With Mike on assignment this
week, Greg taps Multiversity Comics editor & frequent RFT guest
Brian Salvatore to sit in on this week's episode, taking a look at
the recent Eisner Award 2016 nominations. But while most of the
internet chatter has been about the nominees, Greg & Brian aim
this discussion at a slightly wider angle: do the 2016 Eisner
categories really reflect where comics find themselves in 2016?
Starting with a peek behind the proverbial curtain for
Multiversity's own "Year in Review" criteria & goals, the talk
goes wider to the North American comics awards landscape: Eisners,
Harveys, and Ignatz. Find out which company had a stranglehold on
the "Best Editor" Eisner for its entire run, what awards were given
during the 1970s, why we don't give out Kirby Awards, and how to
solve a problem like contradictory categories. All that, plus a
proposal for the Kim Thompson Award and more on today's