[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-british-comic-awards-nominees":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"So, the team who run the British Comic Awards have, at last, announced the short list! Exciting times.\\r\n**NEWS FLASH** \u003Ci>Booksellers! Librarians! If you're making a display of the short list books, the BCA team would LOVE to get a photo! You can tweet them at \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BritComicAwards\">@BritComicAwards\u003C/a> or here's their \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Comic-Awards/493964307334691\">Facebook page\u003C/a>\u003C/i>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/BCA_logo_zps8ded9ff9-fb3c9fc0c9.jpg\" width=\"300\">\\r\n\\r\nSince I work in children's books, here's the list most near and dear to my heart, for the \u003Cb>Young People's Comic Award\u003C/b>. Big congrats to \u003Ca href=\"http://milkthecat.wordpress.com/\">Dan White\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/\">Garen Ewing\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://lukepearson.com/\">Luke Pearson\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://jimmedway.com/\">Jim Medway\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/\">Viviane Schwarz\u003C/a>!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/YPCA13_shortlist_zps731440c6-0a994a3eb1.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more Click for more under the cut!-->\\r\nI won't have a say in these because they're judged by children (\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/441827.html\">who voted for my \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> book in 2011\u003C/a>, when it was still called the Leeds Graphic Novel Award!). Now one of the points of an award is to get people talking about comics. And when the shortlist was announced, I immediately protested, why aren't these two comics on the list?!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/teenyfishhead_zps9d6c7cba-692393abe2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWell, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.com/2012/07/24/teenytinysaurs/\">\u003Ci>Teenytinysaurs\u003C/a>\u003C/i> by \u003Cb>Gary Northfield\u003C/b> was a major omission, I really do think it was one of the best comics of the year, possible \u003Ci>THE\u003C/i> best. But when I tweeted about the two books, I was assured that \u003Ca href=\"http://www.fumboo.com/index.html?http://www.fumboo.com/ffhs.html\">\u003Ci>Fish-Head Steve\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by \u003Cb>Jamie Smart\u003C/b> didn't quite fit in the publication dates for the award, so it will be in the running \u003Ci>next\u003C/i> year. So I am half mollified. No one's ever content with a short list. And that's okay. ...No, that's a GOOD thing! Vent! Discuss!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2424\"/>\\r\n\\r\nAnd here are the comics I'll be helping to judge: \u003Cb>Best Book\u003C/b>, \u003Cb>Best Comic\u003C/b> (divided from 'book' purely by page count) and \u003Cb>Best Emerging Artist\u003C/b>. An impressive lot! You can read about the awards on the \u003Ca href=\"http://britishcomicawards.com/\">British Comic Awards website\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/british-comic-awards-shortlists-2013/\">Forbidden Planet International blog has just posted an article here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/BCA13_shortlist_zpse2646dca-8794250dd3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMy fellow judges! You can find out more about us \u003Ca href=\"http://britishcomicawards.com/judges/\">here\u003C/a>! I'll be going up to \u003Ca href=\"http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/\">Thought Bubble\u003C/a> festival in Leeds for the presentation of the awards, helping with the presentation of the Young People's Comic Award on Friday, 22 Nov, and presenting the British Comics Awards on Saturday evening, 23 Nov. Do come up to Thought Bubble, it's an absolutely brilliant festival. You can see \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/leeds\">some of my blog posts here about it from years past\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://britishcomicawards.com/judges/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/BCA13_judges_zps86c5199d-14d1d63e22.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd now a bit of my own news: my co-author \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> and I have done \u003Ca href=\"http://networkedblogs.com/PmsFx\">an interview with The Book Addicted Girl\u003C/a> discussing our \u003Cb>favourite books about fictional journeys\u003C/b>. (Actually, a few of the travel comics I mentioned aren't fictional, but they're all about journeys.) Do you have a favourite book or comic to recommend about a fictional journey? Let me know in the comments and say why it's important to you!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://networkedblogs.com/PmsFx\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/top10fictionaljourneys_zps62a2775b-ebfa5ec50d.jpg\">\u003Ca>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://networkedblogs.com/PmsFx\">\u003Cfont size=\"3\">Read more here...\u003C/a>\u003C/font>","2013-09-25T11:04:00.000Z","british-comic-awards-nominees",[],"british comic awards nominees",1776628725627]