The online voting facility for this year’s Eisner Awards are now open and you can vote online for your favourites from the nominees, which are listed in full on the Will Eisner Awards web site.
British creators nominated include Nick Abadzis for his book, Laika (nominated for Best Publication for Teens and Best Reality-Based Work); Garth Ennis for The Boys, drawn by Darick Robertson (Best Continuing Series) and Bryan Talbot for Alice in Sunderland (Best Painter or Multimedia Artist – interior art).
If you think you aren’t eligible, remember that anyone connected with the worldwide comics industry can vote. The final deadline is 13th June.
Support the home team(s)!
• Vote at: www.eisnervote.com You’ll need to register, but this only takes a moment, as does voting.
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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ALSO: British creator Richard Starkings was mostly responsible for GØDLAND: THE CELESTIAL EDITION, also nominated, chaps and chapesses!
Rich!
How could I have missed this? Sorry, Rich.