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Article: Awards Season
Posted: December 1, 2012
The end of the year draws near and Awards Season is upon us once again, with the inaugural British Comic Awards announced at Thought Bubble Festival last month. They went to John Allison for Bad Machinery, to the excellent Nelson as Best Book (above), Josceline Fenton got Emerging Talent, Luke Pearson’s Hilda and the Midnight Giant was chosen by local children, and Raymond Briggs entered the Hall of Fame. Five worthy winners all, but some puzzling oversights in their shortlist.
Three days later came the pleasant surprise of two graphic novels, both entered by publishers Jonathan Cape and neither of them picked out by the British Comic Awards, being nominated for the first time in the 2012 Costa Book Awards: Joff Winterhart’s Days of Bagnold Summer (read Rachel Cooke’s commentary for The Observer) for best novel, and Mary & Bryan Talbot’s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes (which I reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement) for best biography. The media has been abuzz about this “arrival” of graphic novels, as another tipping point in the rising literary credibility of the medium in Britain. Read the rest of my new Article here…
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