Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Recipients of the 2012 Rondo Awards
-- BEST MOVIE: CABIN IN THE WOODS
-- BEST TV: WALKING DEAD
-- CLASSIC DVD: A&C MEET FRANKENSTEIN
-- CLASSIC COLLECTION: UNIVERSAL MONSTERS ON BLU RAY
-- RESTORATION: DRACULA (1931)
-- COMMENTARY: David Kalat on Criterion GOJIRA/GODZILLA
-- DVD EXTRA: Universal Monsters ORIGINAL HOUSE OF HORRORS booklet
-- INDEPENDENT FILM: HOUSE OF GHOSTS
-- SHORT FILM: FALL OF HOUSE OF USHER (animated)
-- DOCUMENTARY: BEAST WISHES
-- BOOK OF YEAR: RAY HARRYHAUSEN'S FANTASY SCRAPBOOK
-- BEST MAGAZINE MODERN: RUE MORGUE
-- BEST MAGAZINE CLASSIC: SCARY MONSTERS
-- BEST ARTICLE: Christopher Lee: A Career retrospective, by Aaron Christensen, HORROR HOUND #34
-- BEST INTERVIEW: Michael Culhane talks with original DARK SHADOWS cast, including Jonathan Frid's last interview, FAMOUS MONSTERS #261
-- BEST COLUMN: It Came from Bowen's Basement (John Bowen), RUE MORGUE
-- BEST THEME ISSUE: Tie, MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT #30 (Vincent Price); VIDEO WATCHDOG #169 (Dark Shadows)
-- COVER: Jeff Preston's Phibes cover for LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #29
-- WEBSITE: DREAD CENTRAL
-- BLOG: COLLINSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
-- CONVENTION: MONSTERPALOOZA
-- FAN EVENT: Rick Baker gets star on hollywood Walk of Fame
-- HORROR HOST: Svengoolie
-- HORROR COMIC: WALKING DEAD
-- MULTIMEDIA (Audio/video): FRIGHT BYTES
-- SOUNDTRACK/HORROR CD: ROSEMARY'S BABY
-- TOY, MODEL OR COLLECTIBLE: Jeff Yagher's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN scene
-- WRITER OF YEAR: Tim Lucas
-- REVIEWER OF YEAR: David-Elijah Nahmod
-- ARTIST: DANIEL HORNE
-- FAN ARTIST: MARK OWEN
-- HENRY ALVAREZ AWARD FOR ARTISTIC DESIGN: RAY SANTOLERI
-- INTERNATIONAL MONSTER FAN: Rhonda Steerer (operates Boris Karloff 'More Than a Monster' site from Germany)
-- MONSTER KID OF THE YEAR: SIMON ROWSON (for work in Japan unearthing lost footage in HORROR OF DRACULA)
-- HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES:
-- J.D. LEES -- Editor/publisher who helped popularize kaiju scholarship with G-FAN, now a giant-sized 100 issues old.
-- COUNT GORE DE VOL: Still going strong in multimedia, 40 years later.
-- TED NEWSOM: Opinionated but with good reason -- he was there researching and interviewing long before most others.
-- STEVE BISSETTE -- Writer's love of the genre has spread across all genres, from comic books to deep research.
-- JESSIE LILLEY: From Scarlet Street to Famous Monsters and Mondo Cult, she has expanded the outlook of fandom.
-- And the late GARY DORST: One of fandom's founding forces, gone far too soon.