The thing with Speak No Evil was that it felt like a neglected child who I thought had potential. Sure, the first born got all the attention and I was concentrating a lot of time on the youngest, but I knew that my middle child was special.

I'm proud to say that Speak No Evil: Melancholy of A Space Mexican is the recipient of the Webcomic Beacon Standalone Simplex Beaky Award. I didn't even know I was nominated because I haven't had time to check out the Webcomic Beacon podcast for a while.



Yes, the Eisners Awards are much more established and much bigger and you actually get a physical award. But my problem with Eisner's Best Digital Comics Award is that there should be more than one, like Best Daily Digital Comic or Best Digital Comic Story, etc. etc. I get the feeling that the judges who picked the nominees aren't that familiar with the webcomic world.

I've found a few blogs about the Eisner Digital Comics Nominees, complaining about how they've never heard of them. They talk about how there are much more popular webcomics that deserve an Eisner nomination.

But the Beakys are much more down-to-earth. The judges LOVE webcomics and the podcast helps me keep up with what's out there on the net and how much my website needs to be re-designed.

I like how they think my comic is good, but they seem very uncomfortable explaining why it is good.

I must be doing something right.



Basically, this award means acceptance from the burgeoning and evolving webcomics community. A community that might eventually take over the traditional print comics/comic shop system.

...but it would've been nice if they contacted me.

Hopefully, this might be a good barometer to the Eisner winner.

Check out their podcast.

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