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Kimberly Yale Award For Best New Talent
The Lulu Awards were a group of literary awards, presented at Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, by the Friends of Lulu. The awards were intended to "recognize the people and projects that help open the eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and/or about women." The awards were separated into five categories: Lulu of the Year, Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent, Volunteer of the Year Award, Women of Distinction Award, and the Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame. Lulu of the Year The Lulu of the Year honor went to creator(s), book(s), or other projects "whose work best exemplifies Friends of Lulu’s mission." 1997 *''The Great Women Superheroes'', by Trina Robbins (Kitchen Sink Press) **''Action Girl'', Sarah Dyer, editor (Slave Labor Graphics) **''Girl Talk'', Isabella Bannerman, Ann Decker, & Sabrina Jones, editors (Fantagraphics) **''Leave It To Chance'', by James Robinson & Paul Smith (comics) **''Marilyn: The Story of a Woman'', Kathryn Hya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic-Con International
San Diego Comic-Con International is a comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California since 1970. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known simply as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or SDCC. The convention was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 by a group of San Diegans that included Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Ron Graf, and Mike Towry; later, it was called the "San Diego Comic Book Convention", Dorf said during an interview that he hoped the first Con would bring in 500 attendees. It is a four-day event (Thursday–Sunday) held during the summer (in July since 2003) at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the official opening, professionals, exhibitors, and pre-registered guests for all four days can attend a pre-event "Preview Night" to give attendees the opportunity to walk the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Denson
Abby Denson is an American cartoonist, writer, and musician, known for her gay young-adult comics series ''Tough Love'' and her comics travel guides to Tokyo and Japan. Personal life Abby Denson was born in Illinois, but grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut. She received a degree in Cultural Studies from Eugene Lang College and a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design. She lives in Brooklyn, New York City, and is the creator of ''City Sweet Tooth'', her online blog that reviews the city's best sweets and treats in comic book form. Comics Abby Denson initially self-published ''Tough Love'', a minicomic about two gay teenagers in high school. She sent a copy to ''XY Magazine'' for review, which serialized it over a number of years, while Denson completed the story. She was the illustrator for the cover of the special ''Survival Guide'' edition of ''XY''. In 2006, the series was reprinted as a graphic novel by Manic D Press. Denson won the '2007 Lulu of the Year' Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Atlantic Books
North Atlantic Books is a non-profit, independent publisher based in Berkeley, California, United States. Distributed by Penguin Random House Publisher Services, North Atlantic Books is a mission-driven social justice-oriented publisher. Founded by authors Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough in Vermont, North Atlantic Books was named partly for the North Atlantic region where it began in 1974, as well as Alan Van Newkirk's Geographic Foundation of the North Atlantic, an early (1970) ecological center founded in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, by radicals from Detroit. The publisher also cites Edward Dorn's 1960s poem, "North Atlantic Turbine: A Theory of Truth", which very early described the dangers of global commoditization by the Western World, as an inspiration in the company's name. Genres published by North Atlantic Books include somatics, social justice, bodywork, health and healing, Buddhism, grief, and internal martial arts (through its imprint Blue Snake Books). In 1980, North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Gloeckner
Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner (born December 22, 1960), is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist. Early life Gloeckner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a librarian and her father, David Gloeckner, was a commercial illustrator. Her father's family was Quaker and she attended Quaker schools when she was young. She has a younger sister. Gloeckner's parents divorced when she was 4 years old. In 1972, when she was 11 or 12 years old, her mother remarried and the family moved to San Francisco. She attended several Bay Area schools, including The Urban School of San Francisco and Lick-Wilmerding High School. She was a boarding student at Castilleja (in Palo Alto) for a year, but returned to San Francisco to live with her mother, her mother's boyfriend, and her sister, when she was 14. Gloeckner began cartooning at the age of 12. Because her mother was dating Robert Armstrong, a cartoonist in Robert Crumb's band Cheap Suit Serenaders, she me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Child's Life And Other Stories
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hachette Books
Hachette Books, formerly Hyperion Books, is a general-interest book imprint of the Perseus Books Group, which is a division of Hachette Book Group and ultimately a part of Lagardère Group. Established in 1990, Hachette publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults. A former subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, it was originally named after Hyperion Avenue, the location of Walt Disney Studios prior to 1939. Hachette took over a 1,000 book backlist when Hyperion was purchased from Disney in 2013 with 250 bestselling novels, including Mitch Albom’s ''The Five People You Meet in Heaven''. History Hyperion Books Hyperion Books was founded in 1990 from scratch with no backlist under Disney's then-C.E.O. Michael Eisner and Robert S. Miller.Getlin, JoshHyperion founder exits April 04, 2008. Los Angeles Times. Accessed July 3, 2013. Hyperion's strategy was to not purchase backlists, but to go after newer or lesser known authors and to "capitalize on Disney t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Arnoldi
Katherine Arnoldi (born 1951 in Canton, Ohio) is an American writer and graphic novelist. Arnoldi is perhaps best known for her graphic novel, ''The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Single Mom'' ( Hyperion: 1998). In 1999 "The ''Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Single Mom'' was cited as a top book of the year by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 452 libraries Arnoldi's 2007 collection of stories ''All Things Are Labor'' won the Juniper prize and was then published by the University of Massachusetts Press in the series of such honored works therein. She has also been a recipient of the Hensfield Transatlantic fiction award, a Jerome Lowell DeJur award in fiction from the City College of New York and two New York Foundation for the Arts awards. In 2008–2009 she was a Fulbright scholar in Paraguay. She has been a fellow at the Blue Mountain Center and the MacDowell Colony. Cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko (comic Book)
''Akiko'' is an American comic book series written and drawn by Mark Crilley and published by Sirius Entertainment. The comics have spawned a series of children's novels from Random House. The story has been described as a cross between '' The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Star Wars'', centering on the adventures of Akiko, a Japanese American girl, on and around the planet Smoo accompanied by extraterrestrials Mr. Beeba, Spuckler, Gax, and Poog. Akiko was created while Crilley was teaching English in Japan in December 1992. It was inspired by Japanese anime and manga and classic American comics such as Little Nemo and Calvin and Hobbes. Upon publication in the US it did not become mainstream, but gained an audience nonetheless. Crilley describes his work as safe for children but written for adults. ''Akiko'' has been nominated in the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards over a dozen times since 1995. In 1998, Mark Crilley and Akiko were nominated for Best Serialized Story, Best Continuing Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirius Entertainment
Sirius Entertainment was an American comic book company which operated from 1994 to 2007. Sirius Entertainment was founded by Robb Horan, Joseph Michael Linsner, and Larry Salamone, Fassbender, Tom. "A Sirius Interview: With Two Sirius Guys," '' Capital Comics Internal Correspondance'' (May 1995), pp. 1–3. and was dedicated from the outset to publishing creator-owned properties. Originally based in Stanhope, New Jersey, Sirius later moved to Unadilla, New York. Sirius published popular titles such as Linsner's ''Dawn'', Drew Hayes' ''Poison Elves'', Mark Crilley's ''Akiko'', Jill Thompson's '' Scary Godmother'', and Mark Smylie's epic fantasy '' Artesia''. Linsner left the company around 2001. In the early 2000s, Sirius signed a bookstore distribution agreement with Diamond Comic Distributors. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) is an American illustrator and writer who has worked for stage, film, and television. Well known for her work on Neil Gaiman's '' The Sandman'' characters and her own '' Scary Godmother'' series, she has worked on ''The Invisibles'', ''Swamp Thing'', and ''Wonder Woman'' as well. Early life Thompson attended The American Academy of Art in Chicago, graduating in 1987 with a degree in Illustration and Watercolor.''Rockford Register Star'' staff. (November 7, 2005). "Meet a couple of comic book creators". ''The Rockford Register Star''. p. 1E Career Jill Thompson began her comics career working for such publishers as First Comics and Now Comics in the 1980s. She became the artist of DC Comics' ''Wonder Woman'' series in 1990. Her work on the "Chalk Drawings" story in ''Wonder Woman'' #46 (Sept. 1990) drew praise from writer George Pérez who stated "It was a good, quiet story, and I think Jill and I worked really well together on that one." Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicken Forbidden
Quicken Forbidden was a comicbook title published by Cryptic Press, and created by writer Dave Roman and artist John Green. It was first published in 1997, and the first five issues were later collected into a trade paperback; the series concluded with issue 13, published in 2005. AiT/Planet Lar collected the first ten issues in two trade paperbacks, ''Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden: Borrowed Magic'' and ''Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden: Separation Anxiety''. The plot revolves around Jax Epoch, a normal modern-day high school student from New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' .... Through a series of accidents and moments of poor judgement, she ends up accused of bringing items from a number of fantasy realms into the real world, and thus causing the fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Roman
Dave Roman (born May 26, 1977) is an American writer and artist of webcomics and comics. Career Roman attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. He started working in comics as an intern at DC Comics, then got a full-time job at Nickelodeon Magazine as a comic editor for 11 years, until the magazine ceased publishing in 2009. Works Roman is the co-creator and writer of '' Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden'', a webcomic co-created and drawn by John Green. The webcomic was first published in 1997; two books of the webcomic were published, subtitled ''Borrowed Magic'' and ''Separation Anxiety'' respectively. Roman also co-created ''Teen Boat'' with John Green. Two stories were published in print, while three are available online as a webcomic. Roman has published two books in his "Astronaut Academy" series, which started as a webcomic. The first, ''Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity'' (First Second, 2011) is about a young boy who leaves behind life as an intergalactic superher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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