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Diamond Causes Confusion With 2010 Gem Awards
What is a licensed book? And what is a reprint/collection?
That's the question that has been expertly evaded as in their end-of-year awards for the best selling titles and publishers of 2011, Diamond have given a Gem award to the Kick-Ass Premiere hardcover as the Best Licensed TP/HC of the year, while giving Best Reprint TP/HC of the Year to The Walking Dead Volume 13: Too Far Gone.
Both were comics that spun off multi-media properties, Kick-Ass resulting in a movie, Walking Dead in a TV series. But why the different categories. When asked, Diamond told Bleeding Cool;
The licensed comic and trade paperback categories are specifically designed to honor outstanding work on a licensed property (something coming from television, movies, or other existing property) that has been translated into the comics medium. The Reprint TP category is honoring any collection that re-prints a serialized comic series into a trade collection.
Well Kick Ass didn't come from TV, movies or another existing property. And the collection was published just in time for the movie to come out. And if it counts as a licensed property – then doesn't Walking Dead count as one too?
Slightly odd… but then so is the realisation that Marvel only picked up awards for Kick Ass. The Gem Awards, more than any, reward "sales achievement", nothing else. And Marvel dominated sales, yet DC win Publisher Of The Year for a second year in a row…
I'm sure thee's a complicated algorithm at the heart of it. Here are those Gem Awards in full.
2010 Suppliers of the Year
2010 Comic Book Publisher of the Year Over 4% Market Share
DC Comics2010 Comic Book Publisher of the Year Under 4% Market Share
BOOM! Studios2010 Backlist Publisher of the Year
DC Comics2010 Manga Publisher of the Year
Dark Horse Comics2010 Game Manufacturer of the Year
Wizards of the Coast (WotC)2010 Toy Manufacturer of the Year
DC Direct2010 Products of the Year
2010 Comic Book of the Year Under $3.00
Brightest Day #1 – DC Comics2010 Comic Book of the Year Over $3.00
Batman: The Return #1 – DC Comics2010 Licensed Comic Book of the Year
Kick-Ass 2 #1 – Marvel Comics2010 Licensed TP/HC of the Year
Kick-Ass Premiere HC – Marvel Comics2010 Original GN of the Year
Superman: Earth One HC – DC Comics2010 Reprint TP/HC of the Year
The Walking Dead Vol. 13: Too Far Gone – Image Comics2010 Manga of the Year
Twilight: The Graphic Novel Volume 1 HC – Yen Press2010 Indie GN of the Year
Scott Pigrim's Finest Hour GN (Volume 6) – Oni Press2010 Anthology TP of the Year
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard HC – Archaia Entertainment2010 Trade Book of the Year
75 Years of DC Comics HC – Taschen2010 Game Product of the Year
DC HeroClix: Blackest Night Starter Set – WizKids/NECA2010 Toy Product of the Year
Blackest Night Power Ring Spectrum Set – DC Direct2010 Toy Line of the Year
Blackest Night Action Figures – DC Direct2010 Collectable Statue of the Year
Cover Girls of the DCU Statue: Harley Quinn – DC Direct2010 Mini Bust of the Year
Women of the DCU Series 3: Batgirl Bust – DC Direct
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