January 20, 2010
Honors! Awards! Everywhere You Look There Are Honors And Awards!
* I had a really hard time understanding the press release, but if I have it correctly TOON's
Benny and Penny in The Big No-No! (by Geoffrey Hayes)
won the American Library Association's Theodor Seuss Geisel Award and their Little Mouse Gets Ready (by Jeff Smith) was an "honor book" for the Geisel. This would be a big deal just on the face of it, but given that the major book publishers to whom the line was taken turned down TOON, there's likely some crowing involved. The publisher will re-release both books and move up the next
Benny and Penny book, subtitled
The Toy Breaker to early April.
* congratulations to Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester for their
A Comics Studies Reader winning the 2009 Peter C. Rollins Book Award. According to the book's publisher, the award goes to the "best book in popular culture studies and/or American culture studies."
* this site's esteemed contributor David Welsh assures us that
this list of the ALA's 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens is the last one that group will release and that
this top 10 list taken from the earlier list involves some sort of summary, final statement as well. That top ten is:
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Josh Neufeld (Pantheon Books, 2009);
Bayou Vol. 1, Jeremy Love (DC Comics/Zuda, 2009);
Children of the Sea Vol. 1, Daisuke Igarashi (VIZ Media, 2009);
Gunnerkrigg Court Vol. 1, Tom Siddell (Archaia Studios Press, 2009);
I Kill Giants, Joe Kelly and JM Ken Nimura (Image, 2009);
Omega the Unknown (Marvel, 2008);
Ooku: The Inner Chambers Vol. 1, Fumi Yoshinaga (VIZ Media, 2009);
Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer, Dusty Higgins and Van Jensen (SLG Publishing, 2009);
Pluto, Takashi Nagasaki and Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media, 2009);
The Helm, Jim Hardison and Bart Sears (Dark Horse, 2009).
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