Tag: Awards

An odd year for gaming when the frontrunner at the Game Awards is a remake of a PS1 title.

Check out the 15 graphic novels and comics nominated for this year's awards.

A recap of come of the feel good and off-the-cuff moments at the show

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HEROES IN CRISIS #1 and ACTION COMICS #1000 were among the best of the previous year's companies and products as voted on by retailers.

Historic Nomination at the Man Booker Prize for Nick Drnaso's Graphic Novel Sabrina

Over the years that I’ve contributed for The Beat, I’ve gotten to preview some pretty-interesting projects in the making, as well as talk to their equally-interesting creators. A little more than two years ago, I had a phone interview with two women who called themselves the “Gibbs Girls.” They were working on a steam-punk inspired comic that takes place at the dawn of the 20th century and during the Industrial Age. The story followed a female, African American inventor named Ada Turner who creates the first flying machine. Last week, the Gibbs Girls reached out and informed me that the comic had finally come out.

The winners of the sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize (presented by Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies) have been announced. Keren Katz won in the print category for The Academic Hour(Secret Acres),an unsettling tale of an unusual school drawn in Katz' wispy, evocative art.

FIBD #45 is just a memory now but it seems to be a pleasant one for most people who attended. The hanging out and eating wonderful three hour dinners was just fine, as usual,...

ComicsPro has announced it's nominees for its Industry Awards and also its first Unsung Hero Award for the recently departed Dave Hawksworth. ComicsPRO, the trade association for comics specialty retailers, proudly announces the nominees for...

A couple of links of note from Publishers Weekly: The annual Critics Poll results have been announced and to the shock of no one Emil Ferris's 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' was #1....

Political cartoonist and activist Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé has spent over fifty days in detention following his arrest on September 16 in the West African country of Equatorial Guinea. Ebalé was detained as part...