While a trio of awards had been handed out at Friday night time’s opening reception for this yr’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus competition, one prize remained. On the expo ground yesterday the Emerging Talent Prize was awarded by Bone creator and CXC Artistic Director Jeff Smith to cartoonist Victoria Douglas.
As CXC describes it, the Emerging Talent Prize “recognizes artistic accomplishment, potential growth, and the uniqueness of a cartoonist’s achievements early in their career.” Along with a prize plaque, the creator additionally receives a $7,500, no-strings-attached honoraria to do with as they’ll.
Victoria Douglas (they/them) is the cartoonist behind such books as Cinnamon and Templar Vitae. In accepting the prize, Douglas described strolling into CXC in 2018 by chance, having come to the library to check. There they met Nate Powell, and between speaking to him and experiencing the competition Douglas determined to pursue cartooning. The Central Ohio native mentioned that CXC has modified their life, and praised the comics neighborhood in Columbus for being so welcoming, supportive, and passionate.
Previous CXC Emerging Talent Prize winners embrace Katie Skelly, Okay Czap, Kat Fajardo, Keren Katz, Carta Monir, Gabby Metzler, and Robyn Smith.
You can try Victoria Douglas’s work on their web site. Congratulations to Douglas on a prize well-deserved.
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