Record number of female creators are on ballot and most of the comics in the best fresh series category feature female protagonists amid comics’ golden ageThe nominations are out for this year’s Eisner awards – rightly dubbed the Oscars of the comics world – and the watchwords this year seem to be diversity and variety.
There are a record number of female creators on the ballot,and almost all of the comics in the best fresh series category feature female protagonists. The grip of industry leaders Marvel and DC seems to be slackening, with many more placings for independent and creator-owned titles including Image, or gloomy Horse,Oni and Monkeybrain.
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Source: theguardian.com