Silver Pen Award

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 22:28 -0700

I´m still in Mexico City, but have been too busy to post anything for awhile (see Ai Caramba, Usagi in Mexico).

One big news is that I did receive a Silver Pen Award on Saturday night. Other recipients were Sergio Aragones, Juan Gimenez, and others I´m too tired to remember right now.

If you´re thinking you had never heard of the Silver Pen Award, well neither did I until the day of the awards. It´s pretty neat. I´ll see if I can publish a picture of it in the comic.

Having a great time. Still haven´t made it to the museum, but hoping to see the pyramids tomorrow (Monday).

Adios.

Post by **Todd Shogun** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 23:06 -0700

Congrats Stan! Yet another award to add to your collection... Was it for anything specific, like best comic, best writer/artist, etc?

Glennosuke · Post by **Glennosuke** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:57 -0700

Congtratulations Stan! And be careful on those steps! I am told that they are very small and the climb is steep!

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:43 -0700

The Silver Pen is what the Utopia convention is hoping will be like San Diego´s Inkpot Awards. The recipients are selected by a committee (like the Inkpots), rather than a general voting process (as is the case with the Harveys or Eisners).

This is the first year for Utopia and I´m very impressed with their treatment of guests and generally how smoothly everything is being run. I´m also grateful (and surprised) that I´m one of the very first recipients of this award.

The van taking us to the pyramids just arrived, so I´m signing off for today.