The 2020 Will Eisner Industry Awards are going ahead, despite the cancellation of this year’s Comic-Con International: San Diego.
“I’m happy to report that the judging has been handled mostly virtually to date,” SDCC’s Chief Communications and Strategy Officer David Glanzer told Newsarama. “Things are in flux as you can imagine but our hope is to be able to have a list of Eisner winners for 2020.”
Longtime awards administrator Jackie Estrada is working with this year’s judges Martha Cornog, Jamie Coville, Michael Dooley, Alex Grecian, Simon Jimenez, and Laura O’Meara.
Traditionally, the judges’ chosen nominees are announced in late April, with voting by qualified members of the comics industry following over the subsequent weeks. The Eisner Awards ceremony itself is usually held the Friday evening of SDCC.
SDCC could not provide further details on how this year’s Eisner nominees and award winners will be presented.