Honoring the best in African-American comics (both as contributors and thematically), the nominees for this years Glyph Awards have been announced:
http://ecbacc.com/wordpress/?p=488 Story of the Year Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist Incognegro; Mat Johnson, writer, Warren Pleece, artist Justice League of America: The Second Coming; Dwayne McDuffie, writer, Ed Benes, artist Pilot Season: Genius, Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artist Presidential Material: Barack Obama; Jeff Mariotte, writer, Tom Morgan, artist Best Writer Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, Genius Mat Johnson, Incognegro Jeremy Love, Bayou Jeff Mariotte, Presidential Material: Barack Obama Dwayne McDuffie, Justice League of America Best Artist Jamal Igle, Supergirl Jeremy Love, Bayou Warren Pleece, Incognegro Afua Richardson, Pilot Season: Genius Larry Stroman, Black Panther Annual #1 Best Male Character Black Lightning, Final Crisis: Submit; Grant Morrison, writer, Matthew Clark, Norm Rapmund, Rob Hunter & Don Ho, artists; created by Tony Isabella & Trevor von Eeden Black Panther, Black Panther Annual #1; Reginald Hudlin, writer, Larry Stroman & Ken Lashley, artists; created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby Lwanga Moses, Unknown Soldier; Joshua Dysart, writer, Alberto Ponticelli, artist; inspired by the character created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert The Spectre, Final Crisis: Revelations; Greg Rucka, writer, Philip Tan, Jeff de los Santos & Jonathan Glapion, artists; inspired by the character created by Jerry Siegel & Bernard Bailey Zane Pinchback, Incognegro; created by Mat Johnson, writer, and Warren Pleece, artist Best Female Character Destiny Ajaye, Pilot Season: Genius; created by Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artist Lee Wagstaff, Bayou; created by Jeremy Love, writer and artist Storm, X-Men: Worlds Apart; Christopher Yost, writer, Diogenes Neves, artist; created by Len Wein & Dave Cockrum Vielle, Fungus Grotto; created by Shatia Hamilton, writer and artist Vixen, Vixen: Return of the Lion; G. Willow Wilson, writer, Cafu, artist; created by Gerry Conway & Bob Oksner Rising Star Award Jennifer Crute, Jennifers Journal Damian Duffy & John Jennings, The Hole: Consumer Culture Charlie Goubile, Blackbird Starline X. Hodge, Candi Ashley Woods, Millennia War Best Reprint Collection Aya of Yop City, Drawn & Quarterly Me and the Devil Blues V1, Del Rey Nat Turner HC, Abrams Best Cover Final Crisis: Submit, Matthew Clark & Norm Rapmund, artists; Richard & Tonya Horie, colors The Hole: Consumer Culture; John Jennings, illustrator Pilot Season: Genius, Afua Richardson, illustrator Unknown Soldier #1, Igor Kordey, illustrator Vixen: Return of the Lion #1; Josh Middleton, illustrator Best Comic Strip Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist Café con Leche; Charlos Gary, writer and artist Fungus Grotto, Shatia Hamilton, writer and artist Jefferson Jacks from Crankshaft; Tom Batiuk & Tony Isa bella, writers, Chuck Ayers, artist The K Chronicles, Keith Knight, writer and artist Fan Award for Best Comic Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #33-35; Christos Gage, writer, Sean Chen & Sandu Florea, artists Pilot Season: Genius; Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman, writers, Afua Richardson, artist Presidential Material: Barack Obama; Jeff Mariotte, writer, Tom Morgan, artist Vixen: Return of the Lion; G. Willow Wilson, writer, Cafu, artist Young Avengers Presents #1; Ed Brubaker, writer, Paco Medina, artist The judges for the 2009 competition are: Valerie DOrazio, president, Friends of Lulu; Mathan Erhardt, writer, Comics Nexus; Ed Mathews, columnist, Pop Image; Tim OShea, writer/interviewer, TalkingWithTim.com; and Elayne Riggs, comics reviewer and commentator. The ballot for the Fan Award for Best Comic is now open at the website for the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC), http://ecbacc.com/wordpress/?p=488 and will remain open through March 31, 2009. Write-in selections can be e-mailed to GCA Committee Chair Rich Watson at rich.wat...@gmail.com. IMPORTANT: Write-in selections are ONLY for choices not on the online ballot. ANY WRITE-IN SELECTIONS FOR CHOICES ALREADY ON THE ONLINE BALLOT WILL NOT BE COUNTED AND WILL BE DISCARDED. The 2009 GCA ceremony will be held May 15,202009, in the Skyline Room of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Park Central branch, as part of ECBACC, which will take place at the Crown Plaza Philadelphia Center City, May 16, 2009. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
