Festivals Extra: Eisners 2016 HOF Voting Ends Thursday

Eisner Awards Administrator Jackie Estrada sent out the follow press release reminder that voting for the Eisner Awards is going to be over come Friday.

Voting Ends Thursday for Eisner Hall of Fame

SAN DIEGO -- Voting in the 2016 Eisner Awards Hall of Fame ends Thursday, April 7. The 14 nominees are Lynda Barry, Kim Deitch, Rube Goldberg, Edward Gorey, Bill Griffith, Matt Groening, Jack Kamen, Francoise Mouly, George Pérez, Antonio Prohias, P. Craig Russell, Rumiko Takahashi, Jacques Tardi, and Herb Trimpe. More information on the nominees can be found on the Eisner Awards web site.

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. Eligible voters can visit www.eisnervote.com 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 nominees were chosen by a judging panel consisting of journalist/reviewer Brian Doherty, comics writer/editor Danny Fingeroth, retailer Jason Grazulis (BSI Comics, Metairie, LA), librarian Jason M. Poole (Webster Public Library, Webster, NY), Comic-Con International board member Natalie Powell, and academic/scholar Carol Tilley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

The Eisner Awards will be presented at a gala awards ceremony to be held on July 22 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. Jackie Estrada is the Eisner Awards Administrator.

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The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are presented under the auspices of Comic-Con International, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular artforms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contributions of comics to art and culture.

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That should be interesting, as it's not dominated by fan-favorite superhero creators. At the same time, the non-superhero creator are all pretty evenly matched.
 
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