Really, what more need be said? It’s Shatner’s universe, we’re just living in it.
In his honor, today also happens to be the Third Annual “Talk Like William Shatner Day”. To give you some useful pointers, here’s the third best William Shatner impersonator in the world, Maurice LaMarche…
It’s Round 3 of Mix March Madness, and we’re down to the Sweet 16! Wood chips!
To our left… fresh from her appearance at C2E2, Katie Cook’s clobbering monster with a heart of gold and a stuffed Kitteh…
And to our right… Allie Brosh, the storyteller with the strangest worldview and the shakiest line in comics…
Operators are standing by! Vote now!
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Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, March 23!
Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
The Harvey Awards, named in honor of the late great comics pioneer Harvey Kurtzman, recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art.
The Harvey Awards will be presented on August 20th, 2011 in Baltimore as part of the Baltimore Comic-Con. Scott Kurtz (pvponline.com) is returning for his third consecutive year as The Master of Ceremonies for the awards dinner and presentation.
Nominations for the Harvey Awards are selected exclusively by creators – those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, edit or are otherwise involved in a creative capacity in the comics field. The Harvey Awards are the only industry award both nominated and selected by the full body of comic book professionals.
But it only works if you participate. So get those nomination ballots in now!
(UPDATE: Okay, I jumped the gun by a week. But it got you to go put yours in, didn’t it? You did, right? Oh, come on…)
Round 3 of Mix March Madness, and we’re down to the Sweet 16! Chaaaaaarge!
To our left… Evil Atom, Miss Match, Captain Heroic and the cunning corporation known as…
And to our right… Neil Gaiman says it “grabs you from the first and keeps going… does it with aplomb, with soul and with a sense of joy…”
Operators are standing by! Vote now!
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Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, March 23!
Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
Round 3 of Mix March Madness, and we’re down to the Sweet 16! Chaaaaaarge!
To our left… the cutesy-wootsy gum drop with a heart of gold, and a sly smile…
And to our right… the feline furies who always 1-ups the competition…
Operators are standing by! Vote now!
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Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, March 23!
Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
Round 3 of Mix March Madness! Onward!
To our left… Gabe and Tycho, ready to get it on! Stand back, it’s…
And to my right… the semi-suicidal, always sarcastic stick-figures of San Fernando…
Operators are standing by! Vote now!
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Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, March 23!
Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
O
n Saturday night, Peter David won an award from the the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for his work on X-Factor and the portrayal of Rictor and Shatterstar. The Media Award recipients were announced in 25 of this year’s 32 media categories at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented in New York. Other winners included Russell Simmons, Ricky Martin, the HBO drama series True Blood, the NBC comedy , and CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360″ for its series on gay teen suicides.
We asked Peter for his reaction.
ComicMix: So, first off, congratulations. Do you have an acceptance speech? We took the conductor’s baton away, so you have all the time you want.
Peter A. David: I guess I’d say that we’ve come a long way from when the Comics Code Authority forced DC to remove what the CCA saw as a lesbian kiss in an issue of Justice League Task Force I had written, even though it was a kiss between a woman and a shapeshifted J’onn J’onzz. I’m appreciative of Marvel Comics allowing me so much latitude in X-Factor, particularly Joe Quesada’s unequivocal public support when Rictor and Shatterstar first liplocked. I note that the award only names me, and I think that’s shortsighted, because there’s been a host of artists and editors along the way who have done a terrific job to bring the stories to the public. And ultimately I look forward to the day when this award is utterly unnecessary because the positive portrayal of LGBTs is simply so commonplace that it’s no longer newsworthy. It’s just the normal state of things.
CM: We have the perennial question: so when did you first know that Rictor was gay? And what was it like coming out to the rest of the comics community?
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Round 3! We’ve taken sixty-four popular webcomics, put them head to head in a single-elimination tournament, and are now down to sixteen!
We had a couple of upsets in this round: XKCD losing to Kawaii Not, Questionable Content pulled ahead of Multiplex (thereby wrecking my hoped for battle between them and Theater Hopper) and in a battle that went down to the wire, Penny Arcade beat Sinfest by one vote.
We’re going to start stepping up the pace of voting: Round 3 (Sweet 16) will start tomorrow and last until Wednesday, Round 4 (the Elite 8) will start Thursday and end Saturday, Round 5 (Final Four) will start Monday the 28th and run till Tuesday the 29th, and the Championship battle will start Wednesday the 30th and end on the 31st.
The updated contender brackets:
Our own logs are also showing respectable traffic going out to all the participating strips, and we’re getting reports of people doing entire runs at a shot– which has got to be spiking numbers for everybody, which was part of the idea.
Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, March 19!
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