Neil Gaiman and Fully Booked to launch Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards Anthology
PRESS RELEASE Neil Gaiman and Fully Booked to launch Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards Anthology Fully Booked is bringing multi-awarded and best-selling author Neil Gaimanto to Manila to launch the Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards Anthology, a compilation of winning entries from the contest’s first three award seasons. Neil Gaiman and Fully Booked initiated the “Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards” in 2005, after Gaiman visited the country for the first time. During that visit Gaiman and Fully Booked decided to help spur the growth of unrealistic fiction in the country, after the author realized that “there is already a fine tradition of realistic fiction in Filipino literature.” The Anthology will be launched on March 17, 2010 in Makati City. The book will contain all the winning entries from Year 1 to Year 3 of the Awards. Gaiman will be in Manila for the third time, from March 17 to 18, to attend the book launch and award the winners of the 3rd Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards. Gaim...