For the 2010 Black River Digital New Zealand Comics Awards or the Eric’s named after NZ comics Legend Eric Resitar.

Nominations for:

Best Comic  -  The Tangled Garden

Best Writing  -  The Tangled Garden

Best webcomic  -  Drawingsilence.com

and

Bristle has been nominated for best Anthology

This is so exciting! Thank you so much to everyone who nominated me. In the next stage, shortlested works will be judged by people including Roberta Gregory, Andrei Molotiu, Elizabeth Knox, Ant Sang (of  ‘Bro’ Town’ fame) and David Blumenstein

You should all come to the Award ceremony held on Saturday April 3^rd as part of Comics weekend at the Basement Gallery on Dixon Street, Wellington.

And here is the complete list of nominations for each category.

Best Comic
The Inhabitants by Sheehan Bros
The Tangled Garden by Draw
Love Stories by Matt Tait
Hotpools by Ned Wenlock
Book by Hayden Currie, James Rowsell, Matt Henley

Best art
The Inhabitants, art by Darren Sheenan
Hotpools, art by Ned Wenlock
Chicks with Knives, art by Claire Harris
Utopia Now Vol.1 art by Margaret Silverwood
Love Stories, art by Matt Tait

Best Writing
Passion of the Gimps by Clive Townsend & Brent Willis
The Inhabitants writing by Kelly Sheenan
Omnisexual by Robbie Neilson
The Tangled Garden by Draw

Best Strip
Western Park by Tim Kidd
Thumbscrew Theatre by Brent Willis (Salient 2007)
Tim Bollinger’s variously titled series in White fungus
‘Jitterati’ by Grant Buist
‘Desert Funnies’ by Grant Buist

Best Anthology
Bristle (ed. Brent Willis)
Radio as Paper (ed. Jerome Bihan)
Pictozine II (ed. Dave Bradbury)
Book (eds. Hayden Currie, James Rowsell, Matt Henley)

Best Webcomic
I Fight Crime
Tiny Kitten Teeth
DrawingSilence.com
Guzumzo Comics
How to Understand Everything and not hate yourself

Best Debut
Book #1 by Hayden Currie, James Rowsell, Matt Henley
Hotpools by Ned Wenlock
G33K by Renee Lyons
Skate Rat by Theo MacDonald
Girls can Really Fuck You in the Head by Elliot Stewart

Best short piece
Under the Bed by Tim Molloy (Single issue)
The Adventures of Happy Satan by Ari Freeman (Bristle #2)
Super Camel by Claire Harris (Bristle #1)
Commuters, by Brent Willis (Bristle #1)
Dear Reader, Fuck You by Sophie McMillan (from Radio as Paper #3)

Good luck to everybody!

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