Tonight in Brighton! Meet the fab Beth Duggleby interviewed by @panelborders.bsky.social Free for all and second to none!
Cartoon County@cartooncounty.bsky.social · 2mo agoTomorrow (Monday) evening. Should be good. Please join us…
First Graphic Novel Award
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The First Graphic Novel Award is a biennial award for UK debut graphic novelists run in partnership with The Cartoon Museum and SelfMadeHero, supported by The bks Agency, and generously funded by Arts Council England for the 2025 Award.
Cartoon County@cartooncounty.bsky.social · 2mo agoLooking forward to this! Great to see the third book published from our six finalists in the 2023 award! @myfanwytristram.bsky.social Snd looking forward to meeting Olivia Sullivan too.
Cartoon County@cartooncounty.bsky.social · 4mo agoNoisy Valley (out 14 May) true stories of protest from South Wales was shortlisted @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social Oracles (out 16 April) journies through the wilderness and complexities of grief & loss with a @brokenfrontier.bsky.social One To Watch Tickets £5 www.waterstones.com/events/carto... 2/2
We have been celebrating! Huge congratulations to Hannah McCann for winning the 2025 First Graphic Novel Award, shown here at the ceremony at Waterstones Piccadilly with previous winner Alex Taylor on Monday 19th January for her work-in-progress ‘St Brigid and Me’!
We wanted you lovely people to know that the 2025 #FirstGraphicNovelAward winner will be revealed on January 19th 2026 at 18:30 at Waterstones Piccadilly! Meet the shortlist, judges and @selfmadehero to find out whose GN will be published. Tickets for in-person and online attendance available NOW!
Less than 24 hours left to back our ACID BOX kickstarter! “If you missed the ‘90s rave scene, or forgot what all the fuss was about, you need ACID BOX. It’s part time-travel treatise of a cultural phenomenon, and part personal journey—as a club scenster tries to save her brother” —Shelly Bond
The awesome CCIC sextet have done it again! They’ve combined their strengths and skills into this impressive funding bid for comics and now it’s up to us to promote it!
Hannah Berry@streakofpith.bsky.social · last yr.Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess… WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...
If you’re entering the First Graphic Novel Award please post your entry before Easter! Our deadline for your entries to arrive is Tuesday 22nd April for a chance to win £500 and publication by @selfmadehero.bsky.social plus feedback on your entry. Huge thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
podcast: Ian Williams, Corinne Pearlman, Kelly Vassie, @myfanwytristram.bsky.social and Alex Fitch discuss how to create #comics for the @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social - recorded at @waterstones.bsky.social Brighton, sponsored by selfmadehero.bsky.social - panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/p...
Panel Borders: First Graphic Novel Award 2025
First Graphic Novel Award 2025: In this month’s show, Alex Fitch hosts the launch event for the 2025 First Graphic Award. Available to any unpublished comics creator, the competition looks to…
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Is Alex Fitch too young to be legendary? The host of so much, including so many live comics events, ask him who was his favourite interviewee, what was the most challenging event he hosted, and who he’d most like to interview on his comics desert island?
Cartoon County@cartooncounty.bsky.social · last yr.Please help with questions for our next Cartoon County meeting on April 28 Finally! We are tabling the turn on our regular host @panelborders.bsky.social and taking a look at his MASSIVE contribution to comics over recent years Ask now so we can include your query on the evening and spread the word
Sifting through the first batch of entries at The Cartoon Museum! Three people have posted their comic but not included any contact name or details, and there’s no matching digital entry! It’ll be just over weeks from now until the deadline on 22 April so please send us your entries in good time!!
broadcast: Alex Fitch chats w/ Ian Williams about their joint experiences of judging the @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social award, + to Kelly Vassie & @myfanwytristram.bsky.social about being long and short-listed for the prize. 5.30pm 5th Mar Resonance FM panelborders.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/n...
Next Week’s Show: First Graphic Novel Award 2025
In this month’s show, Alex Fitch hosts the launch event for the 2025 First Graphic Award. Available to any unpublished comics creator, the competition looks to providing the winner with a pub…
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Monday night comics treat in person (Brighton) or online @molluscdimension.bsky.social visits Cartoon County www.cartooncounty.com/nextguest
Next guest — Cartoon County
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Squid Horse Comics (he/him)@molluscdimension.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin @panelborders.bsky.social & me for a chat at @cartooncounty.bsky.social at The Walrus, Brighton on Mon 24th Feb! It’s hybrid (hopefully no zoom interlopers!) and podcast will be online after! downthetubes.net/enter-the-mo... #Comics #Lgbtiqa #griefcomics #outsider #mentalhealth
Hey #brighton what’ya doing this Tues 4th? Come to Brighton Waterstones to hear all about the @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social contest… and, if you make #comics too, how to enter it.
We now have a YouTube channel! Our recording of the launch event is here youtu.be/p8o1eVcwOnY?... , albeit without the first 10 mins so apologies to judge @karriefransman.bsky.social Thanks as ever @paulaknight.bsky.social for comments about accessibility. Way to go but we’re trying.
First Graphic Novel Award launch Waterstones Piccadilly 15 January 2025
YouTube video by First Graphic Novel Award
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Open for your entries now! If you’re in the Brighton’hood on Tues 4 Feb, do join judges and judged to discuss the latest First Graphic Novel Award at 7pm Brighton Waterstones! If not, do watch insta live with @myfanwytristram.bsky.social Ian Williams Kelly Vassie Alex Fitch
Calling all UK comics creators 18+ who do not have an agent and have not had a full-length graphic work commercially published. Run by @selfmadehero.bsky.social The Cartoon Museum with #NationalLottery public funding through @artscouncilengland.bsky.social here's a chance to see your GN published!
Excited to get the show on the road again! Thanks to public funding by the National Lottery through @artscouncilengland.bsky.social , we are on our way!
SelfMadeHero@selfmadehero.bsky.social · 2y agoSubmissions for the 2025 #FirstGraphicNovelAward open TOMORROW! This is your shot at a £500 cash prize (thanks to The bks Agency) and a publishing contract with us at #SelfMadeHero! 🔗 www.firstgraphicnovel.co.uk/2025-first-g... @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #FGNA #FGNA2025 #indiecomics
Could your graphic novel make its debut in 2025? Check out the latest posts from @selfmadehero.bsky.social which remind us of the diverse and varied shortlist in last year’s award. An eclectic bunch if ever there was so no prescriptions about what were looking for! Submissions open 9 Jan - 22 April.
SelfMadeHero@selfmadehero.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're wrapping up out shortlist throwback for the 2023 #FirstGraphicNovelAward on an actual #ThrowbackThursday! So, last but definitely not least, #ZayaniZam by @mereida.bsky.social! @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #FGNA2025 #FGNA #FGN #indiecomics #graphicnovels #selfmadehero
