Harveys/Writer's Center

Last night was the Harvey Awards, where Postcards was nominated for Best Anthology and Special Award for Excellence in Presentation. Popgun Volume 1 won best anthology and I'm just happy that Joe Keatinge was there to accept the award. The Harveys tend to host a sea of people watching proxies accept the awards they're losing because the winners never bother to show up, so it's nice to lose to someone who cared enough to be there. I pretty much expected Popgun to win - Harvey winners are determined by industry professionals and the two volumes of Popgun have stories from 85% of all comic professionals between them, it's hard to compete with that. EC Archives won for Special Award for Excellence in Presentation. I was really hoping to win that one but, if I didn't, I was more than willing to lose to Super Spy, The Annotated Northwest Passage, or Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The EC Archive books are nice to have, don't get me wrong, but they seem to be pretty standard reprint books. Oh well...oh, and, a proxy accepted the award.

It's all good - I got to sit at a table with Michael Golden and Ramona Fradon, Dean Haspiel gave a wonderful little speech about seeking out and meeting the golden-age legends, Brian Michael Bendis' keynote speech was funny, Scott Kurtz's jokes were on all night, and I chatted with NYT Best-Selling author Jeff Kinney . So, on the whole, a good night.

Today I'll be at the Bethesda Writer's Center, giving a reading from Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened and manning a display on comics and graphics novels from 12-5PM. Free wine and cheese will be at the event so feel free to pass by and say hi. I will be there promoting my Writing for Comics class that begins on Tuesday.

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