3 GOLD ENnies!

The results were announced last night (August 20) at GenCon 2004 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Nocturnals: A Midnight Companion received the Gold ENnie for Best Art (Interior), Best Graphic Design & Layout, and Best Licensed Product.

A clean sweep in all the categories for which it was nominated.

Read more about the ENnies at ENworld.org.

ENnie Awards

hey!

the nocrturnals hardcover was nominated in three categories of this gaming industry award-  I heard there are only like five categories or something, and the book got three noms. I weas surprised, since I havent been nominated for something in a while... for those of you talented and generous individuals who contributed to the book, my sincerest thanks for pitching into make this book a success!

the publisher sent this message today:

FYI, voting for the ENnies is open. We've put a link on our front page. You might want to do the same.

http://www.enworld.org/voting/

The book is nominated for Best Interior Art, Best Graphic Design & Layout, and Best Licensed Game.

Nocturnals: A Midnight Companion review

from the GAMING REPORT.COM:

OUT OF THE BOX
July 31, 2004
By: Kenneth Hite

Lurks By Night
And on that suitably lugubrious note, we enter the nightside realm of Doc Horror and his merry crew, as seen in Oni Press' comic series Nocturnals, by the amazing, almost Expressionist, artist/writer Dan Brereton. T.S. (Skull & Bones) Luikart and Chris Pramas have now sumptuously served that series and its setting up for Mutants & Masterminds in Dan Brereton's Nocturnals: A Midnight Companion (159 page glorious full color hardback, $29.95) from Pramas' Green Ronin Publishing. If you are already a Nocturnals fan, you need this book; as Brereton points out, it's "the Nocturnals bible." You get a bunch of inside info on the various heroes -- Doc Horror, the Gunwitch, the lovely Halloween Girl, and so forth. In fact, the first five chapters are all rules-free setting material (the talented Rob Lazzaretti gives us a wonderful map of Pacific City) or art. Speaking of art, in addition to lots and lots of Brereton (especially sketchbook stuff, plus an 18-page comic exclusive), there's Ted Naifeh, Phil Noto, Casey Jones, Bruce Timm, and so forth -- the art direction, credited to Brereton and Rick Achberger, is terrific at pulling some seemingly disparate styles together into a seamless whole. The typography is brilliant, as is the layout; this is almost perfect, although the dense text on one or two pages gets busy. But that's just the mole on Cindy Crawford's cheek; this book is bloody gorgeous. And in Chapter Six, we get excellent rules and adjustments for grimming up Mutants & Masterminds, and in the next section, we get advice and well-thought analysis of the setting and feel. Finally, stats for the merry Nocturnals crew round out what is one of the finest licensed RPG books I've ever seen -- and one of the best looking, to boot.

San Diego

San Diego was very busy, very fun and very comic book unfriendly. the show has become a stagin ground for much bigger entities such as the film , toy, video game and other huge media, which leaves the little comic book people kind of lost in a sea of big money booths and their 'exclusive' product. the comic dealers, pros and illustrator/exhibitors were shunted off remote corners, while lucasfilm, dc, lord of the rings took center stage. it was staggering and dissapointing. many of my 'regulars" couldnt find me all weekend, and those that did were distracted. I thank the die-hard fans of my work who came and patronized the booth. it was always busy, but I felt we could have and should have been much more so, as in recent years. I feel like the comic-con is slipping away from the comic part of things, into some kind of p[op culter genre- cluster. Im not sure if its worthy of being called a comic book convention any longer. I have to rethink the show and how chartruz and I will approach the booth next year.
thanks again to the hundreds of you that visited the booth this year! it was great to see the new and familiar faces, and the Mindnight Companion was a huge hit there. I was very happy with that, and the many congratulations for fans and industry types on the new Disney project. that was cool .

next up : dragon-con! a very fun and lively show, with a completely different feel from SD. we are realy looking forward to being there  ( the show's dates are Sept 3-6th)

if you havent been and youve thought about attending, I tell you its a great time and Atlanta is beautiful.

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