I Reads You Juniors: August 2024 - UPDATE #50

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS:

HARVEYS - From PW:  The nominations for the 2024 Harvey Awards have been announced.  The winners will be announced Friday, October 8th, at New York Comic Con 2024.

DC ANIMATED - From DCBlog:  DC Comics and Warner Bros. can't stop banging the chicken that is Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' "Watchmen." The people behind the "Watchmen" animated film talk about it.

MANGA - From BleedingCool:  Mad Cave Studios has announced the launch of "Nakama Press," a new imprint dedicated to publishing manga (Japanese comics), manhwa (Korean comics), manfra (French manga), and manhua (Chinese comics) from around the world. 

PODCASTS - From OrbitalOperations:  Warren Ellis' podcast drama, "The Department of Midnight" has gone live today, Tues., Aug. 20th. Here, is a list of places where you can listen.

From OrbitalOperations:  Here is a link to Warren Ellis' current digital newsletter, "Orbital Operations." His podcast drama, "The Department of Midnight" has gone live today.

COMICS - From BleedingCool:  The Utah State Board of Education has banned cartoonist Craig Thompson's 2003 graphic novel, Blankets, from Utah public school classrooms and libraries.  Originally published by Top Shelf Productions, Thompson won two 2004 Eisner Awards ("Best Writer/Artist" and "Best Graphic Album") for "Blankets."

IDW - From AEIndex:  Editor Scott Dunbier talks about the newly released "Batman: Year One Artist's Edition" with Scott VanderPloeg.

COMICS - From YouTube:  There is a trailer for the podcast audio drama, "The Department of Midnight," which is created, written, and co-produced by award-winning comic book writer, Warren Ellis. The first episode debuts August 20, 2024 where you find podcasts.

MARVEL - From Newsarama:  An advanced look at Marvel Comics November 2024 solicitations.

DC COMICS - From DCBlog:  Mark Waid talks "Absolute Power."

EN MEMORIAM - From BleedingCool:  Comic book writer and editor, Joyce Brabner, has died at the age of Thursday, August 1, 2024.  Brabner is best known for her association with her late husband, the writer-publisher, Harvey Pekar (1939-2010), and his comic book, "American Splendor."  Brabner also edited Eclipse Comics' anthology, "Real War Stories" (1987-91). She also co-wrote with Alan Moore the 1988 graphic novel, "Brought to Light" (1988).

MARVEL COMICS - From THR:  Legendary former Marvel editor-in-chief and writer, Roy Thomas, explains why his name should be first among the creators of Wolverine.

DC ANIMATION -  From TheWrap:  Bruce Timm talks about how his reluctance to do new episodes of his beloved TV animated series, "Batman: The Animated Series," led to the creation of the new animated series, "Batman: Caped Crusader." The first two episodes of the new series debut on Amazon Prime, Thurs., Aug. 1st.

From YouTube:  The first teaser trailer for the Max original animated series, "Creature Commandos" (based on the DC Comics property), has arrived.

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DC COMICS - From DCBlog:  All the DC news you may have missed at San Diego Comic-Con 2024

DC COMICS - From BleedingCool:  Scott Shaw wants to know "where the money at" offer McFarlane Toys' "Captain Carrot" action figure.

COMICS - From ComicBook:  Superstar comic book artist and former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada has started his own comic book imprint, "Amazing Comics."  It will be a join venture between Mad Cave Studios and European publishing power, Dupuis.  The imprint's first title will be "Disciple," co-written and drawn by Quesada.

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JULY 2024 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:

From BleedingCool:  Antarctic Press for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Archie Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  AWA Studios for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Black Mask Studios for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  BOOM! Studios for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dark Horse Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics "Absolute Power" with Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics "Absolute Power" with Green Arrow & Green Lantern for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dynamite Entertainment for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics "Batman" titles for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  IDW Publishing for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics "Energon Universe" titles for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics "Ghost Machine" titles for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics "Massive-Verse" titles for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics Todd McFarlane's Spawn titles for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  IPI Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Magma Comix for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics' "James Cameron's 'Aliens' vs Marvel's Avengers" for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics "Ultimate Comics" for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Oni Press for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Rebellion / 2000 AD for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Titan Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Valiant Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Vault Comics for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Zenescope Entertainment for July 2024

From BleedingCool:  Udon Entertainment for July 2024

AUGUST 2024 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:

From BleedingCool:  Addiction Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Ahoy Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Archie Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Bad Egg LLC for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Blackbox Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Blood Moon Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics "Absolute Power" titles for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dstlry for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  IDW Publishing for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics "Energon Universe" titles for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics' "Ghost Machine" titles for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics Todd McFarlane titles for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Keenspot Entertainment for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Konkret Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Mad Cave Studios for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Magma Comix for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics "Ultimate Comics" titles for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics "Venom War" titles for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Oni Press for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Red 5 Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Scout Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Seven Seas Entertainment for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  SHP for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Titan Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  TOKYOPOP for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Udon Studios for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Valiant Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Vault Comics for August 2024

From BleedingCool:  Zenescope Entertainment for August 2024

SEPTEMBER 2024 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:

From BleedingCool:  Afterlight Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Ahoy Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Aloha Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Antarctic Press for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Archie Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  AWA Studios for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Blackbox Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Black Mask for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Blood Moon Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  BOOM! Studios for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Bulgilhan Press for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  CEX for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dark Horse for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dead Sky Publishing for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dstlry for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dynamite Entertainment for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Fantagraphics Books for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  First Second for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics' "Infinity Watch" Annuals for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  IDW Publishing for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics' Ghost Machine for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics' "Massive-Verse" for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  IPI Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Keenspot Entertainment for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Kodansha Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Mad Cave Studios for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Massive for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Mythos Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Oni Press for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Rebellion / 2000AD for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Scout Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Seven Seas Entertainment for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Titan Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  TOKYOPOP for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Valiant Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Vault Comics for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  VIZ Media for September 2024

From BleedingCool:  Yen Press for September 2024

OCTOBER 2024 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:

From BleedingCool:  Ablaze for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Ahoy Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Antarctic Press for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Bad Egg LLC for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  BOOM! Studios for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  CEX Publishing for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Cosmic Lion Productions for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Cryptozoic Entertainment for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dark Horse Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics "Batman #153 & 154" for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Dynamite Entertainment for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  IDW Publishing for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics "Ghost Machine" for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics "GI Joe" and "Void Rivals" for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics' "Spawn" for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Keenspot Entertainment for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Kodansha Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Mad Cave Studios for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Magma Comix for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Massive for October 2021

From BleedingCool:  Oni Press for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Rebellion/2000 AD for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Scout Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Seven Seas Entertainment for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Titan Publishing for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  TOKYOPOP for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Valiant Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  Vault Comics for October 2024

From BleedingCool:  VIZ Media for October 2024

NOVEMBER 2024 COMICS SOLICITATIONS:

From BleedingCool:  Ahoy Comics for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  CEX Publishing for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics "Batman" titles for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Image Comics "Void Rival" for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Mad Cave Studios for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Magma Comics for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Oni Press for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Scout Comics for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  Vault Comics for November 2024

From BleedingCool:  VIZ Media for November 2024

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2013 Harvey Award Winners Complete List

Comic Professionals Honor Peers at the 2013 Harvey Awards Banquet

Comic Professionals came together Saturday night, September 7, 2013 to honor their peers during the presentation of the 2013 Harvey Awards.

The 2013 Harvey Awards were sponsored by presenting Sponsor Guinness; Platinum Sponsors Baltimore Comic-Con and Cards, Comics & Collectibles; Gold Sponsors Boom! Studios, DC Entertainment, Third Eye Comics; Silver Sponsors ComicMix, Comic WOW!, Geppi's Entertainment Museum, Insight Studios; Friend Sponsors Steve Conley's Bloop, Fantastic Forum, Graphitti Designs, and Painted Visions Comics, Cards & Games; and Gift Bag Sponsors Abrams ComicArts, BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse, DC Entertainment, Dynamite Entertainment, Fantastic Forum, Honest Tea, IDW Publishing, Popfun Collectibles, Random House publishing, Scholastic, and Valiant. The banquette to honor those nominated and the winners in more than 20 categories was hosted by the Baltimore Comic-Con and Cards, Comics & Collectibles.

Named in honor of Harvey Kurtzman, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding achievement in the field of comics, and is the only industry award both nominated and selected by comic professionals. First awarded in 1988, it is one the industries oldest and most respected awards.

Writer Bill Willingham, best know as the scribe of Vertigo's Fables, acted as host and Master of Ceremonies for this year's event.

Special thanks go to the sponsors who generously donated to the 2013 Harvey Gift Bags, including: Abrams ComicArts; BOOM! Studios; Dark Horse Comics; DC Entertainment; Dynamite Entertainment; Fantastic Forum; Honest Tea; IDW Publishing; Popfun Collectibles; Random House Publishing; Scholastic Books; and Valiant Entertainment.

The 2013 Harvey Award winners include:

Best Original Graphic Album:  RICHARD STARK'S PARKER: THE SCORE, IDW

Best Continuing or Limited Series:  SAGA, Image Comics

Best Writer:  Brian K. Vaughan, SAGA, Image Comics

Best Artist:  Fiona Staples, SAGA, Image Comics

Best Cartoonist:  Jaime Hernandez, LOVE AND ROCKETS: NEW STORIES

Best Single Issue or Story:  SAGA # 1, Image Comics

Best Letterer:  Todd Klein, FABLES, DC Comics

Best Colorist:  Fiona Staples, SAGA, Image Comics

Best Syndicated Strip or Panel:  DICK TRACY, Joe Staton and Mike Curtis, Tribune Media Services

Best Online Comics Work:  BATTLEPUG, Mike Norton, http://www.battlepug.com/

Best American Edition of Foreign Material:  BLACKSAD: A SILENT HELL, Dark Horse

Best Inker:  Klaus Janson, CAPTAIN AMERICA, Marvel Comics

Best New Series:  SAGA, Image Comics

Most Promising New Talent:  Dennis Hopeless, AVENGERS ARENA, Marvel Comics

Special Award for Humor in Comics:  Ryan North, ADVENTURE TIME, KaBOOM! Studios

Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers:  ADVENTURE TIME, KaBOOM! Studios

Best Graphic Album Previously Published:  ALIEN: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY, Titan Books

Best Anthology:  DARK HORSE PRESENTS, various, Dark Horse

Best Domestic Reprint Project:  DAVID MAZZUCHELLI'S DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN: ARTIST'S EDITION, IDW

Best Cover Artist:  David Aja, HAWKEYE, Marvel Comics

Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation:  ROBOT 6 WEBSITE, Comic Book Resources

Special Award for Excellence in Presentation:  BUILDING STORIES, Chris Ware, Pantheon Books

Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award:  Paul Levitz

Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award: Sal Buscema

In addition, the Baltimore Comic-Con would like to thank those individuals who presented at this year's award ceremony, including: Joe Staton, Roger Langridge, Mark Buckingham, Ron Frenz, Dinesh Shamdasani, Bob Chapman, Josh Adams, Ramona Fradon, Mark Waid, Steve Geppi, Joe Hill, Dean Haspiel, Terry Moore, Neal Adams, Dan Parent, and Stan Sakai.  We would also like to thank Mark Wheatley for his contributions to our voting ballots, program guide for the evening, and awards ceremony presentation, and Glenn Hauman for his "web mastery".

The Baltimore Comic will host the Harvey Awards for the ninth year during the 15th annual show, taking place September 5-7, 2014.

In the coming monthss, look for more announcements from the Baltimore Comic-Con. We are looking forward to highlighting our guests, the Harvey Awards, industry exclusives, and programming. The latest developments can always be found on our website, Twitter, and Facebook pages.

Contact Information
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About The Baltimore Comic-Con
The Baltimore Comic-Con is celebrating its 14th year of bringing the comic book industry to the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area. For more information, please visit www.baltimorecomiccon.com.

About The Harvey Awards
The Harvey Awards are one of the comic book industry's oldest and most respected awards. With a history of over 25 years, the last 7 in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con, the Harveys recognize outstanding achievements in over 20 categories. They are the only industry awards nominated and selected by the full body of comic book professionals. For more information, please visit www.harveyawards.org

Review: Steven Heller's COMICS SKETCHBOOKS

COMICS SKETCHBOOKS: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents
THAMES & HUDSON, INC. – @thamesandhudson

AUTHOR: Steven Heller
DESIGNER: Ashley Olsson
ISBN: 978-0-500-28994-5; paperback
352pp, Color and Black and White; $44.95 U.S., $47.50 CAN

Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA/Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of over one hundred books on design and popular culture. His works include Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age (with Mirko Ilic) and New Modernist Type (with Gail Anderson).

His latest book is Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents. A massive book (365 pages, 8.65 x 11.5), Comics Sketchbooks contains sketches, doodles, drawings, roughs, thumbnails, and even comics from some of the world’s most cutting edge and innovative artists and also some emerging talents. Over 80 artists open up their private sketchbooks and notebooks, from which Heller culled the hundreds drawings and samples that fill this fat (and phat) book. Even some artists who do not keep sketchbooks provided roughs and studies for this book.

Readers get a chance to see the thinking and planning and the experimentation, practice, and play behind the work and style of such artists as Charles Burns, Lilli Carré, Drew Friedman, David Mazzucchelli, Gary Panter, and Carol Tyler, to name a few. Readers can see into the sketchbooks of such legends as R. Crumb, Bill Griffith, Victor Moscoso, Bill Plympton, and Arnold Roth. Not every artist in this collection is specifically a comics artists, but according to Heller (in his introduction), all of them make comics as either their primary occupation or as part of their larger body of work.

Admirers, fans, and students of alternative comics and cartoonists will like Comics Sketchbooks. Still, some, like myself, may find this book missing things they wanted, which is a bit ungrateful. Why do I want more?

Obviously, Heller could not get every drawing that he wanted included in this book, for various reasons. One of the reasons is that some artists are self-conscious about opening their sketchbooks. Another reason is that some artists only actively sketch to prepare for upcoming projects, and may, in fact, discard such preliminary drawings and preparatory material once projects are completed.

So, the two pages of David Mazzucchelli just don’t seem like enough, although the sample of his typographical skills almost makes up for that. There are four pages of R. Crumb, but since Crumb has been publishing his sketchbooks and sketchbook material for four decades, the illustrations here won’t seem like anything new.

My minor quibbles aside, there is some spectacular material in Comics Sketchbooks from some major talents, known and little known. The six pages of sketches by Carol Tyler are a doorway into the wonderland that is the talent of this unheralded artist. The offerings from political cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, include several superb sketches of President Barack Obama caricatures. There is no way to prepare for the six pages of Joseph Lambert, which are crammed with drawings. I couldn’t help but return to his section several times.

It would be impractical for me to try to describe all the drawings in this book, all of it good, some of it even stunning, and even a few pieces that are (dare I say it) great. I will tempt some of you by saying that there are a few sketches in here that were proposals for covers for the magazine, The New Yorker, including one by the always fabulous Drew Friedman. This is a good book. Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents should be on comics fans’ wish lists. Steven Heller deserves some awards recognition, and certainly, at least, an Eisner nomination next year.

A

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

www.thamesandhudsonusa.com

The artist and cartoonists included in Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents:

Sotos Anagnos, Chris Battle, Lou Beach, Kaye Blegvad, Peter Blegvad, Russ Braun, Steve Brodner, Charles Burns, Chris Capuozzo, Lilli Carré, Seymour Chwast, Colonel Moutarde, R. Crumb, John Cuneo, Vanessa Davis, Kim Deitch, Julie Delporte, Eric Drooker, Drew Friedman, Manuel Gomez Burns, Bill Griffith, Robert Grossman, Benoit Guillaume, Cyril Guru, David Heatley, Rian Hughes, Kevin Huizenga, Nathan Jurevicius, Ben Katchor, Denis Kitchen, Jakob Klemencic, Thomas Knowler, Matej Kocjan, Nora Krug, Olivier Kugler, Peter Kuper, Joseph Lambert, Brendan Leach, Etienne Lecroart, Matthias Lehmann, Martin Lemelman, David Libens, Sebastien Lumineau, Patrick McHale, Matt Madden, Javier Mariscal, David Mazzucchelli, Rutu Modan, Saxton Moore, Victor Moscoso, Joanna Neborsky, Josh Neufeld, Mark Newgarden, Vladan Nikolic, Gary Panter, Bill Plympton, Max De Radigues, Laren Redniss, Arnold Roth, Marcel Ruijters, Johnny Ryan, David Sandlin, Seth, Peter De Seve, Robert Sikoryak, Posy Simmonds, Mark Alan Stamaty, Jim Steranko, James Sturm, Joost Swarte, Takeshi Tadatsu, Ann Telnaes, Simon Tofield, Jeremy Traum, Carol Tyler, Andres Vera Martinez, Lauren Weinstein, Tracy White, Signe Wilkinson, Run Wrake, Derek Yaniger, and Danijel Zezelj

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School of Visual Arts Exhibits Work by Over 100 Comics Artists

Press release:

School of Visual Arts Presents "Ink Plots: The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA"

Comic Art Legends and Rising Stars Celebrated in Exhibition, Talks and Film

See Gary Panter, Dash Shaw, Jerry Robinson, Ray Billingsley, David Sandlin and Jerry Moriarty Live On Stage at SVA

New York, October 1, 2010 - School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Ink Plots: The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA," an exhibition of original drawings, books, prints and animation by over 100 artists. "Ink Plots" traces the development of sequential art over four decades with selections by SVA faculty members and showcases the work of SVA alumni who are pushing the boundaries of the graphic novel today. "Ink Plots" is curated by Marshall Arisman, chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department, and Thomas Woodruff, chair of the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department. The exhibition will be on view at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, New York City, from October 8 - November 6, 2010. A reception will be held on Thursday, October 14 from 5:30 - 7pm.

"'Ink Plots' pays tribute to some of the most important artists responsible for the invention and development of the graphic novel," says co-curator Arisman. "The years many of these artists spent teaching at SVA has greatly influenced the present generation of graphic novelists."

Participating current and former SVA faculty members include Sal Amendola, R. O. Blechman, Sue Coe, Will Eisner, Tom Gill, Edward Gorey, Burne Hogarth, Klaus Janson, Frances Jetter, Ben Katchor, Peter Kuper, Harvey Kurtzman, Keith Mayerson, David Mazzucchelli, Jerry Moriarty, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter, Jerry Robinson, David Sandlin, Walter Simonson and Art Spiegelman.

"We're in the midst of the new platinum age for sequential art," says Woodruff, co-curator of the exhibition. "Using multicultural influences and ambitious new formats, SVA alumni are expanding the boundaries of the graphic novel to include traditional and experimental adult-themed long-format works, diarist comics, fantasy epics, and cutting edge examples of 'Amerimanga' the hybridized East-West form taking hold in our cartooning canon."

Participating SVA alumni include Russell Braun, Sungyoon Choi, Erik Craddock, Pascal Dizin, Nathan Fox, June Kim, Bill Plympton, Nate Powell, Lauren Redniss, Dash Shaw, Koren Shadmi, Raina Telgemeier, Michael Townsend, Steve Uy and Sara Varon, among others. A full list of participating SVA alumni can be found below.

Comics legend Will Eisner is often credited with coining the term "graphic novel" with his 1978 work, A Contract with God, which tells four related stories of Jewish immigrant life in 1930s New York. A critical and commercial success, Eisner's landmark work, along with the popular satire of Harvey Kurtzman's Mad magazine and Burne Hogarth's pioneering Tarzan of the Apes (1972), established a new genre of literature, one that embraced the comic format while telling mature, complex stories. In 1986, graphic novels entered the mainstream with the publication of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus.

From the psychedelic experimentations of Dash Shaw's high school melodrama Bodyworld (2010) to the teen nightmares Raina Telgemeier poignantly details in her fictionalized memoir Smile (2010), the graphic novel has continued to challenge conventional storytelling in form and content. The genre's popularity has also grown exponentially in the past 40 years, allowing artists and publishers to take greater risks. As seen in the 9/11 memoir American Widow (2008), illustrated by Sungyoon Choi, or in Nate Powell's Eisner award-winning exploration of mental illness, Swallow Me Whole (2008), the limits of the graphic novel are still being tested.

Related Events
"Ink Plots" Benefit Cocktail Party
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Midtown Loft & Terrace, 267 5th Avenue

On Thursday, October 14 from 7 - 10pm, The Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts will hold a benefit cocktail party at Midtown Loft & Terrace (267 5th Avenue, New York City). Tickets are priced at $250 with $100 tickets available to SVA alumni. Proceeds will fund a scholarship for cartooning and illustration students at SVA. For more information on this event, please contact The Alumni Society of SVA at (212) 592-2302 or serwin@sva.edu.

Will Eisner, Master Teacher at SVA
Monday, October 18, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

This two-part event begins with a panel discussion on longtime SVA faculty member Will Eisner moderated by author and comics historian N. C. Christopher Couch and features Curtis creator Ray Billingsley, Punk magazine creator and underground cartoonist John Holmstrom, author and cartoonist Batton Lash and Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation President Carl Gropper. The evening continues with a screening of Andrew D. Cooke's documentary Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist (2010, 96 min), which features Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Frank Miller and others discussing Eisner's impact on popular culture. This event is free and open to the public.

Every Picture Tells a Story: Comics and Narrative Painting
Wednesday, October 20, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

New media guru and comics scholar John Carlin, who founded the digital design studio Funny Garbage and co-curated the 2005 exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, leads a panel discussion on the relation of comics to narrative painting. Participants include legendary painters, comic book artists and SVA faculty members Gary Panter, Jerry Moriarty and David Sandlin. This event is free and open to the public.

Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics
Wednesday, November 3, 7pm
209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

A living legend of American comics and one of SVA's original faculty members, Jerry Robinson will discuss his influential career, including his most recent books, Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics (Abrams ComicArts, 2010) and Jet Scott Volume 1 and 2 (Dark Horse, 2010) along with the forthcoming updated edition of the 1974 classic The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art (Dark Horse, 2011). As a member of the original Batman team, Robinson created the Joker and co-created Robin. A 70-year veteran of the comics industry, he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004. This event is free and open to the public.

Distinguished Alumnus Lecture by Dash Shaw
Thursday, November 4, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

The New York Times has called artist and SVA alumnus Dash Shaw (BFA 2005 Illustration) "a hard-core experimentalist" and "a hell of an artist, constructing vivid, uncanny compositions with a spectacular sense of color and space." With the publication of Bottomless Belly Button (Fantagraphics, 2008) and BodyWorld (Pantheon, 2010), Shaw has quickly established himself as a leader among today's graphic novelists. The animator and director of IFC's The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., Shaw is currently working on the animated feature The Ruined Cast. This event is free and open to the public. Presented by the Alumni Society of School of Visual Arts.


About School of Visual Arts
The Visual Arts Gallery, located at 601 West 26th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues, 15th floor, is open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm; closed on Sundays and public holidays. Admission is free. The gallery is accessible by wheelchair. For further information call 212.592.2145.

School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.

Participating SVA alumni, as of September 30, 2010, include: Rachel Allison, Delfin Barral, James L. Barry, Lauren Simkin Berke, Russ Braun, Hanni Brosh, Nathan Bulmer, Matty Burns, C.M. Butzer, Aaron Campbell, Mike Carlin, Frank Caruso, Sungyoon Choi, Erik Craddock, Jerry Craft, Marguerite Dabaie, Farel Dalrymple, Nick DeStefano, Matt Dicke, Pascal Dizin, Mike Dubisch, Darnell Edwards, Rami Efal, Anat Even-Or, Brian Floca, Joe Flood, Nathan Fox, Doug Fraser, Stephen Gilpin, Will Grant, N. Steven Harris, Scott Harrison, Paul Hoppe, Dunja Jankovic, Sabrina Jones, Kripa Joshi, Yuriko Katori, Victor Kerlow, June Kim, Scott Koblish, Viktor Koen, Nora Krug, Batton Lash, Brendan Leach, Dongyun Lee, John Paul Leon, Yali Lin, Abede Lovelace, Michael Lurry, Benjamin Marra, Shawn Martinbrough, Andrés Vera Martínez, Patrick McDonnell, Mark McKenna, Joe Meyer, Antonio Montalvo, Christian Montalvo, Al Nickerson, Cheri Nowak, Neil Numberman, Kensuke Okabayashi, Kip Omolade, Bill Plympton, Nate Powell, Joel Priddy, Lauren Redniss, Jungyeon Roh, Matt Roscetti, Koren Shadmi, Dash Shaw, Sandy Spreitz, Leslie Stein, James Sturm, Raina Telgemeier, Jodi Tong, Michael Townsend, Jonathan Twingley, Steve Uy, Sara Varon, Cherise Ward, Carolyn Watson-Dubisch, Graig Weich and Sophia Wiedeman.

David Mazzucchelli Leads 2010 Eisner Award Nominations

2010 Eisner Nominations Encompass Wide Range of Works

Comic-Con International (Comic-Con) is proud to announce the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2010. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from multivolume deluxe hardcovers to online stories to traditional comic book format.

Topping the 2010 nominees with 4 nominations is David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, a highly acclaimed literary graphic novel published by Pantheon. Several works have received 3 nominations, including two French graphic novels, My mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill (by Jean Regnaud and Émile Bravo, published by Fanfare/Ponent Mon) and The Photographer (by Emmanuel Guibert, published by First Second). Japanese manga master Naoki Urasawa is represented by multiple nominations for two of his works, 20th Century Boys and Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka (both published by VIZ Media), nominated not only in the International category but also for Best Continuing Series (20th Century Boys) and Best Limited Series (Pluto). Another manga title with 3 nominations is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life (published by Drawn & Quarterly). Other publications with 3 nominations are Robert Crumb's illustrated version of The Book of Genesis (published by Norton), Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter (IDW), Mike Carey and Peter Gross's comic book series The Unwritten (Vertigo/DC), and Mark Waid and Peter Kraus's series Irredeemable (BOOM!), which also has a shared nomination. The big DC event miniseries of the year, Blackest Night, is also on the ballot, with 2 nominations and 1 shared.

The creators with the most nominations are Urasawa (5) and Mazzucchelli (4), followed by several creators with 3: Cooke, Crumb, Bravo, Guibert, Carey, Waid, and writer Ed Brubaker (Captain America, Criminal, and Incognito, published by Marvel).

DC Comics has the most nominations for a publisher, with its various imprints (DCU, Vertigo, WildStorm, Zuda) garnering 20 nominations (plus 2 shared). The DC Universe has 11 of those nominations, spread among multiple titles and creators. The Vertigo imprint's 7 nominations are led by 3 for The Unwritten. The publisher emerging with the second most nominations this year is Fantagraphics Books, with 17 (plus one shared). The company dominates the categories for Archival Collections, with 5 out of the 11 nominees in those categories. Two of the archival works also have design nods: The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons and Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons. The rest of Fantagraphics' nominations are spread throughout the ballot, with the only other multiple nominations being for Carol Tyler (Best Writer/Artist and Best Painter/Multimedia Artist for You'll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man) and the French graphic album West Coast Blues.

Abrams CartoonArts has six titles on the ballot (led by The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics), toting up 8 nominations in all. Also with 8 nominees (plus 2 shared), Marvel Comics posseses multiple nominations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young), Wolverine: Old Man Logan (by Mark Millar, Steve McNiven, and Dexter Vines), and the Marvel Icon titles Incognito and Criminal (by Brubaker and Sean Phillips). Three publishers have 7 nominees: Fanfare/Ponent Man (for 3 titles), IDW (for 5 titles, plus 1 shared nomination), and W. W. Norton (for 3 titles, including Crumb's Book of Genesis and David Small's Stitches). Close behind are First Second (6 nominations plus 1 shared), VIZ Media (6 nominations), BOOM! (5 nominations plus 2 shared), and Dark Horse (4 nominations plus 2 shared). Drawn & Quarterly and Image each have 4 nominees.

This year's judges made some significant changes in the categories, restoring one that last year's judges omitted (Best Single Issue/One Shot), changing the names of two ("U.S. Edition of International Material-Japan" revised to "U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia" and "Limited Series" changed to "Limited Series or Story Arc"), and splitting the Best Writer/Artist category into two, with the second being Best Writer/Artist-Nonfiction. They also added the category of Best Adaptation from Another Work. This addition reflects the large number of comics and graphic novels now being based on other sources. The nominees here include not only Crumb's Genesis but also adaptations of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Richard Stark's The Hunter, and Jean-Patrick Manchette's West Coast Blues.

Named for acclaimed comics creator the Will Eisner, the awards are in their 22nd year of highlighting the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels. The 2010 judging panel consists of academic Craig Fischer (associate professor of English, Appalachian State University), librarian Francisca Goldsmith (staff development instructor/consultant, Infopeople), reviewer John Hogan (GraphicNovelReporter.com), writer James Hudnall (Harsh Realm, The Psycho), and retailer Wayne Winsett (Time Warp Comics, Boulder, Colorado).

Ballots with this year's nominees will be going out in mid-April to comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers. A downloadable pdf of the ballot will also be available online, and a special website has been set up for online voting. The results in all categories will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on the evening of Friday, July 23 at Comic-Con International.

Voting in one Eisner Awards category, Hall of Fame, is already completed. The judges chose the nominees earlier this year, and voting was conducted solely online, with voting ending on March 31.

The Eisner Awards are presented under the auspices of Comic-Con International, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contributions of comics to art and culture. Jackie Estrada has been administrator of the Awards since 1990.