December 4, 2006
2006 Awards Season Eases In
I may have simply missed this, but the short story "The Only Child" by Erin Pringle and
Warren Craghead has been nominated for
a Pushcart Prize, after its appearance in the third issue of the Baltimore-based literary magazine,
Barrelhouse. An interview with the pair
can be found here.
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Nicked from Dirk: Moto Hagio's four-volume effort from Shogakukan
Barubara Ikai has won the 27th Japan SF Grand Prize. The grand prize is selected not just among novels like many science fiction awards but is extended in manga, animation and live-action film. Katsuhiro Otomo's
Domu is a past winner. Other candidates this year were:
Ai no Monogatari by Hiromu Yamamoto,
Shangri-la by Eiichi Ikegami,
Tenku no Toride by Issui Ogawa, and
Toki Wo Kakeru Shoujo by Mamoru Hosoda.
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I think I underplayed this the first time around, or missed it all together, but
Kazimir Strzepek won the first Maisie Kukoc Award for Comics Inspiration back in late October. Since organizer Jesse Reklaw plans on making this an annual thing, and will add a more formal judging panel next year, I think it's worth a re-mention. Strzepek won a cash award of $50, which automatically makes the Kukoc better than most in comics history.
The award is named after "a character in the comic book King-Cat, self-published by the inspirational cartoonist John Porcellino since 1989." I think this means John's cat.
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