Rolling Blackouts By Sarah Glidden Wins Lynd Ward Prize



PSU Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center For The Book have announced that the work of comics non-fiction Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq by Sarah Glidden has won its 2017 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year.

Rolling Blackouts shows Glidden's trip with a group of journalists to research in multiple countries the effect of the Iraq War. It is in its primary purpose an exploration of the practice of modern journalism, but it also engages with the issues being covered and with Glidden's thought and attitudes throughout.

The mandated of the award is to recognize "the best graphic novel, fiction or nonfiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident." The award is named after Lynd Ward, a key figure in the development of long-form comics works with a major collection at Penn State.

Glidden will receive a cash award of $2500 and the Library Of America set of six Lynd Ward novels at a ceremony this Fall. Congratulations to the cartoonist.

Cousin Joseph by Jules Feiffer and Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt were additionally named honor books by the program.
 
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