Only one more week to vote for the 2011 Ursa Major Awards
Voting for the 2011 Ursa Major Awards, for the best anthropomorphic literature and art of the calendar year 2011 in eleven categories, closes on May 4.
If you have not voted yet, you have one week left to do so on the Ursa Major Awards website.
The finalists are . . .
Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Series or Short Work
TV series or one-shots, advertisements or short videos.
- Mongrels (Directed by Adam Millar, Jon Brown, Daniel Peak) [wiki]
- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Directed by James Wootton) [wiki]
- Simon's Cat (Directed by Simon Tofield) [wiki]
- ThunderCats (Directed by Michael Jelenic, Todd Casey, Tab Murphy, and others) [wiki]
- Regular Show (Directed by Benton Conor, Calvin Wong, Kat Morris, Sean Szeles, J. G. Quintel, Minty Lewis, and others) [wiki]
Best Anthropomorphic Motion PictureLive-action or animated feature-length movies. |
Best Anthropomorphic NovelWritten works of 40,000 words or more. Serialized novels qualify only for the year that the final chapter is published.
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Best Anthropomorphic Short FictionStories less than 40,000 words, poetry and other short written works.
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Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary WorkStory collections, comic collections, graphic novels, non-fiction works, and convention program books.
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Best Anthropomorphic Graphic StoryIncludes comic books and serialized online stories.
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Best Anthropomorphic Comic StripNewspaper-style strips, including those with ongoing arcs.
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Best Anthropomorphic MagazineProfessional magazines, amateur zines, fanzines, internet-only magazines.
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Best Anthropomorphic GameComputer or console games, role-playing games, board games.
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Best Anthropomorphic Published IllustrationIllustrations for books, magazines, convention program books, cover art for such, coffee table portfolios.
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Best Anthropomorphic WebsiteOnline collections of art, stories, and other creative and/or informational works. Includes galleries, story archives, directories, blogs, and personal sites.
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Don’t miss this chance to vote for your favorites. The winners will be announced at a presentation ceremony at 4PM on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at CaliFur VIII, at the Irvine Marriott Hotel at 18000 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, California 92612. CaliFur VIII will be held from June 1 to 3.
If you have seen anything that you liked during 2012 so far, be sure to recommend it.
About the author
Fred Patten — read stories — contact (login required)a retired former librarian from North Hollywood, California, interested in general anthropomorphics
Comments
Here's more comments from the nominees gathered by FurReview. Looks like the Ursas need some ambassadors to the comic/graphic novel section of the fandom — at least to tell the nominees that they've been nominated!
Just noticed about the logo:
>Digitigrade legs
>On a bear
>All-of-my-why.jpg
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