The British Comic Awards

[Bat King]

Minefield...

But I am gonna nominate some people anyway n let them work out if, they, are acceptable

[BPP]

Humm... in the context of The New Deadwardians and Resident Alien what's a 'creative team' - letterers and colourists too? Editors? Holy cow, has Tharg taken out Citizenship yet?*




(* and is he running a 1% income tax scam out of Betelgeuse?)

[starscape]

They're going by a pretty strict definition of "British Comic"; has to be an all-Brit creative team to qualify:

Nominees for the British Comic Awards must be the work of a wholly British* creative team, and the rights to such work should belong either to creators or a UK publisher. If you aren't entirely sure if something qualifies, suggest it to us anyway and the committee will debate it.

* Where we refer to British we're referring to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Which excludes anything with Carlos Ezquerra on art for a start.  (And leaves me in the rather bewildering position of wondering whether Judge Dredd qualifies as British under these rules.  Does his co-creator credit render it ineligible?)

Shame Claremont and Byrne aren't working on the X-Men these days - both Brits originally.

[Emperor]

I really wouldn't worry too much about whether something qualifies or not - you don't need to check someone's passport and comics contracts, if it seems reasonable then nominate it, I think they just want to make sure there aren't too many obviously ineligible entries.

Also no need to make a single nomination in each category, this isn't like the Eagles in which you have to nominate one - throw them a list of what you think were good British comics this year and they'll work through them:

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/the-british-comic-awards-are-go/#comment-274281

Humm... in the context of The New Deadwardians and Resident Alien what's a 'creative team' - letterers and colourists too? Editors?

New Deadwardians is published by Vertigo and the contract there isn't completely creator-owned (it's complex), but again I wouldn't worry too much about it (I'm pretty sure something won't be thrown out for having a Canadian letterer) - if it seems to qualify then nominate it and let the judges decide.

Going to have a nice long thing about what to nominate- as I'm not sure what category 2000AD falls into, here.

From the phrasing they seem to be angling the Best Comic towards stories within an anthology, but if you want to nominate 2000AD then why not? If it doesn't qualify then they'll just not add it to their shortlist.

[Emperor]

Qualifying 2000AD trades published between 1st September 2011 and 31st August 2012 (according to the books page):

• Flesh: The Dino Files
• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 18
• Defoe: Qyeen of the Zombies
• Cradlegrave
• Mazeworld
• Blackhawk
• Insurrection
• Ampney Crucis Investigates: Vile Bodies
• Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Saga
• Judge Anderson: The PSI Files, Volume 2
• Kingdom: Call of the Wild
• Mega-City Undercover, Volume 2
• Judge Dredd: The Day the Law Died
• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19
• Slaine: Treasures of Britain
• Absalom: Ghosts of London
• The Complete DR & Quinch (reprint)
• Slaine: The Horned God
• Mean Machine: Real Mean (reprint)
• Savage: The Guv'nor
• Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha
• Shakara: The Destroyer
• Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Necroposting this back to life as the JUDGES have been announced today.

Can someone explain this to me, it seems like a huge fucking joke

http://britishcomicawards.com/judging-panel-2013/

[Richmond Clements]

Necroposting this back to life as the JUDGES have been announced today.

Can someone explain this to me, it seems like a huge fucking joke

http://britishcomicawards.com/judging-panel-2013/

Umm... Okay...

[CrazyFoxMachine]

The Judges were selected by the BCA Committee and chosen for their interest or involvement in comics and for their ability to view the medium critically as works of art and entertainment from their point of view as successful professionals in their respective creative fields.

Paraphrase: celebrities sell celebrities sell celebrities sell celebrities sell

[Proudhuff]

The Judges were selected by the BCA Committee and chosen for their interest or involvement in comics and for their ability to view the medium critically as works of art and entertainment from their point of view as successful professionals in their respective creative fields.

Paraphrase: celebrities sell celebrities sell celebrities sell celebrities sell

so your invitation is still in the post?

[stacey]

Hi Owen

On behalf of the BCA Committee I'll just let you know that we do have a feedback form on our website if you wish to use it http://britishcomicawards.com/nominate/contact-us/

cheers
Stace

[Bolt-01]

Darn, there was me all fired up ready to have a rant about the judges... and I can't really. Think it's a pretty good set overall- the only name that is totally new to me is Gareth David. Think it 'could' provide a very interesting final choice, but then if a book isn't nominated it won't be considered.

[maryanddavid]

How would one get a comic nominated?

[stacey]

How would one get a comic nominated?

It's the same link as the one I posted before, you have until the 30th August to get all your nominations in. :-D

[Jimmy Baker's Assistant]

I guess they're trying to be the Bookers of Brit comics, but I don't care which comics celebrities read and so don't really see these awards as valid.

Last year's awards didn't help either, they were completely unrepresentative.

I want the Eagles back.

[Colin YNWA]

I want the Eagles back.

What so Paul Cornell can win best newcomer some 15 years after he started his career and the like?