While the Birmingham International Comics Show was happening on this side of the Atlantic over on the other side the Small Press Expo (SPX) was going on in Bethesda, along with the announcement of the Ignatz awards. Sadly Oliver East’s Blank Slate publication of Trains Are Mint didn’t win in the Promising New Talent category, but as Kenny pointed out last week they were pretty delighted just to be nominated; that award went to Sarah Glidden for How to Understand Israel in 60 Seconds or Less. Laura Park won the Outsanding Artist award for Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream, Papercutter #7 took the Outstanding Anthology or Collection gong.
(a page from the first issue of How to Understand Israel in 60 Seconds or Less, which according to Sarah’s blog will be coming out as a collected edition for DC’s Vertigo imprint; art and (c) Sarah Glidden)
Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim pipped competition from Joe Matt, Michel Rabagliati and Gipi to take the Outstanding Graphic Novel award, The Thing About Madeleine by Lilli Carre won Outstanding Story, Chuck Forsman’s Snake Oil landed the Oustanding Series category and the first issue of the same series also won the Oustanding Comic award. The Outstanding Mini-Comic gong went to Jesse Reklaw for Bluefuzz, while the Oustanding Online Comic went to Chris Onstad for Achewood;congratulations to all. This year’s jury comprised Gabrielle Bell, Farel Dalrymple, Andy Hartzell, John Hankiewicz and Eleanor Davis. (winner’s info via Tom at Comics Reporter)
turtle-related losses, and a failure to secure additional investment,” announced the Japanese expatriate known as “The Shredder” for his aggressive negotiation tactics and deadly forearm blades, “I regret to inform you that the Foot Clan has filed for bankruptcy protection and will immediately cease ninja operations.”
a tripod with wheels) known for financing organized crime in the New York area and elsewhere, seemed likely to revive confidence in the Foot Clan and help it turn the corner against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Creole Mutant Crocodile Leatherhead, “but I don’t think he ever considered the possibility that the Foot Clan would actually go under. I think they both lost sight of the fact that the meeting wasn’t about culpability for past failures, it was about finally killing and eating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a soup or stew, which is really something everybody wants.”
Many of you may be familiar with the upcoming game “Dead Space”, an upcoming video game that has received a lot of hype and is being widely anticipated with its release on October 14th. A smaller segment of you may be familiar with the comic series of the same name, which has sold in decent numbers for a video-game property, probably due to the popular artwork of Ben Templesmith. The comic series acts as a prequel to the events of the video game.
I’ve often thought that Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, got the ideas for some of his comics from a disgruntled Nokia employee, but now I start to worry that the guy is actually sitting very close to me. Last week I had exactly the incident described in today’s strip, although with less dramatic consequences: having just moved to a different floor, I had forgotten to change my printer settings and printed a couple of pages to the wrong place. Mr. Adams, you owe me royalties!