comicsworthreading.com - 7/1/2009
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As a followup to the various Harvey Award discussions , former Gemstone employee Travis Seitler has posted a story of how the company provided pre-filled ballots to employees in 2007 and 2008. He says there were a couple of blank spaces left, and
Nobody was required to submit the ballots (I ...
travis.webseitler.com - 7/1/2009
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travis.webseitler.com —
Now that I don’t work for Geppi anymore,
I’ll go ahead and “out” him on this one.
For both 2007 and 2008, everyone at Gemstone Publishing was given pre-filled ballots (typically leaving one or two blank spaces for our own ...
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Gemstone Publishing and Harvey Award ballot-stuffing
comicbookresources.com - 7/2/2009
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comicbookresources.com —
Image Comics Marketing Director Joe Keatinge -- nominated
this year for his work editing "PopGun" Vol. 2
-- pens an open letter addressing the industry's response to this year's Harvey Award nominations.
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I Believe in Harvey Kurtzman
newsarama.com - 6/30/2009
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COMIXTALK —
... There was a lot of hubbub yesterday about the nominees for the Harveys, including this story on how Gemstone publishing provided pre-filled in ballots for its employees in past years. The Harveys, like the WCCAs, rely on counting up nominations for comics to determine the list of nominees for each category. How many people participate is really important to the strength of the award. I don't think the Harvey's released that information - but if anyone knows the number of votes for nominees please forward it on to me. On this note ...
July 2, 2009: Everyone’s baffled
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal —
... Spring 2009 Xeric Award winners announced
Link: Heidi MacDonald
Congratulations to Joe Boruchow, Adam Bourret,Timothy Godek, Adam Hines and Joshua Smeaton.
[Commentary] Everyone’s baffled by the Harvey Awards
Link: Tom Spurgeon, Joe Keatinge, Heidi MacDonald and Travis Seitler
Well, at least everyone has something to talk about…
(Last link via Johanna Draper Carlson.)
[Multimedia] Comics-related ...
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