#julian lowry

[miss-may-i]

Miss May I: Season 5 Part 1

Julian: Congratulations!

Isabella: Thank you! I so wish you could have walked with us.

Julian: That boat already sailed for me, but I'm happy for you and Richie.

Vivian: Bella, congratulations.

Isabella: Thank you so much, Vivi. Guess I don't have to call you Mr. Lowry anymore.

Vivian: When did you ever? Now if you excuse me, I have a few other students to meet up with.

Vivian: Richie, congratulations. Your valedictorian speech was amazing

Richie: Thank you, Mr. Lowry. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you.

Isabella: I'm telling you, this morning putting on my gown I was so nervous I thought I was gonna puke. Like, this makes us, like, bona fide adults now!

Damian: Hey girls.

Isabella: Damian!

Damian: Hey! I wasn't expecting that.

Isabella: I'm just so glad to see you. It's literally been years.

Damian: I'm glad to see you too. Never thought I'd be so happy to be back in middle of nowhere Alaska.

Damian: Julie, is that your baby? I can't believe how much he looks like Noah.

Julian: Everyone keeps saying that but I think he looks like me. His name's Jasper.

Damian: I see it now that you mention it. Guess it's just the hair and eyes he gets from Noah.

Julian: So, you're back. Does this mean you're out of military school?

Damian: Not yet. My graduation is next week but they let me home for Markus's graduation.

Julian: I'm really sorry about what happened. It's basically my fault you got sent away.

Damian: Don't sweat it. My mom had been threatening to send me to military school for years.

Julian: It's good to see you again.

Damian: Yeah, you too. I'm just glad Kirsten isn't here.

Julian: That's a long story. Vivian's husband was fucking her mom and got her pregnant, so he and Vivian got divorced then he, his baby mommy, and Kirsten moved to Storybrooke County.

Damian: Man, your family really likes to fuck up her life, huh? Maybe I did dodge a bullet by getting sent away. I'll see you again when I come back.

Julian: Bet on it.

Isabella: Oh my god, military school was good to him. Did you see those muscles?

Julian: What happened to only having eyes for Richie?

Isabella: Richie is the love of my life, but he's more of a brains guy.

Isabella: Please my wonderful and bestest best friend please tell me you changed your mind about coming to the graduation dinner?

Julian: Sorry, it just doesn't seem fair since I didn't graduate.

Isabella: But you got your GED! They don't call it an equivalent for nothing.

Julian: Besides, I have other dinner plans tonight.

Isabella: Oh, a special hot date with Noah?

Julian: No, he's at work. Actually, I'm having dinner with my dad.

Isabella: Your dad?

Julian: He's been trying to make more of an effort to be involved in my life since the custody case.

Isabella: I can't believe how good everything worked out. Or maybe I shouldn't say that 'cause of your mom.

Julian: No, you're right. Her being gone is a good thing. It was like some kind of miracle.

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as someone that just watched that mandalor gaming video: mystery of the droods??

🎶 Halligan's life was pretty drab, racking up debt with the pizza tab 🎶

Yes, it's exactly what you think it is.

(for the uninitiated)

“Oh, very melodramatic,” said Garak, tossing the PADD with the holosuite catalog down onto the bar in front of them.

"So, is that a yes?" Julian batted his eyelashes.

"Mystery of the Droods," Garak read aloud. "Hmm."

"Druids," Julian corrected him.

"That's what I said. Droods."

"No, droo-ids. You know what - never mind. Are you in or out?"

"I don't know, Doctor. Who gets to be Halligan?"

"I do, of course."

"You're always the main character. It hardly seems fair."

Julian smiled. "That's because I'm main character material, Garak. Although now that you mention it, Detective Halligan does sound a bit more like you. Lone wolf, willing to do anything to get the job done…ah well, there's nothing for it. My holosuite reservation, my game. You can be Lowry."

"Lowry? It says here he's a foppish snob."

"Exactly."

"Doctor."

"I don't see why you're making such an issue out of this, we both know you're going to ruin the game anyway by refusing to play along. Hell, play Melanie for all I care - it's not going to matter."

"The love interest? Oh, now that is an interesting thought."

Julian rolled his eyes. "Just don't be late, okay? The reservation is for 19:00 sharp."

[rorysfics]

okay heres an actual introduction (???) to my ocs. i originally created these characters almost three years ago, so there's been a bit of tinkering over time. either way, i still love them very much.

Julian Beau Russo

20 year old Fine Arts student that is from Seattle, Washington. He lives in San Francisco, California where he attends school. He plays for his uni's soccer team. Coincidentally his sisters boyfriend, Asher, is the head coach. Although he was born in Seattle, he is of Italian(dad) and Greek(mom) descent. He is fluent in Italian and English. He's also proficient in French.

He currently lives with his teammate, Mateo, and his band mate, Greyson.

Maddox Gray Elrod

22 year old Architecture student that is from Longueuil, Canada. Maddox and his family moved to San Francisco, where his dad is from, when he was 13 years old. He grew up alongside his brother, Alexander, who he currently lives with. Living in a Francophone Province of Canada, makes Maddox fluent in French and English. He is also the reason that Julian is proficient in the language.

He also plays soccer with Julian.

Greyson Rhodes Fox

20 year old Marine Biology student that was born in Bradford, England. Greyson and his family moved to San Francisco for his mom's work when he was really young. Because of moving so young, his British accent is pretty much nonexistent. It's present the most when he's really, really tired. His family speaks German.

Grey plays the drums in a "band" with his friends. They don't make and produce anything seriously, they mainly do it for fun.

Mateo Alexander Kessler

21 year old Engineering student that is from San Francisco. He is best known as the "dickhead" roommate.

Charlotte Lowry

22 year old that is from San Francisco Bay Area. Unlike the boys, she does not attend university and never has. She is a freelance photographer. She also works at a local bookstore cafe that her sister, Elizabeth, owns.

She's also in the band with Julian and Greyson.

* i dont have much to note for Mateo, as he is a developing character. i actually pulled him from a group of ocs i made like 6 years ago, so im hoping to completely revamp him as i go.

Anyway, some side characters that may or may not come up are Jules' siblings: Luciano, Elias, Cora, Maya and Nicolas. As well as the other two band mates: Elliott and Ashton.

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IN_A_MINUTE: // AN INDIE EXPRESS… //

“FOR YOU” is the opening track from @colouring’s forthcoming sophomore LP titled ‘Love To You, Mate’ (2/23 @bella_union) & it finds the UK-based artist Jack Kenworthy waxing upon “a time that changed my family’s & my life forever” across 2 ½ mins of bouncily textured & beautifully skittered VibePop. “THE FIGHT” is the second single from @futureislands’ forthcoming LP titled ‘People Who Aren’t There Anymore’ (1/26/24 @4ad) & it finds the Baltimore-based quartet of Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring & Michael Lowry bringing the tenderness across 4 ½ mins of synthetic SoftPop. @glitterererer are here w/ “JUST A PLACE,” the second single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘Rationale’ (2/23 @antirecords) & it finds the DC-based quartet of Nicole Dao, Jonas Farah, Connor Morin & Ned Russin trying “to hold onto home after it’s too late” across a 2:15 clip of plaintive IndieRock. “BUBBLEGUM DOG” is the second single from @whoismgmt’s forthcoming LP titled ‘Loss of Life’ (2/23 @momandpopmusic) & it finds the Middletown, CT-based duo of Andrew VanWyngarden & Ben Goldwasser applying their eccentricities across 4+ mins of indie-tinged & alt_rawked PsychPop. @realestateband are here w/ “WATER UNDERGROUND,” the lead single from their forthcoming LP titled ‘Daniel’ (2/23 @dominorecordco) & it finds the Brooklyn-based quintet of Martin Courtney (vocals/guitar), Alex Bleeker (bass/vox), Matt Kallman (keys), Julian Lynch (guitar) & Sammi Niss (drums) bringing their tried ‘n true brand of breezily jangled & thicccly rhythmed Indie. “SHIRLEY ROAD” is the lead track on @real_lies_’s freshly released EP titled ‘Sinking Suburb’ (@neversleeplife) & it finds the London-based duo of Kevin Lee Kharas & Patrick King waxing upon the “dangers of suburban time travel & piss-head nationalism” across 5 mins of aesthetically apt & chilled_to_the_max ElectroPop.

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Two Welsh Acts Join the Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Fundraising Album

Newport singer-songwriter Julian Pitt, aka Armstrong, is on a truly remarkable run of form. Since the release of the wonderful Songs About the Weather (2008), he has produced a significant body of work that includes the revised version of Under Blue Skies (2019) and this year's Happy Graffiti. In addition to these genre classics, Julian sometimes has a notion to give away an album or two of songs for free on Bandcamp, as with the 28-track Capybara (2021) and the acoustic stylings of Clarence Place this summer.

It was Julian who first came up with the idea of my curating the fundraising album that eventually turned into V4Velindre. Julian contributed a song to that album of course and has written “Merry Christmas Tonight” especially for this album.

Here is “Gratitude”, my favourite Armstrong song -

https://armstrong2.bandcamp.com/album/happy-graffiti-album

The wonderful Lowri Evans has been releasing Xmas singles for a few years now, so it is well worth checking out her Christmas Collection (2020). I could have selected any of the fine songs on the album, but I absolutely adore “You for Christmas”. Anytime you can bring in the venerable Bob Harris to make your case for you, then you certainly should. Whispering Bob regards Lowri as ‘one of my absolute favourite artists’. Enough said.

Lowri has joined forced with Sarah Zyborska (SERA) to form the bilingual band Tapestri. They will release their debut album in 2023. Meanwhile, here’s a Lowri Evans track from her storming collaboration with Tom McRae.

https://lowrievans.co.uk/

[goalhofer]

Every Goal Of The 2022 IIHF Worlds Day 9

U.S.A. Vs. Sweden

#26 Rasmus Dahlin (2) Lang (2), Åman (1) 2:28 1st (U.S.A. 0-1 Sweden)

#17 Adam Gaudette (2) Meyers (2), Peeke (4) 7:50 1st (U.S.A. 1-1 Sweden)

#88 Nate Schmidt (1)(PP) Gaudette (2), Tynan (1) 18:58 2nd (U.S.A. 2-1 Sweden)

#91 Carl Grundström (1) unassisted 6:56 3rd (U.S.A. 2-2 Sweden)

#17 Adam Gaudette (3) Tynan (2), Swayman (1) 4:48 OT (U.S.A. 3-2 Sweden)

Denmark Vs. France

#93 Peter Regin-Jensen (2) Storm (2), M. Holton-Lauridsen (3) 16:43 1st (Denmark 1-0 France)

#86 Joachim Blichfeld (4)(PP) M. Holton-Lauridsen (4), Ehlers (2) 5:28 2nd (Denmark 2-0 France)

#33 Julian Jakobsen (2)(EN) Storm (3) 18:24 3rd (Denmark 3-0 France)

Switzerland Vs. Canada

#93 Kent Johnson (3) Barzal (3), Graves (5) 11:52 1st (Switzerland 0-1 Canada)

#45 Michael Fora (1) Meier (3), Kurashev (2) 12:51 1st (Switzerland 1-1 Canada)

#17 Adam Lowry (3)(SH) unassisted 14:11 1st (Switzerland 1-2 Canada)

#14 Dean Kukan (1)(PP) Hischier (2), Corvi (5) 15:33 1st (Switzerland 2-2 Canada)

#19 Drake Batherson (2) Barzal (4) 19:03 1st (Switzerland 2-3 Canada)

#97 Jonas Siegenthaler (1) Suter (5), Malgin (4) 19:51 1st (Switzerland 3-3 Canada)

#13 Nico Hischier (3)(PP) Kukan (1) 6:13 2nd (Switzerland 4-3 Canada)

#44 Pius Suter (2) Malgin (5), Simion (2) 3:41 3rd (Switzerland 5-3 Canada)

#28 Timo Meier (3)(EN) unassisted 18:01 3rd (Switzerland 6-3 Canada)

Italy Vs. Slovakia

#13 Michal Krištof (1) Tatar (3), Slafkovský (4) 10:31 1st (Italy 0-1 Slovakia)

#10 Adam Sýkora (1) Slafkovský (5), Tatar (4) 19:54 1st (Italy 0-2 Slovakia)

#53 Alex Trivellato (1)(PP) S. Kostner (3) 4:09 3rd (Italy 1-2 Slovakia)

#25 Alex Tamáši (1)(PP) Ivan (1), Lantoši (2) 9:14 3rd (Italy 1-3 Slovakia)

Austria Vs. Finland

#51 Valtteri Filppula (3) Hartikainen (3), Granlund (4) 1:45 1st (Austria 0-1 Finland)

#64 Mikael Granlund (3) Hartikainen (4), Lehtonen (6) 4:10 2nd (Austria 0-2 Finland)

#25 Toni Rajala (3) Filppula (2) 7:39 3rd (Austria 0-3 Finland)

Norway Vs. Czech Republic

#88 David Pastrňák (2)(PP) Krejčí (6), Červenka (9) 6:26 1st (Norway 0-1 Czech Republic)

#13 Jakub Vrána (1) Černoch (2), Kundrátek (3) 2:21 2nd (Norway 0-2 Czech Republic)

#88 David Pastrňák (3)(PS) 0:48 3rd (Norway 0-3 Czech Republic)

#20 Ludvig Hoff (1)(PP) Trettenes (2), Haga (4) 4:27 3rd (Norway 1-3 Czech Republic)

#10 Roman Červenka (3)(EN) Pastrňák (2), Krejčí (7) 18:34 3rd (Norway 1-4 Czech Republic)

[uwmspeccoll]

Science Saturday: Minerals and Their Uses

Today we are highlighting another book from our sibling department the American Geographical Society Library: British geographer Julian R. Jackson’s Minerals and Their Uses: In a Series of Letters to a Lady published in London in 1849 by J. W. Parker. It features one hand-colored engraving of minerals by Joseph Wilson Lowry.

The title page notes that the author Julian R. Jackson (1790-1853) was a member of the Imperial Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg. In the preface Jackson writes that the book is based a large number of “bona fide letters, written for the instruction of a young lady” and explains that this is meant to be more serious than an elementary book but not quite a treatise on mineralogy. Jackson goes on to write:

“The lady for whom these letters were composed, was young and well-informed on several subjects, and although eschewing all blue-stockingism, desirous of every kind of knowledge that could enlarge the sphere of her ideas, enable her to take her part in rational conversation, and fit her to be the companion of a man of sense. There are many such young ladies, and it is for their use that this correspondence is now printed.”

From the late 17th to 19th century there was a market for these educational books geared towards affluent young European women meant to prepare them to participate in salons, gatherings where people would engage in polite conversation with the purpose of expanding their knowledge about a variety of subjects. I like to think of these books as an older version of “mansplaining” because the format is always a man, often a male relative like a brother, explaining the world to a young woman. One of the earliest examples of this is Bernard de Fontenelle’s Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, first published in France in 1686. Fontenelle’s work takes the form of dialogue between a male narrator explaining Cartesian natural philosophy to an intelligent female companion. It harkens back to classical Platonic dialogue but invites female participation in polite intellectual society.

UW-Milwaukee Special Collections has several examples of these types of books that we have featured in previous blog posts. Such as John Harris’s Astronomical Dialogues Between a Gentleman and a Lady published in 1719 and Noël Antoine Pluche’s Le Spectacle de la Nature, a popular work of natural history first published in French from 1732-1750. A title that I love that we unfortunately do not have is Francesco Algarotti’s Newtonianism for the Ladies first published in French in 1737 which features a frontispiece that depicts the author engaging in conversation with Émilie du Châtelet.

View other Science Saturday posts.

–Sarah, Special Collections Senior Graduate Intern

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BBC Ghosts OC Masterlist

Name: Clarissa Powers

Face Claim: Emily Browning

Love Interest: Julian Fawcett

Fic Title: Dead On

Plot Summary: A nurse in the 1960s, when part of Button House was briefly used as a hospital, Clarissa was killed by a violent patient. Having remained in Button House since her death, she's become acquainted with its other ghostly residents. Then, around thirty years later, Julian Fawcett dies at Button House as well, and while the two are a bit at odds at first, they'll find they have much more in common than they initially thought.

Name: Ella Greene

Face Claim: Lily Loveless

Love Interest: Thomas Thorne

Fic Title: Every Rose

Plot Summary: A long lost descendant of Fanny’s, Ella is invited to Button House when Alison does some research and her name comes up. Wanting to be rid of the house, she offers to sign the deed over to Ella, and Ella happily accepts. When an accident occurs while doing some repair work, Ella wakes to find the group of ghosts standing over her. Now, it seemed, she had roommates.

Name: Harriet Shaw

Face Claim: Rose Leslie

Love Interest: Fanny Button

Fic Title: Love Beyond The Veil

Plot Summary: Harriet Shaw has been a media sensation since it was revealed that she could communicate with the dead at a young age. Having long tired of living her life in the spotlight, she buys an old mansion so she can close herself off. Little did she know the house came with it’s fair share of ghosts.

Name: Melanie Dean

Face Claim: Mae Whitman

Love Interest: Pat Butcher

Fic Title: Cupid's Arrow

Plot Summary: Though only five when the tragedy occurred, Melanie goes with her family to Button House every year since her brother accidentally killed his scout leader, Pat Butcher. Every year Pat has wanted to speak to her, but figures he can’t. When the other ghosts finally convince him to try, in the year 2004, when Melanie is now 25, they’re all surprised to find that she can see and hear him. And when she asks the owner if she can stay at Button House, she’ll finally get to know the man she’s mourned and always felt connected to.

Name: Sarah Lowry

Face Claim: Ella Hunt

Love Interest: Kitty

Fic Title: Stairway To Heaven

Plot Summary: A servant in Button House in the early 1850s, Sarah Lowry is making the best life she can for herself, but luck doesn’t seem to be on her side. She’s treated terribly, but does her best to weather the storm. Meanwhile, Kitty watches on, wishing she could help the poor girl who, to her, is like Cinderella. Only Sarah doesn’t get her happy ending in life. She’s shoved down the stairs by the mistress of the house, and the fall breaks her neck. Yet her spirit doesn’t leave the house, instead she’s greeted by the house's ghostly inhabitants.

[miss-may-i]

Miss May I: Season 5 Part 4

Noah: The piece of shit lodge? That's where you wanted to go?

Julian: Yeah, whatcha think?

Noah: Is that a trick question? It's a piece of shit.

Julian: Well right now it is, but I'm gonna fix it up.

Noah: That's gonna take a lot of time...and money.

Julian: Yeah, but I'm gonna fix it up.

Noah: It's that what your dad said when he bought this place years ago?

Julian: Yeah, but unlike him I'm not a fucking idiot. I know I can do it.

Julian: Just look at it. It's such a piece of shit. I'm so excited.

Noah: We need to get going or we'll miss the fireworks.

Noah: This looks like a good spot.

Julian: Look at that one. Those kinds are my favorite.

Noah: There's something I want to show you too.

Noah: Jules, I want you to marry me. Once we're married, we can qualify for public housing.

Julian: Noah, no.

Noah: No?

Julian: I want you to marry me 'cause you love me, not just 'cause you want state benefits.

Noah: But I do love you. How could I not? You're the only one to ever believe in me when everyone else gave up on me. We'll get married, have our own place, be a little family with Jasper, have another baby ... only if you want to though.

Julian: We'll do everything right this time and be one big happy family.

Noah: So is that a yes?

Julian: It's a yes.

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| 12th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Nominations Announced The Guild of Music Supervisors today announced the nominations for its 12th annual awards ceremony, which will take place virtually on Sunday, March 20, 2022. The awards will recognize outstanding Music Supervisors representing Motion Picture, Television, Games, Trailers and Advertising. Below are the nominations for the major categories. Also check out the nominations announcement presentation after the jump. For more information nominations, visit the organization’s official website. Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million : Mary Ramos – Being the Ricardos Tom MacDougall – Encanto Michelle Silverman – The Harder They Fall Linda Cohen – The Tender Bar Steven Gizicki – Tick, Tick… Boom! Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $25 Million : Pierre-Marie Dru – Annette Julianne Jordan, Justine von Winterfeldt – Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Becky Bentham – Everybody’s Talking About Jamie John Houlihan – The Eyes Of Tammy Faye Tracy McKnight – Flag Day Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $10 Million ; Victoria Beard, Sean Mulligan – Blue Bayou Katie Colley, Sean Mulligan – The Hating Game Alexandra Eckhardt – Passing Mandi Collier, Frankie Pine – Sylvie’s Love Rob Lowry – The Ultimate Playlist of Noise Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $5 Million: Andrea von Foerster – Happily Jen Malone – Malcolm & Marie Matthew Hearon-Smith – Red Rocket Henrik Hawor, Silje Katralen, Goran Obad, Emilie Sørensen – The Worst Person in the World Mandi Collier, Jen Malone, Nicole Weisberg – Zola Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film: “Guns Go Bang” from The Harder They Fall Songwriters: Jeymes Samuel, Scott Mescudi, Shawn Carter Performers: Kid Cudi, Jay-Z Music Supervisor: Michelle Silverman “My Father’s Daughter” from Flag Day Songwriters: Glen Hansard, Eddie Vedder Performers: Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard, Olivia Vedder Music Supervisor: Tracy McKnight “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda Performer: Sebastián Yatra Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall “Fire In The Sky” from Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings Songwriters: Anderson .Paak, Bruno Mars, Son Tzu, Rogét Chahayed, Wesley Singerman, Taylor Dexter, Alissia Benveniste Performer: Anderson .Paak Music Supervisor: Dave Jordan “Be Alive” from King Richard Songwriters: Beyoncé, Dixson Performer: Beyoncé Music Supervisor: Susan Jacobs Best Music Supervision – Television Drama: Sarah Bridge – The Crown – Season 4 Kevin Edelman – Cruel Summer – Season 1 Jen Ross – Genius: Aretha – Season 3 Liza Richardson – Lovecraft Country – Season 1 Iain Cooke – It’s A Sin – Season 1 Best Music Supervision – Television Comedy or Musical: Jason Alexander, Justin T. Feldman – Dave – Season 2 Matt Biffa – Sex Education – Season 3 Janet Lopez – The White Lotus – Season 1 Jen Ross – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist – Season 2 Jonathan McHugh – Blindspotting – Season 1 Best Music Supervision – Reality Television: Peter Davis – The Challenge: All Stars – Season 1 Sarah Bromberg, Stephanie Diaz-Matos, Eric Medina – Sweet Life: Los Angeles – Season 1 Jason Markey – Fboy Island – Season 1 Jon Ernst – Siesta Key – Season 4 Best Music Supervision – Television Movie: Nicki Richards – American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules Laura Webb, Lindsay Wolfington – To All The Boys: Always And Forever Mikki Itzigsohn, Willa Yudell – The Voyeurs Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television: Title: “Look At Us” Songwriters: Mike Aaberg, Joseph Epperson, Lauren Evans, Mounir Ghantous, Tony Ghantous, Goapele K. Mohlbane, Faraji Wright Performers: Goapele (feat. Rexx Life Raj) Program: Homeroom Music Supervisor: Julie Glaze Houlihan Title: “Fuck The Pain Away” Songwriter: Merrill Nisker Performers: The Moordale Singers and Oli Julian Program: Sex Education Episodes 302 and 307 Music Supervisor: Matt Biffa Title: “Beginning Middle End” Songwriters: Leah Nobel, Quinn Redmond Performer: Leah Nobel Program: To All The Boys: Always And Forever Music Supervisors: Laura Webb, Lindsay Wolfington Title: “Change” Songwriters: Ronald Colson, Jeff Gitelman, David Harris, Maxx Moore, Gabriella Wilson Performer: H.E.R. Program: We The People Episode 101 – “Active Citizenship” Music Supervisor: Jen Ross Title: “Anyone” Songwriters: Badriia Ines Bourelly, Dayyon Alexander Drinkard, Demi Lovato, Eyelar Mirzazadeh, Jay Mooncie, Samuel Elliot Roman Performers: Cast of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (Skylar Astin) Program: Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist Episode 209 – “Zoey’s Extraordinary Mystery” Music Supervisor: Jen Ross Best Music Supervision for a Documentary: Jonathan Hecht – Dear Rider Tracy McKnight – Rebel Hearts Maureen Crowe, Janet Billig Rich – Sisters On Track Gary Welch – The Sparks Brothers Angela Asistio – Val Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries: Ian Broucek, Kevin Writer – Amend: The Fight For America Aminé Ramer – HBO Music Box Series: “Mr. Saturday Night,” “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, And Rage,” “Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss,” “DMX: Don’t Try To Understand,” “Jagged,” “Listening to Kenny G” James Cartwright – The Lady And The Dale Jon Ernst – Last Chance U: Basketball Iain Cooke – 1971: The Year Music Changed Everything http://mvnt.us/m1294939

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Brazil lives in a Society

Did you watch The Dark Knight or Joker and think to yourself, “boy howdy, I sure do live in a society. But also the Joker is a literal psychopath and the people that obsess over him are cringe as all hell. I sure wish there was a film that let me explore my society-living-in-ness without delving into a bunch of clown bullshit. Also, why can't it be more funny?” Well then don't fret reader with super specific and  rhetorically convenient desires, the director of 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has you covered.

Brazil is a 19895 neo-noir dystopian tragicomedy written and directed by Monty Python collaborator Terry Gilliam, and edited by Monty Python effects photographer Julian Doyle. If you don't know what Monty Python is than there is a piece of your life that is missing. Stop reading this, go to YouTube, start watching whatever clips you find. The internet may have perfected absurdist chaos humor, but it was Monty Python that started it back in the 70s. Suffice to say, they're very funny. Gilliam, though he only did their animations, is very funny. And that humor definitely carries over into Brazil.

A lot of people compare the Dystopia in Brazil to that in 1984. The difference being that while in 1984 the Dystopia comes from the ever present surveillance of the police state, in Brazil it's because their autocratic police state is drowning under so much paperwork that it's making it impossible for anyone to do their job. It's kind of a goofy way to establish a dystopia and that's the point. The world of Brazil is absurd in how over complicated and  incompetent it is. Most of the humor comes from this absurdity, and it all serves to put us in the place of someone worn out by that absurdity, our protagonist, Sam Lowry.

Sam is a man looking for escape from his life, he's in a world over bearing bureaucracy and unparalleled cruelty. Unseen terrorists detonate bombs all about the decaying city, the goons at the Ministry of Information's Information Retrieval ruthlessly hunt down and torture them, all the while having to stick to and reinforce draconian and needlessly complicated procedure that only make things harder. Sam is not only worn out at this world, but everyone from his family and his colleges expect him to join Information Retrieval and participate it. Sam doesn't want this, he doesn't really know what he wants, all he knows is that escape is in their somewhere. He has dreams of someone that can take him far away from here, up into the very clouds. But how can he make this dream a reality?

The film excels at putting us in Sam's shoes. The visual design of the movie is imaginative and well directed to this task. The machines of this world, which feature heavily in the story, fell overgrown and sickly as they sputter and fail at their pointlessly complicated tasks. The environment fells appropriately grimy and dirty, is if built with far to much money, with non left over for maintenance. When Sam is dealing with something or someone, we can feel his pain, his fear, his frustration, all from the visual suggestions made from the camerawork, set design, and costumes.

The film does struggle with a  few things though (spoiler warning for the next paragraph). The film drags whenever Sam is interacting with the love interest of the film. It feels like Gilliam struggled with her and there are sequences and ideas within the film that fall flat because of it. Overall she definitely suffers from being a goal for Sam to pursue first and a character second. Gilliam and his co-writers had enough skill in constructing her to avoid something that ruins the film entirely, but there's a good chance her writing will have to be something you have look past to enjoy the rest of the film.

Overall however, if you enjoy some surreal humor, some imaginative and pointed visual design, and want to lament the fact that you live in a society without painting you fact and making derogatory jokes about Jewish people, Brazil is a good fit for you. You can find it online on Amazon Prime, and if you still have your doubts about watching it, you can find the trailer on YouTube.

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04/06/17: Comrie makes 35 saves in his NHL debut to earn his first NHL win

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I started producing TV programmes in 1989 – so long ago some of the shows were in black and white!

Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to have some incredibly bright young things working on my shows – and the chaps on my Direct Productions marketing team are no exception. They’re clearly destined for great things - assuming us oldies haven’t destroyed the planet by the time they get the opportunity to fulfil their potential!

Here my Head of Marketing Lowri says some nice things about one of my workshops – but I guess, to paraphrase Mandy Rice Davies, “she would say that wouldn’t she!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRV88fFPWE&list=PLlXkfw89WpLwXhCU35idKHPULTjJnbdax&index=2

If you’d like more information about my workshops and free zoom talks about the creative industries, e mail me at juliandismore@gmail.com or go to https://www.directproductions.co.uk/upcoming-courses

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Good luck!

Julian

TV Series Producer and Media Trainer

Direct Productions UK

Mob +44 (0) 77177 44321

www.directproductions.co.uk

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Robert Hooks

Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks, April 18, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist. He is most recognizable to the public for his more than 100 roles in films, television, and stage. Most famously, Hooks, along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone, founded The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). The NEC is credited with the launch of the careers of many major black artists of all disciplines, while creating a body of performance literature over the last thirty years, providing the backbone of African-American theatrical classics. Additionally, Hooks is the sole founder of two significant black theatre companies: the D.C. Black Repertory Company, and New York's Group Theatre Workshop.

Biography

Early life

The youngest of five children, Hooks was born in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. to Mae Bertha (née Ward), a seamstress, and Edward Hooks who had moved from Rocky Mount, North Carolina with their four other children, Bernice, Caroleigh, Charles Edward "Charlie", and James Walter "Jimmy". Named Bobby Dean Hooks at birth, Robert was their first child born "up-north" and the first to be born in a hospital. His father, Edward, died in a work accident on the railroad in 1939.

Hooks attended Stevens Elementary School. In 1945, at the insistence of his sister Bernice who was doing community arts outreach for youngsters at Francis Junior High School, he performed the lead in his first play, The Pirates of Penzance, at the age of nine. From the ages of 6 to 12, Bobby Dean journeyed with his siblings to Lucama, North Carolina to work the tobacco fields for his uncle's sharecropping farm as a way to help earn money for the coming school year in D.C.

In 1954, just as Brown vs. Board of Education was being implemented in the north, he moved to Philadelphia to be with his mother, her second husband, and his half-sister, Safia Abdullah (née Sharon Dickerson). Hooks experienced his first integrated school experience at West Philadelphia High School. Hooks soon joined the drama club and began acting in plays by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He was graduated in 1956, passing on a scholarship to Temple University in order to pursue a career as a stage actor at the Bessie V. Hicks School of Theatre (alongside Charles Dierkop and Bruce Dern, with whom he second-acted plays doing their pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia) while working at Browning King, a men's tailor shop at Fourteenth and Chestnut streets.

Career

Having trained at the Bessie V. Smith School of Theatre in Philadelphia, and after seeing A Raisin in the Sun in its Philadelphia tryout in February 1959, Hooks moved to New York to pursue acting. In April 1960, as Bobby Dean Hooks, he made his Broadway debut in A Raisin in the Sun replacing Louis Gossett, Jr. who would be doing the film version. He then continued to do its national tour. He then stepped into the Broadway production of A Taste of Honey, replacing Billy Dee Williams; then repeating the same national tour trajectory as he had done for "Raisin..." the previous year. In early 1962 he next appeared as the lead in Jean Genet's The Blacks, replacing James Earl Jones as the male lead, leaving briefly that same year to appear on Broadway again in Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright before stepping back into the lead role in The Blacks in 1963. He then returned to Broadway, first in Ballad for Bimshire and then in the short-lived 1964 David Merrick revival of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More (as a character created by Tennessee Williams for this revival) and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter in his only stage performance. Immediately thereafter, in March 24, 1964 he originated the role of Clay in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman. With this play, on the advice of Roscoe Lee Brown, Hooks became known as, Robert Hooks. He also originated roles on the New York stage in Where's Daddy? for which he won the Theatre World Award and he was nominated for Best Male Lead in a Musical for Hallelujah Baby while he was simultaneously starring in David Susskind's N.Y.P.D.—the first African American lead on a television drama.

In 1968 Hooks was the host of the new public affairs television program, Like It Is.

Hooks was nominated for a Tony for his lead role in the musical, Hallelujah, Baby!, has received both the Pioneer Award and the NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement, and has been inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. He also won an Emmy for his PBS special, Voices of Our People.

Significant roles for which Hooks is known include Reeve Scott in Hurry Sundown (1967), Mr. T. in the blaxploitation film Trouble Man (1972), grandpa Gene Donovan in the comedy Seventeen Again (2000), and Fleet Admiral Morrow in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). He also appeared on television in an episode of the NBC crime drama series The Eddie Capra Mysteries in 1978 and portrayed Doctor Walcott in the 1980s television series Dynasty.

Activism

Arts and Culture

In 1964, as a result of a speaking engagement at the Chelsea Civil Rights Committee (then connected to the Hudson Guild Settlement House) he founded The Group Theatre Workshop (GTW), a tuition-free environment for disadvantaged urban teens who expressed a desire to explore acting. Among the instructors were Barbara Ann Teer, Frances Foster, Hal DeWindt, Lonne Elder III, and Ronnie Mack. Alumni include Antonio Fargas, Hattie Winston, and Daphne Maxwell Reid.

The Group Theatre Workshop was folded into the tuition-free training arm of the The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) founded in 1967 with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone with a $1.3 million grant from the Ford Foundation under the auspices of W. McNeil Lowry.

From 1969-1972, Hooks served as an original board member of Black Academy of Arts and Letters (BAAL) (located in New York) alongside C. Eric Lincoln, President; John O. Killens, Alvin F. Poussaint, and Charles White. Chartered by the State of New York, BAAL's mission was to bring together Black artists and scholars from around the world. Additional members included: Julian Adderley, Alvin Ailey, Margaret Walker, James Baldwin, Imamu Baraka, Romare Bearden, Harry Belafonte, Lerone Bennett, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee Davis, St. Clair Drake, Ernest Dunbar, Katherine Dunham, Lonne Elder III, Duke Ellington, Alex Haley, Ruth Inge Hardison, Vertis Hayes, Chester Himes, Lena Horne, Jacob Lawrence, Elma Lewis, Henry Lewis, Paule Marshall, Donald McKayle, Arthur Mitchell, Frederick O’Neal, Gordon Parks, Sidney Poitier, Benjamin Quarles, Lloyd Richards, Lucille D. Roberts, and Nina Simone.

In response to the violence in his home town of Washington, D.C. in the wake of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, and aided by a small grant from the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, Hooks took a leave of absence from the Negro Ensemble Company to create The D.C. Black Repertory Company (DCBRC, 1970-1981). As Founder and Executive Director, the DCBRC was intended as a further exploration of the ability of the arts to create healing. The a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock was created and developed within its workshop process.

The Inner Voices (Lorton Prison arts training program, 1971) proved to be a result of the beneficial effect of the DCBRC in the D.C. area. In response to a direct plea from an inmate, Rhozier "Roach" Brown, who was serving a life sentence in Lorton, Hooks' D.C. Black Repertory Company structured the first prison-based arts program in the United States. While it is the norm now, it was then a revolutionary attempt at rehabilitation through the arts. Eventually The Inner Voices performed more than 500 times in other prisons, including a Christmas special entitled, "Holidays, Hollowdays." Due to Roach's work, President Gerald Ford commuted his sentence on Christmas Day, 1975.

His relocation to the West Coast redirected Hooks' approach to parity in the arts with his involvement with The Bay Area Multicultural Arts Initiative (1988) as a board member and grant facilitator-judge. Funded by monies from a unique coalition made up of the San Francisco Foundation (a community foundation); Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and The National Endowment for the Arts, the function of this organization was the funding of deserving local multicultural arts organizations.

In 1992, Hooks co-founded (with writer Lonne Elder III) Arts in Action. Located in South Central Los Angeles, this was a film and television training center established to guide individuals who aspired to careers in film production. It formulated strategies and training for securing entry-level jobs. Courses included: career development workshops; pre-production and production for film and television; creative problem solving in production management; directing for stage and screen—principles and practices; also the craft of assistant directors, script supervisor, technicians, wardrobe, make-up, etc.

The Negro Ensemble Company of Los Angeles (NEC-LA) (1994-1997) was created because so many New York members and original members had relocated to the west coast. Hooks, as founder and executive director enlisted alumni from his New York Negro Ensemble Company to serve as board members: Denise Nicholas, Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Laurence Fishburne, Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson. NEC-LA's goal was to be a new and innovative multi-ethnic cultural project that strived to achieve the community effectiveness and professional success of its parent organization.

Personal life

Hooks is the father of actor, television and film director Kevin Hooks. He married Lorrie Gay Marlow (actress, author, artist) on June 15, 2008. Previously, he was married to Yvonne Hickman and Rosie Lee Hooks.

Awards

1966 - Theatre World Award (1965–66 ) for "Where's Daddy?" (The Billy Rose Theatre)

1979 - American Black Achievement Award - Ebony Magazine

1982 - Emmy Award for Producing (1982) Voices of Our People: In Celebration of Black Poetry (KCET-TV/PBS)

1966 - Tony Nomination, Lead Role in a Musical for Hallelujah, Baby

1985 - Inducted into The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, recipient Oscar Micheaux Award (1985)

1986 - March 2nd declared Robert Hooks Day by the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley

1987 - Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities from CEBA (Excellence in Advertising and Communications to Black Communities)

2000 - Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa honorary degree, Bowie State University

2000 - May 25th declared Robert Hooks Day in Washington, D.C.

2005 - Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement

2005 - Beverly Hills/Hollywood Chapter NAACP Trailblazer Award to the Negro Ensemble Company

2005 - Trailblazer Award – City of Los Angeles

2006 - The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL), Lifetime Achievement Award (Dallas)

2007 - The Black Theatre Alliance Awards / Lifetime Achievement Award

2015 - Living Legend Award (2015) National Black Theatre Festival

2018 - October 18th proclaimed Robert Hooks Day by Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington, D.C.

2018 - Hooks is entered into The Congressional Record by the Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton, September 4, 2018, Vol. 164

2018 - Visionary Founder and Creator Award - D.C. Black Repertory Company on its 47th anniversary

Acting Credits

Film

Sweet Love, Bitter (1967) .... Keel Robinson

Hurry Sundown (1967) .... Reeve Scott

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) .... Chicken

Carter's Army (1970) .... Lt. Edward Wallace

Trouble Man (1972) .... Mr. T

Aaron Loves Angela (1975) .... Beau

Airport '77 (1977) .... Eddie

Fast-Walking (1982) .... William Galliot

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) .... Admiral Morrow

Passenger 57 (1992) .... Dwight Henderson

Posse (1993) .... King David

Fled (1996) .... Lt. Clark

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2020 Eisner Award Nominees

Best Short Story

“Hot Comb,” by Ebony Flowers, in Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly)

“How to Draw a Horse,” by Emma Hunsinger, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-to-draw-a-horse

“The Menopause,” by Mira Jacob, The Believer, https://believermag.com/the-menopause/

“You’re Not Going to Believe What I’m About to Tell You,” by Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal, https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

“Who Gets Called an ‘Unfit’ Mother?” by Miriam Libicki, The Nib, https://thenib.com/who-gets-called-an-unfit-mother/

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Coin-Op No. 8: Infatuation, by Peter and Maria Hoey (Coin-Op Books)

The Freak, by Matt Lesniewski (AdHouse)

Minotäar, by Lissa Treiman (Shortbox)

Our Favorite Thing Is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)

Sobek, by James Stokoe (Shortbox)

Best Continuing Series

Bitter Root, by David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene (Image)

Criminal, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Crowded, by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, and Ted Brandt (Image)

Daredevil, by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto (Marvel)

The Dreaming, by Simon Spurrier, Bilquis Evely et al. (DC)

Immortal Hulk, by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, and Ruy José et al. (Marvel)

Best Limited Series

Ascender, by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Image)

Ghost Tree, by Bobby Curnow and Simon Gane (IDW)

Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram (Image)

Naomi by Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker, and Jamal Campbell (DC)

Sentient, by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta (TKO)

Best New Series

Doctor Doom, by Christopher Cantwell and Salvador Larocca (Marvel)

Invisible Kingdom, by G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward (Berger Books/Dark Horse)

Once & Future, by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)

Something Is Killing the Children, by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera (BOOM! Studios)

Undiscovered Country, by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Daniele Orlandini (Image)

Best Publication for Kids

Akissi: More Tales of Mischief, by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye/Nobrow)

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls, by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic Graphix)

Guts, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic Graphix)

New Kid, by Jerry Craft (Quill Tree/HarperCollins)

This Was Our Pact, by Ryan Andrews (First Second/Macmillan)

The Wolf in Underpants, by Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz, and Paul Cauuet (Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group)

Best Publication for Teens

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh (DC)

Hot Comb, by Ebony Flowers (Drawn & Quarterly)

Kiss Number 8, by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw (First Second/Macmillan)

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (First Second/Macmillan)

Penny Nichols, by MK Reed, Greg Means, and Matt Wiegle (Top Shelf)

Best Humor Publication  

Anatomy of Authors, by Dave Kellett (SheldonComics.com)

Death Wins a Goldfish, by Brian Rea (Chronicle Books)

Minotäar, by Lissa Treiman (Shortbox)

Sobek, by James Stokoe (Shortbox)

The Way of the Househusband, vol. 1, by Kousuke Oono, translation by Sheldon Drzka (VIZ Media)

Wondermark: Friends You Can Ride On, by David Malki (Wondermark)

Best Anthology

ABC of Typography, by David Rault, translation by Edward Gauvin (SelfMade Hero)

Baltic Comics Anthology š! #34-37, edited by David Schilter, Sanita Muižniece et al. (kuš!)

Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival, edited by Diane Noomin (Abrams)

Kramer’s Ergot #10, edited by Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)

The Nib #2–4, edited by Matt Bors (Nib)

Best Reality-Based Work

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob (One World/Random House)

Grass, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translation by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, by Lucy Knisley (First Second/Macmillan)

Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (Hill & Wang)

My Solo Exchange Diary, vol. 2 (sequel to My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness), by Nagata Kabi, translation by Jocelyne Allen (Seven Seas)

They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker (Top Shelf)

Best Graphic Album—New

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden (First Second/Macmillan)

Bezimena, by Nina Bunjevac (Fantagraphics)

BTTM FDRS, by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore (Fantagraphics)

Life on the Moon, by Robert Grossman (Yoe Books/IDW)

New World, by David Jesus Vignolli (Archaia/BOOM!)

Reincarnation Stories, by Kim Deitch (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Bad Weekend by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Clyde Fans, by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Cover, vol. 1, by Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack (DC/Jinxworld)

Glenn Ganges: The River at Night, by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)

LaGuardia, by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford (Berger Books/Dark Horse)

Rusty Brown, by Chris Ware (Pantheon)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made, by Josh Frank, Tim Hedecker, and Manuela Pertega (Quirk Books)

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, adapted by P. Craig Russell, (HMH Books for Young Readers)

The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, by Margaret Atwood, adapted by Renee Nault (Nan A. Talese)

HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, vols. 1–2, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translation by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)

The Seventh Voyage, by Stanislaw Lem, adapted by Jon J Muth, translation by Michael Kandel (Scholastic Graphix)

Snow, Glass, Apples, by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran (Dark Horse Books)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Diabolical Summer, by Thierry Smolderen and Alexandre Clerisse, translation by Edward Gauvin (IDW)

Gramercy Park, by Timothée de Fombelle and Christian Cailleaux, translation by Edward Gauvin (EuroComics/IDW)

The House, by Paco Roca, translation by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)

Maggy Garrisson, by Lewis Trondheim and Stéphane Oiry, translation by Emma Wilson (SelfMadeHero)

Stay, by Lewis Trondheim and Hubert Chevillard, translation by Mike Kennedy (Magnetic Press)

Wrath of Fantômas, by Olivier Bocquet and Julie Rocheleau, translation by Edward Gauvin (Titan)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

BEASTARS, by Paru Itagaki, translation by Tomo Kimura (VIZ Media)

Cats of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto, translation by Michael Arias (VIZ Media)

Grass, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translation by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)

Magic Knight Rayearth 25th Anniversary Edition, by CLAMP, translation by Melissa Tanaka (Kodansha)

The Poe Clan, by Moto Hagio, translation by Rachel Thorn (Fantagraphics)

Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama, translation by Stephen Kohler (Kodansha)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

Cham: The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862, by David Kunzle (University Press of Mississippi)

Ed Leffingwell’s Little Joe, by Harold Gray, edited by Peter Maresca and Sammy Harkham (Sunday Press Books)

The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916–1918, edited by R.J. Casey (Fantagraphics)

Krazy Kat: The Complete Color Sundays, by George Herriman, edited by Alexander Braun (TASCHEN)

Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady, by Violet and Denis Kitchen (Beehive Books)

Pogo, Vol. 6: Clean as a Weasel, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

Alay-Oop, by William Gropper (New York Review Comics)

The Complete Crepax, vol. 5: American Stories, edited by Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)

Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love, edited by John Morrow (TwoMorrows)

Moonshadow: The Definitive Edition, by J. M. DeMatteis, Jon J Muth, George Pratt, Kent Williams, and others (Dark Horse Books)

Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo: The Complete Grasscutter Artist Select, by Stan Sakai, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

That Miyoko Asagaya Feeling, by Shinichi Abe, translation by Ryan Holmberg, edited by Mitsuhiro Asakawa (Black Hook Press)

Best Writer

Bobby Curnow, Ghost Tree (IDW)

MK Reed and Greg Means, Penny Nichols (Top Shelf)

Mariko Tamaki, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC); Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me (First Second/Macmillan); Archie (Archie)

Lewis Trondheim, Stay (Magnetic Press); Maggy Garrisson (SelfMadeHero)

G. Willow Wilson, Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse); Ms. Marvel (Marvel)

Chip Zdarsky, White Trees (Image); Daredevil, Spider-Man: Life Story (Marvel); Afterlift (comiXology Originals)

Best Writer/Artist

Nina Bunjevac, Bezimena (Fantagraphics)

Mira Jacob, Good Talk (Random House); “The Menopause” in The Believer (June 1, 2019)

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass (Drawn & Quarterly)

James Stokoe, Sobek (Shortbox)

Raina Telgemeier, Guts (Scholastic Graphix)

Tillie Walden, Are You Listening? (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

Ian Bertram, Little Bird (Image)

Colleen Doran, Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse)

Bilquis Evely, The Dreaming (DC)

Simon Gane, Ghost Tree (IDW)

Steve Pugh, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC)

Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Painter/Digital Artist

Didier Cassegrain, Black Water Lilies (Europe Comics)

Alexandre Clarisse, Diabolical Summer (IDW)

David Mack, Cover (DC)

Léa Mazé, Elma, A Bear’s Life, vol. 1: The Great Journey (Europe Comics)

Julie Rocheleau, Wrath of Fantômas (Titan)

Christian Ward, Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse)

Best Cover Artist

Jen Bartel, Blackbird  (Image Comics)

Francesco Francavilla, Archie, Archie 1955, Archie Vs. Predator II, Cosmo (Archie)

David Mack, American Gods, Fight Club 3 (Dark Horse); Cover (DC)

Emma Rios, Pretty Deadly (Image)

Julian Totino Tedesco, Daredevil (Marvel)

Christian Ward, Machine Gun Wizards (Dark Horse), Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse)

Best Coloring

Lorena Alvarez, Hicotea (Nobrow)

Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Middlewest, Outpost Zero (Image)

Matt Hollingsworth, Batman: Curse of the White Knight, Batman White Knight Presents Von Freeze (DC); Little Bird, November (Image)

Molly Mendoza, Skip (Nobrow)

Dave Stewart, Black Hammer, B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know, Hellboy and the BPRD (Dark Horse); Gideon Falls (Image); Silver Surfer Black, Spider-Man (Marvel)

Best Lettering

Deron Bennett, Batgirl, Green Arrow, Justice League, Martian Manhunter (DC); Canto (IDW); Assassin Nation, Excellence (Skybound/Image); To Drink and To Eat, vol. 1 (Lion Forge); Resonant (Vault)

Jim Campbell, Black Badge, Coda (BOOM Studios); Giant Days, Lumberjanes: The Shape of Friendship (BOOM Box!); Rocko’s Modern Afterlife  (KaBOOM!); At the End of Your Tether (Lion Forge); Blade Runner 2019 (Titan); Mall, The Plot, Wasted Space (Vault)

Clayton Cowles, Aquaman, Batman, Batman and the Outsiders, Heroes in Crisis, Superman: Up in the Sky, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC); Bitter Root, Pretty Deadly, Moonstruck, Redlands, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Reaver  (Skybound/Image); Daredevil, Ghost-Spider, Silver Surfer Black, Superior Spider-Man, Venom (Marvel)

Emilie Plateau, Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin (Europe Comics)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)

Tillie Walden, Are You Listening? (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

Comic Riffs blog, by Michael Cavna with David Betancourt, www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comics/

The Comics Journal, edited by Gary Groth, RJ Casey, and Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)

Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley)

Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, edited by Qiana Whitted (Ohio State University Press)

LAAB Magazine, vol. 4: This Was Your Life, edited by Ronald Wimberly and Josh O’Neill (Beehive Books)

Women Write About Comics, edited by Nola Pfau and Wendy Browne, www.WomenWriteAboutComics.com

Best Comics-Related Book

The Art of Nothing: 25 Years of Mutts and the Art of Patrick McDonnell (Abrams)

The Book of Weirdo, by Jon B. Cooke (Last Gasp)

Grunt: The Art and Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe (Dark Horse)

Logo a Gogo: Branding Pop Culture, by Rian Hughes (Korero Press)

Making Comics, by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)

Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny, by Paul Tumey (Library of American Comics/IDW)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form, by Benjamin Fraser (University of Texas Press)

The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets, by Kevin Haworth (University Press of Mississippi)

EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest, by Qiana Whitted (Rutgers University Press)

The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, edited by Andrew Blauner (Library of America)

Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid, by Christina Meyer (Ohio State University Press)

Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities, edited by Fusami Ogi et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)

Best Publication Design

Grunt: The Art and Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe, designed by Ethan Kimberling (Dark Horse)

Krazy Kat: The Complete Color Sundays, by George Herriman, designed by Anna-Tina Kessler (TASCHEN)

Logo a Gogo, designed by Rian Hughes (Korero Press)

Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady, designed by Paul Kopple and Alex Bruce (Beehive Books)

Making Comics, designed by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)

Rusty Brown, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon)

Best Digital Comic

Afterlift, by Chip Zdarsky and Jason Loo (comiXology Originals)

Black Water Lilies, by Michel Bussi, adapted by Frédéric Duval and Didier Cassegrain, translated by Edward Gauvin (Europe Comics)

Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin, by Tania de Montaigne, adapted by Emilie Plateau, translated by Montana Kane (Europe Comics)

Elma, A Bear’s Life, vol. 1: The Great Journey, by Ingrid Chabbert and Léa Mazé, translated by Jenny Aufiery (Europe Comics)

Mare Internum, by Der-shing Helmer (comiXology; gumroad.com/l/MIPDF)

Tales from Behind the Window, by Edanur Kuntman, translated by Cem Ulgen (Europe Comics)

Best Webcomic

Cabramatta, by Matt Huynh, http://believermag.com/cabramatta/

Chuckwagon at the End of the World, by Erik Lundy, https://hollowlegcomics.tumblr.com/chuckwagon

The Eyes, by Javi de Castro, https://www.javidecastro.com/theeyes

Fried Rice Comic, by Erica Eng, https://friedricecomic.tumblr.com

reMIND, by Jason Brubaker, https://is.gd/T7rafM

Third Shift Society, by Meredith Moriarty, https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/third-shift-society/list?title_no=1703