A Wacky First Year!

A year ago today, I decided to start the very blog you are reading now! Not only have I generally discussed comics, but have met some great and intresting people along the way! Plus - just a few weeks ago I reached my original goal of 10,000 views! Wow! So a great big thank-you to everybody who has supported me through this first year - if you like the blog please let others know!

Some great (and supportive) blogs to check out:

http://cheekyweekly.blogspot.com/

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com/

http://wizzkid97.wordpress.com/

www.andyfanton.com

And a whole host more can be found on the right <- and left -> hand side!!

Cheers!

George!

www.wackycomics.com

Winners of CCGB Awards!

Not too long ago Peter Gray commented on my post about Dave Follows winning the award for the best humour strip. He was intrested too know who won it each year. Well, I contacted the Cartoonist's Club of Great Britain (who gave out the awards) who replied telling me that I should contact Mike Turner (who was chairman of the club at the time). Mike managed to find out who won it (Despite the fact the information was "...rather scattered and time consuming to track down...")

Anyway, the award went on for about 5 years. Dave won it in 1983 for the best humour strip, and there was also an award for a best humour strip in a newspaper category. Amongst winners in the latter years were 'The Perishers' by Steve Bell and Rocky Steady Eddie by Tom Johnson. The award quickly ended however because of the lack of entries, member votes and due to the dis-intrest of newspapers who did not publish the results if their paper did not feature the winning strip and so the award was gone in 1987/88.

Cheers Mike for been very helpful!

Cartoonist's Club Of Great Britain:

http://www.ccgb.org.uk/lobby/index.php?/pages/welcome.html

Mike Turner's profile can be found in the member's portfolio's section there.

Peter Gray's site:

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com/