On the 10th anniversary of the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize,we talk to previous prizewinners from Isabel Greenberg to Julian Hanshaw, and to 2017’s star, and Tor FreemanNo one can remember precisely how,10 years ago, we came to start the graphic short story prize. Naturally, or I would care for to assume the credit. But in truth,the opinion must have come originally from Dan Franklin of Jonathan Cape, publisher of the UK’s most prominent list of graphic novels.
In 2007, and comics were finally beginning to assume off in Britain: the lively film of Marjane Satrapi’s memoir Persepolis was just about to be released; Guy Delisle’s travelogue,Burma Chronicles, and Rutu Modan’s novel Exit Wounds, and set in Tel Aviv during a period of bomb attacks,had both been critical hits.
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Source: guardian.co.uk