{"id":593,"date":"2005-07-19T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=593"},"modified":"2005-12-10T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T22:01:08","slug":"nerd-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nerd-vegas","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can’t have a Comic-Con without an awards show! Occasional VM contributor Tom Spurgeon just posted his diary<\/a> of the Eisner Awards night at last week’s Con.<\/p>\n

A lot of the jokes are really industry-specific, so you might not laugh as much as I did.<\/p>\n

9:32 — Sean McKeever wins Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, which is a neat award because it helps to solve the problem it presents in its title.<\/p>\n

9:33 — I dream of an entire awards show designed along the same, utilitarian lines as the previous award, like “Artist Most in Need of Something Small to Place on a Desk.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still fixing up the pix from Saturday and Sunday; they’ll be up soon. You get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can’t have a Comic-Con without an awards show! Occasional VM contributor Tom Spurgeon just posted his diary of the Eisner Awards night at last week’s Con. A lot of the jokes are really industry-specific, so you might not laugh as much as I did. 9:32 — Sean McKeever wins Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, … <\/p>\n

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