ProjectFanBoy.com is social networking site for comic book enthusiasts
Project Fanboy
Home of the annual Project Fanboy Awards, and social networking site for comic book enthusiasts. The site hosts comic book related news, interviews, reviews and blogs.
Project Fanboy is an independently run comic book promotions website, dedicated to promoting publishers, artists, and creators in the comic book industry with a specific emphasis on news, comic book reviews and interviews of persons and publishers in the comic book industry.
Project Fanboy Awards
The site is host to the Project Fanboy Awards (PFA). The PFA began as a monthly honor for deserving fansites. The Green Lantern Corps fan site was the first winner when it received the award for February, 2008.
In May of 2008 the Project Fanboy Award was restructured and re slated as an annual event and dubbed the Project Fanboy Awards(plural). While the monthly Project Fanboy Award for comic book fan sites remained unchanged; the annual awards now consisted of twenty-five different annual categories. Each category is open to submit nominations which are nominated and voted on by fans spanning the globe via the internet.
Nominations in all categories are accepted each year until November 1st, at which point voting begins and lasts through the end of December, in the following categories.
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Winners of the 2008 awards are scheduled to be announced Sunday, March 1st 2009 at the MegaCon comic book convention in Orlando, Florida. The awards are listed as a one of the main events for the MegaCon Convention in an article on ComicNewsi.com about MegaCon 2009.
History
The Project Fanboy website was launched in 2005 as an independently run promoter of comic books and creators in the comic book industry. A little known site in it's first three years, it eventually began publishing interviews and reviews of independent comic books in 2008. The site garnered little interest until May 2008, with the introduction of the annual Project Fanboy Awards.
At the 2009 MegaCon comic book convention the winners of the 2008 Project Fanboy Awards were announced. The awards sparked controversy amongst comic book fans with the announcement of Jim Balent's company Broadsword Comics receiving three of the twenty five awards, for their publication Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. Websites such as Chris's Invincible Super-Blog published sarcastic praise concerning the outcome of the awards, while other websites such as Panels on Pages spoke highly of the publication which is quoted as saying, "...making it easy to see how it walked away with three of the twenty-five awards at Project Fanboy this past March...".
In the 55th issue of Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, Broadsword colorist, Holly Golightly appeared adorned in only the three Project Fanboy Awards the company received, again sparking the attention of bloggers and internet users.ComicBitsOnline spoke with Holly GoLightly after the awards ceremony and showcased a photo of the Broadsword team accepting the Project Fanboy Awards in the interview the site published.
Usage as a comic book resource
In May 2009, the site began being used by the industry as a resource when interviews the site conducted with The Original Nutty Funsters author, Stephanie O'Donnell and Chumble Spuzz author, Ethan Nicolle were cited by the comic book news website Broken Frontier, as a primer to "inter-reviews" they conducted with the same authors.
The site has also appeared as a reference on the Internet Movie Database for an interview they conducted with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator, Peter Laird.
Comic book editor, writer, and Project Fanboy columnist, Steven D. Forbes is commonly known for his ongoing columns at the site, where he offers advice for aspiring writers as well as offering his professional editorial thoughts on samples of work sent to him by his readers. An established columnist on the site since August 2008, Forbes has been referenced on sites such as Newsarama, by columnist Randal Jarrell, and Tyler James. Forbes has also been spoken highly of on Today.com by Stacey David, author of the Bluewater Publishing mini-series Gearz.
Published author of Mastorism comic book and webcomic Matt Grant, also writes for the site in his column, Comics are for People, where he discusses the lack of new readership in comics and bringing comics to a wider audience.
In the news & other media
Project Fanboy is widely known for it's reviews of Indy titles. Excerpts of these reviews have been quoted on the back of several trade paper back comics and appeared on comic book news sites such as the Comics Bulletin website, where an excerpt from the review of the Boom! Studios title High Rollers appeared. The comic book awards the site is host to has also been listed as a one of the main events for the MegaCon Convention in an article on the ComicNewsi.com website.
The site was also noted in the July 2008 issue of Wizard (magazine)in an advertisement for After Hours Press, spotlighting a quote from the Project Fanboy website about their title Foxwood Falcons, created by Darren Sanchez. Project Fanboy was first to interview Sanchez when Tapestry Films purchased the options to his title, Foxwood Falcons.
