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Our own Johnny nominated for an award!

So I’m cruising CBC to take a break from doing up my very late taxes, and telling myself to stay away from Drawn so I don’t get sidetracked, and what do I see? 2008 Doug Wright Awards has begun a new award called the “The Pigskin Peters Annual Award for Non-Narrative Canadian Cartooning (PPAANNCC)” [hey, why does that almost spell PANIC?] – and JOHN MARTZ has been nominated for his Excelsior 1968, which is described on his website as “78 pages, B&W, 8.5” x 5.5”; The entire student body of my mother’s 1968 high school yearbook, over 1,000 people, redrawn as cartoons”. You can see it at his flickr site.

WAY TO GO, JOHN!

Of course, I rushed right over to Drawn expecting to see something about it, but no! John, are you too modest to tell us yourself? Or am I giving away secrets? I figure if it’s on CBC it’s fair game.

Nominated for the Doug Wright are some other excellent artists, including Julie Doucet, who I am surprised hasn’t already got a DW… or maybe she does…I better look that up. The judges, according to CBC, include Chester Brown, Seth, Canadian director Jerry Ciccoritti, comics historian Jeet Heer and writer and blogger Bryan Munn.

Darn, sidetracked again!

  • brdmcky

    Hey jaleen! julie has never won a DWA, but that’s only because she hasn;t done anything resembling comics since we began back in 2005.
    if we could retroactively give her an award, we would!
    - brad

  • brdmcky

    Hey jaleen! julie has never won a DWA, but that’s only because she hasn;t done anything resembling comics since we began back in 2005.
    if we could retroactively give her an award, we would!
    - brad

  • http://mymedicatedlife.blogspot.com/ BitterAnimator

    Congrats! What a great project. Looks lovely but what I admire the most is that it requires something I’m pretty piss poor at – actually finishing things.

  • http://mymedicatedlife.blogspot.com/ BitterAnimator

    Congrats! What a great project. Looks lovely but what I admire the most is that it requires something I’m pretty piss poor at – actually finishing things.

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com/ Johnny

    Aw, thanks for the shout-out Jaleen!

  • http://www.robotjohnny.com Johnny

    Aw, thanks for the shout-out Jaleen!

  • http://elnegromagnifico.blogspot.com El Negro Magnifico

    YAY JOHNNY!

  • http://elnegromagnifico.blogspot.com El Negro Magnifico

    YAY JOHNNY!

  • http://www.marcjohns.com/ Marc Johns

    Congratulations, Johnny! This is well deserved.

  • http://www.marcjohns.com Marc Johns

    Congratulations, Johnny! This is well deserved.

  • dbdtron

    Pretty rad John, well deserved!

    dbd

  • dbdtron

    Pretty rad John, well deserved!

    dbd

  • http://www.roibal.net/blog/ Larry

    Congrats Johnny,….a thousand drawings for one project! You should get an Iron Man Award.

  • http://www.roibal.net/blog/ Larry

    Congrats Johnny,….a thousand drawings for one project! You should get an Iron Man Award.

  • http://jaredchapman.com/crockpot Jared

    Congrats John!
    You make us proud.

  • http://jaredchapman.com/crockpot Jared

    Congrats John!
    You make us proud.