Eagle Awards Voting Now On
Posted: Monday, September 10
By: Jason Brice
ESTABLISHED in 1976, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest
established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes,
they have ben featured on the covers of leading US and UK titles
across the last 25 years.
Unique in that they reflect the people's favourites, they comprise of
two distinct stages. International comics readers initially nominate their
favourite titles through print or Internet coverage, with the
top-scoring three in each category going on to the actual voting form.
This year's voting form is made up of the top nominations by comic fans
across the world, coming from America, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia,
Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong,
Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines,
South
Africa, Spain and Sweden. Participants this year have so far
ranged in age from 12 to 54.
NORTH AMERICAN SECTION
1/1 FAVOURITE COLOUR COMICBOOK
JSA
Planetary
Starman
1/2 FAVOURITE BLACK & WHITE COMICBOOK
Bone
Liberty Meadows
Strangers in Paradise
1/3 FAVOURITE NEW COMICBOOK OF 2000
Powers
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate X-Men
INTERNATIONAL
SECTION
2/1 FAVOURITE COMICS WRITER
Brian Michael Bendis
Warren Ellis
Alan Moore
2/2 FAVOURITE COMICS WRITER/ARTIST
Brian Michael Bendis
David Mack
Frank Miller
2/3 FAVOURITE
COMICS ARTIST: PENCILS
Michael Avon Oeming
George Perez
Frank
Quitely
2/4 FAVOURITE COMICS ARTIST: INKS
Mark Farmer
Paul
Neary
Jimmy Palmiotti
2/5 FAVOURITE COMICS artist: fully painted
artwork
Glenn Fabry
David Mack
Alex Ross
2/6 FAVOURITE
COLOURIST
Chris Blythe
Laura Depuy
Liquid!
2/7 FAVOURITE
COMICS EDITOR
Tom Brevoort
Andy Diggle/Mighty Tharg
Joe
Quesada
2/8 FAVOURITE MANGA COMIC
Akira
Blade of the Immortal
Lone Wolf and Cub
2/9 FAVOURITE EUROPEAN COMIC
The Extended
Dream of Mr D (Spain)
Metabarons (France)
Ratman (Italy)
2/10
FAVOURITE COMICS CHARACTER
Batman
Judge Dredd
Spider-Man
2/11 FAVOURITE COMICS STORY WHICH APPEARED, BEGAN OR ENDED DURING 2000
Starman: Grand Guignol
The Authority: The Nativity
Powers: Who
Killed Retro Girl?
2/12 CHARACTER MOST WORTHY OF OWN ONGOING TITLE
Dr Mid-Nite (JSA)
Elijah Snow (Planetary)
Harry Exton/Button
Man (2000 AD)
2/13 FAVOURITE SUPPORTING CHARACTER IN COMICS
Alfred
Pennyworth (Batman)
Commissioner James Gordon (Batman)
Uncle Ben
(Ultimate Spider-Man)
2/14 FAVOURITE COMICS COVER PUBLISHED DURING
2000
100 Bullets #21 (Dave Johnson)
The Authority #14 (Frank
Quitely)
Ultimate Spider-Man #1 (Joe Quesada)
2/15 FAVOURITE
COMICS VILLAIN
Doctor Doom (Fantastic Four)
Lex Luthor (Superman)
The Joker (Batman)
2/16 FAVOURITE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Pedro & Me
Safe Area Gorazade
Torso
2/17 FAVOURITE REPRINT COMPILATION
Batman: No Man's Land Volume 1
Lone Wolf and Cub
The
Authority: Under New Management
2/18 FAVOURITE NEWSPAPER STRIP
Dilbert
Liberty Meadows
Zits
2/19 FAVOURITE MAGAZINE ABOUT
COMICS
Comics International
The Comics Journal
Wizard
2/20
FAVOURITE COMICS-RELATED BOOK
Reinventing Comics (Scott McCloud)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
Wonder Woman: The Complete History (Les Daniels)
BRITISH SECTION
3/1 FAVOURITE BRITISH COMIC
2000 AD
Judge Dredd Megazine
Warhammer Monthly
3/2 FAVOURITE COMIC STRIP TO APPEAR IN A UK
COMIC OR MAGAZINE
Judge Dredd
Nikolai Dante
Necronauts
3/3
FAVOURITE BRITISH SMALL PRESS TITLE
Bazooka Jules
Jack Staff
The O-Men
INTERNET SECTION
4/1 FAVOURITE COMICS RELATED
WEBSITE
http://www.2000adonline.com/
http://www.comicbookresources.com/
http://www.fandom.com/newsarama
4/2 FAVOURITE COMICS E-ZINE
Fanzing
Sequential Tart
Comic
Book Elextronic Magazine
4/3 FAVOURITE WEB-BASED COMIC
Astounding
Space Thrills
Sluggy Freelance
Zot!
ROLL OF HONOUR
CrossGeneration Comics
Joe Quesada
Warren Ellis
YOUR
DETAILS
To validate your votes, we require you to provide the following
personal details: Your name, age and address.
All votes to: eagleawards@comicsinternational.com