Awards

[dalekboy]

I'm laying in bed, and in an effort to keep myself here, I'm going through my mail and LJ on my PDA. I still haven't finished the posts on replacing my phone, nor have I gotten up another Love & Hate, or any one of several other posts, some of which I've had planned for several weeks.

I haven't done a Skeletor/Hordak in ages.

I have several storylines started and roughly worked out, preliminary strips done, but between exhaustion, computer woes (I currently don't have the editing software I use loaded on any machine), and all sorts of other distractions, I'm not likely to get a new one up any time soon. This annoys me because it was my major creative outlet and I'm just not getting anything done towards it.

But I am proud of some of the work I did. The Tooth Fairy, Skeletor the Bastard, and The Secret of Merman storylines were amongst my personal favourites.

Those who know me know that I never ask for nominations or votes for the things I've done, at least never seriously. I think too many folks push too hard for awards. My belief is that if you have to ask for the award, and push people to vote for you, then it turns receiving the award into a meaningless act. I take awards seriously enough that when I judge the work I'm up against to be better than mine, I vote for the other, and often encourage others to do so as well.

And while I've never been one to go out and ask, I'm proud enough of the work I did on Skeletor/Hordak to request that people go back through the strips and consider nominating either my work or the strip as a whole for the Ditmars.

There have been some very good strips done by various folks on S/H, so the strip itself getting nominated would be enough for me to be happy. But don't just race off and nominate, read back through them, and only nominate if you find it worthy. Then if it gets on the ballot, the voters can decide for themselves.

Comments

[mireille21.livejournal.com]

Your user icon confused me for amoment there.
Oh yeah, and FIml FIML FIML!!!

Winning a Rory

[thinarthur.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall you & and Ginny satirising the award process by doing a Norman Gunston on the Ditmars and stuffing the award down your trousers at the ceremony. I read an essay by Harlan Ellison from about 30 years or so ago, in which he said awards often had more to do with personal popularity & politics that the intrinsic merit of the work. This is often true of the most famous awards in the world, the Oscars, whole books have been written about classic films, great performances et al which were overlooked at the time.

Re: Winning a Rory

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

Myself, Gunny, Jocko, with the help of Glen Tilley and Phil Wlodarczyk.

We had how to vote cards, dares, all sorts of stupid things pushing for us to get the award. We never expected to actually get the bastard, in fact, not getting it was sort of the point. The Friday Night before the awards, Norman Gunston was hosting the Logies, and we joked that it was an omen. And we won. And I had to stick the award down my trousers on stage.

Mind you, issue one went though several print runs and we eventually worked out that there had been over 400 copies produced. It's not hard to win when everyone has a free copy of the 'zine. Plus we were funny.

We were absolutely horrified a few years later when people put out real how to vote cards. We did it as a pisstake, because it'd be such a silly thing to do.

[thinarthur.livejournal.com]

Be very careful about what you satirise, it can become reality with remarkable ease. I suspect the market here is still too small for things like how to vote cards for Ditmars to make a difference in terms of sales & reputation, but an SF book with a Hugo or Nebula award (or both) on the can make a real difference commercially & the Oscars go without saying.

Oh, this has nothing to do with the current post, but the other night I heard a 1940's "Suspense" radio version of H.P.Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" starring Holloywood great Ronald Coleman and I think it is one of the best adaptions of a genre story ever. It was even done as a pseudo live to air version, like Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast. Isn't that weird, a great SF classic ep that no one knows about...

Typo

[thinarthur.livejournal.com]

Gunny, not Ginny in previous posting

awards

[jocko55.livejournal.com]

Hi Danny,

Yeah awards are over rated and do depend on popularity, but gee it was good to win best fanzine for Get stuffed. We showed a lot of Fans that we wanted to play and were not waiting to be picked on a team.

Finally given in and got one of these LJ things. who says I am a Luddite?

Re: awards

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

Jocko! *does happy dance*

Yay, I get to see bits of your life again! I love you you great big beautiful ballsy bastard!

Re: awards

[tikiwanderer.livejournal.com]

That's a great icon!