Comic-Con Today: Saturday

 

 

Are You Up for the Challenge?

This year Comic-Con@Home is asking you to show off your super skills and talents by entering our 2021 challenges. What do you win? Cash and prizes? Sadly, no, but you do win bragging rights, and we think that’s pretty great. Full details for all of the challenges are given on the Challenges page. 

This year, we’re working with Pinterest to create a Comic-Con@Home 2021 Hub, where challenge creations can be featured. All of these challenges began yesterday at 9:00 AM (PDT) and end tomorrow at 4:30 PM (PDT), so there’s still time to get involved.

Cosplay Challenge

The Comic-Con@Home Cosplay Challenge returns for 2021. Whether you're a veteran cosplayer or this is your very first costume, we’d love to see it. Some of our favorite entries from the categories below will be shared on the official Comic-Con website starting Monday, July 26, 2021. All ages and skill levels are encouraged to participate. Last year, a few of our fans included pets, and we loved it. If your Pekingese likes to dress up as Catwoman, we want to see it.

Favorite participants will be selected in the following categories:

• Best Makeup
• Best Mashup
• Best Group
• Best Use of Household Items
• Most In-Character / Best Likeness (Canon Character)
• Best Classic Comic Character (before 1985)
• Best Modern Comic Character (after 1985)
• Most Humorous
• Best Duo

To play:

• Cosplay creations must be family-friendly.
• No nude or lewd images.
• No advertisements or promotions. 
• Share a photo of your cosplay on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.
• Pinterest: Direct message us at @Comic_Con with the subject "Cosplay Challenge Submission" and attach a photo.
• Make sure to tag us and include the hashtag #ComicConAtHome2021Cosplay so we see your entry.
• Images only. No videos, please.

Best Short Story: “When the Menopausal Carnival Comes to Town,” by Mimi Pond, in Menopause: A Comic Treatment (Graphic Medicine/Pennsylvania State University Press)

Best Single Issue: Sports Is Hell, by Ben Passmore (Koyama Press)

Best Continuing Series: Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai (IDW)

Best Limited Series: Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC)

Best New Series: Black Widow, by Kelly Thompson and Elena Casagrande (Marvel)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8): Our Little Kitchen, by Jillian Tamaki (Abrams Books for Young Readers)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12): Superman Smashes the Klan, by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru (DC) 

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17): Dragon Hoops, by Gene Luen Yang (First Second/Macmillan) 

Best Humor Publication: Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC)

Best Anthology: Menopause: A Comic Treatment, edited by MK Czerwiec (Graphic Medicine/Pennsylvania State University Press)

Best Reality-Based Work: Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, by Derf Backderf (Abrams)

Best Graphic Memoir: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Graphic Album—New: Pulp, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint: Seeds and Stems, by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Superman Smashes the Klan, adapted by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru (DC) 

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Goblin Girl, by Moa Romanova, translation by Melissa Bowers (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia: Remina, by Junji Ito, translation by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age, edited by Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: The Complete Hate, by Peter Bagge, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Best Writer: James Tynion IV, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); Batman (DC); The Department of Truth (Image); Razorblades (Tiny Onion)

Best Writer/Artist: Junji Ito, Remina, Venus in the Blind Spot (VIZ Media)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: Michael Allred, Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams (Insight Editions)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Anand RK/John Pearson, Blue in Green (Image)

Best Cover Artist: Peach Momoko, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #19, Mighty Morphin #2, Something Is Killing the Children #12, Power Rangers #1 (BOOM! Studios); DIE!namite, Vampirella (Dynamite); The Crow: Lethe (IDW); Marvel Variants (Marvel)

Best Coloring: Laura Allred, X-Ray Robot (Dark Horse); Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams (Insight Editions)

Best Lettering: Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)

Best Comics-Related Journalism/Periodical: Women Write About Comics, edited by Nola Pfau and Wendy Browne, www.WomenWriteAboutComics.com

Best Comics-Related Book: Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books, by Ken Quattro (Yoe Books/IDW)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work: The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging, by Rebecca Wanzo (New York University Press)

Best Publication Design: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, designed by Adrian Tomine and Tracy Huron (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Digital Comic: Friday, by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate) 

Best Webcomic: Crisis Zone, by Simon Hanselmann, https://www.instagram.com/simon.hanselmann/

Hall of Fame

Pioneers:

• Thomas Nast
• Rodolphe Töpffer 

Judges’ Choices:

• Alberto Breccia
• Stan Goldberg
• Françoise Mouly
• Lily Renée Phillips

Selected by Voters:

• Ruth Atkinson 
• Dave Cockrum 
• Neil Gaiman
• Scott McCloud

Other Awards

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award: 

Mike and Christine Mignola

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award: 

The Laughing Ogre, Columbus, Ohio
Chris Lloyd, owner

 

Comic-Con@Home Virtual Masquerade Today

Tumblr will once again be the site for this year’s 47th annual Masquerade costume competition. Contestants have uploaded photos and videos to best show off their amazing creations. The link to the costume entries on the Tumblr site will go live by 10 am (PDT) this morning. See the Masquerade page for more information and a link to the Comic-Con@Home Virtual Masquerade on Tumblr.

Our Master of Ceremonies is 5-time Hugo Award-winning writer-artist Phil Foglio and his wife, Kaja Foglio, who are providing a video intro and outro to the event. A panel of guest judges viewed the entries shortly before the convention, choosing the most outstanding in several categories. The winners will receive not only our elegant Comic-Con trophy medallions but also free badges to our 2022 Comic-Con. Trophies will be awarded for Best In Show, Judges’ Choice, Best Re-Creation, Best Original Design, Best Workmanship, Most Beautiful, Best Group, and Most Humorous.

The Frank and Son Collectible Show, of the City of Industry, California, will present to one outstanding costume entry in our Comic-Con@Home Virtual Masquerade a generous award of  $1,000. Frank and Son is a giant one-stop show for all things collectible at their bi-weekly mini-cons and has supported fan costuming at our conventions with generous cash prizes for many years.

The UCLA David C. Copley Center for The Study of Costume Design will generously present $500 in Amazon gift cards as The David C. Copley Award for Most Innovative Costume, as judged by Copley Center Director Deborah Nadoolman Landis.

The Costume Designers Guild IATSE Local 892, representing Hollywood costume designers, assistant costume designers, and costume illustrators working at the highest levels of expertise in motion pictures, TV, commercials, music videos, and new media, will again be presenting to their favorite Masquerade entry a Costume Designers Guild Spotlight Award of a costume design book, a copy of CDG Magazine, and a $100 gift card to Mood Fabrics, the large online fabric store for designers and anyone who sews. The CDG is part of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.).

 

 

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