Your 2008 Bill Finger Award Winners




Comic-Con International announced this morning that Archie Goodwin and Larry Lieber will receive the 2008 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Since its inception in 2005, the awards tags one living person and one deceased person (Goodwin passed away in 1998) to honor them for their contributions as a writer. Its specific emphasis is on those writers whose work is largely unsung as was the case with Batman co-creator Finger. A longtime editor in addition to being a respected comics writer, Goodwin is best known for his work at Warren publications such as Blazing Combat and for his revisionist superhero work on titles such as Manhunter. Larry Lieber was a key creator in the comics company owned by Martin Goodman, including that company's 1960s superhero rise as Marvel Comics, frequently scripting plots supplied by brother Stan Lee.

The selection committee supervised by Mark Evanier was Charles Kochman, Paul Dini, Tony Isabella, and Marv Wolfman. The awards will be presented at the Eisner Awards ceremony on Friday, July 25.
 
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