Congratulations to the six names on the shortlist for this year’s First Graphic Novel Award! An always vital and crucially important opportunity for creators. Investigating a saint, falling in love…
Just before the weekend the First Graphic Novel Competition announced their longlist line-up for this year. It’s a great set of names, some of whom you will recognise from recent…
As someone who, back in the mists of time, was a judge for the second edition of what is now the First Graphic Novel Award I can certainly attest to…
10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! In the third of our interviews with this year’s Broken frontier Six to Watch creators we chat with French-Spanish, UK-based artist Zoè…
10 YEARS OF THE BROKEN FRONTIER SIX TO WATCH! My go-to advice for aspiring comics creators who decide to plunge straight into full-length work is that it’s essential not to…
On a joyous night, celebrating some of the very best emerging talents in comics, Alex Taylor (azbt) was announced as the winner of the 2023 First Graphic Novel Competition. Full…
It’s the competition that propelled the likes of Gareth Brookes, Jade Sarson, Sabba Khan and Jenny Robins into the spotlight and today we are delighted to let you know just…
I have my own connections to the First Graphic Novel Competition (formerly run by publisher Myriad) given that I was a judge back in 2014. In fact such is my…
Online voyeurism, risky sex, dementia, suicide, racism, murder and selling the earth: topical and contemporary issues dominate the shortlist for Myriad’s First Graphic Novel Competition and show that the graphic…
The Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition holds a special place in our hearts here at BF given that it echoes the site’s main aim to promote, champion and take the…
The waiting is over and the seven shortlisted works-in-progress for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition have been announced and, once again, the list is a testament to the…
Henny Beaumont’s graphic novel-in-progress A Hole in the Heart was one of the six projects earlier this year to make it onto the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition’s prestigious shortlist….
The waiting is over! Jade Sarson’s For the Love of God, Marie is the winner of the 2014 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. On the evening of Friday 23rd May,…
On Friday 23rd May the winner of the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition will be revealed at the British Library as part of the Comics Unmasked programme of events. On…
Myriad Editions is delighted to announce the shortlist for their First Graphic Novel Competition 2014, revealed today to coincide with the first week of Comics Unmasked, the UK’s largest-ever exhibition of British comics…
Award-winning novelist Meg Rosoff, critic and blogger Andy Oliver, and cartoonists Woodrow Phoenix and Nicola Streeten are among the judges of the 2014 First Fictions First Graphic Novel Competition, launched…
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