Alas, I can only report failure in our brave bid to take an Eagle:
The voter's favourite black and white comicbook - British was How to Date a Girl in 10 Days, a very different kettle of fish to our own modest effort.
I was convinced that Eleventh Hour would take the trophy, as it was the only professionally published comic in contention and I wanted Futurequake to do it because those guys are great and so is FQ. Still, I am delighted that a work like "How To..." can get recognized by what are effectively the BAFTAs of comicdom, my heartiest congratulations to Mr Spleen for his victory.
The ceremony itself was really good fun. I enjoyed the meal immensely and we were sat with a some great people so the conversation flowed. A rather strange intro to the awards themselves from our host Frazer Ayres (so you're a Hindu? Good for you) soon led into the real meat of the event and although our name steadfastly refused to be called, it was rather exciting in any case when the moment came to see who had won our category.
Some random memories of the evening:
- Mike Conroy declaring that Tony Lee did not cheat. I had no idea what that was all about until I googled today and found this.
- Dave Gibbons winning Best Letterer. Eh, what?
- Cassandra Conroy's dress.
- Spectacular Spiderman winning Favourite colour comicbook - British. EH, WHAT?
- D'Israeli's acceptance speech.
All in all a cracking night.
Oh and even our hotel was excellent. £45 for a twin room, although £16.60 each way for the taxi into town...
