Missed It: A Trio Of Significant Awards Wins

This weekend's naming of the Harvey Awards reminds that there are several other awards going to comics individuals that have yet to be reported in a formal fashion on this site, although they were discussed and linked-to from the CR twitter feed.

* the publisher Fantagraphics noted back on August 31 that Joe Sacco, one of the very best cartoonists, won the Graphic Literature portion of this year's PEN Center USA's literary awards. They are a paneled prize. Sacco will receive the award in late October as part of that groups literary awards festival. It is for lifetime achievement, so in that sense all those funny comics count as much as his impressive journalistic ones.

* around that same time various blogs noted that Isabella Bannerman won this year's Union Of Concerned Scientists editorial cartoon contest, which garners its winner the lead slot on their well-regarded calendar. You can see Bannerman's winning entry and some of the runners-up here. Each of the cartoons in the calendar are from the various finalists.

* Ursula Vernon's Digger won the comics-related category at this year's Hugo Awards, defeating a slew of what would might be to the eye of a traditional comics-shop oriented comics reader higher-profile entries, although the fact that webcomics have significant followings shouldn't be news to anyone at this point. The cartoonist talks about the win here. The category is "Best Graphic Story." This was announced the weekend of September 1-2.

Congratulations to all the deserving winners, and my apologies for letting these linger in my bookmarks folder until now.
 
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