I am super humbled and honored! Thank you to Charlito, Mr. Phil, Evil Twin, and the ISR community! I really feel like my classmates deserve this award because I see how hard they work everyday and how much they love comics. I can only hope that I can live up to this award and keep making comics no matter what. I am so so so so so grateful.
I'd like to take the opportunity to share my classmates work with everyone here. I don't think everyone has a site but I will put up the links that I have.
Bryan Stone - Bryan does thoughtful and and fantastic adventure stories. And his wife Amanda-Ann often does amazing watercolors over his lines.
Dane Martin - Dane's comics can't be categorized. They are some of my most favorite comics in the world.
Denis St. John - Denis does stories about monsters and ladies! Lot's of ladies!
Morgan Pielli - Morgan is working on a really cool sci-fi epic that is very character driven.
JP Coovert - JP's style is simple and perfect for his introspective stories. He also runs One Percent Press producing quality comics, zines, and music.
Penina Gal - Penina is working on a really cool kids fantasy comic that will be freaking FULLY PAINTED!
Joe Lambert - Joe Lambert draws like no one else. Watch for him in next year's BEST AMERICAN COMICS!
Sean Ford - Sean's ONLY SKIN is an intriguing mystery set in a small town. It does not Disappoint.
Alex Kim - Alex is the most consistent and dedicated artist I know. Oh and he can screenprint like a motherfucker!
Chris Warren - Chris is our local web-comics expert who is working on a very cool super-hero book who's main character is modeled after yours truly!
Jeff Lok - Jeff has a livejournal but for some reason he erased all the posts. i am linking to the I know Joe Kimpel store where you can buy his comics and others from CCS. Jeff is working on a a book that i am dying to read in it's entirety. It's called Pockmarked Apocalypse and takes...umm...a story of twisting roads, abandoned gas stations, and dried-out draculas. Jeff is the bob dylan of comics. in my humble opinion.
Matt Young - Matt is working on a story of complicated office romance with a tinge of clever wit.
Blair Sterret - Blair is a distant relative to the great Cliff Sterrett of Polly and her Pals' fame. Blair is working on a deeply personal work about his life and his experience as a Mormon.
Please take the time to check out my friends work. They really deserve this much more than i do. they are such an inspiration to me and my comic books. They are irreplaceable.
Thanks again everyone! I can't say it enough
-chuck