The Webcomic Beacon’s Panel of Judges (Fes, Tanya, Mark, Horatio, and Chris), bring their personal Top Ten Lists of what they feel were the best of the new webcomics of 2008 (as reported to us).
Milestones: Last Res0rt (2 yrs), Times like this (200 strips), Cartworks (100 strips), The Legendary Boys of Floyd (100 strips), Bitmap World (2 yrs). Other News: Family Webcomics looking for new members. Free ads on Rampage Network.
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Thanks to George for note-taking: Capes and Babes, Astray 3, Dawn of Time, o31.net, Gemini, and Precocious.
Beaky Award Finalists (in no particular order) are: Sister Claire, Dregs, Xanford, Sandra and Woo, Blank-It, Odd Fish, Imy, Daisy Owl, Whubble, Ink Tank, Marooned, Evil Diva, Surfboards and Rayguns, Trying Human, Spying with Lana, Sam & Lilah, moe, Filtered Fuzz, Clockwork Games, Moose Mountain, Vlad the Vegan, One Swoop Fell, Bear Nuts, Nerf Now, Gastrophobia, House Pets, Union of Heros, Strange Someone, Curvy, Speak No Evil, Night Zero, and Capes n’ Babes.
Here are the winners for the 2008 Webcomic Beaky Awards.
They have been near-unanimously judged by the Webcomic Beacon Judges to be of the best NEW WEBCOMICS of 2008!
Judged to be of the best NEW SHORT STORY WEBCOMICS of 2008!
Each Judge’s individual picks of Best NEW Webcomics of 2008!
(For those interested, we have Banner and Leaderboard sizes of all winners.)
April 1st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
NO mention of Apple Of Discord? Or Dawn’s Dictionary Drama? And only a brief mention of The Artiste Manquee?
FAIL!
But other than that, good show. Here’s the links to the comics I mentioned:
http://www.theappleofdiscord.com/
http://www.dawnsdictionarydrama.com/
http://www.the-artiste.net/
April 1st, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Well, did you see the list? It was huge!
And there just happened to be many better comics… in fact, there were comics I found later, that qualified, that I totally would have given an award to, but I could not include them because I did not know of them to put them in the list for fairness.
Next year will be be more refined… unfortunately the comic list will probably have nearly 5 times as many more comics, if not more. I’ll have to streamline the judging process to not make it daunting.
April 1st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I see that Sandra and Woo is on the short list. It would be really nice to win an award. However, I am missing Gill on your list. It’s not only the best webcomic which started last year, but the best of all which are still updating.
April 1st, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Still, those are better than some you DID mention (although I won’t name names), especially AoD and Artiste. But meh, that’s just my opinion.
Which is obviously better than your panel’s.
April 1st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
oh HERE we go…
@Novil… you did listen to the entire show, right?
April 1st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
[...] to enjoy reading Sandra and Woo, too. On top of that, Sandra and Woo is nominated for this year’s Webcomic Beaky Awards by the jury of the webcomic netcast/blog The Webcomic Beacon. I suppose the winners will be [...]
April 1st, 2009 at 6:20 pm
whoa! I was not only mentioned on a podcast but put in someones top 10 webcomics of 2008? that’s awesome for such a silly amateur youngster like me
. nice show guys, looks like I have some more webcomics to check out!
April 1st, 2009 at 10:34 pm
InkTank isn’t a new comic. 2008 was its relaunch after a several year hiatus; it has a much older history.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Also I should probably say thank you for considering me! Yeah I get my priorities mixed up a lot
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:44 am
Well done everyone!
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 am
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April 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 am
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April 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 am
I coulda sworn Ink Tank was a relaunch!!!! We could not find the data I think….
That technically means that we have to retract the award…. I think… It was also a Judge’s Award…. so maybe it can slide… Aw dammit, I was hoping to avoid this! *sigh*
Well, like I said, this first year was an experiment.
Anyway, Capes n’ Babes was added to the Finalists List, since it was one of Tanya’s Top 10. It was held back on the thought that it might have been older, but I put it back on the list.
There were also a couple of REALLY awesome comics that qualified, but were not included because I already had a list, and deemed it unfair.
Man this award this is partial fail
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Wow! Thank you so much for the Judge’s award! I’m very flattered to have been considered. My congrats to the winners. =D
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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April 9th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Now, now, no need to fight and fuss. I appreciate the show of support, Jason, but it’s all good… at least I got nominated this time. Frumph’s awards neglected to even *count* me as a new comic from 2008, so this is better… sorta… I guess.
Also, April 1st was also AoD’s 1 year anniversiary… not that I’m fishing for a Milestone shout-out or anything… just thought I’d mention it while I’m here…
April 9th, 2009 at 6:13 am
I think we both owe Jason something for his enthusiasm! Honestly, knowing I have even one such devoted fan makes me totally not care about any award… At least at this early stage, hehe. And the show was pretty exciting to listen to.
Oh, my comic’s one year anniversary also recently passed, back on March 11. Again, just saying.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
You need to e-mail the beacon about milestones… otherwise I forget.
Also, just because we didn’t mention certain comics, doesn’t mean we didn’t like them. I needed everyone to focus on their top picks, and even then we ran over time.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Speak No Evil won a Beaky!?
I keep worrying how this story is accepted by the webcomic community. I mainly did that comic to get the rust off my drawing hand. Plus I was unemployed back then.
Speak No Evil has been cleaning up lately. Its also nominated for an Eisner for Best Digital comics.
Hey, you might end up being the Golden Globe to the Eisner’s Digital Comics. (I hope really really hope that didn’t come off as an insult.)
THANK YOU!
April 17th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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April 19th, 2009 at 7:24 am
What about Sailor Ranko? That was hilarious!
http://www.sailorranko.com
May 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Just letting you know, webcomics creators are eligible to vote for the Eisners. Go to eisnervote.com, register and check out Speak No Evil.
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
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