Jim Balent and I collaborated on a tribute issue in his long-running comic book series, Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. And here he is cleaning up in the 2009 Project Fanboy Awards emailing me to let me know that I, as his starring character in issue #59 "Medusa's Stare", was a part of that.

The Project Fanboy Awards are reader awards. Fanfolk everywhere get to vote and sometimes the winners are funded comic publishers like Marvel or DC and other times the publishers are independent love laborers. Out of all the comics people are reading, still, Jim Balent's Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose took 6 of 22 categories in the 2009 Project Fanboy Awards - a favorite in the indie world as well as the comic world at large both.

This is reader pleasure if I ever saw it:

Best Artist: Jim Balent
Best Indie Artist: Jim Balent
Best Indie Comic: Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose
Best Indie Hero: Tarot
Best Indie Villain: Raven Hex (of Tarot)
Best Graphic Novel of 2009: Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #7



And still, the artist, Jim, emails me and says thank you. That's heart. That's community. That's a man on his path sharing radiance with others who can reflect his shining so brightly. Congratulations to Jim, Tarot and all of Broadsword Comics on this sexually open, female-led, pagan-centric comic - only an idea in the hip pocket nine years ago, now an understandable and unanimous reader epic. Dreams manifest.

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