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<P>Nice plot. When are the drawings reddy for printing?</P>
<P>/Michael<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Don Rosa" <donrosa@iglou.com></I><BR>To: <I><dcml@nafsk.se></I><BR>Subject: <I>RE: DCML Digest, Vol 51, Issue 6</I><BR>Date: <I>Tue, 8 May 2007 10:27:27 -0400</I><BR>> >>>>> 1. Awards debate (M.J. Prior)<BR>><BR>>Obviously I should put in my 2 cents about this....<BR>>I do not wish to win this award. One wants to win awards, sure, but for work<BR>>that one knows is truly outstanding. One doesn't wanna win awards based on<BR>>some fluke of timing or how submissions were nominated or not nominated. I<BR>>was hoping to get nominated for "The Dream of a Lifetime" or "Prisoner of<BR>>White Agony Creek", both of which I was *very* proud of. But I guess<BR>>"Prisoner" was not printed in a comic booklet here (it was in a "trade<BR>>paperback", therefore ineligible
for a "comic book" award), and I'm told<BR>>that the Gemstone editor did not understand the proper nominating procedure<BR>>until after "Dream"'s year -- he would nominate multiple titles, stories,<BR>>writers and artists in each award category, rather than just ONE nomination<BR>>per category, which apparently resulted in voiding his nomination ballots<BR>>during those years (this is what I was told).<BR>>So... if there is even a chance I would win for a run-of-the-mill story like<BR>>"GLORPS Again!", I would be hard-pressed not to stand up there and ask some<BR>>questions... like "Thanks, but... what about my *good* stories?" or "If I<BR>>wrote and drew the best comic story of the year in ANY category, how could I<BR>>then NOT also be at least nominated for BEST WRITER/ARTIST OF THE YEAR even<BR>>just in the humor category?" (*note below) or "How can a
26 page story be<BR>>nominated for BEST *SHORT* STORY when the super-hero comics that are<BR>>nominated as BEST SINGLE ISSUE (Best full-length story) are only 22 pages<BR>>long?" (**note below). And then somebody would shout up from the audience<BR>>"Y'know, and *I've* been wondering how you win American Eisners when your<BR>>work is all done for and reprinted from Europe, making you only eligible for<BR>>the single BEST FOREIGN MATERIAL award?", a question I cannot answer, so<BR>>then they might demand all my past Eisners be returned and a fistfight would<BR>>break out and tables knocked over and that would simply not do. (***note<BR>>below)<BR>>So, for fear of the unlikely chance that I *could* win, and the even more<BR>>unlikely chance that one single vote could make a difference, I won't cast<BR>>my vote for myself in that category.<BR>>And as
corny and phony as it always sounds, the truth really is that "it's<BR>>enough just to be nominated", at least *this* time with that particular<BR>>story, anyway. I do not want this undeserved award -- but I'm very glad to<BR>>see the nomination as that does not simply put "UNCLE $CROOGE" and<BR>>"Gemstone" in the public eye in this Disney-comics-hating nation, but (in<BR>>case you didn't notice), this is not only the FIRST category on the ballot,<BR>>but mine is the FIRST alphabetically listed nomination simply because "Black<BR>>Knight" starts with 'B'... and I assume (can't recall) that that will carry<BR>>through in the actual awards ceremony, win or lose. So THAT is the good<BR>>thing about this nomination of a story that deserves no special recognition.<BR>>UNCLE $CROOGE and Gemstone Comics will still be the FIRST nomination of the<BR>>entire night
read aloud, while everyone is still paying full attention. The<BR>>Gemstone/Barks/Disney comics are what deserve and need recognition here, and<BR>>my nomination has already achieved that in the best way possible.<BR>><BR>>* Yes, The director of the BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR seldom wins BEST DIRECTOR<BR>>OF THE YEAR in the AA Oscars... but that's vastly different -- there are<BR>>literally thousands of people who contribute to the success of a movie, and<BR>>often the script or the music or the editing or the acting were why a movie<BR>>was deemed BEST. When it comes to a comic written and drawn by one guy,<BR>>that's rather a different thing.<BR>>** The answer to this is that the 22-page super-hero stories appear in 32<BR>>page magazines *packed* with ads so there's room for only the one story. My<BR>>26 page story appeared in a 64 page magazine with
only a coupla house-ads.<BR>>That is a definitely flawed situation in those awards. Seems like those<BR>>categories should be combined. Oh, well... since all other American comics<BR>>are 32 pages, I guess they're satisfied with the way they have it set up.<BR>>*** Then my final question, before or after the fistfight, would be "How in<BR>>the name o' god did you people not even nominate, much less make a winner<BR>>out of, Gemstone's magnificent (and so inexpensive!) job of reprinting the<BR>>LIFE AND TIMES OF $CROOGE McDUCK or LaTo$McD COMPANION as BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL<BR>>OF THE YEAR - REPRINT CATEGORY. It was Bud Plant's *best-selling* comic<BR>>book item of *any sort* of the year, and fans have raved about it around the<BR>>world. Gemstone did a spectacular job! And not even a nomination for either<BR>>book?! For shame!"<BR>>Then they'd
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