NCS Tweaks On-Line Comics Award Qualification

Gary Tyrrell has the best, most succinct explanation of how the National Cartoonists Society has tweaked the vocational qualification for its webcomics award to embrace any creation by someone that makes the majority of their living cartooning as opposed to language that seemed to require the webcomic in question provide that chunk of their living. While I guess one might prefer that no such vocational qualification exist, this does bring that award in line with the other categories and reflects the awards' identity as a kind of society of professional cartoonists' program.

Finding out about this general, across-the-board qualification does suggest some potential institutional support for something a lot of people have noticed about the NCS awards program over the years, that they tend to favor well-known cartoonists working in categories for which they're maybe not best known, and I imagine that might be the case as this category develops. It's not like you'd need institutional support for an awards program that counts on votes -- people would have a natural tendency to vote for cartoonists they know. But it's worth tracking, if you're terribly interested in those kinds of things.
 
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