Recognition of webcomic goodness
The Harveys are now at the Baltimore Comicon and this year’s MC will be Kyle Baker
Plus, there’s only 9 days left (March 3) to submit Harvey Award Nomination Ballots – there’s an online category this year so visit the site and download a ballot.
Gary Chaloner blogs about the Ledger Awards which take place in Australia. Voting just wrapped up so the winners should be announced shortly.
They have an interesting “WEBCOMIC OR COMIC STRIP OF THE YEAR” category which pits a comic strip Big Fun Mega Happy Pet Land by Jase Harper against two webcomics, Magellan by Stephen Crowley and Raymondo Person by Patrick Alexander. Continue Reading
Not a webcomic award but one probably of interest to many creators: the Isotope, an award for Excellence in Mini-Comics, is accepting nominations until March 15th. To submit your work send five copies to 326 Fell St. San Francisco, CA 94102. (For more information contact the Isotope at (415) 621 – 6543 or at isotopepromotions@gmail.com) Continue Reading
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.
The schedule has been finalized for this year�s Web Cartoonists� Choice Awards. We’re hoping for a great year with some exciting changes. So please keep watching the website at www.ccawards.com for more details.
The process will begin on May 15th when the nomination round begins. At this point, eligible cartoonists will be allowed to register and begin choosing nominees based on their work within the previous year. The nomination round will run until May 29th.
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Bill here, your resident image jockey for Comixpedia, and the occasional brains behind much monster mashing. I’m up early most mornings, and often in a rush, but I make time to read a few of my favorites before I hit the shower and go on about my day.
1. American Elf by James Kochalka. I’m a big fan of Kochalka’s Sketchbook Diaries, and I really enjoy being able to experience it day by day. Sometimes it’s brilliant and sometimes it’s inane, but that’s life.
2. Scary Go Round by John Allison. Bobbins was one of my first favorites, but Scary Go Round has all the bits I liked about his last strip and everything I wish I thought of first. Great stuff.
3. WIGU by Jeff Rowland. I came in late for When I Grow Up, but just in time for Jeff to reinvent himself with WIGU, which has been one of the most consistently strange and funny strips on my reading list. Who doesn’t love a potato made of poison?
4. Man Man by James Duncan and Matt Shepherd. Even if I weren’t related to one of the creators and good friends with the other (no bias here), I would still read Man Man every morning – particuluarly since the recent revamp. Although they have irrevocably affected the way I look at cheese and meat, they still manage to make me laugh.
5. Ornery Boy by Michael Lalonde. Though Michael only publishes one or two strips a week, I find myself looking forward to finding another update notice in my email. Ornery Boy and Dirty Girl are kind of the every-boy and every-girl of the Internet. Besides, if you subscribe you can be a “moody bastard.” Continue Reading
Tom Hart and Shaenon Garrity’s Trunktown recently finished it’s first chapter at serializer.net. Now non-subscribers can read this webcomic without subscribing with the use of the Bitpass micropayments system.
Folks, it’s a quarter. When’s the last time you could buy a comic book for 25 cents? 1974?
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What happens when you put a half-dozen of webcomics' brightest and most vocal brains in a vegematic set on "inquisinate"?
Well, we put Chris Crosby, Joey Manley, Mark Mekkes, Chris Morrisson, BoxJam, and Scott McCloud in a chat room together with an inquisitive Damonk, to see what would happen. The result was a frothy milkshake of a chat interview that focused on awards for webcomics and their value or worth in the webcomics community.
If you're into grey matter milkshakes, or some cool, refreshing idea-sharing, than read on to see what these pureed brains had to say…
[Prelims]
damonk: Five more minutes, and I'm starting this puppy.
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