Eisner Judges Pick Rudolph Dirks, Harry Lucey For Hall Of Fame




This year's slate of Eisner judges have selected Rudolph Dirks and Harry Lucey for that awards program's Hall Of Fame, it was announced by the Eisner folks through their presence on the Comic-Con International site.

The judges also selected the slate from which voters will choose four inductees. That slate is Bill Blackbeard, Howard Chaykin, Richard Corben, Carlos Ezquerra, Lee Falk, Bob Fujitani, Jesse Marsh, Tarpé Mills, Mort Meskin, Dennis O'Neil, Dan O'Neill, Katsuhiro Otomo, Trina Robbins and Gilbert Shelton.

I think Dirks and Lucey are solid choices in that I could have sworn they'd be in there already, plus it's likely they'd have a hard time finding enough supporters as voters begin to have available to them popular, considerable, still-living creators that found their start in the 1970s.

I like all of the nominees available to voters, too, for eventual inclusion, and am personally enthusiastic and passionate about the work of all but one or two. I'm particularly happy that voters get another chance to include the comics historian and archivist Bill Blackbeard, who despite not being a cartoonist had his hand in more books on the stands than anyone out there this side of Jack Kirby. It strikes me that Art Spiegelman cited Blackbeard as the inspiration for one of his major exhibits at next weekend's Angouleme Festival and that we have yet to honor the man himself in the country that's most directly benefited from his comics work. There are no bad choices above, but I'd love to see Blackbeard receive the consideration of voters, even if they go in another direction.

I think there's also something to be said about the Otomo nomination, in that he barely got work out there in the 1970s, making him pretty much the beginning of the 1980s nominees.
 
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