Is there some sort of favoritism/politics going on at the big comics publishers?
Being an “indie guy” I have no knowledge of the politics of what goes on a big “mainstream” comics publishers, but I was really surprised that a few of them didn’t send copies of everything they’d put out in the previous year. I can’t imagine that this is a financial concern–it seems more like a deliberate snub to those folks they didn’t send books from. There were at least two people who’d done great work (I thought, anyway) for a couple of mainstream publishers in 2008 who I really wanted to champion, but without their company’s having sent their books along for the judges to read, there really wasn’t much I could do. To be fair, though, it’s probably better to formally submit a select few items than to submit everything, regardless of quality. (Edit, based on some comments: note that publishers can only submit five books per category; what I’m wondering about is why not just go ahead and send in all your output?) 6) There’s a lot of breadth to the comics art form and, chances are, w
