2008 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards is an annual award voted on by web cartoonists themselves. The nominations ballots for the 8th annual award cover webcomics active in 2007 and were emailed to pre-registered voters by 7 January 2008 and closed those submissions on 23 January 2008. The nominees were announced on 3 February, and voting on those finalists had commenced on 8 February.
Voting ended on 8 March 2008, and MegaCon had announced that they would host the 2008 awards and that WCCA would present the winners in a live ceremony.. The ceremony was presented by The Committee's Live Presentation Director of Ceremonies, Mark Mekkes, accompanying him was Tim “JT” Shea and Scott Gallatin, which were covering the event for their podcast, The Gigcast, a popular webcomic-themed podcast. The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards had an online ceremony as well. Including the talent of several artists, each presentation was designed as a separate webcomic strip, announcing the nominees and winner, for each category.
There are 18 categories for the 2008 awards, with divisions for art and writing,. The total categories for 2008 were reduced from the 26 that had been present in the 2007 awards, primarily due to the Committee dropping the "genre categories" from the list. The Committee's 2008 Chairman, Frank "Damonk" Cormier, had stated, on The Webcomic Beacon, that the Committee had received a high amount of feedback to limit the categories. When people were voting on the 2007 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, they were also asked what new genres, or categories, they thought should be included. Cormier explained, "We had a lot of people voting for 'no new genres', in fact, 'abolish the genres completely'."
Read more about 2008 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards: Outstanding Comic, Outstanding Newcomer, Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Writer
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