Howard Tayler Underestimates Himself
Howard Tayler, as you might know, is the creator, author and artist of the truly awesome space opera webcomic Schlock Mercenary (can you tell I love this comic?). Well, yesterday he posted a news post that one of his recent story arcs (The Body Politic) was nominated for a Hugo Award (awesome, huh?) he mentioned in the post that although there are only five other nominees he doesn’t think he is going to win. Specifically he says:
I’m the only solo-act (writing and illustration all coming out of the same person.) This probably explains why everything else on the list is better illustrated and/or written than my own work. It also makes me extra super-happy to have made the ballot at all. I suppose this is what it would be like if I were going to swim in a race against Michael Phelps. No way can I beat him, but at least I made it to the pool, right?
And I want to say in response: don’t underestimate yourself, Howard. It’s been a while since I read The Body Politic (a few months, if I recall correctly) but I did a quick Google search to find out who else is nominated for this here award (you have to scroll about half-way down the page to find the Graphic Stories category) and I was intrigued to see that although I don’t think of myself as being a big graphic novel geek I had in fact read one of the other works nominated: Serenity: Better Days by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews and Will Conrad. Now, not having read the other four works up for the award I can’t come to a hugely informed conclusion, but if the other works are near the same quality as Schlock Mercenary and Serenity I think that The Body Politic has a good chance of winning. I think that Better Days is a nice graphic story and all that, but I don’t think it’s all that much better than The Body Politic and I think the storytelling in Schlock is better (sorry, Joss).
So think positive, Howard, and don’t give up hope. You got nominated and that’s awesome, but don’t think it ends there, because if it were up to me, it wouldn’t.
Of course, it’s not up to me, so who knows what’ll happen.
Anyway.
Cheers!
-j
P.S. (2am Saturday) it would probably be best if I spelled Howard’s name correctly. I’m always thinking it’s Taylor when it’s really Tayler. Eeek. Bad me.
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