Harvey Award Nominations Period Opens Today

The Harvey Awards

In addition to the update this morning mentioning the Joe Shuster Award nominations for this year, it's also time for professionals to send in nominations for the 2011 Harvey Awards.  The Harveys are named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry's most innovative talents, and recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art.

Ballots can be downloaded from HarveyAwards.org and completed forms can be e-mailed to harveyballots@hotmail.comBallots are due for submission by Monday, March 28, 2011.  Nominations for the Harvey Awards are selected by creators – those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, edit or are otherwise involved in a creative capacity in the comics field. 

Returning for his third consecutive Harvey Awards, Scott Kurtz will be the Master of Ceremonies for the awards banquet, to be held Saturday, August 20, 2011 as part of the Baltimore Comic-Con.  This year's Baltimore Comic-Con will be held August 20-21, 2011.

Xaviar Xerexes

Wandering webcomic ronin. Created Comixpedia (2002-2005) and ComixTalk (2006-2012; 2016-?). Made a lot of unfinished comics and novels.