March 2006 Archives

Errr, OK, Here's an entry I found in a MySpace entry from someone named Ben (who posts as Man In The Bubble):

"HEROES:
Han Solo, Buddha, Jesus, Superman, Batman. The only one who's not made up would be Paul Sizer. I saw him in person once but I didn't know what to say to him."

Great. No pressure.

Hey, check THIS out! MOPED ARMY has been nominated for another award! Read on:

The Glyph Awards are named for the web log Glyphs: The Language of the Black Comics Community, started in 2005 by comics journalist Rich Watson as a means to provide news and commentary of comics with black themes, as well as tangential topics in the fields of black science-fiction and animation. Watson is on the Awards Committee along with the following:

Omar Bilal, creator of the Museum of Black Superheroes
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, senior comics editor at Pop Culture Shock.
Stephanie Brandford, moderator of the Dwayne McDuffie forum at VHive.
Eliot Johnson, co-founder of the fan club STEEL (Stop Trying to Eliminate Ethnic Legends) and former columnist with Broken Frontier.

The nominees for the 2006 Glyph Awards are:

STORY OF THE YEAR
Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?, Reginald Hudlin, John Romita Jr. & Klaus Janson
Lucifer's Garden of Verses: Darlin' Niki, Lance Tooks
Moped Army, Paul Sizer
Nat Turner, Kyle Baker
Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian, Grant Morrison & Cameron Stewart

BEST WRITER
Reginald Hudlin, Black Panther
Aaron McGruder, Boondocks
Grant Morrison, Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian
Paul Sizer, Moped Army
Lance Tooks, Lucifer's Garden of Verses: Darlin' Niki

Fans wishing to vote should go to the ECBACC website . The deadline for fan voting is March 31, 2006.
For more information on nominees, visit AND WE SHALL MARCH or here
Thanks for the nomination!

Sheesh, what did I do? Save a bus of nuns in a former lifetime, then read to crippled kittens on the weekends? Comic karma has been very nice to me recently. Observe:

First, super secret insiders have informed me that MOPED ARMY is going to be nominated for the American Library Association's "Best Books For Yuoung Adults" award this year; the award that catapulted Jane's VOGELEIN into the stratosphere in terms of sales when she made this award's Top 10 list back in 2003! And my insider also says this really gets the attention of bigger publishers, which is strange; I am now self publishing and really dig it for the control I can have over my books and work, so I don't know if the lure of working with a big publisher is all that desirable for me. Still, contacts are contacts, and our Del Rey/Random House gigs are really sweet right now, so who knows?

So as it stands, MOPED ARMY is now up for:

A.L.A. BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS 2006
A.L.A. GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS 2007
2006 GLYPH AWARDS for "Story of the Year", "Writer of the Year" and "Best Female Character (Simone Coleman from MOPED ARMY)"

Someone out there must like me...