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July 2, 2009: Everyone’s baffled
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[Scene] 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 ...
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
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... Tom Spurgeon, meanwhile, argues it’s time to let the Harveys fade away: “At this point, the Harveys neither provide a strong contrast with the Eisners nor do they do anything uniquely their own the way that the Ignatzes (a small press festival award), the Maisie Kukoc (a cash award for a mini-comics maker), even the Reubens (cartooning in all its aspects, newspaper-focused) do. You could probably save the Harvey Awards with an administrative overhaul and a lot of attention and time and maybe even money, but why? What are you saving exactly?” [ ...
Comics A.M. - The Comics Internet in 2 Minutes
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... from Joe Keatinge pointing to industry apathy, not ballot-stuffing, as the problem with the process. Tom Spurgeon , meanwhile, argues it’s time to let the Harveys fade away: “At this point, the Harveys neither provide a strong contrast with the Eisners nor do they do anything uniquely their own the way that the Ignatzes (a small press festival award), the Maisie Kukoc (a cash award for a mini-comics maker), even the Reubens (cartooning in all its aspects, newspaper-focused) do. You could probably save the Harvey Awards with an administrative overhaul and a lot of attention and ...
Harvey Wallbanger
news from me —
... and needn't listen to others. There's also nothing negative about being nominated unless you overdramatize it to the point where you'll be crushed if you lose. Anyway, I've learned to just say thanks and to otherwise pay no nevermind to awards. The first time I won an Eisner, I carried this to an extreme. I didn't even know I was nominated, didn't attend the ceremony, didn't find out until years later that I'd won and never got the actual trophy, which I think was then a certificate. Tom Spurgeon and others are making the case that the Harveys are redundant and ...
Health of a Nation
news from me —
... and needn't listen to others. There's also nothing negative about being nominated unless you overdramatize it to the point where you'll be crushed if you lose. Anyway, I've learned to just say thanks and to otherwise pay no nevermind to awards. The first time I won an Eisner, I carried this to an extreme. I didn't even know I was nominated, didn't attend the ceremony, didn't find out until years later that I'd won and never got the actual trophy, which I think was then a certificate. Tom Spurgeon and others are making the case that the Harveys are redundant and ...
The C-List: International Long Weekend Blues
Sequential: Canadian Comics News & Culture —
Item: Skim, Country Nurse nominated for Harvey Awards in the Best Graphic Album category. As well, Lar deSouza and Ryan Sohmer, creators of the webcomic Least I Could Do, were nominated in several categories. (In an interesting post, Tom Spurgeon makes a plea for getting rid of the Harveys). Item: Jeet Heer on nostalgia in comics. Item: Tom Spurgeon has a thorough obituary for U.S. cartoonist B.M. Duncan. Duncan's art was a highlight of Weirdo magazine in the 1980s and was a radical, humane talent. Item: Captain Canuck ...
Harvey Award Fiasco
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Well the Internet has been abuzz about the Harvey Award nominations , or more to the point, their lack of nominations. Tom Spurgeon , Robot 6 , The Beat , and many others have been weighing in on the issue. The main problem being the way in which the nominations come about. Nominations for the Harvey Awards are collected through ballots and the ones with the highest amounts get nominated for the awards. That is whey we can see Grant Morrison and John Gallagher up against each other for best writer or Nascar Heroes racing to beat Love and Rockets and ...
