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If Scott Kurtz would agree to retire and shut up forever in exchange for a Harvey, I would vote for him in a heartbeat.

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Tales to Enrage said on August 3rd, 2010 at 10:56 am

Good to see some love for Incredible Hercules, even if it wasn’t nominated.

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Starlin Castrated said on August 3rd, 2010 at 11:39 am

obligatory defense of Kurtz given that I still enjoy him.

But i totally agree with you on muppet show being great and irredeemable being terrible. also, is there a reverse harvey awards? and can we nominate mark millar for one of those?

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Sorry, but Unwritten beats Batman and Robin, hands down for best new series. It’s just flat out incredible, and it’s doing some really interesting, innovative stuff.

I’d also be inclined to give Scalped or Invincible the nod over Walking Dead, but any of those three is a deserving winner.

Hm. In checking last year’s nominees for online work, Least I Could Do? Seriously? Really?

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Awwwwww I loved the ending to Polyp lovely black comedy that I could not suppress a chuckle from.

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I love me some Kate Beaton. It’s easily one of my favorite comics of the last year.

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I’m a bit confused by the should’ve-been-nominated-for-artist selection of Steve Dillon. I’ve only seen a couple of panels of his work from this year, but they looked like the same old stuff…which I confess I don’t see the appeal of.

(Although I might be too easily annoyed by the whole Dillon-Head phenomenon. You know, how every character has the same head, that classic Dillon-Head with its nice round cranium and strangely proportioned lips? Yeah, you do. Everyone who’s seen his art knows what that looks like, it’s how you can tell Steve Dillon drew the comic without having to look at the credits.)

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I love Kate Beaton, but Kurtz has really improved his art in the recent years so I want him to finally win a Harvey Award. He’s been nominated like five times. At this point it’s a little cruel.

Still, it’s a good list. The only thing that really perplexes me on that list is Steve Dillon. He’s a very solid artist, but his faces are incredibly bland and I feel his work has become regressed and smoother over time. Some might say it’s the art stabilizing, but it just looks like less detail is going in year after year.

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Dan Coyle said on August 3rd, 2010 at 3:31 pm

The trouble with Asterios Polyp isn’t just its ending, it’s that it’s really the sort of thing Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, or T.C. Boyle could fart out in a weekend, and then bury in the back of their short story collections labeled “early works”. Despite Mazzucchelli’s immesurable artistic talent, the story has very little to say.

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Klaus Janson said on August 3rd, 2010 at 3:39 pm

Hey, MGK: I’m holding you to that vote!!

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What Coren said. Unwritten is far and away the best new series of 2009. Nothing else even comes close.

Mostly agree with you on everything else, although that’s likely because a lot of stuff got cut from the finals for god only knows why. Scott Pilgrim only gets a nod in the special humor category? Gunnerkrigg Court isn’t nominated in the Online category? Really? I mean, why.

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I like Kurtz’s blaminations with Kris Straub. Was Penny-Arcade nominated for anything?

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Irredeemable would be considered awful if it was set in the DCU (either in-continuity or as an Elseworlds). But for some reason having filed off version of Superman and other DC characters (and not even bothering to give the filed off versions much in the way of personalities), lots of people seem to like it.

Of course, at least Geoff Johns isn’t complaining about superheroes being dark and joyless while writing a dark, joyless superhero book, so he’s still ahead of Waid right now.

I think Waid’s complaint is more specific: it’s about Silver Age DCU superheroes being written as dark and joyless.

Of course, that just means we should laugh at Waid for putting the Silver Age DCU on a pedestal and not being able to recognize that all stories about superheroes influence each other to some extent.

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Why is James Jean always being snubbed for best cover artist?

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I’ll vote for Steve Dillon if he has learned how to draw a dog. That was the strangest part of Preacher, seeing Jesse befriend that fox-thing.

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I’m with the above: Unwritten is the comic of the year. Although I’m also tempted to give best mini to Daytripper or Joe the Barbarian – Vertigo is absolutely knocking it out of the park at present. Actually, Sean Murphy should have picked up a “Best New Talent” nomination…

And judging by his failure to be nominated for any Eisners or, well, anything, I think it’s safe to say that all awards for “Best Letterer” have unofficially become “Best Letterer (apart from Todd Klein)”.

Asterios Polyps sort of reminds me of Inception, in that the very final shot/page hugely frustrates me.

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I love Kate Beaton, but Kurtz has really improved his art in the recent years

If by “improved” you mean “has gotten more detailed and uglier at the same time,” then yes, he has improved.

so I want him to finally win a Harvey Award. He’s been nominated like five times. At this point it’s a little cruel.

Well, let’s be fair. Kurtz does have bigger tits than Susan Lucci, so therefore he probably should have to wait longer for his statuette. Or something.

(Yes, a fat joke is cheap, but can you come up with another point of common reference for Kurtz and Susan Lucci?)

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The only thing that bugs me about Kurtz’s new style is that it doesn’t extend to the main characters, who look exactly the same as before.

Also, it’s still not funny, but the strip can’t lose what it never had.

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Carlos Futino said on August 4th, 2010 at 6:56 am

I’m with you on almost everything. I’d go with Unwritten for best new series and High Monn for Best Online Comic.

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I am simply thrilled to bits that Kate Beaton is nominated. Obviously I hope she wins, but to see her recognized is nice.

On the other hand I really hope Blackest Night loses, like as much as I really hoped Avatar would lose Best Picture, and for similar reasons.

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@MGK: Kay.

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I dunno. Has Quitely stopped using potatoes as facial models?

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I hate how Mignola is never nominated ever. EVER.

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Candlejack said on August 5th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

Oh, thank dog, Panthyr, I was starting to think I was the only one who didn’t like Quitely’s weirdly bloated faces.

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My one complaint about Klaus Janson, which would make me hesitate just a tad in voting for him, is that everyone he inks tends to look like Klaus Janson. I do kind of like it when an inker brings out the strengths of the penciler.

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-stalker- said on August 6th, 2010 at 11:24 pm

Yes, I think Scott Kurtz is a decent cartoonist and his art has improved, et cetera.

No, I don’t think he deserves it.

I’m from the school of thought which finds Scott Kurtz to be kind of a douche, as webcomic artists go. He’s a bitter man for never having been syndicated, and now considers all syndicated comic strips fated to die a slow death.

I think the dude needs to chill and not go around demanding he win an award just because he’s been nominated so many times. I read a plethora of webcomics, and for humour he’s not even in the top fifteen.

Source for Kurtz being a douche here: http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/31/aaec-convention-plans-shaping-up/

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I thought ASM #600 deserved a nod for best single-issue comic/storyline. That, my friends, is how milestone comics should be done. Now that I think about it, though, not sure if that would qualifies as this years’ nominee or from last year?

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