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2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
« on: January 19, 2019, 08:22:16 AM »
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Judges Select Aparo, Mills, Stevens, Turner for Eisner Hall of Fame

Voters Will Select 4 More Inductees

Comic-Con International (Comic-Con), the largest comic book and popular arts event of its kind in the world, has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected four individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2019. These inductees are Jim Aparo (Silver Age DC artist, Brave and the Bold, Batman and the Outsiders), Dave Stevens (writer/artist, creator of The Rocketeer), June Tarpé Mills (Golden Age creator of the Miss Fury comic strip and comic books), and Morrie Turner (cartoonist of the Wee Pals newspaper strip), pictured above.

The judges have also chosen 14 nominees from which voters will select 4 to be inducted in the Hall of Fame this summer. These nominees are Brian Bolland, Kevin Eastman, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Lynn Johnston, Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Alex Nino, Lily Renée Peter Phillips, Wendy & Richard Pini, P. Craig Russell, Bill Sienkiewicz, Don & Maggie Thompson, Akira Toriyama, and Naoki Urasawa.
Click here for a complete list of the 2019 nominees, including bios and art

All voting is online. To vote, you must be a professional working in the comics or related industries as a creator (writer, artist, cartoonist, colorist, letterer), a publisher or editor, a retailer (comics store owner or manager), a graphic novels librarian, or a comics historian/educator.
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to register (or to sign in if they have voted in the past) and then select up to four picks in the Hall of Fame category. The deadline for voting is March 15.

The 2019 Eisner Awards judging panel consists of comics journalist Chris Arrant (Newsarama), academic/author Jared Gardner (Ohio State University), librarian Traci Glass (Multnomah County Library system in Portland, Oregon), retailer Jenn Haines (The Dragon, Guelph and Milton, Ontario, Canada), reviewer Steven Howearth (Pop Culture Maven), and comics creator Jimmie Robinson (CyberZone, Amanda & Gunn, Bomb Girl).

The judges would like to give a special thank you to the students at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Vermont (courtesy of Steve Bissette and James Sturm) for their helpful input to the Hall of Fame selection process.

Submissions are currently being accepted in the other Eisner categories; the deadline is March 15 (see below for more details).The nominees for these categories will be announced in late April.

The Eisner Awards will be presented at a gala awards ceremony to be held on July 19 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. Jackie Estrada is the Eisner Awards Administrator.

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are presented by the San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con International), a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation organized for charitable purposes and dedicated to creating the general public’s awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular artforms, including participation in and support of public presentations, conventions, exhibits, museums, and other public outreach activities which celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.


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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2019, 04:36:00 PM »
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Mike Friedrich, E. Nelson Bridwell to Receive 2019 Bill Finger Award

Mike Friedrich and E. Nelson Bridwell have been selected to receive the 2019 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by a blue-ribbon committee chaired by writer-historian Mark Evanier, was unanimous.

"Once again, we have two winners who are way past-due for some rightful recognition," Evanier says. "Both were among the first human beings who went from reading comics to writing letters-to-the-editor that were published in comics and then on to writing the comics themselves. And both wrote some very fine comics that were appreciated at the time and appreciated in reprints—but, we think, not enough."

The Bill Finger Award was created in 2005 thanks to a proposal by the late comic book legend Jerry Robinson, who knew and worked with Finger. As Evanier explains, "We need to point out those wonderful bodies of work by writers who have not received their rightful reward and/or recognition," "When this award began, the late Bill Finger received almost no credit for his role in the creation of Batman. He does now, but there are still plenty of writers who have not received their proper rewards and/or recognition."

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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2019, 10:17:35 AM »
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Comic-Con is proud to announce that the 2019 recipients for the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award are Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, Kyung Jeon-Miranda, and Lisa Wood.

Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez

Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, creator of the Puerto Rican superhero La Borinqueña, independently published the benefit anthology Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico, featuring DC Comics characters teaming up with La Borinqueña as a response to Hurricane Maria. Ricanstruction has thus far raised over $200,000 for the La Borinqueña Grants Program, run by Kyung Jeon-Miranda, awarding grants last fall to local grassroots organizations in Puerto Rico. This summer they both continue their philanthropic efforts to award more grants.

Lisa Wood

Lisa Wood (a.k.a. comics artist Tula Lotay), founded Thought Bubble in Leeds, England. Although the most visible aspect of Thought Bubble is a yearly comics festival, it conducts activities year-round. Activities include a young people’s comic book awards at select schools, special autism services, Rainbow Age LGBTQ reading group events, an annual anthology (distributed internationally by Image) whose profits go to a disadvantaged children’s charity, distribution of free graphic novels to libraries, a two-day academic conference, and more.


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« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2019, 09:11:16 PM »
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Given the positive impact of the Eisner Awards, their importance to the comic book industry, and Fanbase Press' own mission to “Celebrate Fandoms,” Fanbase Press will soon re-launch its "Countdown to the Eisners" series on Wednesday, May 29, 2019.  With "Countdown to the Eisners," we will highlight each of the Eisner Awards' 31 nomination categories, providing comic book industry members and readers alike the opportunity to learn more about the nominees and their work.  In addition, Fanbase Press will again live-tweet the 2019 Eisner Award Ceremony from the Hilton Bayfront Hotel at San Diego Comic-Con through the Fanbase Press Twitter (@Fanbase_Press) account.  We are honored to begin our coverage this year with the below essay by Guest Contributor Craig Miller (Director of Fan Relations, Lucasfilm), noting his own reverence for the awards.     

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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2019, 12:57:49 PM »
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The 2019 nominees are:

    Lorena Alvarez, writer/artist of Hicotea and Nightlights (Nobrow)
    Ellen T. Crenshaw, artist of Kiss Number 8 (First Second)
    M. J. Kim, artist of Faith: Dreamside (Valiant)
    Sumit Kumar, artist of These Savage Shores (Vault Comics) and Ruin of Thieves (Action Lab)
    Kieran McKeown, artist of Halo: Lone Wolf (Dark Horse)

The nominees are truly international: While Crenshaw and Kim are in the U.S. (Los Angeles and New York), Alvarez hails from Bogota, Colombia, Kumar lives in India, and McKeown is Irish.

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Re: 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
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Lou Ferrigno, Ernie Hudson, Raina Telgemeier Among Presenters at the 31st Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards


The 31st annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony will be held Friday night, July 19 in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront, just a short walk south from the Convention Center.

The doors of the Indigo Ballroom will open at 7:45, and the ceremonies will get under way at 8:00. Attendance at the event is free to all Comic-Con members. Be sure to bring your convention badge to be admitted—and your I.D. if you wish to purchase alcoholic beverages. Advance seating for VIPs (nominees, sponsors, presenters) will begin at 7:00. No-host bars will be set up both in the ballroom and the ballroom lobby. The ceremony is expected to run until about 10:45. It will be followed by a reception in the Indigo Ballroom foyer, with a live jazz duo for entertainment.

Named for the pioneering comics creator and graphic novelist Will Eisner, The Eisner Awards will be given out in 32 categories for works published in 2018. All attendees will get a souvenir program listing the nominees.

Among presenters at this year’s ceremony are

    Actor Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk)
    Actor Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters)
    Worldwide bestselling graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Drama, Sisters)
    Actor/writer/directors Tom Lennon  and Ben Garant (Reno 911, Balls of Fury, Night at the Museum series)
    Actor Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange, Avengers: Infinity War)
    Comics creator/entrepreneur Todd McFarlane (Spawn, McFarlane Toys)
    Voice actor/comedian Phil LaMarr (MadTV, Samurai Jack, Futurama, Justice League)
    Voice actor Grey DeLisle-Griffin (DC Super Hero Girls, Scooby-Do and Guess Who, The Loud House, Young Justice)
    Comics creator Eddie Campbell (Bizarre Romance, From Hell, Bacchus)
    Bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Bizarre Romance)
    Eisner nominees David Walker and Sanford Greene (Bitter Root)
    Comics artist and past Eisner winner Alitha Martinez (Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Batgirl, Iron Man)
    Beloved cartoonist Sergio Aragonés (Groo, MAD)
    Writer Anina Bennett (Boilerplate, Heartbreakers)
    Writer/artist and past Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award recipient Bill Morrison
    Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award recipient and voice actor Kayre Morrison



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phillamarr Gearing up for San Diego Comic Con next week! Been invited to present at the #EisnerAwards!

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