I just wanted to remind everyone that the ballots for this year’s Harvey Awards are due on Friday, March 27th. If you are eligible to vote, get your ballots in.

There is a text ballot at harveyawards.org. Fill it out and paste it into an email and send it off to harveyballots@hotmail.com by midnight, eastern time, on Friday.

You do not have to fill out nominations for every single category, but do be sure to take the time fill out the section labeled “Brief list of work in comics.” This section is what makes sure your ballot is counted. Be honest about your work in comics. I was told by Bradford Tree that they are hoping to get a lot of ballots and that they are very “common sense guys” about looking at your credentials and deciding if you’re a professional. So don’t be afraid to vote if you make a professional quality comic or webcomic.

If I may be so bold as to make some suggestions in our particular field. Of course I would like to see How to Make Webcomics get a nomination in the Best Biographical, Historical, or Journalistic Presentation category.

I think that David Malki could use some loving for his new Dark Horse book, Wondermark: Beards of our Forefathers.

For Best Online Comics Work, despite there being SO much out there worthy of this award, may I make a suggestion? How about this year, we give a big push to all the fantastic women who are making some groundbreaking comics right now. I point you specifically to the efforts of Meredith Gran, Danielle Corsetto, Rene Engstrom and Kate Beaton.

Regardless, the Harvey Awards are a wonderful organization who in conjunction with the Baltimore Comicon work really hard every year to spotlight the best in comics. The Harvey Awards have always been incredibly accepting of Webcomics.

Let’s do our part to see some people in webcomics get the accolades they deserve this year. Who knows. Maybe this year Webcomic titles can beat Gemstone’s Scrooge McDuck titles for most categories.