Recognition of webcomic goodness
The Harvey Awards Final Ballot Deadline is Friday, July 28th. Ballots are still available at harveyawards.org and can be submitted via ground mail or electronically. Ballots must arrive by midnight on July 28th in order to be counted. Once completed, ballots may be e-mailed to pjcjmc3@sbcglobal.net. This is the most effective way to make sure that your vote is counted!
If you're eligible to vote today's the deadline to turn in your ballot.
Eisner Awards administrator Jackie Estrada states that eligible voters are "creators (writers, pencillers, inkers, colorists, letterers), editors, publishers, retailers, and distributor managers." She also says that if you are eligible and didn't get a ballot, "e-mail me and I can send you a pdf: jackiee@mindspring.com."
There’s been a delay in WCCA Nomination Round voting, but Final Round voting dates will not change.
Tom Nguyen has a new column on drawing breasts. On this subject it’s always a good idea to revisit the classic column on the subject, The Bizarre Breasts Tutorial: How to Draw Breasts.
This month is supposed to be the movies&webcomics issue, right? Here’s Fleen on a wishlist for webcomic movies.
Wahoo Morris goes daily. We had a lot of coverage of WM in our March Music Issue.
Congrats to MacHall’s Ian McConville who graduated recently with a Fine Arts degree from Bowling Green.
The Pulse on webcomics: REVA SHARP’S SYNCHRONISM, Z CENAC’S KALMER UNWRITTEN, JOHN MIERS’ KOTUBA, LIZ GREENFIELD’s STUFF SUCKS , ANDREW KAIKO’S NORM AND CORY, PENNY SCOTT’S COMING FULL CIRCLE, and ROBERT BURKE RICHARDSON’S ELF-HELP.
Elijah Brubaker is drawing 50 superheroes. And makes snarky comments about it.
I added more updates to the videos related to comics post below.
And a bit random but this new search engine SNAP is kind of cool – it displays a screenshot in its results.
Hey! The WCCAs nomination round is underway until May 29th. If you’re a working webcomic creator, go forth and nominate.
Benjamin Birdie has a new project: Nitroglycerin to be published online at Boom! Studios. Birdie is handling art and words will be by comics blogger Kevin Church. Birdie’s webcomic Genre City, while unfinished is very funny and a nice indie twist on the staples of superherodom.
Shooting War is described as a webcomic about the Iraq War. Haven’t read it yet but I plan to.
T catches an interview with Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics). He also adds his two cents to the discussion of Joe Zabel’s webcomics community essay. I wrote a reaction yesteday but for me its squishy I guess – today I’m not even sure I agree 100% with what I wrote yesterday.
Scott McCloud posted the cover to his coming soon Making Comics book.
Mansion of E hits 1000 strips.
Reacting to the recent coverage of the alleged Brownstein/Soma incident, Onezumi writes an essay about her thoughts on the matter.
And last but not least, I present the newest idea for webcomics merchandise: custom printed toilet paper.
T Campbell hits on something we talked about in the comments to our earlier Eisner post this week: what exactly is Matt Forsythe’s ojingogo nominated for? As in what did Forsythe do in 2005 to receive the nomination.
ojingogo was nominated in 2005, presumably for work up to the end of 2004 (which T seems to confirm in his post which includes a discussion of the rules). I calculated 9 new pages since then, T calculates only 7 new pages. Either way ojingogo is a fairly short piece which is still unfinished. It seems unfair, and a mite bit ridiculous with the now vast amount of material on the web to twice nominate a short unfinished work for the Eisner award.
All of which seems like I am condemning Forsythe’s work I suppose, but I am not and when it’s finished I would have no problems with its nomination. Nominating an unfinished work on the web for an award is problematic and should not be allowed. This rule would not discriminate against long-form or ongoing serialized webcomics if we allowed for the judges to nominate technically unfinished webcomics on the basis of finished chapters or storylines. And in any event, the judges should be clear about the work that is the basis for their nomination.
Tom Spurgeon has a list of this year’s Eisner nominations:
The nominees for Best Digital Comic are:
Other webcomic-related nominations include:
Zach Miller wins the first Blooker prize for comics for his Joe and Monkey book, "Totally Boned." Congrats to Zach!
Actually there’s a lot of book-related news today:
I may have posted this before, but you may be interested in Debbie Ridpath Ohi’s tax tips for freelancers. We’re almost on top of the 2005 year tax filing deadline so if you’re not already done with your paperwork get to it already!
Peter Hayward writes a bit about Alexander Danner’s Panel One series on the Weekly Webcomics Review blog. Speaking of Alexander Danner, he wrote a short review of Hope Larson’s Salamander Dreams for this week’s Webcomics Examiner.
And, have I mentioned Chopping Block is back? Lee Adam Herold’s creepy-funny webcomic about a serial killer named Butch is back.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice. Case in point – IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space. Bad IE! Anyhow I’ve put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024×768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space). Firefox seems to behave though. Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend…
Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.
Now onto the webcomic news!
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice. Case in point – IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space. Bad IE! Anyhow I’ve put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024×768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space). Firefox seems to behave though. Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend…
Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.
Now onto the webcomic news!
The Friends of Lulu have opened up nominations for their annual awards. Check out the categories and be sure to nominate worthy candidates from webcomics.
Dave Kellett will be talkin’ this upcomin’ Monday at the big-deal SXSW conference. If you’re in Austin go check it out.
Peter Hayward is listing his "cool dudes of webcomics". It’s a short list though. Either Hayward is a stingy bastard or comics are not as cool as Comixpedia thought…
Hey don't forget — March 15th at midnight is the deadline for submitting work for the the 2006 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics.
And over at the Pulse, Joey Manley interviews Kathryn and Stuart Immonen, the creators of Never as Bad as You Think.
The Pulse also features comics writer Warren Ellis' column The Ministry wherein Ellis often dives into webcomics. I'm not sure I've been consistent in linking to it which is too bad because it's been good reading. So here you go:
The Categories for the 2006 Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards have been finalized. So now’s your chance to start thinking about which comics you believe should be nominated in each category for their performance during the previous year. This list can also be currently found at the WCCA website.
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