Showing posts with label Osamu Tezuka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Osamu Tezuka. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Fantagraphics Celebrates 26 Nominations at the 2025 Eisner Awards

2025 EISNER AWARD NOMINATIONS
 
The nominations for the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. Fantagraphics has received 26 nominations, the most of any publisher.  In a press release, the publisher says, "We are so honored by the recognition for our talented artists, designers, and editors and we have high hopes for some wins."

The winners will be announced on July 25, 2025 at a ceremony held during 2025 San Diego Comic-Con International.

Fantagraphics' nominees:

Category/Name of nominated individual and/or title of nominated work:

Short Story: “Pig” by Stacy Gougoulis, in NOW #13

Short Story: “Anything Sinister,” by Ross Murray, in NOW #13

Short Story: “You Cannot Live on Bread Alone” by Kayla E., in NOW #13

Single Issue/One-Shot: The War on Gaza, by Joe Sacco

Best Reality-Based Work: Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S., by Caitlin Cass

Best Anthology: Now: The New Comics Anthology #13, edited by Eric Reynolds

Best Graphic Album—New: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two, by Emil Ferris

Best Graphic Album—New: Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Mothballs, by Sole Otero; translated by Andrea Rosenberg

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Return to Eden, by Paco Roca; translated by Andrea Rosenberg

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia: Search and Destroy Vol. 1, by Atsushi Kaneko, based on the work of Osamu Tezuka; translated by Ben Applegate

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics, vol. 1, edited by Chris Byrne and Keith Mayerson

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: Stan Mack’s Real-Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995, by Stan Mack, edited by Gary Groth

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: The Complete Web of Horror, edited by Dana Marie Andra

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic BooksThe Farewell Song of Marcel LaBrume, by Attilio Micheluzzi, edited by Gary Groth and Conrad Groth

Best Comics-Related Book: Reading Love and Rockets, by Marc Sobel

Best Comics-Related Book: Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Caitlin McGurk

Best Comics-Related Book: Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist, by Eddie Campbell with Christine Chambers

Best Publication Design: Bill Ward: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition, designed by Kayla E.

Best Writer/Artist: Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two

Best Writer/Artist: Paco Roca, Return to Eden

Best Writer/Artist: Olivier Schrauwen, Sunday

Best Writer/Artist: Charles Burns, Kommix (Fantagraphics); Final Cut (Pantheon); Unwholesome Love (co-published with Partners & Son)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Frederic Bremaud & Federico Bertolucci, Donald Duck: Vacation Parade

Best Lettering: Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two.

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Monday, March 30, 2020

I Reads You Juniors March 2020 - Update #76

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COVID-19 AND COMICS:

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics plans to forge ahead with releasing its publications both in print and digitally... by whatever means necessary... as comics market is halted by COVID-19.

From Newsarama:  Dark Horse Comics says that starting April 1st it will not monthly comics books in digital form until they are widely available in print.

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics has provided Diamond Comic Distributors with an extension concerning the money Diamond owes Marvel.

From Newsarama:  Diamond Comic Distributors will cease distributing products beginning with the April 1st, 2020 release date and will resume at a later unknown date.

From Newsarama:  IDW Publishing has announced that it will suspend publications of its titles slated to be released in the month of May 2020.

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SONY MARVEL U - From Newsarama:  Sony has pushed its Marvel film, "Morbius," from July 31, 2020 to March 19, 2021.

IN MEMORIAM - From CartoonBrew:  The Mexican artist and cartoonist, Roman Arambula, has died at the age of 83, Wednesday, March 19, 2020.  In the 1970s, he first began drawing Donald Duck comic books for Western Publishing and then, in 1975, Arambula began drawing the syndicated "Mickey Mouse" newspaper comic strip, which he would do until 1990.  He also worked extensively in the animation industry.

COMICS TO FILM - From DigitalSpy:  Actor David Harbour says that the 2019 "Hellboy" reboot film failed before filming on it began.  Harbour played the title character in the film which was a box office bomb.

DC TV - From Newsarama:  Ahead of the release of DC Universe/TheCW's "Stargirl," Geoff Johns, the creator and showrunner for the series, pens a personal letter.

IN MEMORIAM - From Variety:  French illustrator and comics artist, Alberto Uderzo, has died at the age of 92, Tuesday, March 24, 2020.  Uderzo and French comics writer-editor, Rene Goscinny, created the long-running French comics series, "Asterix."

DC CINEMA - From TheWrap:  Warner Bros. executives are in preliminary discussions to make their big, tentpole summer movie release, "Wonder Woman 1984," a digital release in light of movie theater closures due to COVID-19.

Marvel - From Marvel:  Marvel introduces the new "New Warriors."

ARCHIE - From THR:  This June, the Archie Comics gang teams-up with Flash Gordon in "Archie Meets Flash Gordon."

DC TV - From Deadline:  A production assistant on The CW's "Batwoman" was injured on-set and paralyzed.

DC CINEMA - From THR:  Warner Bros. will make "Birds of Prey" and "Just Mercy" early digital home entertainment releases - August 24th, 2020.

From BleedingCool:  Indie comics publisher and creator, Jason Reeves, talks about Black/African-American indie comics and more.

MARVEL - From Newsarama:  Marvel Comics is rush-soliciting a "Black Widow" comic book in anticipation of Marvel Studios' "Black Widow" film is due May 1st.

CORONAVIRUS:

From Newsarama:  Due to the coronavirus outbreak, Dynamite Entertainment joins Image Comics in making its March-shipping products that are distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors, full returnable on the part of comic book retailers.

From Newsarama:  DC Comics employees are among the WarnerMedia employees asked to stay home due to coronavirus concerns.

From Newsarama:  2020 WonderCon in Los Angeles, which was scheduled for April 10th to 12th, has been postponed indefinitely.

From Newsarama:  Warner Bros. Television has suspended production on The CW's "Riverdale" TV series due to coronavirus fears.

From BleedingCool:  ACE Comic Con Northeast  in Boston is delayed/cancelled due to coronavirus fears.  The show was to take place this month and will try to move to October.

From Newsarama:  Diamond Comic Distributors has cancelled its April 14th to 16th 2020 Retailer Summit.

From Newsarama:  NYC's MoCCA Arts Festival, scheduled for April 4th and 5th, has been postponed.

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FOX MARVEL U - From THR:  "The New Mutants" is one of three films that have had their release dates pushed back by Disney due to coronavirus fears.

BATMAN - From Newsarama:  Here is a look at the "Batman" and "Batman-related" comic books due for June 2020.

SONY MARVEL U - From TheWrap: Robert Orci, one of the genius screenwriters behind "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (2014), is writing a Spider-Man spin-off movie for Sony Pictures.  Details about the project or character are being kept under wraps.

IN MEMORIAM - From Newsarama:  "Golden Age" comic book artist Allen "Al" Bellman has died at the age of 95, Monday, March 9, 2020.  Bellman was known for his work with Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics) and drew stories featuring "The Human Torch" and the "Young Allies," among others. Bellman left comic books in the early 1950s, but he later became a regular on the comic book convention circuit.

From Newsarama:  Here is a look at the "Superman" publications being solicited for sale in June 2020.

From THR:  Mariko Tamaki will take over as writer of DC Comics' "Wonder Woman" ongoing series, beginning with Wonder Woman #759.

From Newsarama:  Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok's long-awaited miniseries, "Batman: 3 Jokers," will finally arrive when the first issue hits stores June 17, 2020.

From ComicBook:  Warren Ellis thanks fans for the success of the animated series, "Castlevania" (Netflix), for which he is a writer-producer.

From PA:  Penn College is featuring an art exhibition of World War II era comic book covers, "Victory for a Dime: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War."

DC CINEMA - From THR:  Ben Affleck, who until recently played Batman, says the 2017 film, "Justice League" was plagued with "one problem after another."

MANGA TO FILM - From GameSpot:  A list of Easter eggs and manga references in the recent hit anime film, "My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising."

From SeattleTimes:  The site celebrates the 30th anniversary of cartoonist Peter Bagge's seminal comic book series, "Hate," which was published by Fantagraphics Books.

From Newsarama:  Valiant Entertainment offices preps for the release of the "Bloodshot" movie.

IN MEMORIAM - From Newsarama:  Comic book artist Frank McLaughlin has died at the age of 84, Wednesday, March 4, 2020.  Although he worked for Marvel, DC Comics, Archie Comics, and Valiant Comics, McLaughlin is best known for his work for Charlton Comics and for creating the Charlton character, "Judomaster."

BOOK NEWS - From Newsarama:  Marvel/Asmodee's line of prose novels featuring Marvel Comics characters has announced four debut novels:  "Domino: Strays," "Doctor Doom: The Harrowing of Doom," "Legends of Asgard: The Head of Mimir," and "Legends of Asgard: The Sword of Surtur."

From DCBlog:  Writer Tom King talks about his new maxi-series, "Strange Adventures."

From Worth:  Investor James Murdoch (son of Fox News' Rupert Murdoch) talks about his investment in the comic book start-up, AWA (Artists, Writers & Artisans).

From SoraNews24:  Regard "scanlations," one manga artist says that she cannot afford to offer her work for free.

DC TV - From Newsarama:  The "Stargirl" TV series will debut May 11th on the "DC Universe" streaming service and on May 12th on The CW.

THE BATMAN - From Deadline:  Director Matt Reeves has posted images of "The Batmobile" with Robert Pattison as "Batman" standing next to it.

From Newsarama:  Warren Ellis' planned reboot of WildStorm's "WildC.A.T.s" is not happening.  It was to be the third entry in Ellis' reboot of the WildStorm Universe, which began with "The Wildstorm" (24 issues) and continued in "The Wildstorm: Michael Cray."

STAR WARS - From Movieweb:  This article offers a few details on Marvel Comics' "Star Wars: The High Republic" comic book, which will be written by Cavan Scott, and will be part of the over "The High Republic" publishing campaign.

From Cleveland.com:  This is a profile of comic book writer, Tony Isabella, who created the DC Comics' character, Black Lightning.  Isabella is set to appear on the season finale of The CW's current "Black Lightning" TV series.

From ANN:   Japanese publishers Shueisha and Shogakukan announced that they are posting back issues of some manga magazines digitally for free for a limited time, due to many schools, venues, and events in Japan temporarily closing due to concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus illness.

FOX MARVEL U - From Newsarama: There is a new TV spot for the final film in 20th Century Fox's "X-Men" franchise, "The New Mutants," that finds the young mutants on lock-down.

From LATimes:  Jaime Hernandez is among the finalists for the "40th Annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes."

From CBR:  The site has previews of every DC Comics' title arriving Wed., March 4th.

From Newsarama:  Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will end his four-year run as the writer of Marvel's ongoing "Black Panther" comic book series.

DC CINEMA - From Deadline:  Director James Gunn celebrates the end of film for "The Suicide Squad" with a large group photo of the entire cast and crew.  Gunn also talks about how filming came at a hard time in his life.

COMICS TO ANIMATION - From Crunchyroll:  One of the "Crunchyroll Originals" is an animated series based on Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield's webcomic, "FreakAngels," which has been collected as a series of graphic novels.  The link leads to a press release that includes a trailer introducing the eight new series.

From KyodoNews:  "Paidon" is a manga plotted and designed by artificial intelligence (A.I.) that learned the artistic style of the late Osamu Tezuka, the creator of "Astro Boy."  It is being published in Japan Thurs., Feb. 27th in the magazine, "Morning."

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MARCH 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From Newsarama:  March 2020 comics solicitations for 23 publishers
From Newsarama:  :01 First Second for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Action Lab Entertainment for March 2020
From Newsarama:  AfterShock Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Ahoy Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Antarctic Press for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Archie Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Artists, Writer and Artisans for March 2020
From BleedingCool:  BOOM! Studios for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Dark Horse Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  DC Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Dynamite Entertainment for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Fantagraphics Book for March 2020
From BleedingCool:  IDW Publishing for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Image Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Marvel Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Oni Press for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Rebellion for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Scout Comics for March 2020
From BleedingCool:  Titan Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Valiant Entertainment for March 2020
From Newsarama:  Vault Comics for March 2020
From Newsarama:  VIZ Media for March 2020

APRIL 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From BleedingCool:  Ablaze Media for April 2020
From BleedingCool:  Ahoy Comics for April 2020
From BleedingCool:  Amigo Comics for April 2020
From Newsarama:  Antarctic Press for April 2020
From Newsarama:  Archie Comics for April 2020
From Newsarama:  Dark Horse Comics for April 2020
From Newsarama:  DC Comics for April 2020
From BleedingCool:  Devil's Due for April 2020
From BleedingCool:  IDW Publishing for April 2020
From Newsarama:  Image Comics for April 2020
From BleedingCool:  Keenspot for April 2020
From Newsarama:  Marvel Comics for April 2020
From Newsarama:  Scout Comics for April 2020
From Newsarama:  Valiant Entertainment for April 2020

MAY 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From Newsarama:  A full-list of titles available for "Free Comic Book Day 2020" on May 2, 2020.
From BleedingCool:  AfterShock Comics for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Ahoy Comics for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Antarctic Press for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Archie Comics for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Artists, Writers & Artisans for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Aspen for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Behemoth Comics for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Black Mask Studios for May 2020
From Newsarama:  BOOM! Studios for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Dark Horse Comics for May 2020
From Newsarama:  DC Comics for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Hero Complex for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Hero Tomorrow for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  IDW Publihsing for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Image Comics for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Mad Cave Studios for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Marvel Comics for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Oni Press for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Red 5 Comics for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Scout Comics for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Source Point Press for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  Storm King Productions for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Titan Comics for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Valiant Entertainment for May 2020
From Newsarama:  Vault Comics for May 2020
From BleedingCool:  VIZ Media for May 2020

JUNE 2020 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:
From BleedingCool:  AfterShock Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Antarctic Press for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Archie Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  BOOM! Studios for June 2020
From BleedingCool:  Dark Horse Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  DC Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Dynamite Entertainment for June 2020
From BleedingCool:  Hero Collector for June 2020
From Newsarama:  IDW Publishing for June 2020
From BleedingCool:  Image Comics for June 2020
From BleedingCool:  Mad Cave for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Marvel Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Oni Press for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Scout Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Source Point Press for June 2020
From BleedingCool:  Titan Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Vault Comics for June 2020
From Newsarama:  Valiant Entertainment for June 2020
From BleedingCool:  VIZ Media for June 2020

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