Jimorian
2009-08-15, 05:37 PM
That's right. When the World Science Fiction Convention travels to Melbourne, Australia Sep 2nd-6th in 2010, one of the Hugo Awards will be for "Best Graphic Story". This year, the winner was webcomic Girl Genius.
The way the eligibility works for serial comics like OOTS or Girl Genius is that the eligible year is determined by when a story unit ends. Thus with the end of the recent book here in August of 2009, the story that started after "War and XPs" and ended this month is the story in question.
Nominations start after the first of the year and run until around April IIRC, and members of either the previous convention or the current convention can nominate up to 5 choices in each category. Then once the top 5 finalists are calculated, members of AussieCon4 then vote for the winner.
You don't necessarily have to GO to Australia to nominate and vote, if you sign up for a "supporting" membership that costs a fraction of the attending membership, you still get to vote for the awards and get all the updates and convention books.
Anyway, just thought I'd let people know. :smallsmile:
More info at: http://www.thehugoawards.org/
and: http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/
EDIT: Just realized the same is true for Erfworld, so posting this in that forum as well.
The way the eligibility works for serial comics like OOTS or Girl Genius is that the eligible year is determined by when a story unit ends. Thus with the end of the recent book here in August of 2009, the story that started after "War and XPs" and ended this month is the story in question.
Nominations start after the first of the year and run until around April IIRC, and members of either the previous convention or the current convention can nominate up to 5 choices in each category. Then once the top 5 finalists are calculated, members of AussieCon4 then vote for the winner.
You don't necessarily have to GO to Australia to nominate and vote, if you sign up for a "supporting" membership that costs a fraction of the attending membership, you still get to vote for the awards and get all the updates and convention books.
Anyway, just thought I'd let people know. :smallsmile:
More info at: http://www.thehugoawards.org/
and: http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/
EDIT: Just realized the same is true for Erfworld, so posting this in that forum as well.