#CoolArt: 'Glimmeropia' print by Syd Bee through The People's Print Shop

'Glimmeropia' by Syd Bee.

14" x 14" archival pigment print, in a signed and numbered limited edition of 40 for $50.

On sale now through The People's Print Shop.

#CoolArt: Haven Gallery presents 'Duality' Group Art Exhibition

Haven Gallery presents 'Duality' group art exhibition.

The exhibition is on display until August 20 2023 at Haven Gallery, 90 Main St, Northport, NY 11768, open to the public for viewing the art safely with social distancing and masks required, and on the Haven Gallery website.

by Nikolina Petolas

#CoolArt: Haven Gallery presents 'Nice To Meet You II' Solo Art Exhibition by Phoenix Chan

Haven Gallery presents 'Nice To Meet You II', a solo art exhibition by Phoenix Chan, consisting of 6 new artworks featuring feline characters in traditional garb, inspired by cultures from around the world.

The exhibition is on display until August 20 2023 at Haven Gallery, 90 Main St, Northport, NY 11768, open to the public for viewing the art safely with social distancing and masks required, and on the Haven Gallery website.

#CoolArt: Haven Gallery presents 'Into The Miniature Garden' Solo Art Exhibition by Hitomi Aoki

Haven Gallery presents 'Into The Miniature Garden', a solo art exhibition by Hitomi Aoki.

The exhibition is on display until August 20 2023 at Haven Gallery, 50 Main St, Northport, NY 11768, open to the public by appointment only for viewing the art safely with Covid precautions, and on the Haven Gallery website.

#CoolArt: Haven Gallery presents 'Dramarama' Solo Art Exhibition by Jesús Aguado

Haven Gallery presents 'Dramarama', a solo art exhibition by Jesús Aguado consisting of nine new paintings featuring his dynamically expressive, chimeric characters in surrealistically playful narratives.

The exhibition is on display until August 20 2023 at Haven Gallery, 50 Main St, Northport, NY 11768, open to the public by appointment only for viewing the art safely with Covid precautions, and on the Haven Gallery website.

#CoolArt: 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' & 'Return Of The Jedi - 40th Anniversary' prints by Matt Ferguson through Bottleneck Gallery

'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' & 'Return Of The Jedi - 40th Anniversary' by Matt Ferguson.

'The Empire Strikes Back'

• Officially licensed 24" x 36" Digital printing on 4mm acrylic panel, in a limited edition of 150 for $125, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity.

'Return Of The Jedi'

• Officially licensed 24" x 36" Digital printing on 4mm acrylic panel, in a limited edition of 150 for $125, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity;
• 24" x 36" 3D lenticular print on 1mm PET, in a Regular edition of 300 for $100, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity;
• 24" x 36" 3D lenticular print on 4mm polystyrene, in a Regular edition of 225 for $200, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity;
• 24" x 36" 3D lenticular print on 4mm polystyrene, in a Variant edition of 175 for $200, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity;
• 24" x 36" 3D lenticular print on 4mm polystyrene, in a Japanese Variant edition of 125 for $200, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity.

On sale Thursday July 27 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

'The Empire Strikes Back' Acrylic Panel Edition

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Jurassic Park' by John Guydo

'Jurassic Park' by John Guydo.

Shortlist For The 2023 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The shortlist for the 2023 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• The Bone Orchard – Sara A Mueller (Tor)
• Cast Long Shadows – Cat Hellisen (Luna Press Publishing)
• Glitterati – Oliver K Langmead (Titan)
• The Oleander Sword – Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• Path of War – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• The Spear Cuts Through Water – Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• Full Immersion – Gemma Amor (Angry Robot)
• The Hollows – Daniel Church (Angry Robot)
• Just Like Home – Sarah Gailey (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Miracle Growth – Tim Mendees (Eerie River Publishing)
• Sundial – Catriona Ward (Viper)

Best Novella

• And Then I Woke Up – Malcolm Devlin (Tordotcom)
• The Entropy of Loss – Stewart Hotston (NewCon Press)
• Interference – Terry Grimwood (Elsewhen Press)
• Ogres – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)
• Pomegranates – Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)
• The Queen of the High Fields – Rhiannon A. Grist (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Short Fiction

• The Call of El Tunche – Shona Kinsella (in Weird Horror Anthology, Flame Tree Press)
• A Moment of Zugzwang – Neil Williamson (in ParSec #4)
• Morta – James Bennett (in The Book of Queer Saints, Medusa Publishing Haus)
• The Tails That Make You – Eliza Chan (in Fantasy Magazine #82)

Best Collection

• Behind A Broken Smile – Penny Jones (Black Shuck Books)
• Breakable Things – Cassandra Khaw (Undertow Publications)
• Candescent Blooms – Andrew Hook (Salt Publishing)
• Under The Moon – EM Faulds (Ghost Moth Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

Best Audio Work

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• The Painkiller Podcast (Bitter Pill Theatre)
• Podcastle (Escape Artists)
• Pseudopod (Escape Artists)
• The Secret of St. Kilda (Michael Ireland & Naomi Clarke)
• The Stranger Times (CK McDonnell)

Best Independent Press

• Black Shuck Books
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• NewCon Press

Best Artist

• Chris Baker (Fangorn)
• Ben Baldwin
• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• Dan Hillier

Best Anthology

• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, ed. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight (Tordotcom)
• The Book of Queer Saints, ed. Mae Murray (Medusa Publishing Haus)
• Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, ed. Steve J. Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• Isolation: The Horror Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon (Titan)
• Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer – Lee C Conley, HL Tinsley, JE Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin and CF Welburn (Nordic Press)
• Someone in Time, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)

Best Non-Fiction

• An Earnest Blackness – Eugen Bacon (Anti-Oedipus Press)
• Fantasy: How it Works – Brian Attebery (OUP)
• The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• My Life in Horror, Vol. 2 – Kit Power
• Outlander and the Real Jacobites – Shona Kinsella (Pen & Sword History)
• Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes – Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Sunyi Dean, for The Book Eaters (Tor)
• Hiron Ennes, for Leech (Tor)
• Somto Ihezue, for a collection of short stories: Whole; Like Stars Daring to Shine; A Girl is Blood, Spirit and Fire; The Carving of War
• Shauna Lawless, for The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Head of Zeus)
• Elijah Kinch Spector, for Kalyna the Soothsayer (Erewhon Books)
• Susan York, for Starless and Bible Black (Midnight Street Press)

#CoolArt: 'Supernova II' print by Tara McPherson through The Cotton Candy Machine

'Supernova II' by Tara McPherson.

17" x 22" archival pigment fine art print, in a signed and numbered limited edition of 200 for $80.

On sale now through The Cotton Candy Machine.

#CoolArt: 'The Lost Boys' print by Florey through Vice Press

'The Lost Boys' by Florey.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" Lithograph print on 280gsm Stucco Old Mill Classic paper, in a numbered limited edition of 250 for £44.99.

On sale Thursday July 27 at 6pm UK through Vice Press.

#CoolArt: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Comic Art prints through Bottleneck Gallery

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' comic art.

'TMNT #1'

Officially licensed 16" x 24" 3D Lenticular print, in a numbered Regular edition of 100 for $75, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity.

'TMNT #2'

Officially licensed 24" x 36" screen print, in a numbered Foil Variant edition of 75 for $60; and a numbered Glow In The Dark Variant edition of 50 for $70.

A limited allocation will be on sale Wednesday July 26 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

'TMNT #1'

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Akira' by Chris Thornley (Raid71)

'Akira' by Chris Thornley (Raid71).

#CoolArt: 'Batman: The Animated Series' prints by Des Taylor through Bottleneck Gallery

'Batman: The Animated Series' by Des Taylor.

Officially licensed 18" x 24" giclee prints, in numbered limited editions of 75 for $50 each; and as a numbered 6 print set for $285.

Every set purchased includes a FREE Batman 8" x 10" mini print.

On sale Tuesday July 25 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Blade Runner 2049' by Matt Ferguson

'Blade Runner 2049' by Matt Ferguson.

Winners Of The 2023 Eisner Awards Announced

The winers of the 2023 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2022, given for creative achievement in American comic books, often referred to as the Comics Industry's equivalent of the Oscar Awards, have been announced.

The winners were announced during San Diego Comic Con.

Best Short Story

• “Finding Batman” by Kevin Conroy and J Bone in DC Pride 2022 (DC)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)

Best Continuing Series

• Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)

Best Limited Series

• The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC)

Best New Series

• Public Domain, by Chip Zdarsky (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

• The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! by Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

• Frizzy, by Claribel A Ortega and Rose Bousamra (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• Do A Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image)

Best Humour Publication

• Revenge of the Librarians, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

• The Nib Magazine, edited by Matt Bors (Nib)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Flung Out of Space, by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Graphic Memoir

• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Graphic Album - New

• The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Graphic Album - Reprint

• Parker: The Martini Edition - Last Call, by Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker, and Sean Phillips (IDW)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)

Best US Edition of International Material

• Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse)

Best US Edition of International Material - Asia

• Shuna's Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki; translation by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Archival Collection/Project - Strips (at least 20 years old)

• Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life, by Lynda Barry, edited by Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection / Project - Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, edited by Dian Hansen (TASCHEN)

Best Writer

• James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country (DC), The Closet, The Department of Truth (Image)

Best Writer / Artist

• Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Penciller / Inker or Penciller / Inker Team

• Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC)

Best Painter / Multimedia Artist (interior art)

• Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

• Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)

Best Colouring

• Jordie Bellaire, The Nice House on the Lake, Suicide Squad: Blaze (DC); Antman, Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)

Best Lettering

• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism

• PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Tiffany Babb (panelxpanel.com)

Best Comics-Related Book

• Charles M Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, by Benjamin L Clark and Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)

Best Academic / Scholarly Work

• The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (University Press of Mississippi)

Best Publication Design

• Parker: The Martini Edition - Last Call, designed by Sean Phillips (IDW)

Best Webcomic

• Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON),
• https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=5

Best Digital Comic

• Barnstormers, by Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay (Comixology Originals)

Bill Finger Award

• Sam Glanzman
• Barbara Friedlander

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award

• Beth Accomando
• Scott Dunbier

Will Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees

• Brian Bolland (by vote)
• Ann Nocenti (by vote)
• Tim Sale (by vote)
• Diana Schutz (by vote)
• Jay Johnson
• Gaspar Saladino
• Win Mortimer
• Jack Katz
• Tatjana Wood
• Tony DeZuniga
• Mort Walker
• Garry Trudeau
• Justin Green
• Aline Kominsky-Crumb
• Diane Noomin
• Bill Griffith
• Jerry Bails
• Jeffrey Catherine Jones
• Kim Thompson

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Award

• Eitan Manhoff of Cape & Cowl Comics in Oakland, CA

Russ Manning Best Newcomer Award

• Zoe Thorogood

#ArtOfTheDay: 'The Incal' by Jean Giraud (Moebius)

Page 1 of 'The Incal' by Jean Giraud (Moebius).

Artist Spotlight: The Art Of . . . Nick Runge

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Nick Runge.

#ArtOfTheDay: 'The Batman' by Bill Sienkiewicz

'The Batman' by Bill Sienkiewicz.

Artist Spotlight: The Art Of . . . Nick Derington

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Nick Derington.

#ArtOfTheDay: 'The Terminator' by Christopher Shy

'The Terminator' by Christopher Shy.