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Sent at the request of the GCD: DATE: April 27, 2022 (for immediate use) RE: Grand Comics Database TM Comics History Awards FOR MORE INFORMATION: Mr. Donald Dale Milne, Chair, chair@comics.org The Grand Comics Database TM is excited to announce
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Sent at the request of the GCD:</div><div><br></div><div>DATE: April 27, 2022 (for immediate use)<br>RE: Grand Comics Database TM Comics History Awards<br>FOR MORE INFORMATION: Mr. Donald Dale Milne, Chair, <a href="mailto:chair@comics.org">chair@comics.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Grand Comics Database TM is excited to announce its first ever Comics History Awards! The Grand Comics<br>Database TM is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building a database covering<br>all printed comics throughout the world. Our main project is our database, at <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.comics.org/__;!!KGKeukY!w6tcV_aV5rLn5VhFYs5JUyPqqIj_3BDXOfiS42bSTW6XZxbmDg-yh-7eqJn2HJGl8WcvEAPuUtr7fzD3vu4JjrxWOUE$">https://www.comics.org/</a>. But in addition to the<br>database we have a related educational mission: expanding and improving the public’s understanding and appreciation of<br>comics, which includes the history of the medium.</div><div><br></div><div>As a part of our educational mission we announce the winners of the Grand Comics Database TM Comics History<br>Awards. Awards have been made in two categories, best book and best reprint collection, for works published in English<br>between January and December, 2020. The awards were expected to have been made last year and the Grand Comics<br>Database TM apologizes to all involved, for the delay due to circumstances beyond our control. The awards are:</div><div><br></div><div>Best book - "Dreaming the Graphic Novel" by Paul Williams - $750,<br>Best reprint collection - "Atlas at War!", for the Introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo - $200,<br>Best article – no award.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul Williams is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter in the<br>United Kingdom. “Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics” (Rutgers UP, 2020) is his third book, after<br>“Paul Gilroy”, and “Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds”.<br>He also co-edited the collection “The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts” with James Lyons. His<br>new book, The US Graphic Novel, will be released by Edinburgh UP in September 2022. His book, "Dreaming the Graphic<br>Novel", also won Honorable Mention, 2019-2020 Book Prize, from the Research Society for American Periodicals.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Michael J. Vassallo is a noted comics historian and authority on the Timely/Atlas period of Marvel Comic’s<br>history. For the book, in addition to writing the introduction he chose stories from sixteen different Atlas war titles featuring<br>the artwork of twenty different artists, many of which are back in print for the first time. He has co-authored “The Secret<br>History of Marvel Comics” and written many introductions to Marvel’s Timely and Atlas Age Masterworks volumes. Dr.<br>Vassallo also maintains his own Timely-Atlas-Comics blog. He is also a collector of original comic art, frequent contributor<br>to comic history publications, and has provided writing and editorial support to Taschen Publishing.</div><div><br>An Awards Committee was established consisting of three Grand Comics Database TM members, Tony Rose, Steven<br>Rowe and Patrick Lemaire, and two members from academia, Dr. Amy Nyberg of Seton Hall University and Dr. Leonard<br>Rifas of Seattle Central College. Both academic members have written on comics history. Approximately 12 works were<br>nominated and reviewed by the Committee against the following criteria:</div><div><br></div><div> Serious scholarship representing a significant contribution to the discipline,<br> Relevant topic of continuing importance to fans, readers, and scholars,<br> Authority in interpretation: depth and breadth of expertise represented,<br> Relevant topic of continuing importance to fans, readers, and scholars,<br> Authority in interpretation: depth and breadth of expertise represented,<br> Spirit of objectivity,<br> Research findings handled with skill and assurance,<br> Accurate, thorough, clear cross-referencing and indexing,<br> Well-written and readable writing style.</div><div><br></div><div>From time to time, the Grand Comics Database TM may undertake additional projects to help expand and improve the<br>public’s understanding and appreciation of comics. Our primary project consists of a free online searchable database and<br>now contains data on comics from nearly 100 countries. For over twenty-five years, we have been indexing the information<br>contained in comic books for the use of fans, collectors, scholars, media, and anyone else interested in any aspect of comic<br>books. The effort is and has always been entirely volunteer-driven and includes comics fans, scholars, and even a number of<br>current and past comic book professionals! Anyone can join and help provide missing data, update existing data, or upload<br>cover scans. We are a non-profit 501(c) corporation in the United States. Any funds will be used for our goal of<br>documenting and indexing every comic ever published. You can also help as a volunteer web designer or programmer: we<br>always need more technical help.</div><div><br></div><div>The Grand Comics Database TM continues to work towards the goal of being the web’s BEST comic data source!<br>Please consider for your appropriate categories that would include news on comics, cartoons, pop culture, literature,<br>or the internet.<br>For additional information on the Grand Comics Database TM , please contact Donald Dale Milne, Chair, at<br><a href="mailto:contact@comics.org">contact@comics.org</a> . “Grand Comics Database” and the distinctive “GCD” logo shaped like a comic word balloon, are<br>trademarks of the Grand Comicbook Database Foundation.</div></div>