Kissing the lipless

Even though I'm a regular reader of The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon's finely crafted blog, I came upon this bit of info while perusing Joseph Rybandt's Beautiful Noise blog. Tom had this to say about the recently announced Eisner Award judges:

2005 Eisner Awards Judges Selected

The Eisner Awards are a major comic book industry awards voted upon by working professionals and support industry personnel. I'm working on a big piece about comic book awards programs -- I think all the comics awards programs are largely pathetic, and to a certain extent they are pathetic in avoidable ways -- so I figured I would just put up this list and the little bios as supplied by the Eisners and talk about them later. Although I do wonder just putting in the italics if other juried awards ever mention things like "She's been reading/watching movies since childhood."

Spurgeon also ends things on a really funny note:

I am grateful to the Eisners for putting me on the press release list despite my being an obvious ingrate.

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