Tag: Awards

The deadline for final voting for the Harvey Awards is midnight on Monday, August 8th, 2016 - that's tonight! I'm guessing it's EDT to be safe. This is your last chance to vote for...

Legendary is a word often over used, but Al Jaffee is truly a legendary cartoonist. Still drawing Mad magazine's fold-ins at age 95, he's been named the world's oldest working cartoonist, and now he'll...

As usual, brave Jamie Coville has recorded the Eisner Award ceremony and 21 other panels (one or two with me on it) for your listening pleasure. These all sound pretty amazing, from Paul Gulacy to We Need Diverse Comics to Emily Carroll. And for an added bonus, listen to the Eisner Awards for th immortal "Macabre" moment that none who were present will EVER forget.

At every San Diego Comic-Con for the last ten years, the festival organisers have handed out an "Icon" Award. This is given to people who are credited with bringing comics to a wider audience,...

Hey hey hey I've found some dwindling Wi-fi and we'll be doing this for as long as we can. The night begins with Jackie Estrada telling us interest in the Eisners has soared this year,...

In a bit of an upset over Stucky and Stormpilot, Olicity won "Ship of the Year" at the 2016 MTV Fandom Awards. Teen Wolf, which announced its final season, won the coveted “Fandom of...

By Eva Rinaldi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/evarinaldiphotography/14413533001/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33412380 In an email about Comic-Con HQ's activities at this year's SDCC, this little nugget was revealed: John Barrowman will be hosting the Eisner Awards. Barrowman is of...

Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward was announced as the winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids’ Comics at last weekend's Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF). The award, a companion to the McDuffie Award for...

The winners of the 2015 Bill Finger award have been announced and they are Elliot S! Maggin and Richard E. Hughes. The award is presented annually to two writers, one living, one dead, in order to recognize writers who have not previously received proper recognition for their work. The award is named after Bill Finger, the ghost writer for the early Batman stories who invented much of the Caped Crusader's mythos.

The wave of promising young female cartoonists that we've all been seeing change the face of comics got a bit of an endorsement with the release of this year's nominees for the Russ Manning the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award. The Manning Award, as it's commonly know, is presented every year at the San Diego Comic-Con as part of the Eisner Awards to "a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics." The 2016 nominees are:

The 2016 Glyph Comics Awards Winners were announced at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Creators show on Saturday and Brotherman, won Best Story and Best Character, while Bounce won Best Comic Strip,...

Yesterday Deadline got a hot tip that Comic-Con International (which puts on SDCC) and Lionsgate -- already thick as thieves over Comic-Con HQ -- were brewing up something else: a big awards show,...