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Smbc · Post by **Smbc** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:02 pm

I think I complain about this every year, but why is there no category for single panel comics?

Zortic · Post by **Zortic** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:35 pm

I don't remember that argument before, but I will bring it up to the committee. I think this is a great suggestion. It's a special skill to convey all of your information in a single panel.

The catch is that, if we included it under Art, we'd also have to include it under Writing (both take skill to present in a single panel), then we'd have to balance it with long form and "strip" form categories under Art and Writing. So we're really talking about potentially adding 6 categories once we start down this road.

Since we've been trying to cut back on the number of categories, I'm not sure we want to do this now. But obviously there's nothing that stops Single Panel Comics from winning. Chopping Block has done quite well in the past.

Bifsniff · Post by **Bifsniff** » Sat May 07, 2005 10:35 am

I don't think you would. Art is art, whether you do a hundred panels or just one. There's no real need to make an exception for single panel artists. An artist working in single panel form can compete with the artist in any form. But the writing and conceptualising is a very different animal. Now, of course, we probably qualify under Short Form Comic and I'm not entirely sure there's anything wrong with that. But as single panel comics don't usually have recurring characters, we don't generally acquire the same loyalty that strip cartoon might get. One of reasons behind Chopping Blocks success was the creation of Butch, I think.

Zortic · Post by **Zortic** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:50 pm

That's a good point. Perhaps an "Outstanding Comic With No Reoccuring Characters" type of award would be better than the "single panel" distinction. Of course we'd have to come up with a better name for it.

Bifsniff · Post by **Bifsniff** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:41 am

Yeah, that could be the way to go because I imagine sites like The Perry Bible Fellowship would be in the same boat.

Katmaidog · Post by **Katmaidog** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:07 am

Yeah! Bring on the single-panel!

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:02 am

i've always been a fan of lazy people who draw zero panel comics, actually.

Ignacio · Post by **Ignacio** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:42 am

LibertyCabbage wrote:i've always been a fan of lazy people who draw zero panel comics, actually.

That's totally the way to go, let's add that category!

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:06 am

Ignacio wrote:
LibertyCabbage wrote:i've always been a fan of lazy people who draw zero panel comics, actually.
That's totally the way to go, let's add that category!

Dammit... I don't qualify for that one, either!

Zortic · Post by **Zortic** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:14 am

I'm happy to let you know, that thanks to your suggestions, we've just added "Outstanding Single Panel Comic" to our list of categories for 2006! We should be able to announce the complete final list in another week or two.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:54 pm

hooray! i'm hoping for an edible dirt win =o

Packrat · Post by **Packrat** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:43 am

aha!

i do both single panals on weekends and three pans weekdays.
( maybe i should throw a weeky page in there too.)

do i get two awards? Nooooooo.

the registration and activate thingy over at the wca is broken.. still..
mon may 22.

any news?
packrat

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