Brigid Alverson has a nice write-up here on the nominees for this year's Glyph Awards, the winners of which are given out in conjunction with the East Coast Black Age Of Comics Convention, held each year in Philadelphia. This year the winners will be named May 20.
Alverson notes write-in nominations are encouraged in the "Fan Favorite" category.
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* I was happy to witness the speed with which the Skin Horse comic met its initial goal. There's still something about a webcomic reaching out to its readership for support and receiving it that's fundamentally appealing on so many levels.
* one nice thing when webcomics have a print iteration is that it allows for the work to be reconsidered by a different audience and different set of critics. This is a light feature, but the three first choices are webcomics turned into print comics. It'd be nice if we were as quick to include webcomics experiences in all of the articles, but we're not there yet.
* not comics: March is optioned. I'm personally much more interested in a comics version of this story than an adaptation, but one of the goals of that project is to put that story in front of as many people as possible. There are not a lot of ways to do that without this kind of adaptation. Monetizing a project like this one is near-impossible, too, without this kind of move. I hope this iteration of the project is rewarding for the creators.
* Heidi MacDonald reports on a Frank Miller Dark Knight 3 cover that has angered people on-line. I like ugly, grotesque covers, but I'm not the audience for a DC comic book. I don't really know how DC approaches assignments like these, what they're thinking the reaction will be.
* finally, this is the first Simon Hanselmann comic I sent some friends to go read and my inbox won't shut up.
* Sean Gaffney on 
