The Harvey Awards
Nominees announced for 2011 Harvey Awards
Harvey Awards
The nominees have been announced for the 2011 Harvey Awards, which recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art.
Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, the cartoonist and founding editor of MAD magazine, the awards are selected entirely by creators. Final ballots are due by Aug. 6. Winners will be announced in conjunction with Baltimore Comic-Con, which runs Aug. 20-21. Scott Kurtz will again serve as master of ceremonies.
The nominees are:
Best Letterer
• Scott Brown, Box 13, Http://www.comixology.com and Red 5 Comics
• Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit, IDW
• Dustin Harbin, Casanova, Image Comics
• Troy Peteri, Witchblade, Top Cow
• Robbie Robbins, Locke & Key: Keys To The Kingdom # 1, IDW
• John Workman, Thor, Marvel Comics
Best Colorist
• Veronica Gandini, Mice Templar: Volume 10, Image Comics
• Laura Martin, The Stand, Marvel Comics
• Ed Ryzowski, Gutters, http://www.the-Gutters.com
• Dave Stewart, BPRD, Dark Horse Comics
• Jose Villarubia, Cuba : My Revolution, Vertigo/DC Comics
Quote of the Day #2 | Scott Kurtz on Mark Waid vs. Sergio Aragonés
If you’re a member of an industry that let Dave Cockrum die in a VA hospital after helping give us most of the X-Men characters that comprised three blockbuster films and you get pissy about what Mark Waid said, then you deserve to remain on this sinking ship.
When Diamond Comics can’t make money despite being a monopoly, it’s time to start listening to people like Mark Waid.
Half of the people he delivered his speech to were over the age of 50, currently not working on a project in comics, and are most likely without health insurance, retirement or savings accounts.
Mark Waid had the audacity to warn a group of people he cares about, that nobody is putting the internet in a god damn DeLorean and driving it 88mph towards the twin pines mall. And for that he got dressed down by Santa Claus in front of his peers.
That’s how scared people are right now.
And the bottom line of it all is that in about 5 years, a lot of people are going to owe Mark Waid a fucking apology.
–PVP writer/artist and Harvey Awards emcee Scott Kurtz reacts with characteristic, shall we say, candor to Mark Waid’s keynote address on copyright and piracy and white-beardedGroo cartoonist Sergio Aragonés’ heatedly negative reaction thereto.
(via Joe Keatinge)
Slash Print | Following the digital evolution
Zuda
Webcomics | Scott Kurtz, who hosted the Harvey Awards this past weekend, shares his thoughts on what he saw at the Zuda table over the weekend. Kurtz, the creator of the long-running and highly successful PvP webcomic, has been an outspoken critic of Zuda since they launched, but had a different take on DC’s monthly webcomics contest after this weekend.
“If companies like DC can enter the Webcomics world, and find a way to work with creators fairly and bring credibility and positive attention to this medium…that’s good,” Kurtz writes. “If Zuda can light a fire under the asses of talent that normally wouldn’t make progress, that’s awesome. We want that, don’t we? Doesn’t a rising tide lift all ships? I know I’m skeptical. I like being skeptical. But maybe I’ve witnessed so many Platinums in the past that I’m a little gun-shy. Maybe…maybe…Zuda isn’t going to fuck people over.”
Also worth reading on his blog, Kurtz talks about what it was like to host the Harveys.
Webcomics | In anticipation of the release of the ACT-I-VATE Primer from IDW, Graphic NYC has dubbed this ACT-I-VATE week and will run features all week about the webcomics collective and its contributors.
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Harvey Awards statue
Creators | Cartoonist Karen Ellis, creator of the webcomic Planet Karen, lost nearly everything Sunday in an apartment-building fire that killed her neighbor. Girl-Wonder.org, which hosts Planet Karen, is organizing an auction to benefit Ellis. Donations also can be made to Ellis’ PayPal account. [Fleen]
Awards | Nominations are being accepted for the 2009 Harvey Awards, which will be presented Oct. 10 during a ceremony emceed by cartoonist Scott Kurtz at Baltimore Comic-Con. Ballots can be downloaded here; the deadline for nominations is March 27. [Harvey Awards]
Creators | Devin Faraci talks with cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley about Scott Pilgrim, Internet rumors, and Twitter. [CHUD]
Creators | Kiel Phegley posts the unabridged version of a Q&A with Kramers Ergot 7 editor and cartoonist Sammy Harkham that originally appeared last year in Wizard. [Four Color Forum]
Creators | Writer Michael Alan Nelson relates how not to pitch to a publisher at a convention. [Kung Fu Monkey]
Webcomics | Maryland retailer Cosmic Comix & Toys provides a brief webcomics primer. [Cosmic Comix & Toys]
Weirdness | Marvel published a Billy Ray Cyrus comic? Oh, those crazy, crazy ’90s. [4thletter]