A Message for Creators and Comic Industry Professionals:

Harvey Award Nomination Ballots Due in 4 days!

Ballots Due April 16, 2012! 

As a creator within the comics and graphic novel industry, you are eligible to nominate works and vote for the Harvey Awards.  We encourage all professionals to vote, whether you choose 1, 5, or all categories.  Every vote counts!  Ballots can be found in PDF or text format from www.harveyawards.org.

Please vote and submit a nomination ballot for the Harvey Awards. The deadline for nominations is this coming Monday, April 16th.  While we are down to the final weekend, we assure you there is still time to get your votes in and to influence the votes of others.  Plenty of ballots will be sent in this weekend and even Monday!

The Harvey Awards work hard every year to insure that we have a ballot that makes the entire industry proud.  The combination of social networking as well as ballot distribution at comic book conventions around the country has enabled participation by the entire industry and, as a result, ballots have been a great representation of the best works published in the previous year.  We have once again distributed ballots in Seattle, Chicago, and Orlando, as well as directly to publishers.  Thank you for your efforts!

If you think there is a piece of work, including yours, that deserves the votes of others, please spread the word.  We encourage voters, publishers, and journalists to e-mail, blog, tweet, and otherwise promote works that deserve recognition.  Here are some ideas for promoting your works to other creators, as well as determining for what you should vote:    

• Not sure what was published in 2011 and want ideas? Google "best comics 2011".
• Use Twitter to show your support for a given work and use hashtag #harveys2012 on your tweet.
• Blog about the work you want to promote.
• Please spread word to your peers that they can vote!

Complete and email ballots to harveyballots@hotmail.com.  Mailing address information is on the PDF copy of the ballot.

We look forward to hearing from you. Should you require any assistance or have any question, please contact us at baltimorecomiccon@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

Brad Tree & Paul McSpadden

The Baltimore Comic-Con &

The Harvey Awards Committee