Thursday, May 21, 2015

COMICS NEWS ROUNDUP WITH PW


Comics Beat: Bunjevic, Fitzgerald, Willumsen and Ting win 2015 Doug Wright Awards
Nina Bunjevac and Meags Fitzgerald were among the winners of the 2015 Doug Wright Awards which honor the finest in Canadian cartooning. The awards were presented Saturday night during TCAF in a ceremony enlivened by antics from Seth, David Collier and author Don McKeller. more
The Comics Journal: Blood Plants: Mizuki Shigeru, Kitaro, and the Japanese Blood Industry
In 1960, when Mizuki Shigeru began drawing his legendary Kitarō series for the rental kashihon manga market, he decided to use the backdrop of one of postwar Japan’s most sullied industries: blood banking. more
BBC: Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz to leave magazine
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist "Luz," who designed the magazine's cover image of Muhammad after the Paris attacks, has said he is leaving the publication. more
Paul Gravett: Sonny Liew: The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Singapore gained its independence in 1965. Without a doubt the most surprising and perceptive account of the five subsequent decades comes as a graphic biography of one extraordinary comics artist, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew. more



Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics and Graphic Novels
Edited by Tom Devlin. Drawn & Quarterly,US$49.95 (776p) ISBN 978-1-77046-199-4
What better way to celebrate a quarter century spent publishing some of the world's finest comics and graphic novels than by releasing one massive book? This anthology is more than just a 776-page victory lap for D&Q. more
The Divine
Boaz Lavie, Asaf Hanuka, and Tomer Hanuka. Roaring Brook/First Second, US$24.95, (160p) ISBN 978-1-59643-674-9
Heady, hellacious, and phantasmagoric, Israeli filmmaker Lavie's (The Lake) debut graphic novel—illustrated by veteran artists the Hanuka twins (Bi-Polar, The Realist)—feels like something Alex Garland would have come up with after binging on Apocalypse Now outtakes. More

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