Geekie Awards To Honor Stan Lee, Indie Artists and Creators

Originally published on TheFlickcast.com.  27 June 2013.

The First Annual Geekie Awards is coming to Hollywood, CA and a computer near you. Celebrating independent creators, artists and filmmakers, the awards show is set for August 18, 2013 at The Avalon Hollywood and will also be broadcasted live online.

Geekie categories include best in indie-created graphic novels, short films, web series, podcasts, and comic books. Other categories include Crowdfunded Geek, Art & Craft, Retail Stores & Websites, and Toys & Games. The live streaming online broadcast is set to reach an international audience of millions.

Explaining the purpose of The Geekie Awards, Executive Producer and concept creator, Kristen Nedopak said, “There are far too many talented creators out there who don’t have the means to get the exposure they need [in order] to promote their incredible work. The Geekie Awards gives them exposure to an international audience, both through our panel of expert judges to our website to the show itself and all the press surrounding it.”

Some of the nominees for the 2013 Geekie Awards include:

- Artist Karen Hallion’s Princess Leia piece, La Dauphine Aux Alderaan
- Jane Espenson & Brad Bell’s graphic novelization of their web series, Husbands
- Stan Lee Parkour
- I Fight Dragons’ Crazie$ music video
- Zachary Levi’s “all things nerd” website, The Nerd Machine, designed by WebMovement
- A Podcast of Fire and Ice and many more

The legendary Stan Lee will also be presented with the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at the show.

Tickets are available at www.thegeekieawards.com/tickets for a range of prices and seating/entrance. Just $25 will get you in to see the show and $75 will earn you a balcony seat. At the $200 level, attendees are entered to win a movie poster signed by Stan Lee. Pre-sale discounts end on Sunday, June 30th.

Learn more about The Geekie Awards are www.thegeekieawards.com.

Coming Soon to the CW: Brad Bell and Jane Espenson's 'Husbands'

Originally published on TheFlickcast.com.  2 April 2013.

Brad Bell and Jane Espenson are a dynamite duo. The team has created the winning Web series, Husbands, which was recently picked up by the CW’s online content branch, CW Digital Studio.

In case you're not familiar, Husbands follows a gay actor (Bell) and a gay baseball player (Sean Hemeon) who wake up in Vegas married. Despite having only known each other for six weeks the two decide to go for it and that means dealing with moving in together, petty fights, cute make ups, and public scrutiny (and then some).

Not only will fans get to see existing episodes via CW but the network is also funding new episodes. Bell and Espenson, who also created Husbands: The Comic with Dark Horse, are excited to continue exploring the still very much newlywed relationship of baseball superstar Brady and outgoing actor Cheeks.

“When they got married they’d known each other six weeks,” Espenson said. “This is a really new relationship. They haven’t celebrated each others’ birthdays yet.”

The fact that Husbands is popular is without question. The channel has over 25,000 subscribers and the episodes have garnered over 100,000, and in some cases 200,000, views. Seasons one and two have included guest appearances by Nathan Fillion, Joss Whedon, Mekhi Phifer, Jon Cryer, Felicia Day and more. Literary legend Neil Gaiman wrote the introduction for the comic. Popular may in fact be an understatement.