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The National Cartoonists Society announces the divisional nominees for the 71st Annual NCS Reuben Awards.
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the 2016 NCS Divisional nominees for the 71st Annual NCS Reuben Awards, which annually recognize creators of comic strips, animation, illustrations, comic books and more. The winners will be announced May 27, and the nominees for their biggest award, the Reuben itself, should be coming later this month.
Continue reading “‘Usagi,’ ‘Giant Days,’ ‘Octopus Pie’ among NCS divisional nominees”
Image Comics shares more details and a Frank Miller cover for the supernatural conspiracy title.
Image Comics took the opportunity at Emerald City Comicon last month to drop a ton of announcements about upcoming comics and projects — one of those being a new supernatural series, Sacred Creatures, by Pablo Raimondi and Klaus Janson.
Continue reading “Janson and Raimondi conjure up ‘Sacred Creatures’ in July”
Mike Mignola, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell team up on an original graphic novel set outside the Mignolaverse.
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is teaming with Warwick Johnson-Cadwell on an original graphic novel about vampires titled Mr. Higgins Comes Home.
Continue reading “Mignola tackles vampires in ‘Mr. Higgins Comes Home’”
‘Big Hard Sex Criminals’ also among the most challenged books, according to the American Library Association.
Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s This One Summer and Raina Telgemeier’s Drama topped the list of 2016’s most challenged books, according to the American Library Association. Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Big Hard Sex Criminals also landed in the top 10 as the seventh most challenged book of 2016.
Continue reading “‘This One Summer,’ ‘Drama’ top list of most banned books of 2016”
The indy comics festival MoCCA took place last weekend, and as usual, it was a glorious event, with lots of great people and great comics. Here are three minicomics that I picked up that I particularly enjoyed. You can view or purchase each one at the link in the title.
Continue reading “Make Mine Mini: Kraftwerk saves the world”
Fred Van Lente, Cary Nord and Clayton Henry head back into Valiant’s past with Immortal Brothers: The Tale of the Green Knight, a tale featuring Armstrong, the Eternal Warrior and Ivar, Timewalker in King Arthur’s court.
Continue reading “Immortal brothers unite in Valiant’s ‘The Tale of the Green Knight’”
‘Black Panther,” ‘Ms. Marvel,’ ‘The Vision’ and ‘Saga’ round out this year’s nominees in the ‘Graphic Story’ category.
The nominees for the 2017 Hugo Awards have been announced, including the “Graphic Story” category, which features six not-unexpected choices.
Continue reading “‘Monstress,’ ‘Paper Girls’ among this year’s Hugo nominees”
The latest chapter of Farel Dalrymple‘s Pop Gun War saga recently wrapped up in the last issue of Image’s Island anthology, and now the publisher plans to release a collection of it in June.
Continue reading “Dalrymple’s ‘Pop Gun War: Chain Letter’ collected this June”
The BOOM! Studios title by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas, Josan Gonzalez and Ed Dukeshire comes out on top in a very competitive category.
The Woods has been named “Outstanding Comic Book” by The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, in their 2017 Media Awards.
Continue reading “‘The Woods’ wins a 2017 GLAAD Media Award”
IDW will publish a one-shot featuring Stan Sakai’s famous ronin rabbit encountering the current rendition of the Turtles.
Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo will once again team with Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a new one-shot, coming from IDW Publishing and Dark Horse Comics this summer.
Continue reading “Usagi Yojimbo meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles again this summer”
Image Comics’ 25th anniversary also marks the 25th one for the studios that formed around the seven creators who formed the publisher — including Jim Lee’s WildStorm. To celebrate this milestone, DC Comics will publish WildStorm: A Celebration of 25 Years, which is due out in August.
Jim Lee was at WonderCon this weekend to discuss the imprint and this new project.
Continue reading “WildStorm celebrates 25 years with hardcover collection”
‘Kid Lobotomy,’ the first comic from Shelly Bond’s new imprint at IDW, debuts in October.
At WonderCon on Friday, IDW announced the first title for Shelly Bond’s new Black Crown imprint — Kid Lobotomy by Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler.
As announced earlier this month, Black Crown is a new line of connected, creator-owned comics, spearheaded by the former Vertigo editor and published by IDW. “Black Crown” refers not only to the creator-owned imprint, but also a pub that anchors a mysterious street that connects each comic.
Continue reading “Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler team on first Black Crown title”
