Colleen Doran’s adaptation of the Neil Gaiman quick story Chivalry, revealed by Dark Horse, gained the 2023 Locus Award for Best Illustrated and Art Book. The ceremony happened on June 24, 2023 as half of the Locus Awards Weekend, comprised of writer readings and panels. Comics – and Neil Gaiman – adjoining, the winner of the 2023 Locus Award for Best Artist went to a different frequent Neil Gaiman creative collaborator/adaptor Charles Vess.
On receiving information of the award win, Doran posted on Twitter, saying:
So very grateful to Neil for letting me do that story after I begged for thirty years. Thank you, thanks. My Holy Grail.
— Colleen Doran (@ColleenDoran) June 25, 2023
“Wow, thank you, even I didn’t expect this, but thank you muchly, and wonderful news to [Neil Gaiman], [Dark Horse Comics] and to [the late Terry Pratchett, whose biography by Rob Wilkins won a Non-Fiction award] and Charles Vess. Nice being in the same boat with you. Again.”
She added:
“ So very grateful to Neil for letting me do this story after I begged for thirty years. Thank you, thank you. My Holy Grail.”
Neil Gaiman chimed in:
“Very proud of what Colleen Doran and Todd Klein and the Dark Horse team made.”
Very proud of what @ColleenDoran and Todd Klein and the Dark Horse staff made. https://t.co/qpNfGvGyn5
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) June 25, 2023
And Dark Horse tweeted:
“Chivalry has won the Locus Award in the Illustrated and Art Book category! Congratulations to Colleen Doran, [Neil Gaiman], Todd Klein, and team!”
Chivalry has gained the Locus Award within the Illustrated and Art Book class! Congratulations to @ColleenDoran, @neilhimself, Todd Klein, and staff! More beneath: https://t.co/cGxVNZXWx5 pic.twitter.com/OJyFti26K3
— Dark Horse Comics (@DarkHorseComics) June 25, 2023
Doran is a multi-award profitable artist and illustrator who has tailored a quantity of Neil Gaiman quick tales for the comics medium. Her 2019 adaptation of his quick story Snow, Glass, Apples acquired an Eisner Award and a Bram Stoker Award. Doran was lately introduced as a finalist within the National Cartoonist Society’s 2022 Reuben Divisional Awards for Graphic Novels. She at the moment has an exhibition at New York’s Society of Illustrators operating till July 29.
Neil Gaiman’s quick story Chivalry was first collected and republished in his 1998 assortment Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions. The story tells of an aged widow who unintentionally finds the Holy Grail in a thrift retailer. It has been one of Gaiman’s hottest tales and has been tailored into different media – together with as a Christmas audio play by the UK’s BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
Other comics and graphic novels among the many ten nominated works within the Best Illustrated and Art Book class included: Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes and Marco Finnegan’s The Keeper (Abrams/Megascope); Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda’s The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComedianArts); and Valya Dudycz Lupescu & Vic Terra’s Mother Christmas, Vol 1: The Muse (Rosarium).
The Locus Awards are a gaggle of annual literary science fiction and fantasy prizes voted on by the readers of the lengthy operating Locus Magazine. They have taken place since 1971. Thus far there has not been a separate prize class for comics and graphic novels however they’re usually discovered alongside artwork books of pictures and illustrations, and illustrated novels/childrens books within the Illustrated and Art Book class.
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