Awards | The gold medal for Best Graphic Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival went to Guy Delisle for Jerusalem, and the jury awarded a Special Prize to Jim Woodring for his Congress of the Animals. Veteran French creator Jean-Claude Denis was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, so he will preside over next year's festival, as Art Spiegelman did this year. Two manga won awards as well: Kaoru Mori's A Bride's Story won the Intergenerational Award, and Yoshihiro Tatsumi's autobiographical A Drifting Life received the World Outlook Award. The Heritage Award went to Glenat's edition of Carl Barks' Donald Duck. [Paris Match]
Conventions | New Orleans Comic Con, held over the weekend, receives plenty of coverage, with spotlights on Stan Lee's panel, aspiring creators and cosplayers. [Reuters, The Times-Picayune]
Creators | Paul Hornschemeier has received the first graphic novel residency from the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art and Thurber House. The three-week residency, designed to help graphic creators develop a work in progress, includes a stipend and housing in an apartment near the boyhood home of James Thurber. [press release, via Comics Worth Reading]
Creators | Garth Ennis gives a brief interview on his plans for The Shadow, which he promises will continue to be "set firmly in 1938." [ICv2]
Creators | Brian Truitt talks to Joe Keatinge about Hell Yeah, his new series about a world where ordinary mortals and superheroes live side by side; Truitt calls it "Keatinge's blender of awesomeness, taking everything he loves about the medium and turning it up to 11." [USA Today]
Creators | Gene Luen Yang pays a visit to a manga club at a Gainesville, Florida, middle school [The Gainesville Sun]
Retailing | The local paper peers inside the door of Salinas, California, comic shop Current Comics and chats with the staff a bit. [The Salinas Californian]
Comics | Five artists give their take on superheroes in an art exhibit located, appropriately, in Riverdale, New York. [New York Daily News]
Comics | Joey Manley confesses that he took up cigar smoking at least in part because of the influence of comics. [Mr. Manley]
Merchandising | We had heard about the Wonder Woman lipstick, but it turns out that Smurfette and Hello Kitty have inspired lines of cosmetics as well. [The New York Times]