The Grand Comics Database is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building a database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Many of you are probably familiar with our database, at https://www.comics.org/. But in addition to the database we have a related educational mission: expanding and improving the public's understanding and appreciation of comics.
As a part of our educational mission we would like to announce the creation of the Grand Comics Database Comics History Awards. Awards will be given in three categories, best book, best article, and best reprint collection for works published, in English, between January and December, 2020.
Eligibility
Eligible works should be published in English or accompanied by a translation into English. All types of comics are suitable as source material: comic books, strips (including single-panel and editorial cartoons), and webcomics. Anthologies, as a whole, are not eligible, however individual chapters from anthologies will be accepted. Subjects such as history of publishers, of characters, of publications, of trends or tropes, or biographies of creators are all acceptable. Works deemed by the judges to be outside the discipline of history are not eligible. Works by members of the GCD Board of Directors or the awards panel of judges or their immediate families are not eligible.
Evaluation Criteria
We will use these criteria:
Serious scholarship representing a significant contribution to the discipline
Relevant topic of continuing importance to fans, readers, and scholars
Authority in interpretation: depth and breadth of expertise represented
Spirit of objectivity
Research findings handled with skill and assurance
Accurate, thorough, clear cross-referencing and indexing
Well-written and readable writing style
The best reprint collection will include an essay, introduction, or annotations that place the reprinted material in the historical context of comics and/or pop culture.
Awards
The award committee will consist of a GCD board officer, two GCD members, and two academic scholars selected by the GCD Board. The author of the best book will be awarded $750. The authors of the best reprint collection and best article will be awarded $200 each. In the event of works authored by more than one person, the monetary prize will be divided among the authors; each award will also include an appropriate plaque for each author. The GCD reserves the right to present no award in any of the three categories.
Nominations can be made by publishers or authors. Five copies of each nominated book should be sent to GCD Awards, 34 Overby Circle, Little Rock, AR 72205. A pdf of a traditionally published book is acceptable and should be sent to awards-chair@comics.org.
For the best article award, please send a pdf of the article that includes the name and date of the publication wherein it appeared to awards-chair@comics.org.
All entries should be accompanied by a cover letter that includes a brief vita for the writer and appropriate contact information. Nomination will be accepted 1 January 2020 through 31 January 2021 with the awards being made on 1 March 2021.
Questions may be directed to the awards panel at awards-chair@comics.org or at GCD Awards, 34 Overby Circle, Little Rock, AR 72205.
This Black History Month Rosarium Publishing cordially invites you to see our history like you never have before.
From Box of Bones #2 When Black graduate student, Lyndsey, begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into question. In the end, Lyndsey will have to decide if she really wants to see what's inside the Box of Bones.
Described as "Tales from the Crypt Meets Black History," Box of Bones is a supernatural nightmare tour through some of the most violent and horrific episodes in the African Diaspora.
Volume 1 contains art from John Jennings, Sole Rebel, Damian Duffy, Frances Olivia Liddell-Rodriguez, Tommy Nguyen, Jarmel and Jamal Williams, and Bryan Christopher Moss with covers by Stacey Robinson!!!
Help us raise $10,000 to bring this book to print.
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in "Birds of Prey." (Claudette Barius/Warner Bros./AP)
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Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez and director Cathy Yan on the set of "Birds of Prey." (Claudette Barius/DC Comics/Warner Bros.) 
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) in Birds of Prey.
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