The Harvey Award nominations are out! The full list can be found at the Harvey website, as well as pretty much everywhere else in the comic-o-news-o-blog-o-sphere. Nominations for the Harveys Awards are selected exclusively by folks involved in a creative capacity in the comics field — as the site notes, "the only industry awards both…
As reported earlier, the Cannes Film Festival awarded the animated film Persepolis (adapted from Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel of the same name) the Jury Prize, which it shares with Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas. Here’s a nice photo of all three winners (including Satrapi’s co-director Vincent Paronnaud). If you’re not Persepolis‘ed out after ComicMix running…
The AP reports that Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s animated adaptation of her graphic novel about growing up during and after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Here’s the trailer:
Anime News Network reports, "In a press conference following a meeting of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s cabinet on Tuesday morning, Japanese Foreign Minister Tarō Asō announced the creation of an ‘International Manga Award’ for manga artists and creators from outside Japan." Asō, known for being an outspoken manga fan, said "I want to make the…
As mentioned here and on many other news sites, the voting is now open for this year’s Friends of Lulu Awards. Since the awards are all about enhancing women’s visibility in an industry that too often marginalizes and downplays them, and since there’s a lot of discussion currently going on about what real women look…
As our Elayne Riggs reported this weekend, Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix earned themselves four Glyph Comic Awards at this weekend’s East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention for their ground-breaking graphic novel, Stagger Lee. They won Story of the Year, Best Writer, Best Male Character, and Best Cover. Their efforts have also received an…
He may be a bad, bad man, but he’s a good, good comic. Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix’s Stagger Lee garnered four trophies at last night’s Glyph Comic Awards, which signalled the opening of the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) in Philadelphia. The list of nominees is here; the winners appear below. …
Since you couldn’t watch a new episode of Doctor Who this past Saturday, maybe you were at the Eagle Awards, as part of the Bristol International Comic Expo. Established in 1976 by Mike Conroy, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes, they have been featured on the…
On Friday, the Visual Effects Society announced the results of a membership poll, naming the 50 most influential films of all time in terms of special effects. According to VES Executive Director Eric Roth, hese films have had a significant, lasting impact on the practice and appreciation of visual effects as an integral, artistic element…
And people complained about how late the Oscars go– this ceremony finished up at 12:30 AM. I can only assume toastmaster Ronald D. Moore was still on Los Angeles time. Anyway, the winners of the 2007 Nebulas, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, drumroll please… Novels: Seeker, by Jack McDevitt (Ace…
Variety reports that Superman Returns was top movie winner at the Saturn Awards. These awards are presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Superman Returns won as best fantasy film, best director (Bryan Singer), best actor (Brandon Routh), best script (Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty) and best score (John Ottman). Children…
When I was in Friends of Lulu, one of the main incentives to keep up membership was the opportunity to vote in the annual Lulu Awards, given to women of distinction whose contributions to comics kept getting ignored year after year by the major comics awards. Now an era appears to have come to an…
