Comments on: The Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, which I totally called http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/07/26/the-eisner-award-for-best-digital-webcomic-which-i-totally-called/ Webcomic reviews are serious business. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bengo http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/07/26/the-eisner-award-for-best-digital-webcomic-which-i-totally-called/#comment-672 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:25:39 +0000 http://webcomicoverlook.wordpress.com/?p=731#comment-672 More evidence that the nominators and voters don’t “get” web comics. Perhaps we need to develop a crib sheet so they can distinguish them from print.

Nonetheless, congratulations to this year’s honorees.

]]> By: El Santo http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/07/26/the-eisner-award-for-best-digital-webcomic-which-i-totally-called/#comment-670 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:24:27 +0000 http://webcomicoverlook.wordpress.com/?p=731#comment-670 I should also mention, though, that Perry Bible Fellowship won the award for Best Humor Publication. The award, though, went to The Trial of Colonel Sweeto print collection, so chances are high that PBF wouldn’t have won that award had it remained an online-only work.

]]> By: Winston Rowntree http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/07/26/the-eisner-award-for-best-digital-webcomic-which-i-totally-called/#comment-669 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:11:21 +0000 http://webcomicoverlook.wordpress.com/?p=731#comment-669 Genre and format distinctions for all the print categories, and then for online comics it’s just a big, sweeping “best digital comic.” The whole ignoring webcomics thing continues to blow my mind. It would make sense ten years ago when webcomics were a niche, but, now that even the semi-obscure ones get more readers than most print comics, print-centric awards lists like this are just full-on embarrassing (but I don’t mean that popularity=good, incidentally, so don’t interpret this in that manner. I mean that a medium must be defined by its most prominent feature). What is the root of the problem? The Establishment clinging to the past? You would think that people who love comics enough to establish an awards ceremony would also be keeping up with the Online Explosion and basking in the increasingly Quality number of online comics and recognizing that, since the Internet is obviously the wave of the future (there’s an understatement), maybe comics that are ON the internet are the future too. Or the present!! It’s scandalous. These people are supposed to be experts, and they don’t even have a solid picture of their own medium. What, are they waiting for the media to legitimize online comics? Well Time magazine already did that. It’s not that f*ckin’ hard to keep up with the times.

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