The judges and committee are as follows:-
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Name – Adam Smithee |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Most Improved Comic |
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About – Nothing Known |
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Links – |
| The Apple of Discord |
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Name – Alice L |
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Handle or Nickname – Chilari |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Writing, Best Longform |
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About – Nothing Currently Known |
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We do not have any links for Alice, Sorry! |
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Name – Brad Guigar |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Gag-a-day Comic |
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About – Brad Guigar will celebrate ten years of doing a daily comic strip this February. His daily strip, Evil Inc, can be seen every day at evil-comic.com. He also creates a weekly sex-advice comic, Courting Disaster (www.courting-disaster.com) and he has been nominated for the Eisner Award for his weekly feature, Phables (phables.com), which ended last year. He is the author of the “Everything Cartooning Book” and co-author of “How To Make Webcomics.” He is the editor-in-chief of Webcomics.com and a quarter of the popular Webcomics Weekly podcast (www.libsyn.com). |
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| Evil Inc |
| Courting Disaster |
| Phables |
| Gray Stone Inn |
| Portfolio |
| Half Pixel |
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Name – Dave Roman |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Comic, Best Black and White Art, Best Non-Comic, Best Gag-a-day |
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About – Dave Roman is the creator of Astronaut Elementary, which was awarded a Web Cartoonist’s Choice Award for “Outstanding New Character Design” in 2005. He has written several graphic novels, including Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery, Jax Epoch, The Adventures of Tymm: Alien Circus, and the Ignatz Award-winning mini-comic, Teen Boat.He is a founding member of the videogame art site Lifemetercomics.com and the all-ages comics portal Lunchboxfunnies.com. Dave has contributed to several volumes of Flight and was a comics editor at Nickelodeon Magazine for over 10 years. He recently collaborated with his wife, Raina Telgemeier, on X-Men: Misfits and will be co-writing a manga prequel to The Last Airbender film. |
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Links – |
| Dave Roman’s Comics |
| Yay Time |
| Lunchbox Funnies |
| Lifemeter Comics |
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Name – Charlie Thatcher |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Writing, Best Colour Art, Best Black and White Art |
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About – Charlie Thatcher is a cartoonist, animator, and writer from the Texas-y area of the world. He has been drawing cartoons for a while, under a variety of aliases. He is a heavily outspoken and attractive critic, and even donates his time to teach art to underprivileged school children out of the goodness of his heart and also for money. |
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| Holy Mole |
| QuickThought |
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Name – David Troupes |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Comic, Best Writing, Best Black and White Art, Best Gag-a-day, Best Character |
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About – David Troupes has produced the comic strip Buttercup Festival since 2000 – it appears online at www.buttercupfestival.com. His first collection of poetry has recently been published by Two Ravens Press. A native of Massachusetts, he currently lives with his wife in West Yorkshire, England, where he works in social housing. |
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| Buttercup Festival |
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Name – Elissa Rose |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Black and White Art, Best Non-Traditional Art |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| Girl vs Robot |
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Name – Emma Vieceli |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Colour Art |
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About – Emma is a professional freelance comic artist and illustrator whose most recent publications include a Much Ado About Nothing adaptation for SelfMadeHero and two My Little Pony annuals for Hasbro in France. She is also a part of UK comics collective, Sweatdrop, through which she releases her own series, Dragon Heir – currently running as a weekly webcomic on her website. |
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Links – |
| Emma Vieceli Workblog |
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Name – George Hutcheon |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| Amazoness |
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Name – Gregori Unknown |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| Divine Introspection |
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Name – Guy Incognito |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Colour Art, Best Non-Traditional Art, Best Character |
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About – Guy Incognito has been putting comics online since 2001 and currently draws the daily webcomic Bonejangles. He lives in sunny Florida, USA. |
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| Bonejangles |
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Name – Karen KEZ Howard |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| War of Winds |
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Name – J G Fisher |
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Handle or Nickname – J.G. |
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Role – Committee Member and Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Character, Best Longform Comic |
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About – If J.G. doesn’t do what he has to do he does what he likes to do. This includes an attempt to produce an online piece of graphic story-telling as well as reading (pretty much everything – as long as it has bite), casual writing (who doesn’t?), running, coaching, cooking and making a home. According to his wife, he even has the odd moment of sanity. |
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Links – |
| Smyzer and Blyde |
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Name – Jessica Ottowell |
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Handle or Nickname – kittyjess, nekoMusumeJess |
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Role – Technical Assistance |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – Jessica is a former comic writer and artist of a comic most people have never heard of, unsurprisingly, since it was published in a magazine that had a circulation of about 10 people, who, most likely read it then tossed it away and to be fair, she doesn’t blame them. More noted for her artistic (and press) photography, she runs a photography company. She would like mention that she has served time for her more musical travesties as part of bands signed to her own Hung Teddy Records. Currently in it’s 20th incarnation, the Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit site now runs her own webcomic platform, nekoKitsune, that is soon to be finalised and made available for the use of all. |
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Links – |
| Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit |
| mkIndustrial Art |
| Jess’s twitter |
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Name – Tom Truszkowski |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Comic, Best New Comic, Best Gag a day |
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About – Tom Truszkowski is the creator of Station V3, and its spinoffs Z7, Ebb’s Children, and Silence in the Darkness on Q16. He is also one of the people behind PodWarp 1999, the SciFi Webcomic podcast. Tom is married, lives in Scranton PA, and works as a computer programmer. Occasionally he also finds time for sleep. |
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| Station V3 |
| Z7 |
| Ebb’s Children |
| Silence in the Darkness on Q16 |
| PodWarp 1999, the SciFi Webcomic podcast |
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Name – Oliver Knörzer |
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Handle or Nickname – Novil |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Comic, Best Writing, Best New Comic, Best Longform Comic |
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About – Oliver Knörzer is the raccoon obsessed writer of Sandra and Woo which won a Webcomic Beaky Award as one of the three best new webcomics of 2008. Sandra and Woo is a good example for the increasing internationalization going on in the webcomic world: It is written in English for its main target audience in the United States by a German writer and then drawn by an Indonesian artist (who goes by the pen name Powree). Sandra and Woo is Oliver’s first serious attempt to write an own comic, but he has been a huge fan of comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes since his early childhood. Oliver was also very involved in the early planning stage of the new TWCL Award. |
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Links – |
| Sandra and Woo |
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Name – Jackson Ferrell |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Black and White Art, |
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About – Jackson Ferrell is immune to conventional weaponry! We’ll have to employ the phozon cannon! In reality, Jackson Ferrell is just a guy who likes to read good comics. He spends much of his free time keeping up with the good comics that he has discovered online, finding new good comics, and sharing good comics via his blog “This Week in Webcomics.” Sometimes he makes his own good comics. When he is not freaking out about comics, he helps to develop and ship merchandise for Gordon McAlpin’s movie-theater comic /Multiplex,/ works a day job in purchasing, and plays racquetball with his brother. He’s also involved in the young adult ministry at his church. |
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Links – |
| Webcomic Week |
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Name – Luke Surl |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best New Comic |
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About – Raised on a diet of Peanuts and The Beano as a child it was sadly inevitable that Luke Surl would become a cartoonist of sorts. He currently lives in Oxford, UK and his one-and-a-half year old website, LukeSurl.com updates three times a week with cartoons on everything from superheroes to Shakepeare. One day Luke plans to choose an actual name for his webcomic rather than using his own. Luke reads an inordinate number of webcomics – everything from Order of the Stick to Optipess – and is looking forward to discovering new comics through the TWCL awards. Luke is also an amateur actor and the founder of the Cambridge Comic Creators Collective (C4). He is also a big fan of science, keenly following the laws of physics ever since he was young. |
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Links – |
| Luke Surl |
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Name – oppernaR oppernaR |
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Handle or Nickname – oppernaR |
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Role – Being oppernaR, Site Admin, Committee Member and Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – The Innovation Award |
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About – oppernaR? |
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Links – |
| oppernaR |
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Name – Unknown Unknown |
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Handle or Nickname – Pzero |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| Lenny Limbo |
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Name – Scott A. Jenkins |
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Handle or Nickname – Jynksie |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Gag-a-Day |
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About – Scott A. Jenkins (known as Jynksie) has been an avid fan of comics since childhood. With a degree in Art History that has proven useless in the real world, Jynksie has put it to use in his personal life studying the art form of American comics and their progression since the civil war era, with a special interest in editorial and gag a day comics. Jynksie has been a part of the webcomics community off and on since 1999, with his first online comic strip called “Committed For Life”, which ended in 2001. After a brief hiatus of 7 years, he’s back with the wildly mundane “How Sweet It Is” which began in mid 2009 and is currently a judge for “the webcomic list awards 2009”. |
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Links – |
| How Sweet it is |
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Name – Sean Archer |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| Milo the Cloud |
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Name – Wendy Wood |
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Handle or Nickname – wendybunny |
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Role – Awards Organiser and Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Non-Traditional Art, Best Comic, Best Character |
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About – Wendy is a bunny obsessed admin from thewebcomiclist.com’s forums and has brave and/or stupid enough to take on the job of organising a bunch of comic artists and writers into an awards committee She lives in an average house in an average street in the North of England with her girlfriend, but is in the process of moving into a slightly larger than average house in a different average street. She has two comics but only ever updates one. |
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Links – |
| Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit |
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Name – Vicki Paull |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Colour Art, Best Black and White Art, Best Non-Traditional Art |
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About – Vicki has been reviewing small press and indie comics for several years and has finally found a home for all of her new reviews in one place on her blog: Comic Mole Investigates. In the daytime she works on her next-gen 3D games environment modelling portfolio, but by night she draws comics and other illustrations in a sort of dashing, fly-by-night way. She often wishes that she didn’t need to sleep… |
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Links – |
| 2D Art Portfolio |
| Comic Mole Investigates |
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Name – Zoë Robinson |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| All over the House |
| The Nob Mouse Network |
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Name – Unknown Unknown |
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Handle or Nickname – Rixius |
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Role – Committee Member and Technical Help |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| Lucky Lottery |
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Name – Miguel Estrugo |
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Handle or Nickname – None |
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Role – Judge |
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Awards Judged (if any) – Best Longform comic |
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About – None |
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Links – |
| Alice Otter |
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Name – Joe Otto |
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Handle or Nickname – Funny Ninja’s |
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Role – Committee Member |
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Awards Judged (if any) – None |
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About – J. Otto is a young cartoonist still finding his style. You can watch his style develop on Twitter. |
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Links – |
| Funny Ninja’s Twitter |