Mon May 19, 2008 3:53PM6 comments ›
Mon May 19, 2008 — by Van Jensen
Top Shelf's Eisner Awards Campaign
A mysterious package arrives in the mail...
A small rectangular box, wrapped in brown paper and stamped "Super Spy," appeared in my mail box over the weekend. I opened it to find an Arturo Fuente cigar box.
Inside that, no cigars, but instead a weird little collection of items put together from Top Shelf to celebrate the Eisner Award nominations of two of its books, Matt Kindt's Super Spy and Jeff Lemire's Ghost Stories.
There's a paper gun, a piece of original art signed by Kindt, some "cyanide" tablets, a pictorial treasure hunt, a pack of 1991 hockey cards (gum included) and an Essex County postcard.
What it reminded me of most are the packages sent out by college football teams to promote their players for the Heisman and other awards. The only problem with Top Shelf's effort is that comics journalists don't vote on the Eisners. Still, it's pretty cool stuff.
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Comments (6)
garbonzo (6:29 PM on Mon May 19, 2008)
So, who does vote for the Eisners? Is it like the Nielsens? Do people have little monitors hooked up to their eyeballs to tell a shadowy organization what comics you read? Or was that a Warren Ellis comic?
Van Jensen (8:32 PM on Mon May 19, 2008)
A panel is selected each year, usually consisting of retailers, random industry professionals and reviewers. Not too much shadow, since you can see the panel at the Eisner web site.
garbonzo (10:44 PM on Mon May 19, 2008)
I think I liked the shadow organization theory better.
Van Jensen (8:43 AM on Tue May 20, 2008)
Maybe the question is, who REALLY picks the winners?
garbonzo (11:21 AM on Tue May 20, 2008)
Who Eyes the Eisners?
Russ Rogers (12:45 PM on Tue May 20, 2008)
Too clever! Very funny!