Missed It: Somehow I Forgot To Run The BCA Shortlist, Including Posy Simmonds To The HOF



For some demented reason I forgot to post the announced short list for the British Comic Awards, which were announced a full two weeks ago. They do this according to a submissions process organized by the British Comic Awards Committee, and this move from a longlist to a shortlist.

The big news for right this very moment is that the great Posy Simmonds will join Raymond Briggs and Leo Baxendale in the hall of fame. That is one solid Hall. Simmonds is probably best known for her two books, at-first serialized and then collected: Gemma Bovery (1999) and Tamara Drewe (2007). Her distinguished career includes the reputation-making comics informally known by her first name while bearing in one form or another several others.

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Best Comic

* Dangeritis: A Fistful of Danger -- Robert M Ball and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Great Beast)
* In The Frame -- Tom Humberstone (New Statesman)
* Raygun Roads -- Owen Michael Johnson, Indio!, Mike Stock and Andy Bloor (Self published)
* Tall Tales & Outrageous Adventures #1: The Snow Queen & Other Stories -- Isabel Greenberg (Great Beast)
* The Wicked + The Divine #1 -- Kieron Gillen, Jaime McKelvie, Matt Wilson and Clayton Cowles (Image Comics)

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Best Book

* The Absence -- Martin Stiff (Titan Books)
* Celeste -- I.N.J. Culbard (Self Made Hero)
* The Encyclopedia of Early Earth -- Isabel Greenberg (Jonathan Cape)
* Lighter Than My Shadow -- Katie Green (Jonathan Cape)
* Sally Heathcote: Suffragette -- Mary Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)

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Young People's Comic Award

* Bad Machinery Volume Two: The Case of The Good Boy -- John Allison (Oni Press)
* BOO! -- Paul Harrison-Davies, Andrew Waugh; Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Jonathan Edwards, James Howard, Gary Northfield and Jamie Smart (Self published)
* Corpse Talk: Season 1 -- Adam Murphy (David Fickling Books)
* Hilda and the Black Hound -- Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books)
* The Beginner's Guide to Being Outside -- Gill Hatcher (Avery Hill Publishing)

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Emerging Talent

* Alison Sampson (Genesis, "Shadows" (In The Dark) -- artist)
* Briony May Smith (Tam Lin, The Courting of Fair Spring and Red-Nosed Frost, The Mermaid)
* Rachael Smith (House Party, One Good Thing, Flimsy, "Vicky Park" (Leicester Mercury), "The Amazing Seymore" (Moose Kid Comics))
* Becca Tobin (Eye Contact, "Peppermint Butler's Peppermint Bark" (Adventure Time #30), numerous short comics)
* Corban Wilkin ("History of Energy" (Dreams of a Low Carbon Future) -- artist, Breaker's End, "If Not Now Then When" (Offlife #6))

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Hall of Fame

* Posy Simmonds

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These titles will now go to a Judging Panel, consisting of Jonathan Entwistle, Jessica Hynes, Danny John-Jules, Jonathan Ross and Suzy Varty -- if they end up meeting in a room, I would love to be in that room. That group will decide the winners save for the Young People's Comic Award, which is chosen by young people from school across the UK.

The awards ceremony is scheduled for 6 PM, November 15 at the Royal Armouries Bury Theatre in Leeds. It is part of the Thought Bubble Festival.

Congratulations to all nominees and to Posy Simmonds.

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