Melanie Gillman ′14 is sweeping the awards this year. With more awards to come, they have already won four awards. As the Crow Flies (Iron Circus Comics) was recently collected into volume 1 from the web comic and is rocking it through the awards already:
- Stonewall Award Honor Book in Children and Young Adult Literature at the ALA Awards, for books with strong LGBTQ content
- In the Margins Book Awards, Recommended Book List 2018
- 2018 EGL Awards, Best Middle-Grade Books in Fiction
Melanie won a DINK Award, Best Minicomic, for Pockets, which is a short set in the As the Crow Flies universe
Congratulations, Melanie! We’ll look for more awards to come before the end of the year!
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