February 18, 2019
OTBP: Everly
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Your Spectrum 26 Award Finalists
The assigned jury
has released the finalists for the Spectrum 26 Awards, to be given out next month in Kansas City. It's not an awards program I follow closely, but they do have a comics category and in recent years the industry has slowly swung back to a reinvigorated understanding of comics as a form of visual art.
Planet Comicon will host the late March announcement of winners in Gold and Silver categories, and at least grand winner. More information
here. Judges listed
here.
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ADVERTISING CATEGORY
* Justin Gerard -- Lair of the Firebreather
* Donato Giancola -- Reach
* Valentin Kopetzki -- After the Flood
* Victo Ngai -- Earth Species Project
* Greg Ruth -- Annihilation variant
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BOOK CATEGORY
* Jaime Jones -- Winter Road
* Vanessa Lemen -- I am the Light
* Yuko Shimizu -- Japanese Tales 1: The Invisible Man
* Chase Stone -- Dragon Lords: Bad Faith
* Francis Vallejo -- Charlie Florida
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COMIC CATEGORY
* Alex Alice -- Castle in the Stars: Book 4, page 1
* Thomas Campi -- Joe Shuster: The Artist Behind Superman cover (pictured)
* Paul Davidson -- Blue Vortex 1
* Kang Minjung -- Kang Hearts Out 1
* Jeffrey Alan Love -- The Thousand Demon Tree
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CONCEPT ART CATEGORY
* Te Hu -- Golden Temple Through Time we Converge: End
* Carlyn Lim -- Dwarf
* Danny Moll -- The Banner Saga 3: Juno in the Black Sun
* Abe Taraky -- Submerged Statue of Tyr
* Zhengyi Wang -- Big Hunt
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DIMENSIONAL CATEGORY
* Matthew Corcoran -- Vivicus
* Paul Komoda -- SwampThing
* Patrick Masson -- Reflection
* Mark Newman -- Gallevarbe
* Dug Stanat -- Justice
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EDITORIAL CATEGORY
* Chris Buzelli -- Structure
* Qiuxin Mao -- The Remains
* Victo Ngai -- Human: Opener
* Tim O'Brien -- Stormy
* Leonardo Santamaria -- How to Collect Customer Feedback the Right Way
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INSTITUTIONAL CATEGORY
* Ed Binkley -- Mantis
* Bastien Lecouffe Deharme -- Etrata
* Jesper Ejsing -- Slippery Bogle
* Tyler Jacobson -- Opt
* John Jude Palencar -- The Nights Watch
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UNPUBLISHED CATEGORY
* Julien Delval -- The Stranger
* Konstantin Marinov Kostadinov -- A Walk in the Woods
* Ronan LE FUR -- Sent by the Gods
* Eric Pfeiffer -- Racing Season in Empire City
* Annie Stegg Gerard -- The Serpent
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Go, Look: The Assassination Of Fred Hampton
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Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News
By Tom Spurgeon
* everyone's favorite Brigid Alverson
brings word of not one but two Cassie Anderson books this year.
* great news: Fantagraphics
will bring back to print many of the classic publications of the just-passed Tomi Ungerer. That's such an admirable publishing effort, and this kind of committed effort is one of the best things about North American comics publishing.
* I'd known for a while that writer Matt Fraction might do a Jimmy Olsen comic with DC, but I hadn't known he'd be partnered with that grandest of his generation's veteran artists, Steve Lieber.
That should be fun.
*
Tony Millionaire + Chip Kidd?
* the well-regarded writer-about-comics and academic Carol Tilley
is set for a future appearance in
Hogan's Alley.
* finally: Monte Beauchamp
mentions somewhere in this post's responses that he's building a new
BLAB!. Also, I hadn't realized the apocalypses made up a series of articles.
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If I Were In NYC, I’d Go To This
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Go, Look: Lengthy Graphic Essay On Betsy DeVos’ Concept Of A School Choice Movement
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* otbp: I didn't necessarily expect to see
a new Dan O'Neill comic up for sale in 2019, but I'm glad for it.
* not comics:
the story of an early Superman impersonator/embody-er person.
* I always enjoy looking at
analyses of hiring patterns at the Big Two and, when they're made available, related companies. I would imagine there are plateaus involved, especially when a segment of an industry doesn't always offer jobs that are an automatic entry into middle class and the culture has elements of resistance to diversity, no matter how stupid or misguided that resistance may be.
* not comics:
Alejandro Jodorowsky learned principles by which to live and wants to pass them along to you.
*
what a lovely image from primetime Al Hirschfeld.
* finally, one more not comics:
this seems like terrible advice to me. Let's all live sloppy, beautiful, inefficient lives.
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Happy 62nd Birthday, Gerry Shamray!
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Happy 76th Birthday, Don Glut!
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Happy 59th Birthday, Jim Lawson!
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Happy 70th Birthday, William Messner-Loebs!
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