Awards

The Harvey Awards have released their nominations for this year's edition. Up for BEST ONLINE COMICS WORK are:

• AMERICAN ELF by James Kochalka
• THE CHELATION KID by Robert Tinnell & Craig A. Taillefer
• GIRL GENIUS by Phil & Kaja Foglio
• PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP by Nicholas Gurewitch
• PVP by Scott Kurtz

This is the second time the Harveys will recognize webcomics. James Kochalka's American Elf won last year.

Brian Fies, the creator of Mom's Cancer, is also up for several awards this year.

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The winner of this year's Lulu Blooker Award in the Comics category is Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies. Mom's Cancer originally appeared online as a webcomic and won the Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in 2005. (CBR also recently included Mom's Cancer amongst its 365 Reasons to Love Comics series)

OTHER AWARD NEWS: Penny Arcade won the U.K. Eagle award for "Favourite Web-Based Comic". Pip, pip, cheerio!

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The Ursa Major Awards have released their list of nominees for 2006. The award, which is also known as the Annual Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Award, is presented for excellence in the furry arts. Voting is open until April 14 and requires registration after which the ballot can be sent in by email.

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The awards’ season certainly has kicked off it seems.

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Wow – it was a huge weekend for webcomics!

AWARDS

• The WCCA nominations are out (full list here). Webcomic creators can vote for their choice up until February 11th. This year, the awards are to be announced at MegaCon in Florida on February 19th.
• We also started a discussion on the weekend on which new comics from 2006 that didn't get a nomination for Outstanding Newcomer might have deserved one. Tell us what you think here.
• DAJB points out that the U.K.'s Eagle Awards are upon us again, and that they have a category for webcomics.
• The Comics Reporter notes that new at this year's Joe Shuster awards will be the Oustanding Canadian Web Comic Creator Award. The Shuster awards take place June 9th. Submission for nominations are open.
• Talk About Comics points to a report that the short film Everything Will Be OK directed by Don Hertzfeldt and based on his webcomic Anesthetics, won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival.
• The National Cartoonist Society is accepting nominations for it awards. Nominations are due by February 23rd. Apparently, you do not need to be an NCS member to be eligible for an NCS award. However, they do not have an award for webcomics nor do they seem to consider publication online as part of their criteria for qualified nominations. I wonder when that will change…

EVENTS

• I posted the Blind Date II pairings this weekend. If you forgot to sign up and want to participate I will try to facilitate additional pairings on a rolling basis today. Go to the thread and post a comment if you want to join up.

MAGAZINE

• Grant Thomas writes about putting a webcomic into print and discusses some of the differences between the print-on-demand and the do-it-yourself approaches.
• Xaviar Xerexes presents a look at Big Panda, a webcomics host and portal from the mists of history with comments from a long list of creators, including Chris Crosby and Darren "Gav" Bleuel, John Allison, Eight, John Robey, Josh Lesnick, David Willis and more.

BUSINESS

• MSNBC is replacing Fox Trot (and possibly The Boondocks) with new comics. They're conducting a poll on it. This is MSNBC's webcomic lineup we're talking about – probably a pretty high-profile placement (I don't have any actual data on traffic though). Unfortunately it appears they are only considering work from Uclick! – probably because of an exclusivity term in a contract.

HOW-TO

• Bryant Paul Johnson posted a very useful "how to" on how he makes his webcomic Teaching Baby Paranoia.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Bid to Win a Guest-Star Appearance in PC Weenies #1000.
• Love is Psychosexual wraps up on Adultwebcomics.
• Speaking of adult webcomics, check out the almost but not quite SFW (so far) There's Always Porn by Bob Sugar and Wiz Rollins.
• Webcomics In Print presents its weekly round-up of webcomics in print.
• Comics Worth Reading flags the release of the second Penny & Aggie book.
• The Comics Reporter points to a Washington Post story on Suicide Rabbit, a webcomic popular in China.
• T Campbell urges webcomics creators to vote responsibly.
• The Blank Label Comics group snagged nine WCCA nominations.

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The Beat reports that submissions are open for nominations for the 2007 Glyph Awards, which will honor the best in black comics and creators.

Materials released from January 1 to December 31, 2006 are eligible. Only completed works will be considered, not works in progress. Online comics creators and newspaper/periodical cartoonists with websites should send a direct URL link to their site or page. Daily cartoonists must have a minimum of one month’s work archived and available for viewing; weekly cartoonists a minimum of two months.

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The nominees for the Ignatz awards are out and up for the Outstanding Online Comic category are:

• A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible by David Hellman and Dale Beran
• Claviger by Ronnie Casson
• Micrographica by Renee French
• Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas Gurewitch
• Thingpart by Joe Sayers

Renee French's entry was published on Serializer.net (and nowhere else as far as I can tell). Since serializer.net is still down hopefully publisher Joey Manley can give Ms. French a link to a temporary locaton for the comic.

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The winner of the BEST ONLINE COMICS WORK at this year's Harveys is AMERICAN ELF by James Kochalka. Congrats!

Check out the full list of Harvey winners at The Beat.

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