Från SF Awards Watch: ----- 2013 Will Eisner Award Winners Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Winners 2013 The winners of the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at a gala ceremony held during Comic-Con International: San Diego, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, on Friday, July 19. Best Short Story: “Moon 1969: The True Story of the 1969 Moon Launch,” by Michael Kupperman, in Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8 (Fantagraphics) Best Single Issue (or One-Shot): The Mire, by Becky Cloonan (self-published) Best Continuing Series: Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image) Best New Series: Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image) Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7): Babymouse for President, by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House) Best Publication for Kids (ages 8–12): Adventure Time, by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb (kaboom!) Best Publication for Teens (ages 13–17): A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, adapted by Hope Larson (FSG) Best Humor Publication: Darth Vader and Son, by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) Best Digital Comic: Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain) Best Anthology: Dark Horse Presents, edited by Mike Richardson (Dark Horse) Best Reality-Based Work (tie): Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller, by Joseph Lambert (Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Hyperion); The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song, by Frank M. Young and David Lasky (Abrams ComicArts) Best Graphic Album—New: Building Stories, by Chris Ware (Pantheon) Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score, adapted by Darwyn Cooke (IDW) Best Graphic Album—Reprint: King City, by Brandon Graham (TokyoPop/Image) Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: Pogo, vol. 2: Bona Fide Balderdash, by Walt Kelly, edited by Carolyn Kelly and Kim Thompson (Fantagraphics) Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil Born Again: Artist’s Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Blacksad: Silent Hell, by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse) Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia: Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media) Best Writer: Brian K. Vaughan, Saga (Image) Best Writer/Artist: Chris Ware, Building Stories (Pantheon) Best Penciler/Inker (tie): David Aja, Hawkeye (Marvel), Chris Samnee, Daredevil (Marvel); Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom (IDW) Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art): Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad (Dark Horse) Best Cover Artist: David Aja, Hawkeye (Marvel) Best Coloring: Dave Stewart, Batwoman (DC); Fatale (Image); BPRD, Conan the Barbarian, Hellboy in Hell, Lobster Johnson, The Massive (Dark Horse) Best Lettering: Chris Ware, Building Stories (Pantheon) Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism: The Comics Reporter, edited by Tom Spurgeon, www.comicsreporter.com Best Comics-Related Book: Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, by Sean Howe (HarperCollins) Best Educational/Academic Work: Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass, by Susan E. Kirtley (University Press of Mississippi) Best Publication Design: Building Stories, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon) Hall of Fame: Lee Falk, Al Jaffee, Mort Meskin, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Joe Sinnott Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award: Russel Roehling Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award: Chris Sparks and Team Cul deSac Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award: Steve Gerber, Don Rosa Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award: Challengers Comics + Conversation, Chicago, IL - See more at: http://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisners-current-info#sthash.c0So1awS.dpuf IL ----- 2013 Seiun Award Winners The winners of the 2013 Seiun (Nebula) Awards were announced at the 52nd Japanese national SF convention on July 20. The Best Japanese Long Story The Empire of Corpses Priject Itoh X Enjoe Toh Kawade Shobo Shinsha The Best Japanese Short Story Ima Shuugouteki Muishikio Chohei Kanbayashi Hayakawa Publishing Corporation The Best Translated Long Story The Android’s Dream John Scalzi / Masayuki Uchida Hayakawa Publishing Corporation The Best Tranlated Short Story Pocketful of Dharma Paolo Bacigalupi / Hiroshi Kaneko Hayakawa Publishing Corporation The Best Dramatic Presentation Bodacious Space Pirates Director: Tatsuo Sato Studio: SATELIGHT Inc. Original work: Yuichi Sasamoto / Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. Production: Project Mo-retsu The Best Comic Inherit the Stars by Yukinobu Hoshino, Original Author James Patrick Hogan of “INHERIT THE STARS”,”THE GENTLE GIANTS OF GANYMEDE”,”GIANTS’ STAR”, Japanese comic adaptation rights arranged with Spectrum Literary Agency through Japan UNI Agency, Inc., Tokyo, Shogakukan Inc. The Best Artist Kenji Tsuruta The Best Nonfiction Offprint of “The Present and Future of CGM: The World Opened up by Hatsune Miku, Nico Nico Douga, and PIAPRO” from the May 2012 issue of IPSJ Magazine Guest Editor: Masataka Goto (AIST) Publisher: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Masataka Goto “Free” Section iPS cells CiRA ?Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University ----- 2013 Scribe Award Winners The winners of this year’s Scribe Awards—given by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con—have just been announced. The Scribe Awards “acknowledge and celebrate excellence in licensed tie-in writing—novels based on TV shows, movies, and games.” The winners are: Original Novel: Tannhäuser: Rising Sun, Falling Shadows by Robert Jeschonek Adapted Novel: Clockwork Angels by Kevin Anderson Audio: Dark Shadows: The Eternal Actress by Nev Fountain ----- 2013 Prometheus Award Winners The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the Prometheus Awards winners for Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame), to be presented Friday Aug. 30, 2013 at LoneStarCon3, the 71st Annual World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, Texas. Cory Doctorow won the award for Best Novel for Pirate Cinema (TOR Books). Doctorow also won the Best Novel award in 2009 for Little Brother. Doctorow explores themes of artistic freedom, Internet freedom and peaceful social change while shedding light on issues of copyright and government surveillance in Pirate Cinema, an optimistic young-adult novel about a young pirate filmmaker whose Internet activity threatens his family with government reprisals and who learns to fight back against outdated forms of control. Cryptonomicon, a 1999 novel by Neal Stephenson, has won the 2013 Prometheus Hall of Fame award for Best Classic Fiction. Set during World War II and during the early 21st century, Stephenson’s novel explores the implications for a free society in the development of computation and cryptography. At its award ceremony to be held at 1pm on Friday, August 30th at the WorldCon in San Antonio, the Libertarian Futurist Society will present a plaque and one-ounce gold coin to Cory Doctorow. A smaller gold coin and a plaque will be presented to Neal Stephenson. Also recognized as Best Novel finalists for the best pro-freedom novel of the past year are Arctic Rising, by Tobias Buckell (TOR Books); The Unincorporated Future, by Dani and Eytan Kollin (TOR Books); Darkship Renegades, by Sarah Hoyt (Baen Books); and Kill Decision, by Daniel Suarez (Dutton – Penguin). Also recognized as Hall of Fame finalists: “Sam Hall”, by Poul Anderson (a short story, published 1953 in Astounding); Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold (a novel, published 1988); “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”, by Harlan Ellison (a short story, published 1965 in Galaxy); Courtship Rite, by Donald M. 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