Mike Mignola: The 2016 Spectrum Award Grand Master Honoree



The artist Mike Mignola was named the Grand Master Honoree at this year's Spectrum Awards, an awards program of two decades-plus standing that focuses on fantasy, horror and science-fiction art. I honestly can't read the lettering on the site, but I think it says the awards were presented to the public last Saturday night.

I just read Mike Mignola's comic, and it struck me that it was as interesting and fun as the work that he was doing back when the awards first started, so anyone that wants to honor him is okay by me, at least in terms of that act. I'm also appreciative of the linked-to site using the old TCJ cover interview art for their art choice.

Comics division awards went to Daren Bader for "Tribes of Kai, page 41” (gold) and Nic Klein for "Drifter" (silver).

Comics are celebrated these days more for their narrative properties than they are their artistic ones, but the reasons for that are cyclical and linked to their use in other media. There was a time, of course, where comics were a vital part of nerd visual culture more broadly, an era where looking at a Brothers Hildebrandt Tolkien calendar and a John Buscema comic book scratched roughly the same itch. There is enough material one may be hyper-focused now.
 
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