Ballots are now up and available for the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retail Award. Like the site says, the award is presented each year at the Eisner Awards ceremony at the San Diego Comic-Con to, ” an individual retailer who has done an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within the industry at large.” If there’s a comics retailer I’ve had any personal dealings with that better meets this description than Charlotte, NC’s Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find, I sure don’t know who it’d be.
From the store’s enthusiastic support of local cartoonists–both mainstream comics industry artists and us “indie” folk–at Heroes Con, to the store’s various community activities and their attractive grime- and chainmail-free store on Charlotte’s 7th Street, Heroes more than meets the awards stipulation of a retailer that:
- Supports a wide variety of innovative material
- Is knowledgable
- Engages in community activity
- Exhibits a high quality store image
- and Adheres to ethical business practices
The awards site lists previous recipients back to 1993 and not one winner has been on the East cost. I propose that this year all of us who have attended Heroes con as guests or exhibitors, shopped at the store, and even spent valuable hours of our precious, precious time putting up with that Dustin guy’s nonsensical ramblings, endeavor to get Heroes in the running for the 2008 awards and bring the gold home to North Cackalacky.
Post stuff to your blogs! Pester complete strangers to vote for them! (Anyone can place nominating votes) Send a “gift pack” of tender jucy steaks to the judging panel! Do whatever you have to, but most important: fill out the ballot and send it in. For folks not in Charlotte, I’ll be pestering Dustin for some specific community activities to enter on the ballot and post those to my blog when I get them. Voting is open until April, but why not put down those Hot Pockets, get off your (or your parents’) couch and go ahead and send yours in now?
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