Hello everyone!
Award season has come upon us!
2019 has been an incredible year for independent creators like yourselves. We have seen growing interest from the more traditional market for unique storytelling and new voices. With that, many new readers have found the stories you’ve shared on Tapas, which in turn gives us the opportunity to ensure that more and more creators find success. As a team, we’re incredibly proud and excited for what is to come and to be able to grow together with you.
To celebrate our community and our creators, we want to introduce “The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards” to those of you who haven’t heard of it yet. This award is an annual celebration of the creativity, skill and fun of comics - and most excitingly, the nomination ballot is determined by both fans and professionals, so all our voices can be heard!
This is a great opportunity for all of us creators to get involved and support each other (or ourselves, no shame in being proud of your own comic) by voting for your favorite creators and series!
More about the Ringo Awards
The Ringo Awards are an annual award for achievement in comics across a variety of categories, which you can read more about on the site. The nomination process relies heavily on popular voting, with almost all of the category finalists being determined by either popular vote or a combination of popular vote and jury selections. The voting ballot is a write-in ballot, so fans just need to go to the website and write in their picks for each category.
To give you more information behind Mike Wieringo:
Michael Lance “Mike” Wieringo (June 24, 1963 – August 12, 2007), who often signed his work Ringo, is an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics’ The Flash, Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four, and his co-creation Tellos. These awards are a celebration of Mike’s creative spirit. Mike, who sadly passed away at a young age, was a huge inspiration to a generation of comic creators.
How you can be part of this
We love what the Ringo Awards stand for and how this award allows for readers to support and connect with their favorite creators. If you want to vote for some of your favorite series, this is how you can do it!
- Go to http://www.ringoawards.com and go to their ballot by clicking “Click here to nominate your Favorites!”
- Fill in as many or as few categories as you want. Note that some ask for the creator’s names, others for series’ names (or both).
- Hint: The winners of categories that contain the word ‘Favorite’ are largely determined by fan votes! So this is where your vote will count the most!
- (Psst… there is also a Favorite Publisher award… Just sayin’ - nudge nudge)
- Once you’re done and you click ‘Continue’, make sure to send your votes (one additional button on a new page).
Deadline: June 25th!!
I can’t think of a better community to be a part of this. You’ve always been so supportive of one another, and I’m excited to see if we can influence the outcome of these awards and see creators from Tapas succeed.
Have fun voting!
Isabell / AKA Ratique
Creator Happiness Manager