2007 Eagle Awards

[Wils]

cant be arsed with that voting form

If I'm reading things right, that's the nominations form and not the voting form, which I think will have a limited amount of nominees per award.

[I, Cosh]

Simon Spurrier - favourite newcomer writer.

The Walking Dead - favourite colour comic?

[I, Cosh]

Oops!

[I, Cosh]

Double Oops.

[I, Cosh]

Please make the bold stop.

[Tiplodocus]

*WHORE ON*

JUDGE GLASSWELL got at least two sassy lines last year - he should be Best Supporting Character.

*WHORE OFF*

[Keef Monkey]

I was assuming Spurrier had popped up in the newcomer category because of Gutsville getting his name about outside the UK a bit more. Does that mean I can nominate Frazer Irving?!? I mean how new do these people need to be?

[Al_Ewing]

This new! I'm getting my Shameless Pimp Hat on to remind everyone that I'm a relative newcomer too, so I hope  all Tempest loyalists (and it does seem to be going down like Marmite at the moment) will bear me in mind...

[Dog Deever]

Al, you've already been nominated for best newcomer (assuming I actually understand how the thing works, that is)
Does someone/ something have to receive so many 'nominations' before they're actually nominated?
How does it all work?

[pauljholden]

The nomination process works as follows:

People vote for who they like. As they vote the nomination page builds a memory of names that have already been used, so you don't end up with votes like: 'Spider-MAN', 'SPIDERMAN','SPIDERTYPO'. What should happen is you go to the website, pick something from the list - and if your pick isn't there then you type something new in. That then gets added to the list.

Just because a name is on that list DOES NOT mean that it's had more than one vote.

Once the voting closes, the votes will be tallied up and the three top voted names in each category will be the shortlist. With the winner being the top voted (obviously).

-pj
(I could be wrong, but IIRC that's what's happened in previous years)

[robbycox]

I've just Cast my votes and in the Roll of Honour catagory i've voted for (predictably) Massimo Belardinelli, thought it might be nice if we could get him to at least into the final.
Cheers,
Rob.

[Keef Monkey]

I have considered it Al! Tempest is great stuff, but I'm currently agonising over other choices.

Being incredibly ignorant to the creative process the best artist/inks and best artist/pencils thing has thrown me. I genuinely don't know which category my favourite artists would fall into, so haven't voted for anything yet. I know it's probably a very dumb thing to get confused by but if any of the talented artists on here fancy talking down to an idiot then please explain the difference to me!

[paulvonscott]

"I've voted for (predictably) Massimo Belardinelli"

Howls of anguish from me here as I curse myself.  Of course it should be Massimo, Robby, maybe you should put a thread up for it and post in on 2000AD review as well.

I voted for John Wagner who of course deserves it, but Wagner's still with us, and Massimo isn't.

Vote in haste, repent at leisure.

[pauljholden]

The penciller draws the comic with a pencil. His marks are the first ones on the page. Then this is handed over to an inker who inks it. (This is pretty basic stuff, innit). Then, finally, a colourist gets their hands on it.

Some artists do pencils and inks. Most of the UK artists pencil and then ink, which means they're eligible for either category, so you could vote both - or, just which ever category you feel they're better at (X pencils and inks his own work, but his inks are waaaay better than his pencils, therefore vote him in the inks)

I'm not, strictly speaking, eligible for the only category I seem to be listed in - new artist - but that's ok, I made an American debut, so it's not totally unreasonable, I suppose.

(In the past, Fraz won best newcomer awards two years running, iirc...)

-pj

[Keef Monkey]

Thanks for that PJ, now I can get on with the voting!