They might as well ask you to stop making art, I would have been way more severe in my response than you. What an insulting and patronizing thing to ask.
To a degree I get it, I’ve struggled with the desire for affirmation or “success” or whatever with art, but, I do not recall ever once making it someone else’s problem, especially someone I look up to. Sheesh.
I’m sorry you were treated so badly by those people and that experience you had with that award. I had a similar talking too after I won the science fair three times back in elementary school.
My oldest offspring won two awards at the Band & Orchestra banquet last Thursday. It was awesome! He has been floating since then, deservedly so.
I wonder if many of those people (who tell others to stop winning) won allllllllll the awards in high school and wonder why they haven’t won any since? There’s an entitlement in that attitude that is frankly frustrating. I get it - I had that entitlement too, for a long time, and it’s been a rough journey to try to learn who I actually was.
One of the things people also don't get, especially about awards in comics, is that twenty, thirty, forty years ago, the competition was a much smaller pool, and the events were tiny if there was any event at all, and most people didn't even care about them. But they compare with the state of comics now, with big glamorous San Diego Comic Con events with some little room in a hotel basement and fold up chairs. People are constantly chasing glamour in an industry that really doesn't have much sparkle behind that facade.
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
Your Bram Stoker award is awesome.
They might as well ask you to stop making art, I would have been way more severe in my response than you. What an insulting and patronizing thing to ask.
There's a lot of baggage behind this stuff.
To a degree I get it, I’ve struggled with the desire for affirmation or “success” or whatever with art, but, I do not recall ever once making it someone else’s problem, especially someone I look up to. Sheesh.
It's common as crabgrass.
The internet isn't really a place to connect with normal people minding their own business I guess lol
I'm glad to hear, as former president of HWA, that they handled presenting your Stoker decently.
Total pros.
What a nice award! Congratulations! 🎊🎈🍾🎉
Women can be hateful and poisonously mean. Let’s send that woman creator who complained to you back in time to middle school where she belongs.
I’m sorry you were treated so badly by those people and that experience you had with that award. I had a similar talking too after I won the science fair three times back in elementary school.
My oldest offspring won two awards at the Band & Orchestra banquet last Thursday. It was awesome! He has been floating since then, deservedly so.
I wonder if many of those people (who tell others to stop winning) won allllllllll the awards in high school and wonder why they haven’t won any since? There’s an entitlement in that attitude that is frankly frustrating. I get it - I had that entitlement too, for a long time, and it’s been a rough journey to try to learn who I actually was.
One of the things people also don't get, especially about awards in comics, is that twenty, thirty, forty years ago, the competition was a much smaller pool, and the events were tiny if there was any event at all, and most people didn't even care about them. But they compare with the state of comics now, with big glamorous San Diego Comic Con events with some little room in a hotel basement and fold up chairs. People are constantly chasing glamour in an industry that really doesn't have much sparkle behind that facade.
It's got a little doooooooor!!!
It's the COOLEST award.