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Brent Frankenhoff
Posts: 3930
 | Posted: 3/7/2007 12:27:36 PM |
For the second year in a row, the fans have spoken and nominated their favorites for the annual Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards. Below are the finalists in each of the 12 categories for our 25th annual awards, where you, the fans, pick your favorites. Through late May, fans could cast their votes online. We've tallied the votes and the winners will be announced in CBG #1633, shipping in early July.
The nominated favorites of 2006 (in alphabetical order in each category) are:
Favorite Editor
Karen Berger
Tom Brevoort
Dan DiDio
Joe Quesada
Stephen Wacker
Favorite Comic Book Writer
Brian Michael Bendis
Geoff Johns
Stan Lee
Joseph Michael Linsner
Bill Willingham
Favorite Comic Book Penciller
John Cassaday
Darwyn Cooke
Jim Lee
Joseph Michael Linsner
George Pérez
Favorite Comic Book Inker
Terry Austin
Joseph Michael Linsner
Jerry Ordway
Bob Smith
Scott Williams
Favorite Comic Book Colorist
Eva Hopkins
Richard Isanove
Joseph Michael Linsner
Laura Martin
Alex Sinclair
Favorite Comic Book Letterer
Jeff Eckleberry
Chris Eliopoulos
Todd Klein
Richard Starkings and Comicraft
John Workman
Favorite Comic Book Cover Artist
Adam Hughes
Joseph Michael Linsner
George Perez
Alex Ross
Scott Christian Sava
Favorite Comic Book Story
“Civil War”: Civil War #1-6
“Claws”: Claws #1-3
“Happily Ever After”: Fables #50
Various story titles: 52 #1-34
Various story titles: Infinite Crisis #2-7
Favorite Comic Book
Amazing Spider-Man
52
Fables
JSA
Mouse Guard
Favorite Original Graphic Novel or Album (no reprints)
Dreamland Chronicles
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Halo graphic novel
Lost Girls
Pride of Baghdad
Favorite Character
Batman
Captain America
Dawn
Spider-Man
Superman
Favorite Comic Book Publisher
Archie
Dark Horse
DC
Image
Marvel
Due to questions raised during the nominating process, we've revised the entry rules slightly for this round of voting. Please, only one set of votes per name and legitimate street address or P.O. Box. We will not use your personal information for anything other than determining voter eligibility. If you do not follow these instructions, all your votes will be thrown out.
For foreign voters unable to enter their country's postal code into our system (a limitation of the software), please use our Iola, WI ZIP Code of 54990.
To see who won in the previous 24 years, click here: CBG Fan Awards Archives
Feel free to post here and discuss the works and creators you supported. Also, feel free to link back to this thread on other websites, but we do not allow those websites or posters to give other potential voters a list of what creators and projects they should vote for and which they should avoid. This is a democractic process with everyone free to pick their favorites, not ones that they're told to vote for. Soliciting votes is allowed, but filling in the blanks for potential voters is not.
Winners will be announced in CBG #1633, shipping in July!
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dblanchard
Posts: 1121
| Posted: 3/7/2007 1:32:26 PM |
Brent,
You need to update the link; right now it says this when you click it:
"25th Annual CBG Fan Award Nominations
The survey was completed on: 3/3/2007
Close"
Dave Blanchard
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huskerdan
Posts: 5
| Posted: 3/7/2007 1:42:53 PM |
WOW...great list of GREAT people. Can't wait to vote...
Dan
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Brent Frankenhoff
Posts: 3930
| Posted: 3/7/2007 1:45:44 PM |
The link should be good now. The nominating ballot and final ballot had similar file names and I clicked on the wrong one to get the link initially. My bad. Thanks for catching that.
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huskerdan
Posts: 5
| Posted: 3/7/2007 2:40:06 PM |
Can multiple names come from the same address. I have two boys who live with me that would love to vote also. Thanks.
Dan
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Brent Frankenhoff
Posts: 3930
| Posted: 3/7/2007 3:06:08 PM |
Yes they can. We don't want to exclude family members.
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Lee Houston, Junior
Posts: 1036
| Posted: 3/8/2007 10:55:53 PM |
Dear Brent:
If I can, please let me ask a question in regards to the ballot.
How does one go about selecting a Favorite Editor nowadays?
It is not that I have anything against the nominees, but considering that a lot of comic books today do not even have letter columns, let alone footnotes, the opportunity to get to know the person behind the title is just not there like it used to be during the days of editing by Stan Lee, Julius Schwartz, E. Nelson Bridwell, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Roy Thomas, etc.
A comic book reader, and I do stress the R word, since Action Comics #434, May 1974!
Editor-In-Chief of The Free Choice e-zine.
Associate Editor at Large Affinity Storm Press. |
Maggie Thompson
Posts: 1049
| Posted: 3/9/2007 8:50:24 AM |
Sometimes, I can come to the decision by analyzing which comics published during the preceding year were my favorites -- and then checking to see whether I can determine that one or another of the nominees was in charge of my favorites.
Another guideline that comes to me is a negative that can cut out one or another editor: Are there any nominees whose titles are consistently late or error-filled or even taking directions that bug the heck out of me? I'd pull those nominees out of contention for my personal vote.
But I also have to keep in mind our defining adjective: Favorite. I can just go by my emotions in some cases. And, in that case, I usually come back to that first guideline: Who edited the majority of my favorite titles?
Best,
Maggie Thompson |
Lee Houston, Junior
Posts: 1036
| Posted: 3/10/2007 12:40:23 AM |
Thanks for the advice Maggie.
A comic book reader, and I do stress the R word, since Action Comics #434, May 1974!
Editor-In-Chief of The Free Choice e-zine.
Associate Editor at Large Affinity Storm Press. |
Corey
Posts: 9
| Posted: 3/29/2007 2:09:32 PM |
Yay Mouse Guard!
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cslooney
Posts: 6
| Posted: 4/25/2007 9:58:05 AM |
Dear Maggie & Crew:
It's always interesting to see what's in the annual Fan Awards list. However, I can't help but wonder ... are the nominees culled from an initial round of votes? if so, why not just stop after the first round and show the top 10 or 20 in each category?
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Maggie Thompson
Posts: 1049
| Posted: 4/25/2007 3:00:00 PM |
And that's the way we used to run them for years and years and years.
I assure you (since Don and I used to do our own Fan Awards in years past, hand-tallying the votes, moannnnn) that the winner in a no-finalists vote was almost invariably different from the winner in a vote among a few finalists. For example, my favorite newspaper strip of all time might be, um, King Aroo or Barnaby or On Stage, and I'd vote that way.
But chances are they wouldn't make it onto a final ballot. Given the choice among five nominees, then, I can still express a preference that will boost a favorite that may tip off others to cool things -- whereas a single vote isn't likely to be noticed by anyone.
Both methods have merits.
Best,
Maggie Thompson |
Brent Frankenhoff
Posts: 3930
| Posted: 6/6/2007 12:37:39 PM |
As noted above and with the changed headline, the polls are now closed and the votes have been tallied. We'll announce the winners later in June and provide profiles and in-depth analysis of the results in CBG #1633, which ships in early July. Check with your local retailer to reserve your copy now.
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huskerdan
Posts: 5
| Posted: 6/27/2007 3:22:28 PM |
It's the 27th of June, when can we expect to see the results? Thanks!
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Brent Frankenhoff
Posts: 3930
| Posted: 6/28/2007 6:06:41 AM |
We'll announce the results early next week. Keep watching.
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Brent Frankenhoff
Posts: 3930
| Posted: 7/6/2007 12:14:02 PM |
The results are now posted here.
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