With the San Diego con news cycle increasingly taken over by mega movie marketing events it was perhaps inevitable that a few events would migrate to other venues — one such is now the Annual Friends of Lulu Awards, which are moving to MoCCA, as the following PR shows. Should be a fun party!
Nominations for the four award categories are open to all, not just members, and will be taken at the NYCC next week.
Friends of Lulu is moving the organization’s Lulu Awards event from the San Diego Comic-Con to the popular MoCCA Art Festival (aka Artfest) this year!
The annual Lulu Awards, which recognize the efforts women make in comics, will be held at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in Manhattan on Saturday, June 7 at 8:30 p.m.. Light refreshments will be served, and there will be a suggested donation of $7.00 at the door.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, along with IDW, DC Comics and Archie Comics, is sponsoring this major event.
“We are excited to bring an award event to MoCCA Artfest, and just as excited not to be competing with the multitude of great events at San Diego Comic-Con this July. We are able to reach a larger group of people eager to see wonderful creators recognized for their hard work in this field,” Treasurer Marion Vitus notes.
On the schedule to present awards are the previous years’ award winners, including Rachel Nabors and Abby Denson, and on the roster to emcee the event is Lulu Eightball creator Emily Flake.
The new Lulu Awards date, in June instead of July, means the nominations are right around the corner; nominations will be open to non-members this year and begin at the joint MoCCA/Friends of Lulu table at the New York Comic-Con starting Friday, April 18.
Look for more details on the Friends of Lulu blog.
But will there be chocolate covered strawberries? Huh, will there?
Damn straight there will be, if I’m around (er, and employed)…
My brother, niece, and I (Southern Californians all) will miss the awards. *sniff*
But if it brings more attention (and attendees!), then I’m all for the move.
(Besides, it won’t be much different for us than when the awards were held in a tavern, and my niece was too young to be allowed in.)
Chris, we’ll have a presence at SDCC still and we sure hope to see all three of you there again this year! :D
You didn’t think you could get rid of us that easily, did you? ;-)
I’ll act as the harbinger of doom….
So, is this the beginning of the end for SDCC? With it becoming more expensive and more welcoming to video game companies and movies, will the comics part of the con be left out in the cold?
You’d think the con heads would take an offense to such a great comic book organization basically leaving them for another.
As Marion alluded, FoL will have a booth at San Diego as usual. The Lulu Awards were crowded out on Thursday by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund party, as I recall. Friday (Eisner Awards) and Saturday (Masquerade) would have been no better.