Party) Woman of Distinction: SHELLY BOND (group editor, Vertigo; editor, MINX line); CINDY FOURNIER (VP Operations, Diamond Comic Distributors); JANNA MORISHIMA [...]
TweetAs mentioned here before, nominations for the 2008 Lulu Awards are open. Anyone can nominate. These are the categories: The Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame nominees must have published work, whether self-published, company-published, or Web-published. An individual cannot win more than once. Women of Distinction nominees must have worked in the comic industry in a [...]
TweetThe Friends of Lulu Blog reports that nominations for the 2008 Friends of Lulu Awards are open and ANYONE can nominate: Lulu Awards: Nominations are open! You don’t have to be a member to nominate!You don’t have to be female to nominate!Heck, you don’t even have to like us to nominate!But you do need to [...]
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