Comics - Vote in the Eagle Awards

The Eagle Award Nominations have been picked and now voting for the awards themselves begins. Omnivistascope didn't get a nomination, so we'll have to do better for next year :)

The awards themselves have become increasingly more Americanised over the last few years, though they were born out of UK fandom for US comics, so the bias has always been there. Ken Reid was never going to win an Eagle Award, neither was Leo Baxindale. They created the wrong sort of comics.

Now it's not just superhero-centric fans from the UK voting it's US superhero-centric fans as well. I think if the awards were marketed at a more diverse crowd, we might get more diverse awards, but the bias may shift in other ways. 30,000 Beano readers voting would make the awards look like Beano Town of course. So perhaps we should accept them as a largely Superhero based awards that occasionally recognises other notable comics.

Of course this didn't affect my nomination bid for best Black and White British comic book, where there are no US or Superhero competitors, OVS just didn't get enough votes :)

Be sure to make your vote count!

http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/nominate.asp