Yeah, that’s the sort of thing that frustrates me more than the rules themselves. I respect the organization’s right to set its own qualification rules, and the judges’ right to recognize the sort of work they value, rather than the sort of work I want them to value. But when they set rules that they then choose not to follow, that’s aggravating.

But there is continuity, there is progression. Perhaps not in quite the way you’d find in a work of pure fiction, but it’s hardly in the same category as Garfield.

I’d also mention that Minus was nominated in a previous year. Now I loves Minus, but at the time it was nominated, it didn’t have continuity that lasted more than a couple of strips.

And no, Planet Karen got no official response either way. I was asked to provide proof that it qualified, and when I inquired several weeks later whether a decision had been made, I was told only that the information had been passed on.

Admittedly, I haven’t read your full archive. But I did read a bunch of random strips, and felt like I got a satisfying stand-alone experience from each of the strips I read. That’s not to say that it wouldn’t be *more interesting* to read the strips in order, and to see the patterns that emerge. But on the surface, it doesn’t seem absolutely essential to read the strips in order.

I’m also not saying that I necessarily agree with the decision that was made. Just trying to clarify the terminology being used.

To look up the nominees over the past few years and see if they’ve ever nominated anyone who doesn’t have some sort of print comic connected to their name…