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[quote="thirtyseven"][quote="jaygee"][quote="thirtyseven"]I could have been much harder slamming the presentation(s) I did not like to pieces...[/quote]

Just out of curiosity: Your comic was nominated for an award. Your comic, like the others, was featured in a presentation. Somebody gave their time to produce these presentations. So, why would a nominee feel the urge to slam some of the presentations in the first place? Just because they weren't done by Frank Miller, J G Jones, Dave Gibbons or J H Williams III?[/quote]

First of:  I will keep my focus on the presentation of the category my webcomic was nominated in: Best Non Traditional Art.

If Frank Miller, J G Jones, Dave Gibbons or J H Williams III would have produced such a presentation – I would feel exactly the same way about it. I would even feel this way if Union of Heroes would not have been one of the nominated webcomics.

I was – and I still am very happy and proud about this nomination. And I still hope that maybe one day I will not only be nominated but win this award, too.
In fact I was so happy about it, that I even posted on most of the facebook-fan pages of the other nominated comics to inform their fans and readers about the awards. Because I think that things like this help to establish the awards and it brings some more recognition to them. And I will continue to do this next year because I really like them.
I am also very thankful about the time and energy most of the people involved have put into this project and I hope that they will continue to do so.

Unfortunately giving time and producing something with good intentions – and giving time and producing something good – sometimes are two different things. The presentation for Best Non-Traditional Art is a an excellent example for this kind of thing taking place.

It doesn't matter who creates a presentation – as long as the result is a piece of quality work so that the nominated comics are presented in a fitting way!

By my point of view this presentation did not fit at all. I am sorry to say it but the first time I saw this years presentation for "Best Non-Traditonal Art" my thought was: "Oh my, …".

It's poorly photographed with badly done word bubbles and unfunny jokes. (Sorry guys, but that's the way I see it.)

To keep it short: I did not like it, still don't like it and I probably will never do like it.

And I guess that I am not the only one having these resentments. I guess that many people start to read the presentation for Best Non Traditional Art – don't like how it is done – and skip to the next presentation without even looking at the results.

I think that I even have numbers which proof this:
Because of the presentation getting up a few days later than planned the first few days of this month there still was the list with all nominated comics on the main page of http://2010.thewebcomiclistawards.com/
During these few days (how many where it? Three? Four? I don't know it anymore.) I got 36 new visitors. Since the presentation went up? Only 29 more.

By my point of view because of the promotion for the awards ceremony (the blog entries of the winners and other blogs and websites talking about it, the posts on twitter, facebook etc.) – it should be more, shouldn't it? Of course I know that the focus now is on the winners of the different categories and that they will probably get more recognition than the other nominated comics which did not win. And of course I also know that "Best Non-Traditional Art" is a kind of niche category – like "Best Sound" at the Oscars – not so many people are interested in.

But I still think that I personally would have been better of without Richard and Vasilios giving one or two hours of their time producing this presentation that looks like it was done in less than 30 minutes...[/quote]

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