Your Last Weekend’s Prize Winners

* the cartoonist Will Dinski's Covered In Confusion won this year's Isotope Mini-Comics Awards. Kudos to James Sime and the gang for pulling off the awards in a period of high-stress. It was apparently announced, as usual, at the Sunday night post-APE party. I was a judge; I had both of Dinski's entries in the top five I submitted, and I'm happy with the final choice.

* Hermann won something called the Grand Prix de la bande dessinee du Brabant wallon, which I believe is tied into a Belgian festival that is there to specifically promote Belgian comics and cartoonists and should therefore be seen in the context of other civic efforts on behalf of that tradition as much as it is another award. A best foreign album award went to the Italian book Medz Yeghern: Le grand mal by Paolo Cossi; best album went to Jolie Tenebres by Sebastien and Marie Kerascoet with Fabien Vehlmann. The real reason to go look at the link is that the prize design is an obvious one I've nonetheless not seen before.

* the great cartoonist Lat was one of six Malaysians named a 1Malaysian Icon in service of a cultural initiative that sounds both major and daunting.
 
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