I repeat: 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.
We have so far received a lot of interesting nominations for comic book writers who produced a substantial body of work…but almost as many nominations for artists who, if they ever wrote a comic in their lives, didn't write more than a few. Come on, folks.