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August 9, 2016 by Brigid Alverson

Links | ‘March’ Wins VLA Diversity Award

August 9, 2016 by Brigid Alverson   Leave a Comment

Princeless Pirate Princess vol 1The Virginia Library Association has announced the winners of their first Graphic Novel Diversity Award; the winner in the Youth category is March Book 2, by Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. The honor books are Flutter, Volume Two: Don’t Let Me Die Nervous, by Jennie Wood, Jeff McComsey and Chris Goodwin; Honor Girl, by Maggie Thrash; and Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess, Book One: Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew, by Jeremy Whitley, Rosy Higgins and Ted Brandt.

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.

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