Roundup: Reuben Awards, Lulu Awards, Canadian Awards, Erlangen Festival
Apparently, everyone decided to give out awards and/or nominations in the past week, as my email is filled with messages about the various winners and nominees. Here’s a quick rundown of what was awarded, who won it (or in some cases, was nominated for it) and where to find a more comprehensive report on the whole affair:
The Beat has a roundup of the 2008 Reuben Award winners, including the least surprising recipient of them all, legendary MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee (pictured here). Here are a few others:
COMIC BOOKS: Shaun Tan, (The Arrival)
NEWSPAPER STRIPS: Jim Meddick, (Monty)
MILTON CANIFF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Sandra Boynton
Tom Spurgeon provides some additional context for the Reuben Awards over at The Comics Reporter, including the following note:
I do know that the Reuben and the NCS division awards have a reputation for 1) rewarding creators that have been around a while or that are seen as having properly paid their dues maybe more than first-time nominees or those early in their careers, and 2) rewarding creators in non-popular categories according to their better-known work. To be honest, I couldn’t tell you if those two characterizations are deserved or not.
As part of the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Awards, creators Stanley Berneche, John Byrne, Pierre Fournier and Edwin R. “Ted” McCall will be inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 14, in Toronto. The Beat has details about the Awards, the Hall of Fame and the creators inducted into it via the official press release.
Women’s comics advocacy group Friends of Lulu recently announced their list of nominees for 2008 Awards, which will be given out during the upcoming MoCCA Festival in New York, NY. The Beat has a full list and the text of the official press release and Spurgeon also provides some thoughts on the awards. Some examples from the list of nominees include:
WOMEN CARTOONISTS HALL OF FAME
Nell Brinkley
Marty Links
Tarpe Mills
Louise SimonsonLULU OF THE YEAR
Audra Furuichi, Nemu-Nemu
gURL Comix
Stephanie McMillan, Minimum Security
Rutu Modan, Exit Wounds
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Spurgeon (the busiest man in comics award journalism, perhaps) also has a synopsis of the Erlangen Festival’s juried awards, which include the grand prize award given to Alan Moore. Here are a few others from that list:
BEST INTERNATIONAL COMIC OF THE YEAR
David B, Die heilige Krankheit: GeisterBEST WRITER
Olivier Ka, Warum ich Pater Pierre getotet habeBEST COMIC
Flashko, Nicolas Mahler