The Sophie Castille Awards for Translation Come to North America

This year, at the Harvey Awards presented at the New York Comic Con last month, we had the first North American edition of the Sophie Castille Award. This award was created to recognize comic translators. Sophie Castille was a co-founder of Europe Comics, a consortium that sold digital comics online to create a market for translation rights. She passed away in 2022. The winner this year was Montana Kane for True Colors: Growing Up Weird in the ‘90s by Elise Gravel, published by Drawn and Quarterly. It’s an amazing diary-style book, and the translator did a terrific job fitting the language into a non-traditional layout. The other nominees/finalists were: Martha Kuhlman for Heartcore by Štěpánka Jislová, published by Pennsylvania University Press Jamie Richards for Petra Chérie by Attilio Micheluzzi, published by Fantagraphics Andrea Rosenberg for Witchcraft by Sole Otero, published by Fantagraphics Alice Yang for Not on Display by Zelba, published by Helvetiq I was one of the judges for the awards this year. It was a great introduction to just how many wonderful comics from around the world were made available in English. What surprised me was that there were some titles that would...