Vote for Curls – Advance to Week Four

Great news: "Curls" has advanced to round four in The Cartoonist Studio competition. The full contest is ten weeks long. Thank you to everyone who has voted and helped Curls advance in this contest. The winner receives a run on gocomics.com and the chance to be surrounded by other great comic strips like Luann, Cul de Sac, Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, and more.


Here is how you can support "Curls" - You will need to create an account on thecartooniststudio.com (it only takes one minute). Then search for "Curls" or "Carolyn Belefski" on the voting page and click to cast your vote: http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/Contestant/244/Carolyn-Belefski

You can vote every six hours -- four times a day. Thank you for your time and consideration. I understand it may be difficult to vote every six hours, but please vote when you can or whenever you're online.

Thanks for your support. I really appreciate the fans of Curls Studio.

XOXO,
Carolyn

Magic Bullet #4 Release Party

Magic Bullet is a Washington, DC comics newspaper and the fourth edition of the paper was recently released to the public. You can grab a free copy at many of the fine establishments in the full list of places where you can find Magic Bullet #4 here: http://magicbulletcomics.blogspot.com

If you are a retailer, friend, or distributor outside the D.C. area who wants copies of Magic Bullet #4, we can mail a bundle (100 copies) parcel post for a flat $25. Contact mattdembicki (at) gmail.com if you are interested.

There will be a free release party at Big Planet Comics in Vienna, VA on Saturday, March 3, 2012 from noon to 3PM. More than a dozen contributors from this issue will be there, and they'll have some of their own self-published comics for sale! Plus there will be a BBQ in the parking lot. You simply can't miss this! All are invited. RSVP to the event on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/315946351785161/

Curls Studio will be at the release party to celebrate their Black Magic Tales story "The Mystery of the Big Hit" published in Magic Bullet #4 and we hope to see you there.

2012 Harvey Nominations Open

Nominations for the 2012 Harvey Awards are now open. If you work in the comics industry, you are qualified to nominate. Ballots are due on April 16, 2012.

Here’s the link for the ballot and more information about the awards: http://www.harveyawards.org

Please consider nominating Curls Studio (Carolyn Belefski, Joe Carabeo) in the following categories:
- Most Promising New Talent
- Best Anthology: Curls Studio Presents Carnival Anthology
- Best Online Comics Work: Curls, www.curls-studio.com/curls
- Special Award for Humor in Comics

The Harvey Awards will be presented on September 8, 2012 as part of the Baltimore Comic-Con. Curls Studio will be in Artist Alley. We look forward to seeing you then!

Vote for Curls – Advance to Week Three

The news: "Curls" has advanced to round three in The Cartoonist Studio competition. The full contest is ten weeks long. Thank you to everyone who has voted and helped Curls advance in this contest. The winner receives a run on gocomics.com and the chance to be surrounded by other great comic strips like Luann, Cul de Sac, Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, and more.


Here is how you can support "Curls" - You will need to create an account on thecartooniststudio.com (it only takes one minute). Then search for "Curls" or "Carolyn Belefski" on the voting page and click to cast your vote: http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/Contestant/244/Carolyn-Belefski

You can vote every six hours -- four times a day. Thank you for your time and consideration. I understand it may be difficult to vote every six hours, but please vote when you can or whenever you're online.

Thanks for your support. I really appreciate the fans of Curls Studio.

XOXO,
Carolyn

Vote for Curls – Advance to Week Two

Good news: "Curls" has advanced to round two in The Cartoonist Studio competition. The full contest is ten weeks long and I would greatly appreciate your votes. It was hard to determine the exact results from week one, and I do not know if the site posted any, but from what I could tell, Curls positioned around 21st place out of 133 entries. Thank you to everyone who voted last week and helped Curls advance to this week.

If you haven't voted yet, you will need to create an account on thecartooniststudio.com (it only takes one minute). Then search for "Curls" or "Carolyn Belefski" on the voting page and click to cast your vote: http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/Contestant/244/Carolyn-Belefski

If you have been voting, please continue to support the Curls comic strip: http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/Contestant/244/Carolyn-Belefski

You can vote every six hours -- four times a day. Thank you for your time and consideration. I understand it may be difficult to vote every six hours, but please vote when you can or whenever you're online.

The winner receives a run on gocomics.com and the chance to be surrounded by other great comic strips like Luann, Cul de Sac, Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, and more. Thanks for making a dream of mine as a cartoonist become one step closer.

XOXO,
Carolyn

VOTE CURLS in The Cartoonist Studio Contest

I have entered my comic strip "Curls" into The Cartoonist Studio Contest. The competition is going on right now and I'd really appreciate your vote. You will need to create an account on thecartooniststudio.com - then you can cast one vote for one cartoonist every six hours. There are many, many strips in the contest, so your vote does matter. You can vote four times a day -- every six hours.

Search for "Curls" or "Carolyn Belefski" to cast your vote here: http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/Vote

The way I understand how the contest will be run is: there will be ten rounds of voting, one new cartoon per week will be shown from each contestant. The lowest 10% of the polls at the end of each week will be eliminated, until the final week where the remaining comic will be the winner. Judges will also determine who will be the final winner. The winner of the contest has the opportunity to run their comic on the gocomics.com website, which is good exposure and could lead to greater things. More eyes on Curls is always a positive thing and if you are a fan of my strip, please consider voting and telling your friends. Thank you for your support!

If you follow me on Twitter or are a fan of Curls Studio on Facebook, please bear with me as I promote the contest. It feels like I have to promote it every 6 hours! Thanks for you patience, in advance.

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