Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards
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| Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards | |
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| Author(s) | Various webcartoonists |
| Website | http://www.ccawards.com/ |
| Current status | Yearly |
| Launch date | 2001 |
| Genre(s) | Awards |
The Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards, (WCCA) are annual awards in which online cartoonists nominate and select outstanding webcomics. The awards have been held since 2001, and were featured in a New York Times column on webcomics in 2005.[1]
The WCCA represent a form of peer recognition, with voting rights granted only to creators working on online webcomics.[2] Winners of awards receive an individualized web banner for their site,[1] although in 2007 a live presentation is being made for the first time at MegaCon.[3] In 2003, 2005 and 2006 the awards were presented in an online ceremony depicted in comic strip form and involving a number of creators.[2]
The WCCA were started by Scott Maddix and Mark Mekkes in 2000, with the first awards made in 2001. Mekkes noted his motivation as being to "create a webcomic award process that would do the most to help the webcomic community and encourage creators to strive toward greatness." Mekkes set up a committee to run the awards, initially known as the Cartoonists' Choice Awards, assuming the position of chairman, a role he still holds today. Silver Bullets has described the committee as "an independent organization dedicated to the promotion and recognition of online comics and their creators."[4] However, committee member Lewis Powell[5] has criticised the awards as being "horribly mismanaged, they are not well organized and they don't do what they are supposed to".[6]
Although there are numerous categories, a fact the New York Times criticised in 2005, noting that at 26 there "were too many award categories",[1] no comic has managed to win an award every year since the award's inception. In fact, only Megatokyo has received a nomination every year. The comic strip to have achieved the most awards is the now-defunct Mac Hall with 9 followed by Chopping Block and The Perry Bible Fellowship which have received 8 awards, and Penny Arcade and Count Your Sheep which have won 7 awards.
The 2006 awards saw problems with both the nominations and the ceremony. Eric Millikin's Fetus-X was ruled ineligible by the committee as a candidate for "Best Romance Comic",[7] and the award ceremony found itself delayed due to technical issues, and was not ready until five days after the winners had been announced.[8][9]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b c Boxer, Sarah. "Comics Escape a Paper Box, and Electronic Questions Pop Out", Critic's Notebook, New York Times, 2005-08-17. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. “The fifth annual Web Cartoonists Choice Awards took place at http://www.ccawards.com/2005_ceremony.htm last month. The master of online ceremonies was a Web cartoon character and so were all the award presenters. Otherwise, it was much like the Oscars. There were too many award categories (26) and some commercial breaks, and all winners were rewarded with the Web equivalent of Hollywood fame: a live link to their sites.”
- ^ a b Xerexes, Xaviar (February 2007). And the WCCA Goes To... An Interview with WCCA Chairman Mark Mekkes (Interview). Comixpedia. Xaviar Xerexes. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
- ^ MegaCon Convention. MegaCon Convention. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. “The 2007 winners of the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards will be announced for the first time in a LIVE ceremony to feature presentations by some of the most prominent personalities of the internet.”
- ^ Olsen, Kevin Noel (2006-06-15). Scott Christian Sava’s The Dreamland Chronicles Nominated For Awards. Silver Bulletins. Silver Bullets. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
- ^ Executive Committee of the Web Comic Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards. Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
- ^ Powell, Lewis (January 30, 2007). WCCAs (blog post). Wax Intellectual. Lewis Powell. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
- ^ Mekkes, Mark (2006-07-21). Final WCCA Voting Begins! (blog post). Comixpedia. Xavier Xerexes. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. “after extensive review, it has been determined by the WCCA Committee that Foetus-X's nomination for "Outstanding Romance Comic" does not comply with the Outstanding Romance Comic category's genre criteria”
- ^ Bowley, Eddie (2006-07-21). Master Of Ceremonies (blog post). bolloxcomics.co.uk. Eddie Bowley. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. “Finally, 5 days after the winners were annouced, the award ceremony of the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards is now up. But, it is not even on the WCCA website. Ryan Estrada has taken it upon himself to put up the ceremony on his own site because apparently the person in control of the WCCA site is MIA.”
- ^ Mekkes, Mark (2006-07-21). WCCA Ceremony is ON! (blog post). Comixpedia. Xavier Xerexes. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. “Ryan Estrada has been kind enough to do an end run around our technical difficulties and has posted the ENTIRE ceremony on his own site.”
[edit] External links
- Official site
- 2006 ceremony
- G4's Podcast of a G4 Attack of the Show! that announced the 2005 award winners
