Nation Cartoonists Society president Tom Richmond announced this week that the venerable organization was adding a web-comics division for this year.
According to Richmond’s blog post, he and Awards membership chairman Sean Parkes had been working on this for some time. They received feedback from several industry experts including Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive), Andrew Farago (curator of the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco), Michael Jantze (The Norm, Professor of Sequential Art and Animation, Savannah College of Art and Design).
Richmond went on to explain that the category, Best Online Comic Strip, will be narrowly focused and based on the following criteria:
Comic-strip format only (no single panels, long-form narrative. etc.) Must be web only publication (any syndication in print would make it eligible for the Best Syndicated Comic Strip Division) Must be at least a weekly Must have shown consistent publication based on determined time-schedule (i.e. it being a daily,...
According to Richmond’s blog post, he and Awards membership chairman Sean Parkes had been working on this for some time. They received feedback from several industry experts including Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive), Andrew Farago (curator of the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco), Michael Jantze (The Norm, Professor of Sequential Art and Animation, Savannah College of Art and Design).
Richmond went on to explain that the category, Best Online Comic Strip, will be narrowly focused and based on the following criteria:
Comic-strip format only (no single panels, long-form narrative. etc.) Must be web only publication (any syndication in print would make it eligible for the Best Syndicated Comic Strip Division) Must be at least a weekly Must have shown consistent publication based on determined time-schedule (i.e. it being a daily,...
- 1/10/2012
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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