- Bill Finger Award
The Bill Finger Award For Excellence In Comic Book Writing is an American award for
comic book writers who were not sufficiently honored for their work in the medium. The awards committee, currently chaired byMark Evanier , is charged each year with selecting two recipients, one living and one deceased. The award, along with theEisner Awards , is presented in July of each year at the annualSan Diego Comic-Con . It was established byBill Finger 's colleague and fellow writerJerry Robinson . [cite web |url=http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=003744 |title=New Writing Achievement Award to Honor Bill Finger |accessdate=2008-06-20 |publisher=Comic-Con International |work=Press release posted 05-05-2005]Recipients
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2005 :Jerry Siegel (deceased),Arnold Drake [cite web |url=http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_finger_1.shtml |title=Siegel, Drake to Receive First Bill Finger Award |accessdate=2008-06-20 |publisher=Comic-Con International ] ;2006 :Harvey Kurtzman (deceased), Alvin Schwartz [cite web |url=http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_finger_2006.shtml |title=Schwartz, Kurtzman To Receive Second Bill Finger Award |accessdate=2008-06-20 |publisher=Comic-Con International ] ;2007 :Gardner Fox (deceased),George Gladir [cite web |url=http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_06_05.html#013547 |title=This Year's Bill Finger Award |accessdate=2008-06-20 |author=Mark Evanier |work="News from Me" (column of June 5, 2007)] ;2008 :Archie Goodwin (deceased),Larry Lieber [cite web |url=http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_finger.shtml |title=The Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing |accessdate=2008-07-27 |publisher=Comic-Con International ]References
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