The Graphic Novel Archive Blog

The nominations are up! Visit the Will Eisner web site for the complete list of nominees.

Per the Cybils blog - excerpt follows:

Spanning a wide range of genres from historical and literary re-tellings to fantasy adventures to manga, the Graphic Novels category topped off at 34 nominations for 2007.

Check out the complete nominee list.

Per San Diego Comic-Con’s website:

Submissions are now being accepted for consideration by the judges for the 2008 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards. Publishers wanting to submit entries should send one copy each of the comics or books and include a cover letter indicating what is being submitted and in what categories.

Submission deadline: March 14th, 2008.

The Eisner Award nominees will be announced in April, and ballots will go out in May to professionals in the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, distributors, and retailers. The results will be announced by celebrity presenters at the gala awards ceremony on the evening of July 25 at Comic-Con International in San Diego.

Visit the SDCC website for more info.

Marvel’s Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born premiere hardcover earns Amazon’s best graphic novel of 2007.

The Gunslinger Born, the first collection of the haunting comics adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower, tops our list of the best comics and graphic novels of 2007.

Be sure to check out Amazon’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2007. Besides the Dark Tower adaption, you’ll find some Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Complete Peanuts, some MAD material, and more.

Congratulations, Chris Marshall, for your Peoples Choice Podcast Award nomination!

Readers, if you’d like to vote for Chris’ excellent ‘cast (chock full of collected edition news, reviews and opinion each week), stop by the CCL discussion forum for instructions.

The Harvey Awards have recently announced their 2007 nominees. Site excerpt follows: The 2007 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced with the release of the final ballot, presented by the Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. They will be presented September 8, 2007 in Baltimore , MD , in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.

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