Comments on: Live Blogging the Eisners!

By: Autoversicherung

Autoversicherung — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:40:18 +0000

My very Favorit Blog. Best regards from Germany. Thank you

By: Dance with me for just the hell of it… « Blurred Productions

Dance with me for just the hell of it… « Blurred Productions — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:36:59 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Sam Jackson? The Eisners? [...]

By: Cheryl Sleboda

Cheryl Sleboda — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:57:27 +0000

I was the one who said I liked Tracy Todd’s outfit. :)
And it’s Portlyn and Atom! Freeman who won the Eisner Spirit of Retailing award, for the record.

By: Leigh Walton

Leigh Walton — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:41:05 +0000

That was Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), not Jeff Kinney (Wimpy Kid). An appearance by the latter would require the comics industry acknowledging DIARY OF A WIMPY KID as the juggernaut that it is, rather than covering our ears and pretending it doesn't exist. Not much chance of that, I'm afraid.

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » July 28, 2008: If Brad Meltzer can win an Eisner, anyone can…

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:45:46 +0000

[...] Let’s make this as quick and painless as possible. Tom Spurgeon has the list of this year’s Eisner winners; Heidi MacDonald live-blogged the awards ceremony; the folks at ActuaBD (Google translation) headline the lack of Francophone winners this year; and Katherine Farmer’s inclined to say “Fuck comics awards altogether.” I’m with her. [...]

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:41:45 +0000

I was fortunate to catch Mike Peters and Jeff MacNelly give a chalk talk at the Library Of Congress during the comicstrip centennial.
If the Eisner Awards are clever, they will have him MC the awards next year. He can kill time by telling many funny TRUE stories!
Can’t believe it took this long for Occult to make it… I once wore Buster Brown shoes. I also hope the Con features more comicstrip talent. It’s like two elderly aunts who don’t talk to each other because of some heirloom.

By: Dirk Manning

Dirk Manning — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:25:57 +0000

I know I’m late in saying this, but I PROMISE YOU the “Toledo” joke is really funny if you’re familiar with the town.

Seriously.

By: Mark Coale

Mark Coale — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:12:42 +0000

I was going to fix the typos this morning, but figured it would be more fun to read RAW, UNCENSORED H.

By: Kat Kan

Kat Kan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:38:05 +0000

As a former Eisner judge, I will say that during my year I read a lot of titles I wouldn’t have on my own. It caused me to stretch my boundaries a lot. Ever since then, I’ve been reading much more extensively across genres, publisher types, formats, etc. And when the nominations were announced this year, I was so pleased to see that I had already read a majority of the nominees. But yes, I keep hoping that those who vote will read more. (And yes, I do vote.)

By: Donnie

Donnie — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:21:12 +0000

Gary never ages? So he’s always looked 50?

Seriously though, nice work.

By: The Beat

The Beat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:34:12 +0000

Hey kids, I was LIVE blogging (although bettert shi year than last) so many many misteaks,,,thanks for correx and clarifications.

By: rakarich

rakarich — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:51:12 +0000

Jesse,

Gosh darnit, your honesty has left me speechless. Kudos to you my friend.

I guess the thing that made me feel this way was when the nominees were announced I saw it as a wonderful opportunity to “discover” new creators I was not aware of. I have to say award or not for some of these creators, they have a new fan in me. :)

By: Jesse Post

Jesse Post — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:21:39 +0000

rakarich Says: I truly believe that there are more people who have the voting power who do not read all of the nominees than do. I believe the group that nominate the Eisners do more research and work than the people who actually vote … and THAT is a shame.

Agreed. While voting I tried to research the categories of which I knew nothing (best foreign material, for instance) but in most cases I just left a category blank if it was all Greek to me. Not sure if this is good or bad, but being disappointed with this year’s results, I will make an effort to make informed judgments next year. It’s clear that most people just vote their most familiar, if not their favorite.

Also, why is “Humor” the only genre that’s broken out from the pack? It seems odd that Buffy, Johnny Hiro, and Scalped all have to compete for the same award.

By: Da Fug

Da Fug — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:35:58 +0000

Thanks for the play-by-play. Nice to have an idea of what goes on at these things along with the winners list.

By: rakarich

rakarich — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:28:30 +0000

OK, my soap box moment (apologies in advance ;) ):

I truly believe that there are more people who have the voting power who do not read all of the nominees than do. I believe the group that nominate the Eisners do more research and work than the people who actually vote … and THAT is a shame.

This is my opinion and nothing more than selfish speculation (and I’m just a fan who doesn’t have a horse in this race).