Don Rosa, Steve Gerber Win 2013 Bill Finger Award




The Bill Finger Award committee headed by Mark Evanier announced today that Don Rosa and Steve Gerber will receive this year's award.

Don Rosa is best known for his work on the Disney duck comics, the exemplar of which is the 12-part The Life In Times Of Scrooge McDuck, an act of spirit and love based on various clues about the life of the Carl Barks character as dropped here and there over several years worth of comics publications. Rosa was a noted collected of comics -- he remains one, I believe -- and created Carl Barks-reminiscent work of his own before starting on the various ducks comics.

Like Rosa, Steve Gerber got his start in fan publications and made quality work of his own although his best-known and mostly highly regarded material was done for a corporate publisher. Gerber enjoyed several quirky and creative runs on various mainstream comic book series but remains best known for the co-creation of and subsequent series writing of Howard The Duck, a small publishing phenomenon of the 1970s and a distillation of various expressive elements of underground comics through the absolute mainstream; Gerber's work holds up on its own merits, too, sad and mournful and funny.

I believe Rosa's win is the first time the Finger Award has gone to a writer that is equally well known as an artist.

The award was instituted in 2005 at the behest and due to the hard work of the late Jerry Robinson. One living one deceased writer are selected. Its basic function is to recognize the contributions of writers that have yet to receive their proper due. The award will be given out at this year's Eisner Awards ceremony the Friday night of Comic-Con International weekend.
 
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