NBM NEWS ROUND-UP! Links You Need To Check Out! The Initiates has been nominated for the second annual Cartoonist Studio Prize by The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies! Zombillenium: Gretchen has been selected for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2014 Great Graphic Novels for Teens List. The Comics Alternative Podcast Episode 71: Reviews Betty Blues Comics Worth Reading Puts The Initiates on their list of the Best Graphic Novels of 2013 David Petersen (Mouse Guard) puts Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White on his Best of 2013 for Crave Magazine. Comics Waiting Room puts The Initiates on it’s Top 5 of 2013 List