At Comic Con Igromir, a professional award in the comic industry "Canon" will be presented.
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As part of the festival Comic Con Igromir, which will take place from December 12 to 14 at the "Timiryazev Center", there will be an Author's Alley where guests and participants can meet with comic creators, artists, and writers. The curator of the venue is BUBBLE — the largest Russian publisher of original comics.

In collaboration with Comic Con Igromir, BUBBLE will present a new professional award in the comic industry named "Canon", which will be awarded annually. The award will highlight the talent of authors and teams who create vibrant stories that captivate readers around the world, making them cry, laugh, and eagerly anticipate sequels.

The jury will award both young authors and established professionals, and will also separately recognize genre masters for their contribution to the development of the comic industry.

Comic fans know well what "canon" is — the official version of events and characters recognized by the creators of the universe. That’s why the new industry award is named so: professionals will choose the heroes who have already become "canon" in the comic world thanks to their work.

Roman Kotkov, editor-in-chief of BUBBLE publishing house:

"The comic industry in Russia is renowned for its incredible number of talented authors and projects, and one of the award's goals is to highlight these projects and tell them to a wide audience, putting a guarantee of quality on them. Just as the Eisner Award is presented at the San Diego Comic-Con International, we decided to hold this celebration within the returned Comic Con Igromir festival and to pay deserved tribute to the authors who push comics forward as an art form every day. The name 'Canon' comes from comic terms that are familiar to any reader, and I sincerely believe that there are stories and personalities in the comic market that have long deserved to be 'canonized' in the community."

The "Canon" award will have 13 nominations covering various areas of the industry:

  • Best Scriptwriter;
  • Best Artist;
  • Best Colorist;
  • Best Cover;
  • Best Design/Layout;
  • Best Comic Book;
  • Best Comic Series;
  • Best Adaptation of a Western Comic;
  • Best Adaptation of an Eastern Comic;
  • Best Webtoon;
  • Best Children's Comic;
  • Best New Project;
  • For Contribution to the Industry.

The best of the best will be chosen by experts from the comic industry. The award winners will be honored by comic scriptwriter and author of the book "Script it", Alex Hatchett, comic artist, founder of "Sketch Battle", and teacher at the Synergy Comic Faculty, Valentin Potkin, artist, colorist, and producer of comic projects, Rene Bartang, editor-in-chief of BUBBLE, screenwriter, translator, and creative producer Roman Kotkov, founder of the "Komilfo" publishing house and the "Twenty-Eighth" store, Mikhail Bogdanov, and co-founder of the comic book store "Chuk and Geek", comic researcher Ivan Chernyavsky.