From 03/15/00
Results of the 1999 SQUIDDY
AWARDS (Excerpt)
Marvel's AVENGERS, DC/Wildstorm's THE AUTHORITY, DC/Vertigo's TRANSMETROPOLITAN,
and Alan Moore's America's Best Comics dominated the list of winners of the
1999 Internet rec.arts.comics "Squiddy" Awards:
Best Writer--Warren Ellis
Best Penciller--George Perez
Best Inker--Paul Neary
Best Painter--Alex Ross
Best Creative Team--Busiek/Perez/Vey/Comicraft/Smith (Avengers)
Best Cover Artist--Brian Bolland
Best Story--Avengers 19-22 (Ultron Unlimited)
Best Company/Imprint--America's Best Comics
Best General Website--Comic Book Resources
The Internet rec.arts.comics Awards ("the Squiddies") are the annual
comics' industry awards given out by Usenet's rec.arts.comics community. As
always, voting was open to all participants in the rec.arts.comics newsgroups.
Except for the CBG awards, no still-existing industry award is older. Known
originally as "the Great Usenet Comics Poll", the Squiddies have been
awarded every year since the mid-1980's. The Squiddies were named after Suicide
Squid--rec.arts.comics' mascot--a mythical comicbook character accidentally
created in April 1991 when Mitsuhiro Sakai wanted to ask about developments
in the series SUICIDE SQUAD, but typed "i" instead of "a".