Friday, May 13, 2005

De rigorous categorising of the CCAwards

So I just realised I haven't done a new post since the last funny cartoon went up. You'd know Frank was busy, wouldn't you? I was actually going to do a wee bit on my nominations for the Web Cartoonist Choice Awards because that seems to be de rigueur at the moment. However, I haven't, as yet, even looked at it. I will say, though, that I find some of the categories to be a little weird. Somebody from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal brought up the fact that there was no category for single panel cartoons, which I thought was odd. There's a short form category but even in there, single panels are still hugely disadvantaged because we don't have recurring characters. A representative from the CCAward committee did respond, suggesting that it would mean having to add too many sub-categories i.e. best art in a single panel, best writing in a single panel etc. It wouldn't though. Why should single-panel art be judged separate from multi-panel art? It's really just the writing/conceptualising that needs a separate category. The committee member did later suggest a pretty novel solution - a category for best comic without a recurring character. Which, I think, is a pretty good idea but, still, if you can have categories for 'outstanding gaming comic' or 'best use of colour', then I can't see why you couldn't just simply have 'best comic strip' and 'best single-panel cartoon'.