After yesterday's post about the nice io9 article, I got three separate e-mails from readers saying "...Hey! I nominated DRIVE for a Hugo Award." Which kinda took me aback, as I didn't even know DRIVE was eligible. But I just read the rules, and apparently it is!
So! If you're eligible to nominate and vote in the Hugos, know that book one "DRIVE: A Hero Rises", is eligible for the Best Graphic Story category.
Now, let's be honest: You and I both know that Phil and Kaja Foglio of the brilliant Girl Genius will *win*. But it'd be neat just to sit next to them and breathe in their talented vapors. :)
...and thanks to those who nominated DRIVE, already! That was a real kindness for a cartoonist who didn't even know how these things worked!
They had a Hugo award at their booth at ECCC. I said, "Cool, you won a Hugo." She said, "Actually, we have two."
They have a novelization now of the first three Girl Genius books. I joked that they should have had Alan Dean Foster do it.
I won't dispute that Girl Genius is exceptional, and I won't be surprised if they win, but DRIVE is...well, I think DRIVE is unique.
Everything about standard Sci Fi is twisted - the evil empire is the sympathetic party, the evil empire is hopelessly outmatched, the evil emperor (who assassinated the previous emperor, his uncle) may be the only one who can save it. The ostensible heroes are, respectively, an overpowered pop-culturally addicted naif, and a cynical amnesiac who only wants to find out his identity, but is pressed into service because he has an innate ability that makes him special. All this wrapped up in a religious conspiracy from an alien society.
It sounds ludicrous, but DAMN is it good.
I hope you win. You deserve it.
