Today kicks off the three-day Comic Barcelona in Spain. Unlike other gatherings, they are not waiting to the end of the event to announce winners of their annual prizes. Below is a list of their Grand Prize winner, along with their category winners and nominees.Grand PrizeEsteban Maroto Torres was awarded the Grand Prize in recognition […]

Speaking of commencement address speakers, Colby College has announced that Mo Willems will be their commencement speaker and receive an honorary doctorate in fine arts. Mo is an award-winning author, illustrator, and animator. He’s published over 70 children’s books with more than 50 being New York Times best sellers. He’s an Eisner Award Winner and […]

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) has announced this year’s commencement speaker will be cartoonist and comic author Scott McCloud. Scott is an Eisner Hall of Famer, author of the best-selling series Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics, as well as co-creator of The Cartoonists Club (Raina Telgemeier).Commencement will be this weekend on May 17. Included […]

The Eisner Award nominees have been announced. Here’s the breakdown on who had the most nominations starting with the publishers.Works with the most nominations:Creator stats:Here is full list of nominees.Eisner Award Nominees 2026Best Short StoryBlood Harvest, in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)The Curse Room, in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)Football Is Not War, by R. K. Russell and Wilfred Santiago, in Come […]

Fifteen years since Steven Spielberg‘s “The Adventures of Tintin,” Peter Jackson has confirmed that we may finally get his promised sequel. During a Q&A at Cannes, he told the audience he’s “currently writing the script and plans to direct the movie himself.”From the Q&A session: “The deal was that Steven directs one and I direct […]

Lee Lai’s graphic novel Cannon has become the first graphic novel to win the Stella Prize given to women and nonbinary Australian authors. The prize amount is $60,000. She is also the first trans person to win the award.Here’s how Lee describes her book (per ABC): “[Cannon] is a story about small-scale human follies and […]

Roy Lichtenstein’s long-lost Anxious Girl (1964) is up for auction this weekend and is rumored to go for $60 million. Roy was a leading artist in the Pop Art movement. Some of his best known pieces were large stylized pieces that looked like cut-outs from a newspaper or comic book. Anxious Girl was derived by DC […]

This year’s Glyph Award Winners were announced at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC). The awards “honors outstanding achievements in comics made by, for, and about people of color, celebrating the creativity, vision, and storytelling excellence of writers, artists, and creators from across the industry.”This year’s winners:Story of the YearOrí: Holder of […]