{"id":857,"date":"2007-11-18T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2007-11-18T12:23:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T16:23:28","slug":"heroes-in-nc-for-the-eisner-retail-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Heroes in NC for the Eisner Retail Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ballots<\/a> are now up and available for the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retail Award.\u00c2\u00a0 Like the site<\/a> 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 \t\t\t\t\tof supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within \t\t\t\t\tthe industry at large.”\u00c2\u00a0 If there’s a comics retailer I’ve had\u00c2\u00a0 any personal dealings with that better meets this description than Charlotte, NC’s Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find<\/a>, I sure don’t know who it’d be.<\/p>\n

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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:<\/p>\n