Yes, it's that time of the year again — the time when Evanier, on behalf of the selection committee, solicits nominations for the annual Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. This year, we will select someone who is alive for the honor and there will also be a posthumous award. All past nominations will be considered so if you nominated someone in the past, you need not submit them again. Basically, we're asking if any new names have occurred to you.
If so, they will probably not be people who recently joined the industry…and I'd better put the following in boldface: This is an award for a body of work as a comic book writer…someone who is or was unrecognized and/or unrewarded for that body of work. It is not for your favorite artist. It is not for someone who wrote a few stories. It is not for someone whose talents have been honored over and over and who got very, very rich and/or famous writing comics.
And the posthumous one is not for someone who is alive. Look up the word "posthumous," people. Each year, people nominate very-much-alive people and say their nominee should receive the posthumous award. We also have a couple of people who nominate themselves and I'm just waiting for someone to nominate themselves for the posthumous award. It will happen.
It is also not for anyone who has received this award in the past. The full list of such people can be read over on this page.
Here's the address for nominations. They will be accepted until April 15 at which time all reasonable suggestions will be placed before our Blue Ribbon Judging Committee and we'll make our decisions. They'll be announced before this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego and the awards will be presented then and there. Thank you.