Well, this was a genuine surprise. Despite being nominated in past years for virtually every other major industry award, the Harvey Awards (named for MAD founder and '50s war comics artist Harvey Kurtzman, one of the most talented men to ever dip a brush in ink) have never really paid much attention to my work. But it seems now even they are solidly aboard the Scott Chantler train.The Annotated Northwest Passage has been nominated in two categories: Best Graphic Album - Previously Published Material, and the Special Award for Excellence in Presentation.
And, sort of surprisingly, Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen #1 was nominated for Best Single Issue or Story. This came out nearly a year ago and, frankly, doesn't represent my best work. I'm really rather shocked that anyone remembered it when they were filling out their nomination forms. Still, John Layman's and Tom Peyer's script was hilarious, and Jim Massey's and Robbi Rodriguez's back-up story is terrific, so I really consider it a nomination for the rest of the team, not myself. But I'm glad that enough people seemed to enjoy it to give it this honour.
The Harveys will be handed September 27th, at the Baltimore Comic-Con.
5 comments:
Wow! Total mega-congrats! Them's some cool beans . . .
Congrats Scott.You are one talented artist!
Tim P - Old St Thomas resident
Thanks, gentlemen!
you deserve every one of these nominations Scott. Bought the first two volumes of Northwest Passage on spec and loved them, never got to see the end of the story though as the remainder proved impossible to track down. Finally I was able to pick up the Annotated volume a weekend past. I didn't even mind paying full price for half a book I'd not read. The annotations particularly really added to the experience.
I hope this means we'll see more, hopefully in one big volume.
Congratulations again
Yeah, the third volume was hard to find. Orders weren't high to begin with, with people waiting for the inevitable collection at that point. Plus, because of a split shipment at Diamond, the book never appeared on the shipping list, so neither retailers or fans even knew it was coming.
The hardcover, though, seems to be EVERYWHERE. I'm glad people like yourself are finally able to get the complete story.
Thanks very much for the kind words. There's no new NORTHWEST PASSAGE material in the works for the time being (I need to get TWO GENERALS and THREE THIEVES finished up first), but rest assured that when there is (notice I said "when", not "if") it will go straight to the hardcover edition. That book has done so well for Oni Press and myself that we'd be foolish to mess around with the paperbacks at this point.
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