Seadogs Wins Bluebonnet Award

Lisa Wheeler and Mark Siegel's Seadogs has won the Texas Bluebonnet Award sponsored by the Texas Library Association. The award has been around since 1979, and involves kids voting on the books in an event coordinated by the awards committee. The comics-format Seadogswon nearly 17,000 votes and beat out more traditional picture-book and Young Adult Fiction contenders. Artist Mark Siegel wrote a few comics bloggers this morning to say "This is a first. I think S&S [Simon & Schuster] was completely taken aback. And other mainstream children's publishers are sitting up and taking notice. I do think this is really significant for the changing mainstream marketplace's attitude towards comics -- especially for the younger set."

Mark Siegel may be more familiar to comics fans as the driving editorial force behind the new First Second line of graphic novels, making their debut pretty much this very second. All in all, a pretty good week for Mr. Siegel.
 
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