a question about the Hugos

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I've recently read that the Hugo criteria for a graphic story to be a valid nomination is that it must have appeared for the first time in the previous calendar year. That raises some questions about stories that were first serialized. After all, I don't think that all the material contained within each winning trade paperback of "Girl Genius" had appeared only during the nomination period. In 2013 I'm still planning to nominate "Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X", the first issue of which was published in 2011, but the trade paperback of which will be out this year. By the way, it begins with Robo having a phone conversation with Steve Jobs where he makes fun of the latter's iPad, after which he looks into who stole a whole building from Bletchley Park, and the whole thing ends on a scale that'd make Stephen Baxter proud.