Deletion of Schlock Mercenary

Comment: Hugo Award nom: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/2012-hugo-award-nominees-announced/. The comic was a finalist in the ''Washington Post''{{'}}s Best Webcomic poll. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/02/the_best_webcomic.html. The comic itself has also been ''quoted'' by the Nyasa Times. http://www.nyasatimes.com/malawi/2011/11/02/kaliati-spare-the-messengers-please/. Even Wikipedia related: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/31/wikipedia-falls-foul-comic-book, http://www.webpronews.com/protests-grow-over-wikipedia-deletions-2007-10. Reviewed by the University Press of North Georgia: http://upnorthgeorgia.org/?tag=schlock-mercenary. Cited in a book printed by the Institute of International Visual Arts: http://books.google.com/books?id=1t5PAAAAMAAJ&q=%22schlock+mercenary%22&dq=%22schlock+mercenary%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eALyUNrYMoTk9ASRqICICg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCDge. Also: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/ars-readers-pick-the-12-most-incredible-webcomics/, http://www.webpronews.com/the-planet-datacenter-offline-after-fire-2008-06, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10E5218ADE159578&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM, http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SLTB/lib00825,1216949EA879B1C0.html, http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20110607. "Couldn't find any sources that weren't primary" translates to "failure of " here. TPH, noms like this are why you keep drawing the ire of the community
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)

Comment: a Hugo award nomination is indeed sufficient, and if you follow the links to the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, you'll find multiple nominations listed there, with inline citations for each.  Those multiple major award nominations would be sufficient for a personal article under 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ANYBIO)

Comment: on  if nothing else (and I am NOT saying that's the only reason to keep it). I find it interesting that as an online encyclopedia we still basically demand that an article's subject get featured in the (paper) New York Times or similar before some will accept it as a "safe to retain" item. If Schlock Mercenary can be deleted as non-notable on the "letter of the law", then deletionists have won, and we might as well close Wikipedia down and hand it other arbiters than the public and the users (i.e. give it to media corporations like everything else). Special:Contributions/125.236.217.145|125.236.217.145
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means (WP:COMMONSENSE)