Comics: Ringo Awards 2021 Final Ballot
Aug. 25th, 2021 03:33 pmFrom File 770 for my fellow comic book/graphic novel/manga/BD fans:
http://file770.com/2021-ringo-awards-final-ballot/
http://file770.com/2021-ringo-awards-final-ballot/
Apparently, there's a bit of a kerfuffle: no award given for the Op-Ed cartooning category at the Pulitzers this year. And not for lack of award-worthy talent either.
https://twitter.com/JenSorensen/status/1403490514142334977
https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1403417033329500162
https://twitter.com/JenSorensen/status/1403490514142334977
https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1403417033329500162
A Canadian Screen Awards 2021 Note
Mar. 30th, 2021 08:28 amSeems like this matters. Hoping they can hold the awards ceremonies safely!
https://www.tv-eh.com/2021/03/30/nominations-announced-for-the-2021-canadian-screen-awards/
https://www.tv-eh.com/2021/03/30/nominations-announced-for-the-2021-canadian-screen-awards/
During the current round of culling going on at my place, I rediscovered this ribbon from twenty years ago. I think I was one of three people who was editing the Ottawa SF Society Statement newsletter that year...and there's the confirmation:
www.sfadb.com/Dwight_Williams
Me, Joel Polowin - AKA![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bunsen_h - and the late and still-beloved Sharon Fall co-owned that nomination for Fan Achievement (Organizational).
www.sfadb.com/Dwight_Williams
Me, Joel Polowin - AKA
bunsen_h - and the late and still-beloved Sharon Fall co-owned that nomination for Fan Achievement (Organizational).Getting Back to the Real Worlds
May. 30th, 2020 10:06 pmNight of contrasts: as white supremacists are trying to frame honest protestors across the USA for looting and vandalism, we also had the Crew Dragon launch today and the 2020 Nebula Awards are being handed out via streaming video. Surreal. Hope, fear and anger all at once in my heart and mind right now.
NEWS: Pulitzer Awards 2020
May. 5th, 2020 01:45 pmSo, the announcement of the winners is done.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/2020pulitzer-prizes-1.5555616
https://www.pulitzer.org/news/announcement-2020-pulitzer-prize-winners
Reactions?
(Interesting historical sidebar: the Pulitzers' second century, we hope, has begun just as their first did in 1917...right in the midst of a pandemic.)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/2020pulitzer-prizes-1.5555616
https://www.pulitzer.org/news/announcement-2020-pulitzer-prize-winners
Reactions?
(Interesting historical sidebar: the Pulitzers' second century, we hope, has begun just as their first did in 1917...right in the midst of a pandemic.)
Joe Shuster Awards 2019
Sep. 16th, 2019 05:31 pmI just got in the door and saw this. Winners have been announced for this year's Canadian comics awards...
http://sequentialpulp.ca/2019joeshusterawardwinners/
http://sequentialpulp.ca/2019joeshusterawardwinners/
As for entertainment...
Sep. 17th, 2018 06:07 amNepean vs. Regina at the Emmy Awards tonight...
(AKA Sandra Oh vs. Tatyana Maslany)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/2018-emmys-what-to-watch-1.4825914
(AKA Sandra Oh vs. Tatyana Maslany)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/2018-emmys-what-to-watch-1.4825914
Just before leaving the current day job for the weekend, I heard from Alan Neal on CBC Radio's All in a Day the following good news: Amal el-Mohtar, a local SF&F author, is a Hugo Award nominee!
Confirmation from the author...
https://amalelmohtar.com/2017/04/04/hugo-if-true/
Wishing her the best of luck!
Confirmation from the author...
https://amalelmohtar.com/2017/04/04/hugo-if-true/
Wishing her the best of luck!
Aurora Award Nominations Now Open
Jan. 3rd, 2015 01:45 pmFor those of you as yet unaware:
http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/nominations-renewals-and-works-lists/
I don't believe I qualify for any of those at this time, but I will note that, last year, the fan achievement award went unawarded due to insufficient numbers of nominees. If you know someone whom you believe worthy of it, please go nominate them for it. If you want/need my help with that, let me know and we'll see if we can't figure out a way for me to help.
http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/nominations-renewals-and-works-lists/
I don't believe I qualify for any of those at this time, but I will note that, last year, the fan achievement award went unawarded due to insufficient numbers of nominees. If you know someone whom you believe worthy of it, please go nominate them for it. If you want/need my help with that, let me know and we'll see if we can't figure out a way for me to help.
The Joe Shuster Awards of 2014
Sep. 22nd, 2014 11:06 amThe winners have been announced...
http://joeshusterawards.com/2014/09/20/the-winners-of-the-2014-joe-shuster-awards/
http://joeshusterawards.com/2014/09/20/the-winners-of-the-2014-joe-shuster-awards/
Medals for Exploration
May. 27th, 2014 11:47 amThe Ondaatje Medal for Exploration is a thing I learned about back in March, via CBC Radio One. At the moment, I cannot recall whether I learned of it via The Current or Q, but either way...it pleases me to know that this is a real thing that is awarded annually for Canadian achievement in exploration. It's something that is actively done here. I'd like to see it continue.
Canadian Screen Awards
Mar. 3rd, 2013 09:12 amGuessing that new episodes for Republic of Doyle will resume next weekend.
Considering the context:
http://academy.ca/awards/
...that's alright.
Considering the context:
http://academy.ca/awards/
...that's alright.
So...it looks as if we've another NHL lockout in progress and the next season is going to go the way a largish chunk of 2004-'05 did.
I've got two thoughts about that.
First, the CBC's response via Hockey Night in Canada? Divert all coverage to all the other hockey leagues in Canada. Or as close to "all" as logistically possible. AHL, LHNA, Canadian Women's Hockey League, the Canadian major-junior leagues...you get the idea. We've got enough going on from coast to coast to coast right now that Hockey Night can manage well without the NHL and NHLPA. And we, the hockey-fannish public can use the additional education on what else is out there.
Second, I've heard stories about the two guys currently responsible for the Stanley Cup and their opinion on awarding the Cup to a worthy team outside of the NHL structure: that Brian O'Neill in particular openly stated that to do so would be to "demean" the trophy.
Hogwash.
I know that the Stanley Cup predates the NHL. It was originally created as a "challenge" cup, for amateur teams to compete for. Whoever had it, they had to accept challenges for amateur hockey supremacy within Canada from whatever teams met the standards of the day on an annual basis. I've visited one of the institutions that won the Cup in the pre-NHL days: the Montréal Amateur Athletic Association. I saw the banners they used to hang in the front lobby in the days before they rebranded themselves and put said banners into long-term storage.
Anyway.
I agree with the Toronto Star editorial stance on this matter. Return to the pre-NHL tradition of the Stanley Cup, if only for one season. Award the Cup to a worthy non-NHL team for once. The League and Players' Association like can use the reminder of this particular history lesson.
Anyone else?
I've got two thoughts about that.
First, the CBC's response via Hockey Night in Canada? Divert all coverage to all the other hockey leagues in Canada. Or as close to "all" as logistically possible. AHL, LHNA, Canadian Women's Hockey League, the Canadian major-junior leagues...you get the idea. We've got enough going on from coast to coast to coast right now that Hockey Night can manage well without the NHL and NHLPA. And we, the hockey-fannish public can use the additional education on what else is out there.
Second, I've heard stories about the two guys currently responsible for the Stanley Cup and their opinion on awarding the Cup to a worthy team outside of the NHL structure: that Brian O'Neill in particular openly stated that to do so would be to "demean" the trophy.
Hogwash.
I know that the Stanley Cup predates the NHL. It was originally created as a "challenge" cup, for amateur teams to compete for. Whoever had it, they had to accept challenges for amateur hockey supremacy within Canada from whatever teams met the standards of the day on an annual basis. I've visited one of the institutions that won the Cup in the pre-NHL days: the Montréal Amateur Athletic Association. I saw the banners they used to hang in the front lobby in the days before they rebranded themselves and put said banners into long-term storage.
Anyway.
I agree with the Toronto Star editorial stance on this matter. Return to the pre-NHL tradition of the Stanley Cup, if only for one season. Award the Cup to a worthy non-NHL team for once. The League and Players' Association like can use the reminder of this particular history lesson.
Anyone else?
Awards and the Nationality Perceived
Oct. 3rd, 2012 07:35 pmSo there's this children's book that was nominated for a Governor-General's literary award. And the author asked that the nomination be withdrawn.
He doesn't consider himself "a subject of Her Majesty", being a Québecois nationalist.
Details at this CBC article.
One thing I don't think Biz - the musician now doubling as a children's author here - understands here is that a lot of us in the Rest Of Canada see ourselves as Canadian citizens, and therefore just as much not "subjects of Her Majesty". The Monarchist League's local membership keeps begging the rest of us to reconsider our self-perception, of course. But...really. We dropped the "British subject" thing a couple of generations back. Some of us even did that in our hearts long before the Constitution got repatriated in 1982. Some, even before the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
(National Geographic atlas editors, I'm looking at you in particular here. I saw that Concise Atlas of the World of yours at World of Maps last night before Pen and Paper Workshop. The one giving our "independence" date as 1931. Really?)
A lot of les vieux gardes among the separatistes don't get that, probably. And wouldn't want to believe it even now.
Can't be helped. This is Canada, now.
Someone at 24 Sussex could probably use a reminder of this, too...
He doesn't consider himself "a subject of Her Majesty", being a Québecois nationalist.
Details at this CBC article.
One thing I don't think Biz - the musician now doubling as a children's author here - understands here is that a lot of us in the Rest Of Canada see ourselves as Canadian citizens, and therefore just as much not "subjects of Her Majesty". The Monarchist League's local membership keeps begging the rest of us to reconsider our self-perception, of course. But...really. We dropped the "British subject" thing a couple of generations back. Some of us even did that in our hearts long before the Constitution got repatriated in 1982. Some, even before the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
(National Geographic atlas editors, I'm looking at you in particular here. I saw that Concise Atlas of the World of yours at World of Maps last night before Pen and Paper Workshop. The one giving our "independence" date as 1931. Really?)
A lot of les vieux gardes among the separatistes don't get that, probably. And wouldn't want to believe it even now.
Can't be helped. This is Canada, now.
Someone at 24 Sussex could probably use a reminder of this, too...
2012 Nebula Winners Announced
May. 20th, 2012 08:30 amDetails here:
http://www.sfwa.org/2012/05/2011-nebula-awards-announced/
Congrats to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
papersky on her win!
(Also pleased as a Whovian to see "The Doctor's Wife" win as well!)
http://www.sfwa.org/2012/05/2011-nebula-awards-announced/
Congrats to
papersky on her win! (Also pleased as a Whovian to see "The Doctor's Wife" win as well!)
Some among you already know about the Shuster Awards, our own counterparts to the like of the Harveys and Eisners south of the border.
They've added a new category: the Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing.
I refer you to the Shuster Awards' own page on the subject in the link above.
What do I think?
I think this is another good step in building a home-grown comics sector in Canada's entertainment industry. I want to see us get to the point where everyone with talent and ambition to do so can make a decent living in the field. It can only help the country for that to happen.
They've added a new category: the Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishing.
I refer you to the Shuster Awards' own page on the subject in the link above.
What do I think?
I think this is another good step in building a home-grown comics sector in Canada's entertainment industry. I want to see us get to the point where everyone with talent and ambition to do so can make a decent living in the field. It can only help the country for that to happen.
Blog Awards
Dec. 17th, 2007 05:21 pmSomething I spotted over at publicbroadcasting.ca today. If you know of any Canadian blogs worthy of any such honours, you might want to take a look.
More from my stuff later...
More from my stuff later...
