Untold Tales of Bigfoot by Vince Dorse wins a Reuben Award!

Fantastic news: Untold Tales of Bigfoot has won A Reuben Divisional Award for Best Online Comic Long Form! The Divisional Awards are given for "outstanding achievement and excellence in the category." So this is a nice shot in the arm for a comic that started out as an experiment to improve my drawing and storytelling skills. I'm still working hard to get better at this stuff, but a Reuben is a very nice pat on the back along the way. 

The Reuben Awards -- often described as "the Oscars of Cartooning"  -- have been held annually for the past 67 years with awards going to creators in all branches of the cartooning industry from newspaper strips, to comic books to animation and, now, webcomics. The award is given by the National Cartoonists Society.

Last year was the first appearance of the Online Comics category at the Reubens. That first time winner was Jon Rosenberg for Scenes From A Multiverse. This year that category was expanded into two: Online Comics Long-Form and Short Form.

With my win this year, I suppose I’m the Inaugural Winner of the Online Comics Long-Form category with Untold Tales of Bigfoot and Graham Harrop is the first winner of the Short-Form category with his comic, Ten Cats. So in 10 years when someone wins the Online Comic Long Form Reuben you can all look back and say, "ah, yes…that award was first given to Vince Dorse for his heartwarming, all-ages comic, Untold Tales of Bigfoot…upon which they based the cartoons, movies, fashion line, theme park and energy drink."

Thanks to everyone who has supported Untold Tales of Bigfoot from the beginning as well as any new readers who have jumped on since the publicity from the award hit the web. I hope you continue to come back and enjoy the comic and follow the adventures of Bigfoot and Scout every week as I post updates. Here's the link to the comic in case you haven't given it a tumble yet. -v

Untold Tales of Bigfoot Nominated for an NCS Award!

Hey, here's some fantastic news --  Untold Tales of Bigfoot has been nominated for another award! This time it’s National Cartoonists Society 2012 Divisional Award for Best Online Comic (Long-Form). The National Cartoonists Society is the world's largest and most prestigious organization of professional cartoonists. Each year, during the NCS Annual Reuben Awards Weekend, the Society honors the year’s outstanding achievements in all walks of the profession.

Needless to say, I'm thrilled. It's a fantastic honor just to be nominated. And while winning the award would be the cherry on the sundae, I'm up against some pretty stiff competition. One is my friend and fellow-Pittsburgh artist, Pat Lewis and his webcomic Muscles Diablo. The other is Meredith Gran and her wildly popular, long-running strip, Octopus Pie. See? That's a lot of talent right there. Nice to have Untold Tales of Bigfoot included in that group.

Not sure how it'll all end up, but whichever way it goes, I'm already happy to say the nomination has brought more readers to my comic and a lot of nice compliments. If you haven't had a chance to check out the comic, why not head on over to the deep, dark woods of Untold Tales of Bigfoot and say hello. -v