Daily Archives: March 14, 2011

Eagle Awards voting is open

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The Eagle Awards voting is open as of today! According to the Eagle Awards site:

INTRODUCED in 1976, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes, they have been featured on the covers of leading US and UK titles across the last 30 years.

Of course, the Eagle Awards are more international than that. There is a separate category for “Favorite European Book,” as well as the presence of several prominent Canadian comic book creators, as proven by both the multiple nominations scored by Bryan Lee O’Malley and the presence of one of the nominees in the “Favorite Web-based comic” award:

Favorite Web-based comic
• Hark! A Vagrant! by Kate Beaton
• Freak Angels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield
• Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques
• Axe Cop by Malachai and Ethan Nicolle
• xkcd.com by Randall Munroe

As this is one of those “voting is open to the public” type of deals, I imagine xkcd is more or less taking this one home. Or… is it? You are the judges, and the fates of the nominees rest in your hands, comic reading public.

(h/t Robot 6)

One Punch Reviews #42: Dream Life

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Dreams are a fascinating theme for a writer to tackle. It gives carte blanche to play with surreal imagery, such as, oh, a Duchess who plays croquet using a flamingo and a hedgehog or a huge cityscape falling in on itself. It lets you explore the realm of your mind that you should control, but for some reason slips beyond your grasp. Our dreams represent a highly personal and private experience, so it’s embarrassing enough when we let slip the events going on in our slumber. How do you react when someone’s peeking in on your most unguarded moments?

This fragile mental ecosystem that you enter when you close your eyes at night is one of the major themes of Dream Life: A Late Coming of Age, a webcomic written by comic artist Salgood Sam (a.k.a. Max Douglas, but in reverse). It’s also about mystery, the crises we go through as we age… and Charlie Brown, surprisingly.


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