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Blatant Award Shilling

Yes, the Muppets are pushing to win Webby awards in the “Viral Video” Category: http://bit.ly/MupViral and in “Music Video” Category: http://www.youtube.com/webby?x=music

What, you thought that we were pushing for our own books for Harvey Award nominations? Perish the thought.

harvey-logo01fullcol1nom-6206711Although, if you haven’t voted yet, since this is the last day to vote, you obviously need some suggestions, so we highly recommend:

BEST WRITER

John Ostrander, GrimJack: The Manx Cat

Mark Ryan, The Pilgrim

Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley, Lone Justice

BEST ARTIST

Dick Giordano, White Viper

BEST CARTOONIST (SINGLE WRITER/ARTIST)

Mike Grell, Jon Sable Freelance

Trevor Von Eeden, The Original Johnson

BEST LETTERER

John Workman, The Original Johnson

BEST INKER

Frank McLaughlin, White Viper

BEST COLORIST

Jason Millet, The Pilgrim

BEST COVER ARTIST

Trevor Von Eeden, The Original Johnson

MOST PROMISING NEW TALENT

Johanna Estep, Munden’s Bar

BEST CONTINUING OR LIMITED SERIES

GrimJack: The Manx Cat, IDW/ComicMix

Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes Of Eden, IDW/ComicMix

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM – ORIGINAL

The Original Johnson, Volume 1, IDW/ComicMix

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM – PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED

Hammer Of The Gods Volume 1: Mortal Enemy, IDW/ComicMix

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY

The Original Johnson, Volume 1, IDW/ComicMix

Lone Justice, ComicMix

BEST DOMESTIC REPRINT PROJECT

Hammer Of The Gods Volume 1: Mortal Enemy, IDW/ComicMix

BEST ONLINE COMICS WORK

ComicMix, http://comicmix.com

Lone Justice, https://comicmix.com/2009/06/15/lone-justice-23-party-hardy/

SPECIAL AWARD FOR HUMOR IN COMICS

Andrew Pepoy, The Adventures of Simone & Ajax

SPECIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRESENTATION (ART DIRECTION / PRODUCTION)

The Original Johnson, Volume 1, IDW/ComicMix

BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC PUBLICATION FOR YOUNGER READERS

The Adventures of Simone & Ajax, IDW/ComicMix

Last Week’s Best: Batman, Wil Wheaton, Earthquakes and Marijuana

batman-00-2535110There are a lot of features coming at ComicMix readers these days, so in the interest of making sure you don’t miss the articles everyone’s talking about, here’s a quick rundown of some of last week’s most popular articles posted on the site:

Who Will Be The Next Batman Villain? — This blog post by Van Jensen generated quite a bit of reader response last week, as the comment section filled with people pondering clues that might indicate the identity of the next Batman bad guy in the film franchise.

Interview: Wil Wheaton on Storytelling, Technology and the Internet — Last week’s finale to Chris Ullrich‘s three-part interview with writer/actor/publisher Wil Wheaton was the week’s most-read original feature, providing a testament to the comics cred of the Just a Geek author. The Wheaton interview narrowly edged out Jami Philbrick‘s interview with Geoff Johns about his work on this month’s Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds.

Our Own Private Gotham — According to last week’s traffic, the success of The Dark Knight in theaters is a popular topic here on ComicMix, as readers were all over John Ostrander‘s Batman-focused column. In the column, the veteran comics scribe theorizes that there’s a lot to glean about the popularity of the grim-and-gritty hero given today’s political and cultural climates. On a side note, readers also had a high opinion (pun intended) of the most recent column by veteran comics scribe Dennis O’Neil, in which he opined on marijuana legalization and the greater availability of information about this and other controversial topics for current and future generations.

The Day the Earth Moved — While John Ostrander and Dennis O’Neil’s columns received a heaping helping of readers, it was Michael Davis’ latest column that had the comment crowd chatting. As it so often does, the media mogul’s column received the most comments of any article here on ComicMix that week!

Hammer of the Gods: Back From the Dead #3, by Mike Oeming and Mark Wheatley, was the most popular issue of any ComicMix comic released on the site this week, narrowly edging out Erin Holroyd and Dick Giordano’s White Viper #8.

Review: ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Deluxe Edition — Batman mania continued to be a driving force in the week’s traffic, with Van Jensen’s review (originally posted back in March) of the hardcover edition of Batman: The Killing Joke popping up as the most-read review of the week. Everything old is new again, apparently!

‘White Viper’ Starts June 3 on ComicMix!

 A baby, abandoned.  Surrounded by dead bodies, she is found by a poor monk.  He takes her back to his home for safety, and the company of his brother monks.

Happily ever after?  Think again.

In White Viper, the new series written by Erin Holroyd, with art by the legendary Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin, nothing — and no one — is what it seems.  There is blood and death in the countryside, but at the same time, there is love.   A holy man can teach you how to kill.

And sometimes, no one can be trusted.  And sometimes, you must trust a stranger with your very life.

Frank McLaughlin, providing inks and story, said, "I’ve been working in comics for more than 40 years, and this is the story I’ve always wanted to tell.  It’s a joy to work with my old friend, the great storyteller Dick Giordano.  Inking his work was one of my first jobs, and it’s great to be collaborating on something that means so much to both of us.  We’re very excited that Erin has taken some time off from the Stratford Bard to work with us."

ComicMix Editor-in-Chief Mike Gold said, "I’ve known Dick and Frank since I worked at DC Comics, and I’m delighted to be working with them both again.  This series is the best work they’ve ever done."

White Viper runs every Tuesday on ComicMIx, free and in full color.

New at ComicMix: Comic Reader Updates and More!

If you’re a faithful reader of ComicMix (and we hope you are), you may have noticed that we didn’t post the new episode of Simone & Ajax: The Case of the Maltese Duck. It’s not because anything bad happened to our favorite dinosaur and his cute friend Simone. We’re giving Andrew and Jason a bit of a breather.

However, we have just installed some new bells and whistles to the site that will make it more fun for you to use.

You know how they made a hit television show out of the premise that you want to go to a place where everybody knows your name? Well, ComicMix now remembers how you like to read your comics. When you set a preference for single pages or double-page spreads or for a certain degree of magnification, that’s how the settings will stay, until you choose to change them again. And you can bookmark individual pages – if you want to check out page 3 of Simone & Ajax: The Case of the Maltese Duck, you can now do so directly.

You say you want more? Well, coming up in the near future we’ve got a couple of massive additions to our site – a world of entirely new features – and we’ll be bringing back Munden’s Bar and Black Ice, as well as starting up Giordano/McLaughlin/Holroyd’s White Viper and Trevor Von Eeden’s The Original Johnson. Plus new outings from John Ostrander and Ian Gibson and Joanna Estep… and more. A whole LOT more.

Stay tuned.