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The Webcomic List Awards 2009
Committee and Judges List |
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The judges and commitee are as follows :-
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| Adam Smithee |
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| Alice L (a.k.a. Chilari) |
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Most Improved Comic,
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Best Longform Comic
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| Brad Guigar |
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Judge –
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Best Gag-a-day Comic
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Websites -
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Evil Inc
Courting Disaster
Phables
Gray Stone Inn
Portfolio
Half Pixel
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Brad Guigar will celebrate ten years of doing a daily comic strip this February. His daily strip, Evil Inc, can be seen every day at evil-comic.com. He also creates a weekly sex-advice comic, Courting Disaster (www.courting-disaster.com) and he has been nominated for the Eisner Award for his weekly feature, Phables (phables.com), which ended last year. He is the author of the "Everything Cartooning Book" and co-author of "How To Make Webcomics." He is the editor-in-chief of Webcomics.com and a quarter of the popular Webcomics Weekly podcast (ww.libsyn.com).
• My daily comic strip: http://www.evil-comic.com
• My weekly sex comic: http://www.courting-disaster.com
• My weekly comic about Philly: http://www.phables.com
• My old comic strip: http://www.GreystoneInn.net
• My online portfolio: http://www.guigar.com
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| Charlie Thatcher |
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Best Writing
Best Colour Art
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Websites -
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Holy Mole
QuickThought
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Charlie Thatcher is a cartoonist, animator, and writer from the Texas-y area of the world. He has been drawing cartoons for a while, under a variety of aliases. He is a heavily outspoken and attractive critic, and even donates his time to teach art to underprivileged school children out of the goodness of his heart and also for money.
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| Dave Roman |
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Judge –
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Best Comic,
Best Black and White Art
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Dave Roman is the creator of Astronaut Elementary, which was awarded a Web Cartoonist's Choice Award for "Outstanding New Character Design" in 2005.
He has written several graphic novels, including Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery, Jax Epoch, The Adventures of Tymm: Alien Circus, and the Ignatz Award-winning mini-comic, Teen Boat.
He is a founding member of the videogame art site Lifemetercomics.com and the all-ages comics portal Lunchboxfunnies.com.
Dave has contributed to several volumes of Flight and was a comics editor at Nickelodeon Magazine for over 10 years. He recently collaborated with his wife, Raina Telgemeier, on X-Men: Misfits and will be co-writing a manga prequel to The Last Airbender film.
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Dave Roman's Comics
Yay Time
Lunchbox Funnies
Lifemeter Comics
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| David Troupes |
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Judge –
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Best Comic,
Best Black and White Art
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Websites -
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Buttercup Festival
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| David Troupes has produced the comic strip Buttercup Festival since
2000 - it appears online at www.buttercupfestival.com. His first
collection of poetry has recently been published by Two Ravens Press.
A native of Massachusetts, he currently lives with his wife in West
Yorkshire, England, where he works in social housing.
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| Elissa Rose |
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Best Black and White Art,
Best Non-Traditional Art
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Websites -
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Girl vs Robot
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| Emma Vieceli |
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Judge –
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Best Colour Art
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Websites -
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Emma Vieceli Workblog
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| Emma is a professional freelance comic artist and illustrator whose most recent publications include a Much Ado About Nothing adaptation for SelfMadeHero and two My Little Pony annuals for Hasbro in France. She is also a part of UK comics collective, Sweatdrop, through which she releases her own series, Dragon Heir - currently running as a weekly webcomic on her website.
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| George Hutcheon |
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| Gregori |
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| Guy Incognito |
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Judge –
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Best Colour Art
Best Non-Traditional Art
Best Lead Character
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Guy Incognito has been putting comics online since 2001 and currently draws the daily webcomic Bonejangles.
He lives in sunny Florida, USA.
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Bonejangles
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| Karen KEZ Howard |
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| J G Fisher |
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Committee Member
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Best Lead Character
Best Supporting Character
Best
Longform Comic
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If J.G. doesn't do what he has to do he does what he likes to do.
This includes an attempt to produce an online piece of graphic story-telling as well as reading (pretty much everything - as long as it has bite), casual writing (who doesn’t?), running, coaching, cooking and making a home.
According to his wife, he even has the odd moment of sanity.
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Websites -
Smyzer and Blyde
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| Jessica Ottowell |
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Technical Assistance
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Jessica is a former comic writer and artist of a comic most people have never heard of, unsurprisingly, since it was published in a magazine that had a circulation of about 10 people, who, most likely read it then tossed it away and to be fair, she doesn't blame them.
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More noted for her artistic (and press) photography, she runs a photography company. She would like mention that she has served time for her more musical travesties as part of bands signed to her own Hung Teddy Records.
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She is also a rather accomplished programmer, being quite the dab hand at code, she met her partner, via a design request for the comic website and now they live happy together in the north east of England. Jessica is also wiccan.
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Currently in it's 20th incarnation, the Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit site now runs her own webcomic platform, nekoKitsune, that is soon to be finalised and made available for the use of all.
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Websites -
Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit
mkIndustrial Art
Jess's twitter
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| Joe Otto |
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Committee Member
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J. Otto is a young cartoonist still finding his style. You can watch his style develop on Twitter.
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Websites -
Funny Ninja's Twitter
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| Tom Truszkowski |
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| Oliver Knörzer | |
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Best Comic
Best Writing
Best New Comic
The Innovation Award
Best Longform Comic |
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Oliver Knörzer is the raccoon obsessed writer of Sandra and Woo which won a Webcomic Beaky Award as one of the three best new webcomics of 2008. Sandra and Woo is a good example for the increasing internationalization going on in the webcomic world: It is written in English for its main target audience in the United States by a German writer and then drawn by an Indonesian artist (who goes by the pen name Powree).
Sandra and Woo is Oliver’s first serious attempt to write an own comic, but he has been a huge fan of comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes since his early childhood.
Oliver was also very involved in the early planning stage of the new TWCL Award
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Websites -
Sandra and Woo
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| Jackson Ferrell | |
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Judge -
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Best Black and White Art
Most Improved Comic
Best Supporting Character
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Websites -
Webcomic Week
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Jackson Ferrell is immune to conventional weaponry! We’ll have to employ the phozon cannon!
In reality, Jackson Ferrell is just a guy who likes to read good comics. He spends much of his free time keeping up with the good comics that he has discovered online, finding new good comics, and sharing good comics via his blog “This Week in Webcomics.” Sometimes he makes his own good comics. When he is not freaking out about comics, he helps to develop and ship merchandise for Gordon McAlpin’s movie-theater comic /Multiplex,/ works a day job in purchasing, and plays racquetball with his brother. He’s also involved in the young adult ministry at his church.
Some of Jackson’s favourite webcomics include Multiplex (of course), Nobody Scores, Cat and Girl and Blank It.
If you are out there creating good comics, then no matter who and where you are, he salutes you.
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| Luke Surl |
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Committee Member
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Websites -
Luke Surl
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Raised on a diet of Peanuts and The Beano as a child it was sadly inevitable that Luke Surl would become a cartoonist of sorts. He currently lives in Oxford, UK and his one-and-a-half year old website, LukeSurl.com updates three times a week with cartoons on everything from superheroes to Shakepeare. One day Luke plans to choose an actual name for his webcomic rather than using his own.
Luke reads an inordinate number of webcomics – everything from Order of the Stick to Optipess – and is looking forward to discovering new comics through the TWCL awards.
Luke is also an amateur actor and the founder of the Cambridge Comic Creators Collective (C4). He is also a big fan of science, keenly following the laws of physics ever since he was young.
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| oppernaR |
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Site Admin
Committee Member
Judge –
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The Innovation Award
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Websites -
oppernaR
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| Pzero |
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| Rixius |
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| Scott A. Jenkins (Jynksie) |
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| Sean Archer |
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| Wendy Wood |
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Awards Organiser
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Best Non-Traditional Art,
Best Supporting Character,
Best Comic,
The Innovation Award,
Best Lead Character
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Wendy is a bunny obsessed admin from thewebcomiclist.com's forums and has brave and/or stupid enough to take on the job of organising a bunch of comic artists and writers into an awards committee
She lives in an average house in an average street in the North of England with her girlfriend, but is in the process of moving into a slightly larger than average house in a different average street.
She has two comics but only ever updates one.
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Websites -
Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit
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| Vicki Paull |
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Judge –
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Best Colour Art
Best Black and White Art
Best Non-Traditional Art
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Vicki has been reviewing small press and indie comics for several years, and has finally found a home for all of her new reviews in one place on her blog: Comic Mole Investigates.
In the daytime she works on her next-gen 3D games environment modelling portfolio, but by night she draws comics and other illustrations in a sort of dashing, fly-by-night way. She often wishes that she didn't need to sleep...
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Websites -
2D Art Portfolio
Comic Mole Investigates
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| Zoë Robinson |
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Fantasy Comics
Furry Comics
Gaming Comics
Geeky Comics
Manga Comics
Mature Comics
Quirky Comics
Sci-Fi Comics
Weird Comics
Workplace Comics
Genre-less Comics
