2008 Harvey Award nomination ballots are available online now and, although I’d of course never directly request such a thing <cough!><cough!>, if for some reason you felt compelled to vote for Midnight Sun in any or all of the following categories, I’d certainly not object:

BEST CARTOONIST
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM – ORIGINAL*

(*I’m not exactly sure what their critera for original vs. reprint is in “Best Graphic Album” but it seems more appropriate to put Midnight Sun there than, say, competing with the latest collection of Peanuts strips, for example.)

You do, though, have to be “involved in a creative capacity in the comics field” to submit a ballot… although, I’m not 100% sure of what that includes.  Obviously, published cartoonists, but I’m not sure if you can vote if you’re, say, a writer for The Comics Journal, or run a podcast, or whatever.

I generally don’t vote for myself in these things, particularly in the Harveys, which seem like they’re pretty susceptible to deliberate efforts to “game” the results, as well as just statistical oddities due to small sample size, so my nominations are going to be largely from this bunch of books, which off the top of my head were some of my favorites from 2007:

Skyscrapers of the Midwest #4 – Josh Cotter (Adhouse)

Superspy – Matt Kindt (Top Shelf)

Black Metal – Rick Spears and Chuck B.B. (Oni)

Alias the Cat – Kim Deitch (Pantheon)

The Best of Mutts – Patrick McDonald (Andrews McMeel)