Annie Koyama Wins 2024 CXC Tom Sturgeon Award

Annie Koyama, the founder of the Toronto-based "alternative comics powerhouse" Koyama Press, is the recipient of the fourth annual Tom Spurgeon Award, presented by Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC).

"After surviving a terminal brain aneurysm diagnosis, Annie chose to leave a successful career in film and advertising to pursue her passion for supporting and publishing emerging artists by creating Koyama Press in 2007," CXC said in a release. "Titles from Koyama Press have been nominated for or won every major award in comics. In 2011, Koyama Press was presented with the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Publisher. CXC finds itself in good company as Annie has been honored with the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, Broken Frontier’s first Hall of Fame Award, and was conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Ontario College of Art & Design University. "

The Spurgeon Award honors "those who have made substantial contributions to the field of comics, but are not primarily cartoonists," and is named after CXC founding executive director Tom Spurgeon. Last year's recipient was PW's own Calvin Reid. For more information on Koyama and the Spurgeon Award, click here.