[SPEAKER_00]: Image Comics Snacks, multiple awards, every Hilled Publisher steps down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Happy Birthday Adam Hughes!
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Comic Book Club News for May 5th, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: With Eisner nominations now open, image comics is pulling out all the stops to tout some of its titles that have already won awards.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perra press released for the publisher, all Negro comics won the twenty-twenty-six children and youth literacy award.
[SPEAKER_00]: While Jeff LeMier's fish flies was nominated at the twenty-twenty-five Nebula Awards.
[SPEAKER_00]: In addition, the power fantasy was nominated for a 26-Hugo Award and Feral and the Department of Truth were both ranked on the American Library Association's annual lists.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is today a slow news day for comics?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure is, as of this recording, but hey, if you are nominating anything for the Isters this year, image would like you to keep these titles in mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dave White, co-founder of the graphic novel company, Avery Hill publishing, is stepping down after 14 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll be succeeded as publisher by fellow co-founder Ricky Miller.
[SPEAKER_00]: Founded in 2012, Avery Hill is known for books like The Hard Switch, a drift on a painted sea and more.
[SPEAKER_00]: While White is stepping down, there's plenty more to come this year, including an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a sci-fi adventure titled John of the Night and Others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Send Whitefeet Press release quotes on said to be stepping away I'm excited that there are so many brilliant graphic novels ahead with Avery Hill.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to being on the other side of the table and filling my bookshelf with more Avery Hill classics for years to come.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today is legendary artist Adam Hughes' birthday as the creator turns 59.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not to start this on a sour note, but last month, Hughes' wife Ellison soon announced he had been diagnosed with coloeorectal cancer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good news is that Hughes has started keyotherapy, and despite having a large mass removed this type of cancer is survivalable and treatable.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in honor of that, let's list some of the many, many accomplishments of Hughes to celebrate the fact that he's still around, and hopefully kicking cancer's butt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hughes began his career in 1987 starting as a pin-up artist before moving over to DC Comics after being introduced to an editor by Bill Willingham.
[SPEAKER_00]: This led to a long career drawing everything from Mr.
[SPEAKER_00]: Miracle to Gen 13 for Wildstorm covers for Wonder Woman and much more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Leading into his pin-up roots, Hughes also generated everything from a controversially sexy Mary Jane Watson statue to a less controversial real power of the DC Universe poster in the style of Vanity Fair's cover shoots.
[SPEAKER_00]: His cover work continued with standout stinside Catwoman, three-ish who run on covers and tears and writing for Betty and Veronica for Archie, and back again to covers for a divisible woman-bitty series for Marvel.
[SPEAKER_00]: While Hughes technically moved away from comic books in 2022 to work on character design for animation, the Eisner-winning artist remains a staple and legend to the comic book community here's hoping that continues for years to come.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Elbin.
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