Eagle Awards Nominations
Thursday, January 25th, 2007 10:08pm CST
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"The Eagle Awards are the name given to a series of awards for comic book titles and creators. They are awarded by UK fans who vote for who they feel are the best in each category of the awards.
They are named after the fondly remembered 1950s comic title Eagle and originated in 1976 thanks to two British fans, Mike Conroy (now part of the staff of Comics International) and Richard Burton. British comic fandom at this time was still relatively small but the awards proved to be successful, especially with American publishers such as Marvel Comics who would announce their victories with pride. X-Men was one title which regularly gathered handfuls of awards, mainly for its writing and art during the Chris Claremont and John Byrne era.
It wasn't until Britain had a regular annual comic convention (the United Kingdom Comic Art Convention, commonly shortened to UKCAC) in 1986 that the awards became a regular event. During this time creators such as Alan Moore and Alan Davis would win awards while characters such as Batman were always firm fan-favourites.
The awards did disappear for a time, replaced briefly with the National Comics Award, in 2000 they returned as an event at that years Comic Festival (which had replaced UKCAC) presented by Simon Pegg.
They are now part of the current UK comic event, the Comic Expo."
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Posted by Bot Marley on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:01am CST
The Eagle Awards 2006 - Nomination Form
Thank you for your submission.
You nominated:
SIMON FURMAN
FRANK MILLER
DON FIGUEROA
ASHLEY WOOD
CHRIS RYALL OF IDW
IDW
TRANSFORMERS
TRANSFORMERS
USAGI YOJIMBO
TRANSFORMERS
BATTLE ANGEL
ASTERIX
TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT SHOCKWAVE
TRANSFORMERS: STORMBRINGER #1 B
BEAST WARS TRANSFORMERS
TRANSFORMERS: INFILTRATION
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MEGATRON (TRANSFORMERS BY IDW)
WIZARD
SPIDER-MAN
TRANSFORMERS.COM
SIMON FURMAN
Not everyone will agree with my choices and if they dont I hope they go vote themselves. Good luck to all involved.