Ursa Major Awards Winners
May 19th, 2008 by Editors
The Ursa Major Awards were presented at Morphicon 2008 on Saturday. The winners are as follows:
- Best Anthropomorphic Motion Picture: Ratatouille (Pixar/Disney, released June 29, 2007)
- Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short Work or Series: “Gridlock” (Doctor Who, Series 3, Episode 3; produced by BBC1, first broadcast April 14, 2007)
- Best Anthropomorphic Novel: “Life’s Dream”, by Bernard Doove (CreateSpace, December 2007)
- Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction: “Don’t Blink”, by Kyell Gold (in Heat #4, Sofawolf Press, July 2007)
- Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work: All the Newshounds Fit to Print, by Thomas K. Dye (Lulu.com, January 2007)
- Best Anthropomorphic Comic Book: Gargoyles, by Greg Weisman, Gordon Purcell, Dustin Evans, and Greg Guler (Slave Labor Graphics, #4 to #6)
- Best Anthropomorphic Comic Strip: Ozy and Millie, by D. C. Simpson (Internet, Monday to Friday, January 1 to December 31)
- Best Anthropomorphic Magazine: Heat (Published by Sofawolf Press, one 2007 issue, July)
- Best Anthropomorphic Published Illustration: “Blotch” (Kenket and Black Teagan); cover painting for the Fur Affinity: United 2007 convention souvenir book, August 10-12, 2007
- Best Anthropomorphic Game: Sam & Max, Season 2, Episode 1: “Ice Station Santa” (Designer: Telltale Games; Publisher: Game Tap; released November 8, 2007)
Our thanks as ever to Fred Patten who reports:
201 ballots were received: 145 were from the U.S.; a dozen or more each from Australia and the U.K.; a half dozen or more each from Canada and Germany; and one or two each from countries as diverse as Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Laos, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia, Spain, and Sweden
Fred also informs us that, “By popular request, the Best Anthropomorphic Fanzine category has been renamed the Best Anthropomorphic Magazine category.”
