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Harvey Award Accepting Nominations and New Category

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The Harvey Awards, which have moved to Baltimore Comic-con for this years award ceremony, is now accepting nominations via a ballot that can be downloaded from their webpage. This year there is a new category, “Best Online Comics Work”.

For the first time in several years, you’ll note a new category on this year’s ballot. In following with the results of a recent Referendum which appeared on an earlier Harvey ballot, you’ll see the first-time inclusion of Best Online Comics Work. During the past year, we’ve had several discussions with professionals regarding the growing importance and diversity of online work. Any comments you’d like to make concerning any future revision/expansion to this category would be appreciated.

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Wednesday Morning Bits and Pieces

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Publishers Weekly interviews Amy Kim Ganter. The interview covers webcomics and Ganter’s upcoming english language manga Sorcerers and Secretaries, published by Tokyopop.

Hope Larson has a new graphic novel hitting stores in February. Gray Horses is published by Oni Press. Preview and pressrelease is available on the Oni webpage

Mikael Oscarsson has left subscription site Graphic Smash and his comics are now being serialized at his new site hosted at Webcomicnation. Continue Reading →

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The Sony Reader

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The Beat notes the Sony Reader, “an electronic book that displays pages on a high-def e-paper that can be viewed even in bright sunlight”, that is being shown at this years Consumer Electronics Show. Apparently manga is being used to showcase its readability. It has enough built in memory to hold 80 full length books and also handles memorysticks. Its size is reported as a 6.9” by 4.9” by .5”,8 making it a rather handy size.
It’s hardly a killer product for webcomics though. Not only does it appear that all books has to be bought through a dedicated online store, it only supports four levels of grayscale according to its website. Still, who knows what we’ll see later this year in this field. Continue Reading →