{"id":8901,"date":"2009-10-08T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2009-10-08T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:16:49","slug":"hereville-nominated-for-two-lulu-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8901","title":{"rendered":"Hereville Nominated For Two Lulu Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsoflulu.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/06\/2009-lulu-awards-nominees-vote-now\/\">Friends of Lulu has nominated<\/a> <em>Hereville <\/em>for two awards! &#8220;The Lulu Awards recognizes the  the people and projects that helped to open eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and\/or about women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hereville <\/em>was nominated for the <strong>Leah Adezio Award For Best Kid-Friendly Work<\/strong>, and Mirka was nominated for <strong>Best Female Character<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To vote for <em>Hereville <\/em>(or for the other nominees &#8212; swell folks, all of them!), <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsoflulu.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/06\/2009-lulu-awards-nominees-vote-now\/\">go to Friends of Lulu<\/a> and follow the directions there.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Hey, speaking of <em>Hereville<\/em>, whatever happened to it? I&#8217;m still working on it, believe it or not. Comics are slow!<\/p>\n<p>The graphic novel will be coming out from Abrams in late 2010 (in time for Hanukkah!). I&#8217;m just finishing up the second draft of the pencils now, and I&#8217;ll begin work on the final art in a bit over a week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, just to whet people&#8217;s appetites, here&#8217;s a penciled page from chapter one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/01_12.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/01_12_smaller.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that Friends of Lulu has nominated Hereville for two awards! &#8220;The Lulu Awards recognizes the the people and projects that helped to open eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and\/or about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8901\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-hereville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}